I finally broke down and signed up for Instagram. I have a hard enough time keeping up with Facebook, Linked-in, the blog, etc. I don’t even have a Twitter account (yet)… but since I love taking pictures of Avery, so I used the cool instagram thingy this weekend.. mixed with some ‘normal’ pictures… our weekend went a little like this…
December first…and our first snow!
Avery loved touching it and eventually grabbed a handful of it on the ground… I didn’t get a shot of that because since there was only a little snow on the ground he picked up a mound of dirt with it – had to grab his hand before it got all over him because we were headed to the mall…
Before getting our Christmas shopping on, I wore Avery out. I took him to the play area in the mall for an hour. I love taking him early in the morning… only a couple other kids (including 3 girls that kept following him around trying to hold his hand… oh man it’s already starting!)
Then we hit up the smoothie shop for a kids sized Strawberry shortcake (strawberries & yogurt) smoothie to share…
Avery got a kick outta sipping on the smoothie and watching the snow fall outside. Then we were off shopping! No pictures of that… Avery quickly passed out and I was able to score goodies for him and stockings AND got a spanking new bra (I know, you totally wanted to know this) from Victoria’s Secret, thanks to my Aunt Candy’s birthday gift card. After having a baby and an every changing body, a good fitting bra is like heaven!
Then it was home to make rice crispy treats! I was trying to think of a quick and inexpensive, but thoughtful, gift for Avery’s daycare girls. I would like to say Avery helped me, but I was able to make them while he played in his cupboard and experienced his first marshmallow…
He tasted it and started smiling and squealing and then figured out he could poke it with his finger…
He was too funny. Within 20 minutes the treats were done and I shared one with Avery. He LOVED the green and red m and m’s in them… he kept pointing at them and I let him have a litter (hoping he would still sleep that night) and he would stomp the ground with his feet in excitement!. Last night I decorated some bags with the treats in them and handed them out this morning at daycare, and one to a friend at work.
Sunday the snow was gone and Avery got his ride on…
Oh and can you believe these pumpkins are still intact… we’ve had them since before Halloween!
The rest of Sunday was much needed cleaning… the bathroom, Avery’s room, the living and dining rooms… and three loads of laundry. It was quite a task, but it was sooo needed and now everything smells so fresh and clean! In the midst of chasing Avery with the vacuum (he loves it..and yells at it as if he’s talking back to the humming sound), I rearranged his room to make a little reading nook – since we read on the floor before bedtime.
Then I took a few more shots while I was in there…
It’s changed so much since he was a baby…
Now there are toys EVERYWHERE and forget cleaning them up for a ‘staged’ picture.. because they’ll just be on the floor again 20 seconds later.
And see our changing table turned into a toy shelf with bins…. I decided to utilize it instead of put it away because Avery’s too big to be changed on it, but it’s great to store toys now!
And that was pretty much our weekend…(oh and I went to the gym…TWICE!)
What did you do over the weekend? Did you get snow!?
