A Peek into our Week

We had a wonderful spring break!  Here's a peek into our week....

We celebrated Avery's birthday with many visitors.  Grandpa came to stay with us and we enjoyed some yummy burgers at Red Robin.  The wait staff brought Avery dessert and sang her Happy Birthday.  She thought this was a great idea at first and then when she realized all the attention was on her, she slowly sank down in her seat and disappeared.  We had to make her sit back up as they sang! 

Aunt Annie, Uncle Mike, and cousins Finn and Bode came to visit.  We had a lot of fun but as always, the visit seemed too short.  Avery celebrated with some daycare friends at our house on Saturday.  Grandma and Grandpa Stohs came to visit on Sunday and brought the great-grandmas along for a BBQ at our house.  That's a lot of cake and cupcakes in one week!!  Some of Avery's favorite gifts include Pucchi Pets (stuffed dogs in a cute handbag), Kidz Bop 21,  Zoobles, a pillow pet, and some cute fuzzy horses.

We had amazing weather over spring break.  The weather hit 80 degrees several days so we enjoyed a lot of outside time and even broke out the water guns!  Emmett enjoyed some sunshine and played on a blanket in the grass many times.  Turns out he does not like sitting in the grass.  He holds his arms out and cries!  The blanket was perfect for him.  Emmett also hit a new milestone and started pulling up on Saturday!  He has been pushing his legs straight while on hands/knees for awhile so it was only a matter of time before he figured it out.  He's pretty strong so he can stand for long periods of time already!  He is crawling just a bit, using his right knee and left foot, but he's still faster at army crawling so that's his primary mode for getting around right now!  We joke that Emmett will be walking before he gets any teeth!  That silly boy doesn't have a single tooth yet.  He just hit the 8-month mark on Avery's birthday.

Garrett impressed all of our visitors with his ability to solve equations.  I'm amazed at what kindergarteners learn these days.  He can solve problems such as 5+2, 4+4, 8+1, even solving most of them in his head.  Then he likes to gives others equations to solve.  His equations go something like this, "What's 100+100+100+100+100+100?"  That reminds me, at parent-teacher conferences 2 weeks ago, the students had to rate themselves in each study area.  Garrett gave himself an okay face (versus happy or sad face) for math.  When his teacher questioned him about the reason, he said, "Counting makes me throat dry.  But I really like doing equations!"  Garrett gets really bored doing work that is redundant to him.  That probably explains the dry throat!

Garrett's favorite stuffed animal went MIA last night.  I searched around and told him I'd have to tuck him into bed and keep looking.  Avery chimed in, "It might be behind the pillow on the couch, but I didn't do anything.  It wasn't me.  Look under the pillows on that side, Dad."  Hmmm.  Sounds fishy.