New Room

The move to Avery's new room is now complete!  This weekend we finished the transition to the toddler bed, so Avery is now sleeping full-time in her big girl bed.  We're very proud of how well she is doing in it!  We think that she really likes the feel of being a big girl and she likes the freedom of being able to get out of bed in the morning to play with her toys on her own before we come and get her gate down.  While she is not excelling in certain areas these days (i.e. public outings and meal times), she is doing well with her new room.  Now, we have about 6 1/2 weeks to get the nursery together.  It is a total disaster and not even close to where it needs to be, but we'll get it done.  It has been hard to get much done with me in my condition.  I'm basically on modified bed rest.  Only being on my feet when I can stand it or have to take care of Avery.  I'm kind of going nuts and my poor husband is feeling crazy with having to do everything!  A month and a half is going to fly by though.  I am hoping to feel better in a few weeks so that Artie and I can take Avery to the zoo when they open.  We have been talking about it pretty much since we found out I was pregnant.  We really want to do something special with Avery before there is another person she has to share her  parents with.  We are pretty famous here for our zoo and they are opening a newly renovated exhibit this year.  Avery has never been to the Ft. Wayne zoo, just the San Diego one last spring.  We shall see.  

Along with accomplishing a perfect transition to her new room, Avery has learned a few other tricks.  I have been dreading her getting tall enough for this, but this week she has perfected the art of opening doors.  Oh man, we need to get them childproofed because she loves getting into the hall closet where we store bathroom stuff and paper-such as paper towels and tissue-which she loves to make a mess with!  She also has mastered her first phrase "I did it!"  We love hearing her say this, it's just so cute:)  We can't believe that she's already putting words together!

Hope everyone had a great weekend and is having nice weather.  Here, it has pretty much been rainy and chilly...not to mention it could snow this week!  That's right, I said snow.  I'm seriously going to go crazy if this weather doesn't get better!!

Some pictures of the room...

Avery absolutely loves this chair...we find her "reading" in it all the time!

See the beautiful totes stacked in the hall...those are a make-shift blockade to keep her out of the hall closet.  She's proven she's smarter than us though because she just moves them out of the way!!

Dancing with her keys.  Lately she's obsessed with keys.  She loves to say key and loves to play with them.  Luckily we had a key from a car we no longer have laying around so those are Avery's keys now!