Avery is at such a fun age right now. I love to watch how independent she is. It amazes me how fast she has grown and how much energy she has. She is constantly busy. I am currently working through my anxiety of ALWAYS having a messy house.

Avery will not wear a hat or a hoodie for the life of her. This is why you will never see her with adorable little barrettes in her hair.

Again refusing to wear anything.
The neighbor kids love to come over and play with Avery.
Avery loves her red ball she got for her b-day.

Bikini babe.

Here's Kassie trying on the new swimsuit the Bateman clan bought Avery (thanks guys). Who is she kidding, everybody knows she wears a 12-18 months NOT 6-12 months. Nice try Kass. Lay off the breast milk fattie!

More of Avery's week

Yes, my mother bathes her outside in a cooler.

No, my mother never puts a diaper on this kid.

Avery's week.

Avery is having a great time at Na'Na' and PaPa Jeffs house. Here she is with no diaper (I'm lucky she's even wearing a shirt) and playing with the hose. Shawnae hoses off her patio at least three times a day, and waters her weeping willows at least once a day, so Avery gets plenty of water time. Shawnae caught her the other day sucking water out of the cracks in the cement (thanks Rylee). When she is done getting dirty, Na'Na fires up the warm water and hoses her down.

Wii Wii

I headed up to Idaho this weekend to see my mom for the first time in 100 months and to celebrate my dads birthday. We had pizza and icecream cake for Jeffs birthday and then the boys organized a game of tackle football. My bro Jeb is the one with the ball and Shawnae is in the background . Shawnae joined a couple rounds of football, but her boobs started hurting so she had to quit.

Avery having coffee time courtesy of Shawnae.
Jeffs birthday present was the Wii.

Weekend fun

We kicked off the weekend finding this at a garage sale saturday morning. It was only five dollars and Avery loves it. She goes in and out of her door over and over again. She also loves putting random toys in the mailbox.

Then we headed up to swiss days with Auntie Roylene and the girls. It was HOT, and there were way to many people. I don't think I will be doing that again.
Sunday we headed to the park to play in the sand... and go down the slide.
Monday we bid farewell to the girls and worked in the yard