Labor Day Beach Trip

The Friday before Labor Day, we left for a long weekend at North Myrtle Beach. Shayne, his mother, Avery and I left around 2:30 that afternoon while Shayne's sisters, Devan and Paige, Devan's boyfriend Bradley and Paige's friend Erin, drove after the football game Friday night. We had a really good time and Avery did extremely well. She traveled much better than I expected and was very flexible with her major routine changes. She even switched to beach time and learned how to sleep in...I was much appreciative. She loved the beach! Not so much the ocean, but definitely the sand. She enjoyed feeling it in her hands and of course, eating it.

Unfortunately after days of sun and sand, poolside lounging and all you can eat seafood, our little family vacation had to come to an end....

Video of the week

So I missed posting a video last week because I was busy preparing for our beach trip (pictures to come soon). I do apologize if I caused any of you to lose sleep from video-posting-deprivation ;o)
Anywho, Micah recently posted the cutest video on her blog which led me to this one that I just love. Enjoy!

Go Pack!

Here's to the return of college football.....

7 Months

Holy moly, my baby girl is over halfway to being a year old! Time definitely flies...especially when you're having fun with a little one. Avery is starting to do so much. She is in the beginning stages of crawling. She actually uses her head to do this, putting her head on the floor to push herself forward. She also loves to growl and it is quite funny. This is actually called "throat singing." While doing his usual music stuff on the internet, my dad actually stumbled across this accidentally...who knew?!? She just recently discovered that she can shake her head too. I hope to capture some of these moments on video. We still don't have any toofers, although I think one may peek through soon since she's beginning to aggressively chew everything she can!

Avery's nana (Shayne's mom) had her pictures made again recently. Before Avery was born, Denise had a "nana shower" and her friends gave her a gift certificate to the Picture People. The pictures are great, however we probably won't own many unless we choose to go in debt because they're ridiculously expensive. I want to show them off, but they come with the copyright stamp since they're from their site....sorry, that's the best I can do! And I will say the cutest pictures they took were nakie pictures, but I refuse to post naked pictures of my child on the internet, so these will have to do. Also, they asked us if we would allow them to put one of her pictures up in the store, so next time you're at the mall, swing by Picture People and look for our Avery Jean!