More Practicing

Here's Avery in nothing but a diaper and pink high-tops!

Walking With Some Help...

Ave has been doing really well pushing around her "shopping cart" (that's what we call it). She can do a lap of the house and is even managing to avoid hitting the walls all the time!

Ave's Making the Big Leagues!

Got about eight calls this week from the Perinatal and Infant Services clinics up at the Children's Hospital. Each time it was a new person I was talking to (which meant giving them the whole lowdown on Ave's history and current development) but, on a good note, I did finally get Ave into speech therapy and advanced physio starting at the end of this month. It always seems whenever I am talking to them, Ave always figures out something (as if to make a liar out of me). This afternoon she stood alone for the length of the ABC song. After that, she wouldn't wait that long but instead would take a couple steps forward until she could wrestle herself into my arms. All good signs of improvement!

Ave's First Haircut

Ave's first haircut (June 21) and boy, did she need it! She looks a little boyish but super cute!

Ave's Destruction of Choice...

Ave likes to play "Baby Godzilla" all over this house. I think her fav thing to do is get in Mommy's tea/Splenda stash. I just clean it up everyday since a) I have gotten soft in my old age and b) she just seems to enjoy it so much!

A Milestone!

Ave was playing in the plastics drawer and forgot herself for a minute...she stood up without assistance for a couple seconds and beared her weight on both legs! Yay!

Avery and Her Hippos

Avery loves the hippo commercials from Telus...here's her fav:



We took some pics of the hippo at the zoo just for her (and what luck since he was out of the water that day!).