The Hawkins Fam: September 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Discovery Gateway

OMG, the coolest place ever for kids!! On Tuesday, my cute friend Jessica invited us to tag along with her and her little girl (plus two kids she nanny's for) to the Discovery Gateway. This place is so cool! Avery LOVED it! I thought that she may be a little too little but boy was I wrong! I couldn't get her to hold still to take a decent picture of her! Her little cousin Reese came along as well and she had so much fun too! Here are a few pictures I did try to get! Thanks Jess for the invite. So fun!!

Cute Elliyah

Avery LOVED this car. She sat and played in it for almost 10 min!! I didn't think she could stay in one place for that long!!

Reese's favorite part was the house. She didn't want to leave it!!!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Summer is almost over

I can't believe that we are half way through September already. Seriously, where does the time go? This past summer we have been so busy and it has been so fun to have a little baby to share the experiences with. Although, this last weekend was the first time I have left her over night.

Jake and I decided to go backpacking with his brother Josh up to Amethyst Lake. We did this hike about six years ago when we were first dating and it is soooo beautiful! It is about 13 1/2 miles up and back and is a pretty good hike. There is a mile where you are climbing elevation pretty quickly on rocks. But the end result is this beautiful lake. You feel like you are on top of the world, literally you are so high, there isn't much animal life. The first time we went, it was silent. There weren't even birds and I thought that was so weird. This time there were definitely birds and was absolutely gorgeous. It was warmer this time around and that is probably why. We took both dogs and they loved it as well. I love to be in the mountains. It is amazing how blessed we are to live in such a beautiful part of this country. My feet were a little sore by the end, but it was so fun to be with Jake. It has been a long time since we have spent a night without Avery. (**I couldn't sleep I had such back anxiety. I thought for sure there would be a bear ripping me out of my tent!!! Needless to say, I didn't sleep very well!)

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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