November pictures

I know I've been bad about posting...but I've just added lots of cute pictures to make up for it! :)

Avery is finally starting to make an effort to crawl! Yah! She is such a little mama's girl. She'd prefer me to just hand everything to her. Kara, on the other hand, is usually very independent...and she is in to everything. I have to watch her like a hawk. If I'm on the computer, she'll crawl around me, stick her little finger out & turn it off. Thanks Kara! Her favorite words to say right now are "duck" and "lalala" - that one's from a Sandra Boynton book. She also likes "hatak"...I don't know where she got that...it sounds Japanese. Avery prefers to just stick with "mama." I guess she knows that'll get her whatever she wants!

See...pretty cute huh?






I wanted a good picture of them together in their birthday
dresses, but this was the best I could get...

...before Kara crawled away as usual

Kara likes to reach up & play the piano

Happy 1st Birthday!!!

Avery & Kara are 1 year old! I can't believe it. We had their party a couple days before their birthday. Everyone came over to celebrate, and it was so much fun.

Attempting to eat some cake. The girls liked it, but Avery
decided to throw a tantrum anyway just for fun.

This picture makes me laugh!








So many presents!


What are those things?

After everyone left, we had some dinner. I guess Avery
wasn't too excited about the broccoli...little surly girl

Trying on our party hats

They had fun playing with their cake after dinner





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The next day the girls had lots of fun playing with all their new toys...
and the giftwrap & packaging

Avery drowning in a mass of tissue paper

Look at all our cool new stuff!


Gigi got the girls a little book with a finger puppet of a duck that sticks through the middle of each page. Kara is in love with the duck from the moment she saw him.

Moving in closer...

Going in for the kiss! Everytime I read it to her, she
insists on kissing the duck over & over. It's so cute.

Uh oh, here we go with the hair grabbing again!

Playing with the Little People farm

Random pics

A couple pics back from Halloween & a few random other ones...

A sad flower

A hungry butterfly

Trying on our Christmas dresses & not happy about it!

Just woke up

My lil' gangstas

Smiley girl

Avery is obviously excited about having her picture taken...again