Dan bought a new car today- new to us that is! It’s a Volvo, it’s dark blue and has four doors.. It doesn’t have a built in car seat though. Now we need to find a car seat for Dan’s car. Avery liked the car, she wouldn’t get out it.
If you want more details you can read Dan’s blog for that.
Avery had her 18 month “well baby” check up this morning with the new pediatrician. My only complaint about the new doc is that I was there for an hour and 20 minutes- ridiculous! They took us in 15 minutes late, did the weight and temp… then took us to another room for the actual appointment. Seems a bit weird to transfer us-not sure why they do that.
Anyway, here are Avery’s stats; weight 27.5 pounds & 33.75 inches, her head circumference… who cares? That means she is a huge- as big as the average 2 year old. She did have to get a few immunization shots- both in her leg- OUCH! She didn’t get the flu shot- I am not totally sold on it yet. She got her toe pricked to find out if she anemic or not. And we got a prescription for a fluoride/multivitamin.
Avery loves dogs. She will point out any dog, real or not. She will point and say “woof, woof.” The only shows she’ll watch on TV are Clifford and Curious George. Which is fine by me since PBS has them on quite often. She doesn’t have too many words yet, but they are coming slowly… we hope.
Here is a picture of Avery having lunch with “the girls.” And another picture to show weird she is- wonder where she gets that from!
We had a busy Halloween season. It started on Sunday when Avery wore her costume to church. She wore the first ladybug costume. 
We went to a costume party at a friend’s house on Monday. Really it was just a get together to see all the kids in their costumes.
On Tuesday we went to Barnes & Noble for storytime. Most of the kids wore costumes, but we didn’t. We stopped by Dan’s work in the afternoon to show his coworkers (Meredith) her costume. We even got the mall for an hour for their trick or treating. I really liked it. You could actually SEE the costumes and there was more that just candy, some stickers, pencils, small toys… That night we stopped by Hoby & Stacy’s to say “hi” and get some hugs.
Then we finally ended up at the Baratte’s for some food and trick or treating. Avery only got scared once, from Cole’s Alice Cooper makeup. She was pretty scared too, all he did was walk into the room! He was banned from the kitchen for a time!
So Avery got to wear her costume a few times and ended up with not too too much candy that Dan and I “have” to eat! Hope you guys had fun too and took some good pictures.
We went to Chuck E. Cheese a few days ago. Avery rode the carousel over and over again. I think she rode it a toal of 5 times! She liked the other stuff too but the carousel was definitely her favorite.
