Saturday, January 14, 2012

Avery, The Archaeologist

The other day Mommy and I were playing in the backyard and I tripped over this mysterious looking rock that was sticking straight out of the ground.  After looking it over for awhile (since it seemed very different than all the other rocks), we noticed what looked like little tiny dinosaur bones captured all over the surface of it!  That's when Avery the Archaeologist took over the find!  Below are pictures from my excavation.

 Avery carefully digging out what looked like dinosaur bones

 Eureka!  A pelvic and leg bone of a baby Diplodocus 
(and yes, a spoon is an excellent excavation tool)!!!

 
 Avery carefully assembling the baby dinosaur bones back together 
(note that you absolutely must do this shirtless so that you 
don't lose any bones in a shirt pocket or anything like that)

 
 A full size baby Diplodocus that I will be 
donating to my local museum!!!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Swimmy!!!

 Swimmy, Avery's very first pet of her own

One of the best Christmas gifts I got last week was my very first own pet, a real fishy fish.  Mommy took me to the pet store to let me pick her out and then her pink tank too (and yes, I even picked out that unicorn as her fishy friend that you can see in the picture)!  I put her right next to my bed, so I can see her first thing every morning when I wake up.  I named her Swimmy, after one of my favorite books. I just love watching her swim all around.  I love her, love her, love her!  She is the cutest fish ever!!!

Avery's inspiration for Swimmy's name

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Years

Happy New Years


Have a safe and happy New Years Eve tonight!  I hope you spend this next new year thinking "outside the box", like I try to at all times!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas Eve

 Avery's note and snacks left out for Santa

It's getting very late now and I need to get into bed and turn off all the lights before Santa passes my house over, but I know I'll be just too busy tomorrow opening presents to send out a new Christmas day blog posting, so to everyone out there that reads these, "Have a Merry Christmas and I hope Santa brings you a little something good as well" 

.... See Santa, I try to be a good little girl, so try to remember to bring me the good stuff!!!

 Leaving the tree lit up so Santa can see 
his way from the fireplace to the Christmas tree


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Christmas Time in The Big Apple

Avery after a long day in the big city

Mommy, Daddy, and I decided to fly off to the Big Apple to see my Auntie Em last week.  Here's are some of the pictures and videos from our super fun winter trip.


Legs kicked up, reclining, watching 'toon,
and eating snacks is how I like to fly!


We started off the trip spending lots of time
in auntie's apartment playing Scrabble
(I like to play without any clothes on) ...

... and then coloring on the floor ...

... and showing off my dance moves ...


... and taking baths in "big city"colored water ...


... and then finally deciding to get dressed 
and go play outside ...


... where we would have donuts in the park ...

... and then after all that sugar 
I would chase Auntie around and around ...

... and then do something I never get to do while 
at home, like kicking tons of leaves ...


... and then play on all sorts of interesting 
big city park toys in Auntie's backyard!


Then we would take the subway 
into the bigger big city ...



... where sometimes it was completed packed ...

... and other times it was completely empty except for us.


In the bigger big city we would walk and walk and walk ...



... we would go uptown ...

... to midtown ...



... to downtown ...

... to even down by the water to see the Statue of Liberty herself!

And all the interesting city people we ran into, 
like Micky and Minnie out shopping ...


... and fairy snow princesses ...




... and weird gold dancing monkeys!

And all the super fun toys I saw everywhere ...



... there were so many toys that I 
couldn't hardly slow down to explain it all ...

... like cute cuddly things ...

... to kitchenette and cookery things ...

... to fun puppets and great books ...

.... and even places where you could draw on the 
walls with crayons ... at least I hope so anyway!

There was so much neat stuff that I had 
to buy something for someone, 
so I picked out a great book for the new baby 
that will be here soon!


Then we went to museums where I got to see so many 
old dinosaur bones, even all put back together ...


... and then neat stuffed fish displays ....

... and even monstrous sea creatures joking around with each other!



Auntie and Daddy even ran in a race ...

... it was fun to watch, but really really cold out!


When it was time to go, I wanted to leave 
Auntie with a special present so I got her a 
Christmas tree after she went to work ...

... and then I decorated it all myself, 
with candy canes and bulbs ...

... and tinsel and lights ...

... it turned out fabulous!!!

Here's a video of the fun I had decorating the Christmas tree ...


Thanks Mommy and Daddy for taking me 
to see my Auntie Em!!!  See you soon, Auntie!!!

Friday, December 16, 2011

The Puppet Master

I have a new act I'm testing out right now ... it's a singing puppet show.  Let me know what you think.


Saturday, December 3, 2011

"Working at the Car Wash" ...

Avery's latest business venture

With all the rain we had yesterday, I decided that I could make some spending money (for buying Christmas gifts, of course) by opening up a car wash.  I even hired my first employee, Shannon.  Well, technically I made her a co-owner, but I'm still the CEO!  We're calling our business, "Kiddie Car Care"!!!

Consider stopping by for the best car wash you'll ever have.  Notice the line of vehicles in the pic above ... we are that good!!!

 Your "Kiddie Car Care" Team 
(getting ready for the rush of customer)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Two of our Thanksgiving Day Guests

I hope all of you out there had a very happy and gut-busting Thanksgiving Day!  My good friends Nikki and Dan came over to eat turkey with us and we all had a very fun time.  In fact, it was so much fun that none of my usual photographers (you know who you are!) remembered to take any pictures, so the only pictures I have to share from the day are of our other guests that "flew over".  Daddy finally hung up my bird feeder Auntie Em sent me.  It's right outside my window so every morning I can open my blinds and see all my little feathered friends!

The bird feeder was such a hit on Thanksgiving Day 
that all the birds formed a neat and orderly line to take turns!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

What!!! Thanksgiving is this week!?!!?!?

Oh no!  Mommy goofed ... she thought Thanksgiving was weeks away, but since it's only days from today, I had to help her ransack the market, even grabbing a shopping cart that was just my size so we could split up the shelf space where anything low goes into my cart and Mommy takes the stuff up high for her cart.

Avery with her 'Customer in Training' cart ...
What's going to work????  TEAMWORK!!!

Avery waiting in the checkout line,
finally ready for Thanksgiving day