Feeling Better & Baby Chicks

Avery is feeling better finally! YAY! I just hope we can all stay healthy. There sure seems to be a lot of nasty virus' going around here lately.

Early Wednesday morning the United States Postal Service called to tell us our chicks were availiable for pick up. Scott went up and picked up all 15 of them. Don't worry, we are only keeping two. It will be interesting to see how many end up being roosters. Anyone in need of some fuzzy chicks? ;-) If so, call Scott!

Aren't they cute?!


I love how this one is about to peck his brother/sister.

Outside Tuesday enjoying some sunshine.

Sick Baby Girl

I thought she was doing so much better throughout the weekend, but last night the cough took a turn for the worse.
She is still sick. We had a rough night last night. She was coughing a lot. When I went downstairs to check on her she was laying on her rug on the floor. She told me she was sick. I gave her some Delysum and when I felt her she was burning up. Poor baby. The fever was back after 48 hours. Looks like a secondary infection to me. I hope it's not the chest or her ears (but it probably is one of the two).

We will go this morning and then I have to take her into work with me.

I will be happy when this sick season is over!!!!!!

I wonder why Scott never gets our sicknesses?!

Anyway, Happy Monday!



*UPDATE* She is just still sick. :-( This is going to make for an interesting work week...

Weekend in review

Let's see - this must have been the fastest weekend of all time. How can one little hour make the weekend seem so short?

This weekend was all about relaxation, wine, sunshine, beautiful weather, Avery, yardwork, sushi, good friends, psychic reading, watching a tear jerker movie, thinking of friends going through difficult times, back porch goodness, Sweetwater coffee, camelia trip to Melrose, banana bread, books, puzzles, sleeping in until 7:47 Saturday AM, good music and an overall appreciation of life itself and all those that are a part of it.

Here she is doing art Saturday AM


This was the beginning of "Spider Party"


Sunday AM in the yard


Art concentration


Blowing Bubbles


Taking Pictures


Those lips!


Sunday Evening Sunshine


Can she be any more precious?

Silly Sunday

Avery and new kitty (yes, we still need a name for him) tend to have a love/hate relationship. He really is a sweet and loving kitty, but Avery hasn't learned to give him his personal space even after several scratches. A few Sundays past she was playing in the dirt with kitty and apparently he scratched her on the face because she got his ant. Huh? Well, nonetheless she had a pretty deep scratch, so I put her in the tub and washed it and put Neosporin on it with a bandaid. I thought the bandaid would keep out the dirt and it would stay a little cleaner that way. What I didn't know is that Avery would have more of a mark from the bandaid than the scratch itself when I took it off the next day. It has been a few weeks and she STILL has the bandaid mark!

Scratch/Bandaid Mark


Yet another super silly face


This cat cracks me up. He has the funniest personality. I caught him grooming. *chuckle*

Music Month

I have been home sick this week with some nasty virus. It wasn't just a cold and not as bad as a flu, but it still knocked me out for 3 days. This evening I am starting to feel a bit better - thank goodness!

Since I have been sick, Scott has been helping with the dropping off and picking up Avery from school. Yesterday when they got home from school there was a note for me from her teacher asking me to stop in and see her Tuesday morning. I managed to get up this morning and take her in so I could see what was going on. Of course I immediately think of the worst, like maybe she is tooting on kids at school or using excessive 'potty talk' or something possibly worse! I go into the classroom and Ms. Christina tells me that this month they are working on a musical instrument unit and each week they discuss a different musical instrument family. This week they started discuss the string family. During line time Ms. Christina showed them a cello and asked the kids if they new what was different from the cello than from the guitar. Avery raised her hand (which I get the impression she rarely does this) and she told her the difference was that the cello has a longer neck. Ms. Christina was shocked that Avery knew this and proceeded to have Avery come up in front of the class to show everyone where the neck was and show them the difference - which she did! Ms. Christina asked me if we went over this with Avery and I said no, but that she has been telling us about the neck for quite sometime now with her princess guitar and we just assumed it was something she learned in school. She didn't think so. So where did Avery learn this? Scott said he didn't tell her. Then it dawned on me after several hours of thought----it must be the Little Einstens that she loves so much. See, there is a little something good with the Disney channel, huh? ;-) So, Ms. Christina tells me she asked Avery is anyone in her family plays an instrument and she told her that her mommy plays the violin!!!!!
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? What?!??!?!?!? Anyone that knows me knows I do not play any instruments and especially NOT the violin. She also told Ms. Christina that her daddy has a guitar. Ms. Christina asked if Scott would come in to play the guitar this week for the class. LOL! Scott is frantically trying to find someone else to come in and play for the class. Heehee!



