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Avery has a new passion. She’s way into Lego Friends. According to Wikipedia, Friends is a product range of the LEGO construction toy designed to appeal primarily to girls. Introduced in 2012, the theme includes unique “mini-doll” figures, which are about the same size as the traditional LEGO minifigure but are more detailed and realistic. […]

Avery recently celebrated her “golden” birthday. All birthdays are special and important, but the golden birthday is super special. The morning of she came downstairs to her new “birthday doll.” I received these growing up, then my niece (who’s 14 years younger than me) got them, and now I get to give them to Avery. […]

I woke up in the middle night and heard Sawyer sobbing. I wasn’t sure if he was awake or having a “night terror” so I waited. He kept crying, so I went to check on him. As I opened his door he asked, “Are they gone mom?” I immediately said, “Yes, they’re gone, you’re safe,” […]

What to do this week? Since we aren’t home, we don’t have all our “stuff” so our resources are limited. Avery’s been asking to do a “real” science experiment ever since we went to a friends school Science Fair a month ago. No time like the present. Pinterest, my new best friend, to the rescue. […]

This afternoon my mom mentioned the Peter Rabbit tea set…. yeah, where is that? My sister knew right where it was in the garage. She got it out, she and Avery unwrapped each piece. I hadn’t seen this tea set is 20+ years. I actually remember pouring hot chocolate from the teapot into the tiny […]

This is a picture Avery drew the other day. She was being very secretive about it, which peaked my curiosity. She showed it to me when she was all done. I needed her to explain to me. She told me, “That’s me and Sawyer, we are daydreaming about a dog. We are sad because you […]

We’ve toyed with giving Avery an allowance. We both agreed that she needed to earn the money by doing chores or work. Also, we both agreed that she needs to stop whining and listen & react more (quickly)- stop ignoring us. What to do? We decided to implement a “commission” based on Dave Ramsey’s take […]

I forgot that Avery has more half days this week. So after she finished her homework we settled down on the couch to watch the Johnny Depp version of “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” this afternoon. We had to have some chocolate while we watched it so I gave each of them a few M&Ms […]

Avery finished Charlie & the Chocolate Factory- finally. It took her a lost 3 months! She did read a lot of book in-between. She took the AR (accelerated reader) test at school and passed. She was very excited to earn 5 points- previously the books she’s read are .5 to 1.0 points. She really liked […]

A common theme in Avery’s life recently is “natural consequence.” She hurts herself constantly and when I ask her why she was over there, not ever here where I asked her to be …. natural consequence. Before the softball game on Tuesday, the coach called all the girls together tell them that during the game […]