Her birthday was Tuesday. Her and Blake were up very early. We were sitting on the couch and I told Avery, "Happy Birthday!" She just smiled, got shy, sucked her tongue and sniffed her blanket. After a few minutes she got up and went over the the window, peeked through the blinds and then ran across the room to another window and did the same thing. Then she said, "It's still dark out." I just said, "yes, the sun is still coming up." I was trying to figure out why she was telling me this and I realized she was telling me that it wasn't her birthday yet (the night before I was telling her it would be around 8:20 in the morning because that is the time she was born 4 years ago.) When the sun was finally up she asked me to make her something special for breakfast. This was a big task for me because I'm not a breakfast person and whenever we do steer away from the usual cereal or oatmeal it's Derek that goes all out for breakfast.
Knowing Avery I figured my best shot for making an extra special breakfast was to go the sweet route. Here's what I came up with:
Avery also opened up her gifts from us.
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| and a Minnie & Daisy play set |
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| Red Robin |
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| Blake's 'milk' mustache from Cold Stone |
Yesterday I took the kids to the Kiddie Park. I had told Avery we would go there for her birthday but it was closed Tuesday hence the reason we went yesterday. I was worried that it would be too much with the heat and me with three kids by myself but it was super easy and we all had a great time.
In other news, Derek left Sunday for SOS in Montgomery, Alabama. He'll be there for 8 weeks! SOS is an officer training program that all Captains have to go through. It used to only be 5 weeks and they just changed it 8 weeks in January.......if only Derek had procrastinated in going.........
Since Derek has been gone of course a lot of things have gone wrong or have happened that he would usually take care of. 1) a baby lizard managed to sneak in the house.....looks like we'll have a little pet for a while b/c I can't catch the crazy thing. 2) his 55 pound box of ammo arrived the day after he left. I barely managed to roll it just inside the door and it's still sitting there. 3) the washing machine motor is now shot and I have no idea what is a good washing machine or how I'll get one loaded and hooked up on my own. I can tell you I will NOT go to a landromat to wash my clothes. 4) Allie and I both seem to have a little bug of some sort (not that Derek would take care of that stuff.......but with 2 of us sick and just me to take care of everything alone....hinders things.) 5..) this actually happened right before Derek left but Blake's finger got smashed. Long story short.......Allie was putting Avery's birthday cards up on the fireplace mantel and one got wedged under an African egg thing that Derek had brought back from his trip and we had displayed up there........since it's an egg shape it rolled right off and Blake happened to be there (he follows the girls around everywhere) and it landed right on his finger. We couldn't get a referral to go to Urgent care b/c our lovely insurance co. was closed. By Sunday night I knew he had to be seen, so I took him in Monday and was reassured that we were doing everything right as far as caring for it. They were a little concerned that it might be getting infected so he is on antibiotics. His nail is probably going to fall off. Other than that there is nothing else we can do.......and accidents happen. :(
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| first time riding like a big boy. LOVED it! |
The week before Derek left we decided to go on a family bike ride. We only got one picture.
