It's Nice to be Outside

I love Fall! I enjoy the cooler weather and since Fall is a season that is quickly gone in this area, I'm trying to soak up as much time as I can outside. Avery is the lucky girl who gets to go with me on daily walks in our neighborhood. Last week we got her a different stroller. It's smaller than her other one and much easier for me to handle! The first time Brent and I took her on a walk in it she fell asleep. Now that's what a call a great stroller! I knew it had to be comfortable.

Where does the time go?

I just realized how long it had been since I did a post on the blog! Yikes! We had a great end to the summer. My sister and her family are temporarily stationed up in Maryland until December- their permanent home is in North Dakota. We have been taking every opportunity to see them as much as possible! Brent, Avery, and I took a little trip up to see them the weekend the hurricane was nearby. Boy, did we sure drive through some torrential rain. Avery astoundingly napped the entire trip up minus the time she was up to eat once. What a champ! Did I mention it took us about 5 hours to get up there? Friday evening traffic in rain is NOT good. We so enjoyed our long weekend with family. We walked around the Baltimore Harbor and ate at a little food court. Krista and I pushed our little ones in their respective strollers while Matt (krista's husband) and Brent walked alongside. On the way home we ventured to find a local gelatto place Brent had come across while researching fun places to eat in Baltimore. We almost didn't stop because the neighborhood it was in looked quite sketchy. But alas, our hunger for gelatto prevailed and we stopped. It was super tasty. I got the chocolate hazelnut flavor... think Nutella. We also visited Covenant Life Church up in Gaithersburg on Sunday. I mostly saw the lobby and hallways due to Avery not wanting to sit quietly in the sanctuary! But they were very nice. All in all it was an awesome trip. I'm so glad we got to visit. Oh! I almost forgot. One of the coolest things of the trip was seeing our nephew, Henry, start walking by himself back and forth between people! It was so cute!

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2 months already??

It's so hard to believe Avery is already 10 weeks old! Avery is really starting to show more of a personality now- it's so fun. She's definitely cooing a lot more and smiling and squeeking. We think we're on the verge of a giggle! Avery loves napping in her swing these days. I was so close to giving the swing back to Brent's sister (who we borrowed it from in the first place) since everytime we put her in it she'd cry. But one day last week she started loving it! She watches the fish circle around above her and then she eventually falls asleep. It's nice because it allows me to do a few things around the house while she's occupied out of my arms!

Avery has also started to like her jungle gym mat. She giggles and kicks her legs a lot- good baby exercise. She loves having Daddy play with her!

I recently bought a mobile for her crib. It has 3 types of music that plays and jungle animals rotate around on the mobile. Avery loves watching it at night when she falls asleep. The cool thing about the mobile is that once it stops playing (after 10 minutes or so) it will restart the music if a baby cries for 15 seconds. It's voice-activated. Very cool! Avery hasn't settled down to just the music yet though- I always go in to calm her down as well. It'll probably work better once she's a bit older.

One day I was cleaning around the house and had Avery in the snugli. It was getting quite hard to bend down and move around a lot with her in it since she was fast asleep. Part of me didn't want to move too much in case it woke her up! So I decided to unhook the snugli and just lay her down on the bed and see if she'd stay asleep. It worked! She stayed asleep for 10 more minutes. I took a picture of it because I thought it was so funny.

Avery still isn't a big fan of "Tummy Time." Here's a video to prove it.

Here's a few more pictures to end the post!