Want to travel into the mind of a 2 1/2 year old? Not just any 2 year old though, Avery! Today I asked Avery what some of her favorite things were. Here are her answers
Favorite color- Purple
Favorite food- Poop (I even asked her twice because I wasn't sure I wanted to put that down, but that's what she said both times!)
Favorite animal- Giraffe
Favorite treat- syrup
Favorite breakfast food- dogs & bugs (honestly I thought she would say pancakes, or else I wouldn't have asked this one)
Favorite dog- Karma
Favorite person- Dawsy (her cousin Dawson)
Favorite thing to do- feed the giraffes
Favorite place to go play- the mall (ok people we rarely even go here. It's a dangerous place for someone who is addicted to retail)
When is your birthday? "Tuesday... no, no, no May 27th"
What do you LOVE? "my puppies"
She turns 3 in about 3 1/2 months! I feel like I don't document the funny things she does enough so I'm going to make more of an effort. I posted this video on Facebook. She was so sad that she couldn't have a mustache. Then the next day she was sad she couldn't be a boy? Luckily this was just a two day want to be a boy phase.
We went to the Museum of Ancient Life a few weekends ago. Avery just loves dinosaurs!To say that she loved this place would be an understatement. She was running around saying, "LOOK, LOOK" It was so hard to get her to hold still for a picture!
So I have this app on my Kindle and it's for a website called StumbleUpon. One day I "stumbled upon" this blog with a post on how to make your own pore strip! Since I get a small thrill out of looking at my recently ripped out blackheads I decided to give this a try. It was very easy and super cool! I thought I shouldn't keep a great thing to myself and share will all of you! So here you go, I suggest you try it ASAP! Also let me know if you loved it like I did :) Here is the Link
I realize that the longer you put off updating your blog the more I don't want to do it because you have so much to catch up on. I was considering just quitting this blog, then I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. Then I thought how sad that would be for Avery because this blog is mostly about her and when she gets older I bet she will enjoy reading it, plus sometimes it's such a great way to get thoughts out so I'll continue the Bell Blog and it will be great :) haha
Lets go back before Christmas...
Miss Avery Kay Bell she is singing all the time now. She loves to learn new songs. She is really into pretend play now which is hilarious to observe. like with her babies and barbies and she likes to pretend that "swiper the fox" from Dora is after her and hide.
This is one of my favorite videos of her singing
If you notice in this picture she colored all over her legs. When I said, "Why did you color all over your legs Avery?" she said, "because I'm a tiger"
How could I get mad after that response?
One of her favorite people is her cousin Dawson. They play so so cute together! p.s. you don't want to see what the expanded picture of this would look like because this is the toy box all emptied out.
I just through this one in because I thought it was cute!
On to Christmas! So this year I was the most excited about Christmas as I've been in along time. Mostly, or all, because of Avery. She was so excited about Santa. She learned a ton of Christmas songs, loved watching the Grinch (with Jim Carey) and any other Christmas shows. The leverage that Santa and Christmas brings is AMAZING! The elves are watching/Santa's watching or the naughty list were great tools to use when Aves was misbehaving.
Avery singing a Christmas song, then having a meltdown because she couldn't take her clothes off, then continuing the Christmas song
Aves, Dawson and Grandpa
Grandpa Kevin is the favorite that's for sure. He tells Avery and Dawson these stories that start out like... Once upon a time, in a far away land of milk and honey... then they change up and talk about giant turtles and growly bears. Avery has started making up her own versions.
Here is one of Avery's version of Grandpa's story
The playroom at Grandma Marilyn's always looks like a tornado went through it after these two get done!
OK so I thought this video was hilarious! Avery was saying she wanted a doll house for Christmas and that Dawson wanted one too. This was his reaction...
Om Christmas eve we went to Patricks parents and had dinner with the family and opened up presents
This is a rare picture I got of little Kaylee. Patrick's older brothers little girl with Grandma Great
Now Miss Avery when you grow up and read this someday I want you to remember how lucky and spoiled you were for Christmas!
Christmas day! Avery got her doll house from Santa. here she is posing like a true princess!
Guess what else happens every year right after Christmas...
Patrick and I BOTH have a Birthday!
Happy 27 to us!!
Yes not very flattering, but the most recent one of us together! Man we're getting old! I mean 27!? Really!??
This doesn't really count in the 2011 file, but Avery started pre-school in Miss Patty's Little Fish program!
Doesn't she look so grown up in this picture!? Blows my mind!
Her best friend Rylee also started with her! She loves Rylee, she loves pre school! I love having two hours/ two times a week to do what ever I want! It's a great great thing!
Look what else happened! It snowed this weekend! Although it has snowed before I don't think that it counts because that was over memorial day weekend and the others were before Christmas so in my book this was the first snow of winter. Plus last week it was like 50 degrees outside!? In January? What's that about?