Tonight Avery begged daddy to get out his guitar, so she could play.

Relaxing on Lake Rosa

We were invited out to a friends lake house last weekend. We had a mighty relaxing time. The weather Saturday was beautiful. I had only wished that Saturday afternoon lasted longer. Here are a few (unedited) pictures of the weekend.


Little Miss Uncooperative Picture Taker


See what I mean?


I was working on the spaghetti sauce Saturday AM in the kitchen, listening to my iPod when I turned around to the sink and I saw this peacock staring at me right outside the kitchen door. He startled me for a moment and then I started snapping pictures of him and he took off.


Saturday AM sunrise - walking down to the dock


More Sunrise




Avery said, "Hey, Ms. Delia has a bell like my school".


Thowing horse shoes with Daddy & Yousseff

Hello! Well, that took a little longer than I expected. I got wrapped up in a book series and I am slowly trying to come back to reality. Here are the pics from her birthday and a few from the night before. I seriously have about 6 months worth of great stories and pictures to blog about. Hopefully I will be able to spend more evening time blogging this next week. In the meantime enjoy.....

These are not in the order of the day, sorry!

Our little girl is FOUR!

Birthday Cake

Eating birthday dinner at Satchel's

Her birthday present from Mommy & Daddy. She loves it so much. She can now control her songs and that makes everyone happier.

Birthday wishes on the phone

Her birthday shirt

Presents! And the story board we took for her birthday celebration at school

School party outside

Healthy birthday muffins - zucchini muffins with cream cheese icing

Avery looking at Ms. Christina during the birthday walk around the sun

Daddy is telling the class what was significant about one of her years (the entire class was looking at him)

The night before we worked on her 'one hundred project'. 2/3/09 was the 100th day of school and all the kids brought in their 100 prjects. Avery did 100 stickers on a long piece of calculator tape.

This is some of her class work that came home in her folder. I opened it up and it made me laugh. I actually still laugh everytime I look at it. :)

Happy 4th Birthday Avery Raine!!!

Pictures will follow later this evening from today's school party festivities, but I had to leave you all with a 4th birthday quote from Avery this morning.

"Mom, do you know why I am eating a snack"? "Because I have a cough, because I bite my nails and I am an old woman".

There you go! Gotta love 4 year old comments and logic.

Kitty Update

He was gone again this morning, but I didn't have time to go up to get him this morning, but they brought him back sometime today.

I can't believe this kitty sleeps at our house all day and then goes back to his old home at night! Hopefully it won't take doing this everyday for him to stay.

Sweet Girl Saturday

We had a wonderful weekend with family. It started out with Grandad & DD coming in Thursday. They came down to do a late Christmas and watch the BCS National Championship with us. We had a nice time and woooooohooooo, GO GATORS! That game was so stressful and I still don't think it has sunk in that we are national champions AGAIN!!

Avery has been sick lately and not herself. There is something special about a day with Avery when she is a sweet girl and Saturday we were lucky enough to get the "Sweet Girl Avery". She is normally a very intense girl and when she is ill, it is very hard for us all. She has recovered from the strep and finally the new round of antibiotics seem to have worked this time. Saturday was a day where she didn't seem to do as much wining or complaining and overall she was happy and cheerful - MUSIC TO A MOMMY'S (and Daddy's) ears. Saturday was also one of the most beautiful days we have had in awhile - low humidity, not a cloud in the sky, and still a bit of a crispness to the evening. We made a fire pit out back and grilled dinner on the fire and had a few friends over. There is something so relaxing about a fire.

We also got a new kitty! When we went on a walk Saturday morning around the neighborhood we bumped into a neighbor that told us about another neighbor that had a stray kitty show up and they were looking for a home it. Well, since we recently lost of sweet outdoor kitty Cole, we have been looking to replace him and this just seemed to be perfect. The lady brought him up Saturday and he seemed to like us and hung out with us by the fire. I saw him about midnight and he was on the back porch. This morning when we got up, he was no where to be found. We searched the yard and nothing. We even walked all over downtown looking for a black/white kitty - we saw about 4, but none were him (or her, we are not sure yet). When I got home we had a message. It was the lady that gave us the cat. He was back at their place (at least 6 blocks away) waiting to be fed on their back porch. So, Avery and I headed down with the wagon and the cat carrier and picked him back up. As of now, he is still on the back porch and I hope since it is raining he will not wander back tonight. We'll see. I think I have become a little attached to him. :)

Avery in the side yard. We were looking for New Kitty and I took my camera since the sunlight was nice. She looks so serious here.


And this is the forced smile. Still cute in my opinion.



Avery sitting on Daddy's leg while he tends to some plant.


New Kitty Close Up


New Kitty checking out the yard