After the Loss

Drowning our sorrows in a good old fashioned water hose fight!

Avery's First Gator Game

We had the opportunity to take Avery to her first Gator game this past weekend. We thought Ole Miss would be an easy one. OOOPS. Overall Avery had a nice day. She was a little bored during the game, so she managed to rub Scott's chapstick all over her body. Right at the end of the game, she had to go to the bathroom, so I got to hear us lose in the final seconds outside her stall. Crappy loss.

Here she is enjoying her tailgaiting meal.





If you click on this picture, you can actually see the blocked extra point, that was the ultimate result of our loss.


Walking to the stadium.


On Daddy's Shoulders


Florida Field


I never remembered seeing a comma before today. Some people will find this picture amusing, while others will wonder what the heck I am talking about. Yes, I used to think this sign read, Work 'em, silly Gators.


Alltel Chad doing the Gator Chomp. We actually saw him earlier in the morning. He walked right past us.

About a month ago....

Scott went out of town for a bachelor party and my friend invited us (well, we kind of invited ourselves) to come up for Auburn's season opener. We had been trying to figure out a good time to get together and that seemed like a perfect time. My first college football game was at Auburn and I thought it would be kind of neat for Avery's first game to be there as well.
Avery LOVED the band and the whole football experience. Thank you guys so much for having us. We really did enjoy ourselves.


Enjoying the football game - she loved the band and cried when they left the field.


Excited


Look at her shaking the shaker!!! That is my hand trying to protect the guy in front of us.


I can't remember what she was laughing about here - but she was enjoying a happy moment.


Goooooo Auburn!


The girls took a nap before the game. I had to wake Avery up.


Posing on the golf cart.


Avery and Anna Kate dancing in the living room before heading to Auburn.


Avery LOVED the Snow White costume (*hint, hint* Santa)

What happened to September?!

It's been an eventful September. More photos and stories to come, but here are some long awaited pictures from this month.

Tomorrow is picture day. Avery was very excited to pick out her outfit. Can you tell?


She was cute tonight posing for me and then running to the camera too look and see what she looked like.


Ending summer with a day in Nanny's Pool


Poolside


Enjoying watching Mommy in the pool


Avery gets very tired towards the end of the week since she doesn't take weekly naps anymore. On this particular day, she fell asleep on the way home from school.


Breakfast for dinner


Jumping on the concrete barriers


Looking for parking


Prehaircut


On the field


Remember that play dead thing she did a few months ago? Well, it's baaaack.
Yes, she knew that I was cringing that she was laying on the field where the football players were spitting (and who knows what) THE DAY BEFORE!


Gator Girl!


Trying her best to get a paper out.


She wanted nothing to do with the Albert and Alberta statues. I think they scared her a bit.

Weekend Update

Our first week of school was short and sweet. Tropical storm Fay came in Thursday and Friday and closed the schools down. Overall Avery seemed to be in a nice mood when I picked her up. I do think she is very tired since they don't take naps in this class. That is an adjustment for her (and us) but even at her old school (towards the end) she would rarely get a nap.

I had called her teacher last Wednesday to see how she was doing her first week of school, but I don't think she got the message until Monday because I didn't hear back from her until Monday afternoon. She told me Avery was transitioning VERY well to the practical life schedule of her new classroom. That made me feel so good. I thought she would do well in the Montessori class, but I just needed a little positive confirmation that we made the right decision.

However, Avery's behavior over those 4 days was equivalent to the storm; rougher at times, but overall a constant battering. :) I am not sure if it was a lack of sleep or the fact that she was off schedule by going into work with me, but it was stressful.

I have also been down in the dumps lately - I'm not sure if it's been the weather or the fact that I haven't been exercising, but I have been so unmotivated over the last few weeks. I wouldn't call it depressed, just an overall case of the 'blahs'. Hopefully that will go away soon!

Well, here are a few pictures from the weekend...

These are our banana plants blowing in the wind.



Avery is helping to clean up the yard after the storm came though.


Sunday Evening on the front porch.


Sunday evening in the kitchen.


More front porch photo time.


Does this look like a beaver face to anyone else but me?

New School

Monday was Avery's first day at her new school. I think I was a little more nervous than she was. She did so well! We got there a few minutes early and when it was time to say good-bye at her classroom door, she gave me a hug and a kiss and walked right in without any problems. I hope her second day goes just as well!

I completely forgot to get AM pictures, so I got a few of her in her classroom and outside of her school when I picked her up. It actually worked out better - we had the whole classroom to ourselves.



Showing me all the pictures of the kids in her class.


And where she lives (I think she was a little off).


Clinbing the ladder in her classroom.


Sitting in the reading chair.

Little Miss Sassy Pants

Avery has lately become extremely sassy and talks back quite frequently. We are working on discpline, but it's a new challenge for us and we are still tweaking our methods. I am not sure how to get her to stop TALKING all the time - it seems she has a comment for every single moment of our day - I guess it's just THE AGE again.

Who can guess what she is yelling to me here?