I, believe it or not, still struggle day to day with this "stay at home mom" stuff. Like I said before please don't understand this wrong, just because I struggle does not mean I am ungrateful in any way. I just get in a funk from time to time and need little reminders of what this life is about, what is important, and what makes me happy... so here it goes in no particular order
This guy! He makes me so so happy! Haha this is an old picture when we lived in our condo. I could go on forever, but I'll keep it short and sweet. This man is my all time rock. He makes me happy when I'm grumpy, calm when stressed, and helps me remember what is truly important. He's my all time best friend and to say that I love him is an understatement
This child! Avery is my heart and makes me happy! Her singing, laughing and watching her play keep a smile on my face. She is smart, charming, and so spunky! She keeps me on my toes, but at least I am laughing on my toes ;) Don't get me wrong she tries my patients every single day, but at the end of the day when I tuck her into bed and while singing "the goodnight song" all that frustration goes away... that is until she calls me into her room 5 more times for water, books, crackers, and barbies :)
Bangle, a.k.a Bubba. He keeps me in shape and is my #1 jogging buddy
Karmella, a.k.a Karma. She is a snuggle puppy and has more love for me then I can handle sometimes
My mom will kill me for putting this up, but it's the only one where Avery wasn't blocking Chelsea's face. My family makes me happy! p.s. they also stress me out sometimes, but overall they make me happy! I love my family! We are all spread apart across Utah and Washington and it's hard to keep in touch, but we make it work and I love them! Patrick's side the family is of course included in the "my family" bucket but I don't have a photo of them :)
Money! I'm sorry, but it does! Money makes me happy! I really wanted to me a millionaire by 30 and since my 27th birthday is coming up soon I better kick it into high gear! Oh come on who doesn't dream about living in that huge mansion, traveling here and there by private plane, vacationing in exotic places like all the time, and just having a crap load of money. I do!
Food! Now that I am putting it down and typing it out, maybe I can keep this happiness under control! Cookies and chocolate are my #1 food love, but mostly anything sweet and or salty just makes me happy! It's a surprise why I'm not horribly overweight. Sometimes I feel like it's this little demon inside waiting to come out and take over and I'll never be able to get control again. Like it talks to me and says... "there is cookie dough in the fridge, why don't you go make some cookies quick? Mmmm they taste so good and you'll only have a few" then a few turns into 6 and I'm sick. Scary, but true
This is a weird one to put right after the confession above, but working out makes me happy! I love to run and clear my head, but only when it's above 40 degrees so the gym is my back up. There is something about getting in a good sweat that just relieves so much stress! I don't do it as much as I should, but I sure do feel better on the days I make an effort to get a workout in.
Yep, watching TV makes me happy. Usually only during Avery's nap time or really super late at night when I get to watch my shows.
My friends make me happy! Sadly not all of them live close, but phone calls still work and I love when they come to visit!
I am so proud of Avery this year because she didn't even cry when she me Santa! We have been building her up to get her excited instead of scared. She wasn't excited, a little scared, but at least she wasn't frightened! I sat her on his lap and before he could even ask she just looked at him and said, "Tiana". It's the princess from the movie Princess and the Frog.
I've been watching this show lately and I love it! Why I'm so obsessed this vampire show? Not sure. Maybe it's because it's a teen drama and I'm a teen at heart! Maybe I am a hopeless romantic and I love the idea of a man who is hopelessly in love with his girl. Who knows... either way it's a good show, it's on Netflix, and I recommend it!
Thanksgiving... Now Christmas! Where does the time go these days? It goes to watching Vampire Diaries haha! We have been up to the same old, same old as of late... waking up, cleaning up, maybe a little gym if I can't find an excuse not to go, making people tan, whitening up some teeth, making people fit, and enjoying this cold weather...NOT!
My sister and her family came to visit for Thanksgiving. I love when they come to visit us!
She snapped a ton of pics of Aves...
My nephew Drew! He's getting soo old!
We went to the Rock Haus for the first time. I thought it was fun except for my hands would go numb when I got to a certain height. They say that gets better with practice. Guess I am a little afraid of heights after all
Drew did so great! I'm so proud of him for trying and trying. I'm almost positive he got higher then I did!
Halloween had got to be my favorite holiday! It is by far the funnest and adding Avery to the mix made it even better. We started our Halloween off by going to the annual Cache Valley Pumpkin walk! A free event put on every year that is full of painted pumpkins. There are different themes to each section and you just walk along and look at all the pumpkins...sound lame in my description there, but Avery had fun. We went this year with Chelsey and Dustin and their two boys Brody and Noah.
Can you believe she is this old!
part of the fun is taking the bus up to the pumpkin walk. We got off and immediately Avery wanted to get back on
Noah, Avery, Brodi...you try snapping a decent photo of a 4,2, and 1 year old! haha
I thought this one one cute! an owl and a porcupine
This display was amazing! A Christmas Story
Yep his face is a painted pumpkin
hahahah
Avery and Brodi thought is was fun to blow all of the candles out alond the way
Avery's idol!
Surprisingly Avery loved talking to this witch?
this was great! Especially Chelsey! She's such a ham and just couldn't stay out of the picture haha
Here is the first attempt at our carving pumpkins! It was so warm this year they they wilted and got moldy after 4 days!
This was the second attempt
Avery was a pirate this year! We taught her all the pirate lingo and as soon as she would put on her costume she immediately got into character saying, "RRrrrr Matey" and "had over your booty scallywag"
we went to maceys and did their little spook ally thing
This is Avery and "her girl" Rylie. They are the best of friends
We took them trick or treating around The Sports Academy together then it was off to Grandma Marilyn's
Great Grandma Bell with Avery
Avery and her fellow pirate/ cousin Dawson
I tried about 12 different times to get a good picture of this pirate clan!
a little blurry
Where's Kaylee
hmmm not quite
Yep not even close and I'm not sure what they were even looking at!
I was extra naughty and ate a TON of Halloween candy on Monday and yesterday! I mean a TON. I'm so over it and need to get myself back in shape! Time to hit the gym hard and watch what I'm eating because it's gotten a little out of control! I'm scared for the rest of the holidays to come!! yikes!
