POOR AVERY!

Well, it has finally happened, one of the girls needed stitches and it wasn't who we thought would be first! I really thought Rylee would break a bone with how wild she can be but Avery beat her to the emergency room. Avery has now learned that the couch is NOT for jumping and the coffee table isn't made of rubber. Yesterday morning the girls were playing in the living room while I was cutting veggies for a salad. The plan was to finish the salad, get a shower and then spend the rest of the morning at the museum followed by lunch at Wendy's. I was in the kitchen and heard a thump (not uncommon in this house) followed by Avery crying and Rylee screaming "Blood, blood everywhere!". I ran into the living room to find Avery covered in blood with it dripping onto the carpet. I grabbed her and tried to clean her up but she was bleeding too bad so I called Dale at work, he made it home in ten minutes and I grabbed Avery and headed for the emergency room. Needless to say, three stitches later she is all better. I ran out last night and got her some cool Elmo band-aids, I figured if she has to keep it covered for the rest of the week she might as well look cute! Anyway, the stitches come out on Friday as long as everything looks good. Well, that's our update for now, we never did get to the museum, hopefully we'll get there next week!

Spring is here!!

Ugh, after many teases along the way our warm weather is finally here and the girls are LOVING it!! Avery now looks at the back door and yells "out" every time she wants to go out to the sandbox. She also loves taking wagon rides and will even push the wagon around herself if needed. We went to the playground on Friday for the first time this year and they had so much fun. Avery loves just running around in the grass while Rylee makes friends with anyone who is there. Avery's newest words are "fish", "dog" and "eye-eye", which is actually Ry-Ry (short for Rylee). She's getting an attitude and has started pushing Rylee back when they fight. I think Rylee is in for it soon, she has been the boss up until now but that's about to change! Rylee is doing great in swimming, they taught her how to dive off of the side of the pool and the teachers are trying to get her to swim butterfly now! It's kind of funny, the same people who taught me how to swim are now teaching her so I know that she's in good hands. Well, that's the update for now. I think we are going to head to the museum tomorrow, it's going to be close to 80 so I'm sure we'll be outside most of the day! I'll try to take pictures so I can send some new ones out. Dale keeps bugging me because he needs new picture for his office but I never remember to take the camera when we go out. Have a good week and enjoy the weather, I know we will!!

Congrats Lynsee and Marc!

I'm sure most of you know that my sister went to Hawaii in January and married Marc. They had a reception last Saturday and everyone had a great time. The girls were on the dance floor most of the night and Rylee actually slept in until 7:30 the next morning so she must have been tired!! Rylee started swimming lessons this week once again. She is too "advanced" for her age group so they put her in the 6-7 year old class, go figure, she has my swimming blood in her! We are just waiting for the warmer weather to come. Last week we had a couple of days that were in the 60's followed by a snow storm the next day, lovely, huh! Well, it's my favorite time of day, naptime, so I better go get the girls ready. I hope everyone is doing well. I'll update again soon.

Okay, I guess I should get everyone up to date on the girls. As you know, they both celebrated birthdays last month. Rylee turned four and Miss Avery turned one. The party was so much fun and Avery dug right into her cake. Rylee is currently working on learning how to write letters and numbers, she loves practicing every night with either me or Dale. She's going to start another round of swimming lessons next month. She loves swimming and is quite good at it for her age. I'm hoping that one day she will be a swimmer but there's no pressure! Avery is a pistol! She's been walking since nine months (!!!) and has started talking up a storm lately. Her favorite words are mama, up, poppop, and uh-oh! She also has one heck of a temper, gee I wonder where she got that from? Anyway, that's the latest on the girls. Hope everyone is doing well. The ground is covered with snow here in Pa. but it's going to be in the high 40's today with "flooding" rain so it should make for a fun weekend! Have a good weekend! I'll update again soon!

The First Entry

Hello everyone! So, for some reason I have decided to start blogging. I don't know, it seems like a cool idea, we'll see! I figure it's a good way to keep everyone up to date with our family since the girls are getting bigger by the second! Hopefully I'll keep up with it so check back often for updates.