Santa Avery

Avery turned four months old on December 20! Here are a few updates...

At her last Dr. apt two weeks ago she weighed in at 9 lbs. 12 oz. She goes to the pediatrician monthly to have an RSV shot and gets weighed. She goes to the cardiologist monthly as well and is on track to have heart surgery sometime late spring. She is getting to be such a big girl! She is learning and getting stronger every day, but because she was born a month early, she is developmentally a little behind. She can hold her head up very well, but is still a little wobbly. She has discovered her hands and loves to suck on them. She hasn't found her voice yet, but is very close to laughing when we get her smiling. She is usually a very mellow baby. She has a very soft cry and only cries when she is getting dressed or hungry. She still eats every three hours around the clock... hopefully that will change soon. She loves her swing right now.

We just love this girl! Here are a few of her four month holiday photos

Merry Christmas!

all about avery...

This is going to be really long... so sit back, relax and enjoy the happenings of Avery the last few months.

Starting with the most recent... Avery's blessing day was November 29th. Rands parents, brother Tyler and his wife Melanie were in town for thanksgiving and the blessing. Rand gave her a beautiful blessing at our home. Pretty sure there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Rands mother made Avery's dress- it is amazing. She spent about three months making it. We took several pictures of her dress, but none turned out great, so we will have to re-take some.

I love her face in this picture. I hope she doesn't hate me for those ears when she is older!

This is the best picture of her dress. Isn't it beautiful?

Rand's parents and us. This is the only family picture we got that day...

Avery loves her grandma (ps, remind me to ALWAYS have a bow on her head... or she looks like a boy ;) )

Last month Avery finally decided that she likes to smile! It took a while to get her to do it, but she is a smiling fool these days-especially in the morning. It is difficult to get a good picture of her smile, because once she sees a camera... it's over! So that is why these are all at a low angle- I was distracting her while Rand snuck a few pictures.

Bath time is one of her favorite things. She gets really excited and loves to kick and splash; making sure to always get me wet.

I just thought this one was really cute- even though we don't take her to church, we still dress her up on Sundays. I love her face while she sleeps.

And of course halloween. We stayed indoors on halloween so Avery wouldn't get sick. So I didn't get her a cute costume, but I couldn't resist a cute onesie and bow!

I'm not sure what is so scary, but she looks like she is about to pee her pants... er, diaper! haha

We didn't get any christmas cards out this year, so look forward to a christmas post very soon! The suspense is killing you I know it! :)

Happy to be me!

So I have soooo many pictures to post, but just haven't had the time to do it! However, I just had to post this little gem today because I love it! Don't you love the look on her face? And those ears... love them! Wonder where she got that from? We just love this girl! This is currently my favorite outfit for her as well. Anyway, hopefully I will get some pictures posted from halloween and her blessing soon. Ta Ta!

Photo shoot part 1

Too Cute!

Look how cute Miss Avery looks in her new fuzzy outfit. Can you believe she is almost 8 weeks old?!

Crazy!

A few days ago I was making my way to the kitchen to get a drink when something caught my eye on the living room wall. I'm not even sure how I spotted it because I didn't have my contacts in and it was really late at night (12:30 Am to be exact). Anyway, I saw something blurry and thought it might be a large moth or something... and this is what I found!

sorry the pictures are not very clear

It is not every day you see a full sized frog scaling your living room wall! So... naturally several questions popped into my head... how did this guy get into my house? How long has he been in my house? Did he hop right on in with one of us through the door? Did he shimmy through a crack/hole somewhere? I still don't know the answer.

Rub-a-dub-dub

Avery loves her bath time! Her favorite thing to do is stretch out her legs, kick back and relax. She takes up the entire sink! It makes me laugh because her legs are so skinny. This particular night she was hugging her pink wash cloth and wouldn't let go...probably knew we were taking pictures and wanted to keep it modest!

Oh, and she now weighs 5 lbs 12.5 oz and is starting to not fit into her preemie clothes anymore. She is definitely getting longer... we just need to get some more meat on those chicken legs!

random pics

here is a few random pictures that we have taken the past few weeks...

We are home!

Last Thursday the Dr.'s told us that little Avery was ready to go home. We were a little surprised because her saturation level was pretty low. In fact it scared me to think what would happen if I didn't have a monitor beep to let me know when she was too low. The Dr. assured us that it is totally fine and they wouldn't let us go home if she wasn't positive that everything will be ok. She did warn us that she will have "tet spells" occasionally (where she will hold her breath and turn blue and start crying) but it is totally normal and we just need to recognize her signals to help her through it and she will always come out of it.

Here she is proving that she can tolerate the hour long ride home in her car seat. Look how tiny she is!!

She made it home just fine and that first night I don't think any of us slept very well. My mom laid next to her and listened to her breathe (because she holds her breath quite a bit) all night long. After we realized that she is totally fine,we all settled down and everything has been good ever since. I'm not loving this getting up every three hours to feed her, but I will get used to it.

I was really excited to put some headbands on her head,but most of them are way too big. I did find one that fit so of course we had to take some pictures! Enjoy!