Lately,

You are growing so fast & I don't want you to get any taller or smarter, just yet! I am still totally obsessed with your little cuteness & this attitude you have gives me a glimpse of our future. I'm not ready for this big, smart, independent Avery! I want to cuddle my baby girl for just a bit longer, please! Last night, your daddy had to discipline you for the first time. You get very, very upset when you are held and want down; so you had to sit on his lap until you were calm & relaxed before you could go play again. After a half hour tantrum you calmed down alright & passed right the heck out in your daddy's arms. It broke my heart to see you so upset & confused. I don't want to be doing the wrong thing. I don't want to be disciplining you to early. I don't want to see you gasp for breath behind those tears. I don't want you to be sad. However, we know that your actions in public are becoming quite the issue & if we don't teach you to "chill," as your daddy would say, then we are in for some big trouble in our near future! You are just too darn cute for words & I know there is a sweet innocent little girl in there!

I love you Avery Anne,
Momma

Wordless Wednesday

Audrey Hepburn couldn't say it any better!

Avery had too much fun with Jess & Natalie Monday at the Softball game!

Thanks for making my baby a sticky mess ladies!

Love,

Jayme

First ever...

SMORE!

Yummy Goodness in every. single. bite!!!

Love you baby girl,

Mommommommmoma

{as Avery would say it}

Another weekend adventure.

 We spent Friday night & Saturday at my Aunt & Uncles cabin in Harrison, MI! Avery got extremely spoiled with a mini car ride! {don't start calling the cops people, It was 100 feet}

We went on a boat ride & ate delicious home cooked food! It was relaxing

& fun to get away for the night!

 Yes, I just watermarked my dog!

 We went home Saturday night with plans to go to the Bay City fireworks. It was the 50th anniversary & they were calling for a BIG SHOW! Well we made it there alright...tons and tons and tons of people with nowhere for this little girl to run! So we didn't stay long, but it was still quite the experience to say the least!

 Hello chubby face^

Uncle Devon & Leigha joined in on the fun too!

Another weekend flew by. I'm so glad to be making these memories with our little girl!

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. -MARIANNE E. NEIFERT

Love,

Jayme

Awkward & Awesome Thursday| 4th of July Recap

You wanna know what was awkward? I'm in my car this morning driving to the gym to get my fitness on...that's awesome right! Well for some reason I felt under my arm and realized there is a random patch of hair that has probably been growing for a good 2 weeks without getting shaved. Under BOTH arms! {I won't lie this has happened before. My hubby loves to point this out!} So I do my cardio & choose to lift only the weights that don't make me raise my arms. All I can do is laugh about it at this moment! This wasn't the first & I'm sure it won't be the last time I do this!

However, on a good note it was pretty awesome to get a compliment on my leg definition today at the gym; I work my butt off lifting weights to get some kind of results. Until I notice the lady's eyes going from my caves to my tummy & then her eyes stop moving upward. Yes, I know it looks like I ate the TIRE of a Ford F-150.{Only truck I can think of} I must not be doing something right at the gym, that was just awkward people! Alright, what else is awkward. The length of my bangs. They are far to long to be considered cute anymore & not long enough for anything to be shoved off to the side, but it is pretty damn awesome that these bangs make you realize how fast your hair really grows! It's also very annoying that the bank has not called us back on our bid we put in on a house last week. It's getting very awkward to keep texting our real estate agent. Although, she kind of sucks at her job so I guess I'll just keep bugging her, it really is the only way to get answers. What's so awesome about this?? The support Bryce has given me the past week about buying our first home; he is so educated & smart with finances, construction & optimistic about where our future will take us! I am so thankful. The pictures we got from our 4th of July day trip yesterday are just awkward. I'm serious. It was hotter than hot out. I think I sweat from 8am-midnight, but boy did we have fun! It was an awesome day with close friends. We went up to my girlfriends parents cabin, ate awesome food all day, spent a few hours on their lake tubbing, laid in the sun & just relaxed. It was the good life! Avery had a blast, she loved their dog, she loved the boat ride & she really loved her freedom! I on the other hand loved the 3 hour nap she took!

It's been pretty awesome & awkward around here lately! I think life would be boring any other way!!!

Hope you all had an amazing 4th too! Were still hoping to fit in some fireworks this weekend!

Love,
Jayme

What have I created.

Avery's THIRTEEN months now! This boggles my mind. Seriously, we are parents to a toddler...it's a fact! Lately getting my daughter to eat has been a struggle. She went through this one month phase right after her first birthday where she would try everything and anything! She was eating a solid meal 3x a day & she was filling up on good hearty & healthy food. Balanced nutrition & variety is something I yearn for with my child. Yet, Its nearly impossible at this stage. Avery loathes food. She rarely eats & when she does its never something on the food pyramid. I'm not kidding. I've read this is a normal phase for some toddlers, but really??? All but one month of her life she has hated food; surely if you throw a sweet her way she'll eat it, but besides that NO fruits (except oranges), vegetables, or grains float her boat. Well EXCEPT, protein. I'm a protein fein & I think my daughter is one too. Let me list to you the foods she willingly eats: Scrambled eggs, my protein pancake, steel cut oats, peanut butter & cheese. That’s it. I mean thank gosh she will eat these healthy foods, but 5 things is not nearly a normal diet or a variety for that matter. I’m afraid to keep giving her the same foods & create this monster that won’t eat. Going out to eat is a nightmare still; food does not interest her one iota.

Moms, help a mom out!!!

How do I react to this & how doI feed my child. I should state, each meal I do give her what we prepared, but she want’s nothing to do with it. I will also throw out there if you give her anything with the popcorn flavor it will be gone in seconds & she certainly LOVES her milk still. She is getting 4 servings a day. Do I cut her milk back? Do I quit worrying? Do I just have a picky eater? I always thought children were picky because the parent created it. However I’m trying here people, I’m trying to prevent this!!!

Give me the 411 on your child's eating habits, your picky eaters, & your suggestions! I'm up for the challenge. Oh wait, I don't think she can get much pickier!

Thanks,

Jayme

Yo I'm baaack!

Bryce left for a work trip to Arizona two Sundays ago & while he was only planning on being gone half the week, things changed ever so quickly & his stay got extended & so did our time at my parents house. We did a lot of visiting with both sets of grandparnets & some friends during our visit! We also went through a lot of teething & flat out crankiness or maybe, just maybe she missed her daddy as much as I did!

It was fun, yet i'm still so excited to be home & have my husband back! I did an awful job at taking pictures while I was gone & i'm mad at myself for that; here are a few that I was able to come up with from my phone.

We went to several parks during our visit!

Avery had nightly pool baths, it was so HOT!

We ate our fair share of treats

& Papa's good cookin!

We even managed to get the fake laugh out of Avery hundreds of times. She's pro at this now. I act like this is hard!!!(Video coming soon!)

Grabbed this chair at a garage sale $10

& worth every penny!

DADDY'S BACK!!!!

So we went swimming yesterday & had a cookout at my aunt & uncles house! It was just what we needed for a relaxing, yet semi eventful Sunday!

I know this post is pretty vague we acutally have a lot going on, were even bidding on a house at the moment, but I'll save all that hoopla for another day, another post!

I'm just happy to have some normalcy back! I haven't been to the Y in over a week & i'm really looking forward to my afternoon workout today!

Happy Monday Friends!

Love,

Jayme