A bit of Catch up

I have been horrible at journaling!!
The kids are perfectly adorable!
Gage is rolling around so well! He gets into the most amazing spots- I don't know how he does it... he so good with his hands- he grabs plates and bowls from the table- there has been a few messes... at his six month appointment he grabbed the instrument the doctor used to check his ears- the doctor was impressed and said he should be a sports player. Gage loves to hold his hands, and grab onto his feet.
Today for the first time Avi said "Avi Nelson". Avi is using more sentences- at the store the other day she came up to me with some toys and said, "I need this". I love how she speaks in third person- "Avi wants to try." and "Hold Avi"- mostly she said "Avi hold mama" but we are working on that. She loves to color, fishies, horses- she wants to feed the horses- she pulls grass and throws it at them when they come near and when she sees them on walks, she blows kisses at them. She wants to go horse back riding again, like she did last month. She loves to swing, pink, princesses, and Mickey/Minnie Mouse. She likes to eat baby tomatoes from the garden. She is quite the forager- she knows where food is, and she knows how to get it. She loves fruit and cheese- lots and lots of cheese.
Gage is growing to laugh at her more and loves to watch her. The other day she came growling up to him, and he loved it! He was laughing and laughing- he also really laughed when I was pushing Avi  on the swing and I would tap her bum- and say "bum bum bum..." he wouldn't laugh at other words, and yes he is surely a boy- when Gunnar burps- Gage laughs, most unfortunately Gunnar likes to make himself burp at times to make Gage laugh.
Gage is a sweety and is able to be put down to bed and goes to sleep for the night- well most nights it works. I am wondering if he is teething because he has been up more and wanting to nurse more at night. Gage is also becoming a talker.
In Fallon, Avi took the Kindle and climbed up into the glider- opened it up and said, "Read books". She got a tricycle for her birthday. It was a home assembly- we had trouble with one wheel, but Gunnar got it together, unfortunately it did not last. Her first time out the wheel came off and she cut her chin and her bit her tongue. Her cut in her chin was severe enough we needed to go the E.R. At the E.R. they said she could get stitches or have it glued. We thought we could get away with gluing, sadly that lasted about a day.. she hit her chin against Gunnar's knee the next day and we went back in, but they informed us that after 24 hours they couldn't do more than tape it, which lasted, maybe an hour...

Daddy Came Home

Avi in dad's hat, and well, her new habit of nose picking

At Hoggle Zoo

At Grandma and Grandpa's house

 

Avi sometimes grabs the yogurt when we are shopping- it's a mess!!

Some Summer Pictures

This is Avi's balloon that she bought with her birthday money from great grandpa. She loved it!

Avi at Sea World

August 3??, 2012

At the Beach

Avi's yogurt face

Playing in the Back Yard in Fallon

 

Avi got a tricycle for her second birthday