The Hawkins Fam: Visiting Josh in Ohio (First time flying! part 1)

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Visiting Josh in Ohio (First time flying! part 1)

Ohio Here We Come!!

We decided that since I was able to work back in March, that we would take the girls to go see their uncle Josh from September 4-12. After thinking and planning, we decided that Rylee would be miserable and we would be even more miserable if we took her. She flies free right now, so we hadn't purchased her a ticket and later decided to leave her with Jake's parents. We thought it would be good to be with Avery one on one again and it would just be A LOT easier. I was really worried about the plane ride, since my children only know one volume and that's screaming. Avery was so excited to get to ride on a plane. She did so good and was such a good little passenger. Unfortunately, there are no direct flights to Columbus, Ohio, so we had a layover in Minnesota. When we landed in Minneapolis, Avery said very loudly "Wahoo! It's like a roller coaster!" Everyone around us giggled. She was such a trooper and was so fun to be with!

At the airport....Flying for the first time!

She was so cute. She wanted to be like everyone else and carry the carryon!

We arrived in Ohio on Tuesday night and Josh came to pick us up. I don't think Avery understands what a great uncle she has. He is such a great guy and loves to be with her. He is so cute with her. I guess we kind of took it for granted with him living around the block. I think he misses home, but I know that Avery misses him. Every time my girls play on their phones, they are always calling "uncle Josh".

Amish Country

Wednesday we took a little drive to Amish country. Who knew that this little town existed...yes, they have signs for wagon crossing. Crazy.

Avery thought she was pretty cool taking pics in the truck on our way! :)

We had to stop and try the cheese. It's YUMMY!

We also stopped and checked out the petting zoo they had. You could feed the animals. The goats were even on the roof!

I swear, we ate so good. Josh was such a great host and took us to all the great places to eat. This hamburger was so good, but it seriously was so huge!

Yummo!

Thurman's Cafe

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Rylee's Milestones

Started saying "oh wow" 3/2013

Says "ya, sure" like it's no big deal. 1/2013

Can finally open and close the doors 1/2013

Church is a three-ring circus most Sundays, this Sunday in particular, Rylee was in and out of the bench and all over the place. Avery asked her if she wanted to go to class (meaning nursery) before Sacrament had ended. Rylee B-lined it to the exit and practically ran to the nursery room! 9/15/12

Says "HI" loudly to anyone walking by 9/2012

Cookie 9/23/12

"Hello"-sounds like a parrot :) September 2012

Holds the phone to her ear and says "hi" Summer 2012

Has 4 top teeth and 2 bottom teeth. She has 2 upper molars and two bottom front teeth coming in. 7/5/12

Can fold her arms 5/6/12

Rolled for the first time 6/25/11

Ate oatmeal, and hated it for the first time. 8/11

Starting to crawl 10/11

Rylee's Words

OH TOODDLES! 12/12

Mi Mou= Mickey Mouse 1/2013

CeeCee=Avery 11/12

Dee= drink 11/12

Mil=milk 10/12

BB= blanket 10/12

Papa

bye

momma 5/12

daddy 5/5/12

Quotes by Miss Avery

"Can I sit on your laps?" (meaning lap) Summer 2012

We were watching America's Got Talent the other night and Avery tells me that she wants to go up on that stage, but that I would need to take her since she didn't know where it was. I asked her if she was going to sing or dance. She, of course, said dance! 7/3/12

Avery went with my parents to see Andrew (my cousin) play lacrosse. After the game, they went to get an ice cream cone. My dad asked Avery if she like her cone. She put her hand to her mouth and whispered to my mom "tell him, she's diggin' it!" They laughed so hard. 6/12

I gave Avery a brownie, "I need some milk to drink it down" 2/6/12

When Avery is tired, she tells me that her "eyes are red". 9/2011

I came in from Church to change my clothes and saw Avery laying in my bed. I smiled at her as I walked by, her response "don't smile at my mom, my eyes are tired!" 9/25/11

Fwip-hops=flip flops 5/2011

swim soup=swim suit5/2011

We are in the middle of potty training, Avery had had an accident on the downstairs couch and I told her to run up and finish going potty. When I came upstairs, apparently she had to go too bad because the rug was soaked. As she is sitting there with those big blue eyes, she proceeds to tell me "It's otay mom, you tan tlean it up, it's otay." I told her that it's not okay and she argued with me back and forth! It's not a big deal that she had an accident, but I don't WANT to clean it up!! 03/4/11

I'm sitting in the computer room and Avery is eating some cereal. She yells to me that "Fresh Beat" is over and I yell back that "Go, Diego Go" will be on...she yells back "Otay!!" Obviously, she watches too much TV! 1/17/11

We were driving up to my mom's in the far left lane, driving through the river bottoms where it kind of curves, it was dark so she could see the on coming traffic, when I hear "cars are coming mom, beep!" Apparently, she thought we were going to hit the other cars!! 01/07/11

I delivered dinner to a family and came out crying, Avery asked "you need a tissue mom?". 12/22/10

Avery went to nursery, and she has been having a hard time liking it, but the last two weeks she has actually gone without crying. Apparently, her teacher said that one little girl was crying and Avery went up to her and patted her shoulder and told her "it's okay, I miss my daddy too!" 12/07/10

I was putting Avery to bed, and as I was telling her good night, she asked me "mommy tired?" I answered, "yes". She rolled over and said "Avery tired". And that was that! 11/03/10

At church we were taking the sacrament, after she had gotten the water by herself, she leans over to me and says "that was fun, mom"!! 10-24-10

I was trying to get some cute pictures of Avery in the corn maze, when out of the blue, Avery says "stop pictures, mom" 10-15-10