I am thankful for...

Happy Thanksgiving!

San Diego: Oct 27 - Nov 4

Mike had a work trip to San Diego...

so of course we decided to tag along!

OCT. 28th

Eating lunch outside by the fountain at Liberty Station {Avery}

{Avery & Janner}

Having LOTS of fun in the rocker at GiGi & Bob's!

{Janner, Avery & Kaya}

OCT 29th
One COOL chick!!!

At Fanuel Park in PB...

{Avery, Janner & Kaya}

{Avery}

{Janner}

{Avery & Kaya}

OCT 30th

Riding the train at UTC...

{Janner & Avery}

More San Diego...

NOV 2nd

Balboa Park & the Train Museum

When we got to the park, the Fire Dept. was there in the parking lot doing some drills...so of course we had to stop and watch! They let the kids get up in the truck and check it out! Pretty fun!

Next we stopped to climb on the dragon sculpture...

We finally made it to the Train Museum!
Avery had the BEST time and is still talking about it to 3 weeks later...

especially "train crash", "train go over bridge" & "train go in the tunnel"

chugga, chugga...choo, choo!!!

My latest project...

How cute is this scarf!?

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Dear Avery...

Today you are 22 months old! Here are some things I want to remember:

• You say "Ses" for Yes (somtimes its "Ses I do" or "Ses I am")
• You sing "Twinkle, Twinkle", "Rockingchair Baby", "Itsy, Bitsy Spider" & "Jingle Bells"...also "Shake Your Booty" and "Mama Mia"! And you think every song on the radio is The Beatles.
• You LOVE being read to, especially the Madeline books (and you quote lines from the book like "something is not right!" amd "all girls cry boo hoo")
• You love Thomas the Train and talk about him all the time, as well as talking about the trip to the Train Museum in San Diego.
• You get really excited when you hear the trash truck coming down our street and run to the door saying "hurry, hurry!"
• You are learning to use the little potty (yay!)
• You like to color with crayons & colored pencils and paint with water colors, finger paints, and chalk paint on the driveway (good thing it rained today...the driveway was getting pretty full!)
• You love going to gymnastics class...especially doing forward rolls, hanging on the bars and jumping in the pit.
• You are very independant and want to do everything yourself

I can't believe that you are almost 2 years old!!

You are learning so much everyday and I am constantly amazed by the things you do!
I LOVE you Avery!!!!!

Love, Mommy

Halloween

We got to spend this Halloween in San Diego.

Avery had SO much fun hanging out with her cousins

and going trick-or-treating for the first time! {Our little bumble bee}


{Kaya the ladybug}

{SO excited to go trick-or-treating!}

{Avery & Kaya...ready to go}

{the first house}

I wish I had gotten a picture at the second house...as soon as they opened the door, Avery walked right in like she ownedd the place and headed over to their front window to get a closer look at the giant owl decoration they had there.

It was pretty funny!

{Avery & Janner the train conductor}

{Avery's first lollipop}

{Mommy, Daddy & Avery}

check out the gorgeous San Diego sunset in the background!



After trick-or-treating, we headed back for our

spooky Halloween Supper...

{bloody brains with eyeballs and fingers on the side}

{and ice cream witches for dessert}

**More pictures from the rest of the trip coming soon!