Oct 1 - Avery cheering for the Aggies at the BYU game. She actually got to witness a win over BYU! That is huge when you are an Aggie football fan, especially for your first BYU-USU game, and being born into this family, she has no choice but to cheer for the Aggies! 
Avery was pretty crazy in the first half and then we got a snow cone at half time and she was in heaven! She loved the straw and we couldn't keep it coming fast enough for her.
She somehow managed to fall asleep in the 4th quarter. So nice when that happens!!!
Oct 2 - Avery reading a book at Logan's soccer game. She is really into books lately and this one has a little mirror that she pushes her face right up next to. It is so funny!
Oct 2 - Who knew it would be warm enough to run in the sprinklers in Utah in OCTOBER??? Crazy! The kids had a blast doing it and Avery wanted to get right in there with them. I think she was actually the most fearless of all!
She loved just grabbing the sprinkler and didn't care at all when it sprayed her in the face
Walking in the grass - She is getting really great with her walking!
Oct 2 - We went to the Soft Play while Daddy was at Priesthood Session during Conference and Avery really wanted to climb in it like the big kids! I think she hates being left behind all the time and she wants to do everything Logan and Rylee can.
Oct 3 - During Conference, the kids had little books to color and Avery wanted to do it, too. I was pretty surprised with her scribbling skills!
Trying to get the marker lid off. This is one of her newest (but not her best....) tricks! She loves to eat markers!
Little artist
Don't bother her...She is on the phone! I think we may have another diva in the making!
Playing with Daddy during Conference. How cute are these two???
I love that grin!
So happy!
Oct 4 - Avery at her one year well check. She weighed just over 20 lbs, but I can't remember her height or the percentiles. She had to have LOTS of shots, which I hate. She was SO sad, until she got a sucker and that seemed to make it all much better! She had a rough couple of days afterwards though.
Oct 4 - Avery playing on the playground at Logan's Parent Teacher Conf. The girl LOVES to be outside! She stands at the door or the window every day and cries to go out all day long. She especially loves the swing!
She thinks she is SOOO big!
Just hanging out!
Oct 9 - Another one of Logan's soccer games. This one must be boring because she is on the phone. I love how she holds the phone up and she usually tilts her head to the side, too.
Oct 9 - Another marker mess! This is almost a daily occurrence lately. Avery has figured out where the markers on and can get the lids off. This one was one of the worst and the red marker was pretty funny on her lips! How can you get mad at a face like that?
All over her tongue, too!
She looks pretty proud of herself.
Oct 9 - Ry and Avery ready to paint toes for a Girls Night In. Avery loved it!
Oct 14 - We went to the little Fall activities at the Heritage Center near our home. Avery LOVED the petting zoo!
She really loved the swings, too. Especially this horse one.
Avery going down the slide with our cute friend, Whitney. She had so much fun and wanted to go over and over again!
Avery sitting on the horse. The other kids got to do pony rides, but they wouldn't let Avery. She was so excited when we got close to the horses and was doing her sign for horse and making the sound. We had to at least let her sit on it for a minute! She loved it and was so mad when we took her off!
Avery riding the train
Avery in the petting zoo with dad
Avery at the waterfall up the canyon near our home. She loved going there and had so much fun toddling around and picking up leaves and rocks. She especially seemed fascinated by the waterfall!
Avery picking her nose. She is a little obsessed! It isn't really picking her nose as much as she discovered her finger fits perfectly inside and she seems to like that. 
She looks way too grown up these days! You can see her new front tooth peeking through.
Avery checking out the leaves. 
Oct 21 - Avery in another mess! We are in a whole new stage and that means trouble a lot of the time. She seems to be into everything and especially enjoys the bathroom for some reason! She loves the TP, the cupboards, (or any cupboard or drawer) and splashing in the toilet! She keeps me very busy! 
She is looking quite pleased with her mess!
Not only does she unroll it, she also likes to rip it all apart! Her other big mess lately is the craft cabinet where the kids crayons and stuff are. She loves to dump all the crayons or eat the markers or rip all the paper.... Any kind of mess! 
Oct 23 - Avery at one of Logan's soccer games. She has endured lots of these kind of events and is pretty good at all of them for the most part. Especially if she has her little snacks in hand. Those help keep her happy!
Oct 25 - Avery picking out her pumpkin at the pumpkin patch by our house. Last Halloween, she was barely a month old! So much has changed!!!
Miss Avery crashed out on the couch! This rarely happens. She is way too hard to get down for a nap to just have her fall asleep like this, so I love it when it happens. I also love the tiny hand with the toy baby bottle sneaking in. Ry is probably just about to shove it in Avery's mouth trying to "help" her. I hope Avery can survive her very helpful sister! 
Is there anything better than this? I think not!
Oct 25 - We spent the afternoon with Logan's Kindergarten class at the Pumpkin Walk. My kids love these funny cut outs to put your face into. It is their favorite part. We had to get a few of Avery. She made a darn cute Yoda!
