My Avery

Avery is 4 1/2 now! She’s growing up so much. We love having her around and she is such a good big sister (most of the time!). She loves to role play with Camryn. They play “Dora and Boots” or “Rapunzel and Flynn” or “Aurora and Philip” or even “Emily and Stephen” (their cousins). Guess who is always the boy character? Yep, Cam. (Same thing happened to me all the time with my big sister. I remember playing “Minnie and Mickey” and I always had to be Mickey haha). They will really get into their characters and if I call them their real names they correct me. My bad! :)

Avery also loves to tell Camryn what to say and she’ll say it. Which is cute sometimes. At other times she encourages Camy’s whining so I don’t appreciate that!!

Avery’s been going to 4 year old Kindergarten. Every day she has to bundle up like this:

Hat, gloves, snow pants, boots, scarf, coat. It’s quite the ordeal getting her bundled up every morning in time to get to school. She knows how to put it all on by herself she just doesn’t do it very quickly. :) It’s nice though because her teacher takes their class outside right when they get to school almost every day and they play in the snow. Some days they even go sledding down the hill in back of the school. It’s really cute.

We’ve been trying to keep busy even though we’re stuck indoors all the time now. One fun thing we did recently was a trip to “Pump It Up.” Avery loves these big blow up structures and their big slides. We have quite a few of these type places around (Flabbergast, Monkey Joes, etc.) and they make for good diversions in the winter.

Avery has always been a smart girl and lately she’s been enjoying learning to read some Easy Reader books. She can figure out a lot more words than I thought she would be able to at this age. We still haven’t worked out sounding out words much, just mostly visual recognition but she’s doing well that way so far.

Writing has also been fun for us to teach Avery. She is always asking us how to spell things. Or she’ll get a book and a piece of paper and pen and copy down all the words that are written on the cover. This past weekend we worked on her Valentine’s for her school class (already! I know!). Her teacher had a page with everyone’s name and picture on it from the class. She cut them all out herself, glued them to envelopes, and then wrote “To” and “From: Avery” on all the Valentines. Then we went and bought some candies and she stuffed all the envelopes herself and licked them closed. It was a great project for her and she LOVED it. I told her she could take her time but she kept going. At one point she said she got tired so she was going to go take a nap in her bed. I said that was fine. She went upstairs for 30 seconds and came back down and said she was rested and ready to get back to work! Funny girl.

Avery loves playing “Go Fish” and “War” card games with her Dad. And he has also recently gotten her hooked on some fun games on his iPhone. Mainly this one where she has little kitty cats she adopts and dresses and takes care of.  So funny.

Well we just love having Avery in our family. She is such a sweet girl and is always willing to help out (if there is a bribe involved, haha.).