Avery LOVED this Nemo display for some reason. She got super excited when we went by and practically jumped out of her stroller. I don't know if it was the bright colors or the background music or what, but she was into it! 
Ariel Avery
Cinderella Avery - I know they aren't the best pictures but they make me laugh! 
Avery 13 months old! She is bringing me a leaf. She looks so big in this picture, too! How did my baby grow up??? Avery is officially a toddler and is walking everywhere and is super fast at it! I can barely keep up. Not only is she walking, she is attempting to climb as much as possible and we have had a few bumps and falls. I hate that part of the first walking stage! She toddles around so cute though. It is fun to watch.
She is learning more and more words and is talking quite a bit these days. My favorite new word of hers is "Brotha" for Logan. It is so sweet! She loves going to get him at the bus stop everyday. I think her favorite word is "Hi" or "Hiya". She walks around saying it and waving all day and it is really funny. She has this super cute little voice and it sounds adorable! Avery can also say something that sounds like "Annie" for our neighbor's dog. It is always in the backyard when we are out on the swing set and she loves her and always wants to pet her through the fence. Another new word is "uh-oh" mostly when she drops something. It usually is just "oh" though and sometimes she will cover her little mouth, too. She has also learned the sign for Monkey and makes the cutest little "ooh-ooh-ooh" to go with it! We love it!
Avery is getting pretty good at her body parts and loves for us to ask her and then she will point. She can do her toes, nose, eyes, mouth, teeth and hair. Her favorite is "Eye" and she can say it really well and is always going around and pointing to people's eye and saying "eye" and poking people in their eyes. She also LOVES to brush her teeth and gets really excited about that!
Avery loves being outside and she spends part of her day watching out the window or crying at the door to go out. She loves her swing, but has also just discovered her little slide and she loves it! She can climb to the top by herself but then needs a little help to get up onto the slide. She has so much fun going down and can't wait to go again. She has tried the bigger twisty slide with Logan, but she doesn't like that one as much.
Avery is great at waving bye-bye and also started blowing kisses. They are so cute and she makes the cutest "MUAH" noise when she blows them.
Avery is FINALLY sleeping through the night on a pretty consistent basis. This is mostly my fault as it was hard to get her established on a routine and most nights she would fall to sleep nursing. We decided to practice some tough love and make her fall to sleep on her own. It was rough for awhile, but she is doing great and it is so much better now! We read her a book or two and then sing her a song, wrap her up and lay her down. She still cries sometimes, but rarely more than a few minutes. And she is doing great and usually sleeps from 8 or 9 pm to sometime between 6 and 8 am. It is great! The first night was hard, but she was really tired that night, so she fell asleep within a half hour. The next night was awful and I think she cried for almost 2 hours! It was so awful and I questioned if I was doing the right thing. The next night, she cried for about 20 minutes, and since then, she has been great! She still has had a couple rough nights, after her shots and when teeth are coming in when she will wake up in the night, but for the most part she is doing great! Now, if we could get her to nap longer than 20 or 30 minutes!
Avery got 3 new teeth this month! She finally got her missing front tooth right in the middle on Oct 8th. It is kind of funny to watch the difference in her smile over the last month in the pictures as that tooth comes in. It makes a big change! She also got her two top first molars around Oct 14th. I had no idea they were coming in and then saw them one morning and it explained a lot of grumpiness and lack of sleeping!
Avery is in my junkfood baby! She loves all things sweet, or anything bad for her! I have never had a picky eater before and don't quite know what to do about it. She especially loves any candy, cookie crisp cereal, ice cream, M&M's (she calls them m's and asks for them every time I walk by the cupboard), and pizza and I recently discovered she LOVES corndogs. When I get them out for lunch, she freaks out that I have to cook them first and wants them RIGHT then! She is so hard to get to eat real food! She does usually do good with dinner, and lunch is hit or miss, but she rarely eats much of anything for breakfast. Sometimes she will chow a banana and other mornings she will just throw it on the floor. I don't know what to do with her! She is super picky and if I put a bunch of different things on her tray, she will pick out the things she wants, and then throw the other pieces on the floor, which makes for a disgusting floor! She loves crackers, especially goldfish crackers. I had her try some pretzel ones and they were definitely her favorite. After that, whenever I give her the regular goldfish, she will throw them on the floor, unless they are in her cup and she can't tell what they look like. It is kind of funny to me that she won't just eat what I give her like my other kids did!
It is getting much harder to keep up with Avery! She is into everything and I feel like I am always taking little choking hazards out of her mouth (barbie shoes and marbles seem to be her favorite!) or cleaning up one of her many messes or rescuing her from where she has gotten herself stuck climbing onto! She is also a lot of fun and showing way more personality and loves to make us laugh.
Sept 24 - Avery shoving a banana in her mouth. She will only eat the banana if it is whole. She doesn't like me to chop it up for her. It makes it a little difficult to get the whole thing in her mouth!
