Bye Bye Binkie #2

When we said goodbye to Jackson's binkie, I wrote this post all about it, so I thought I'd do the same when we said goodbye to Avery's binkie. 

Jackson was about 2 1/2 when we got rid of his binkie. Avery isn't quite yet 2 (she'll be 2 at the end of this month), but it was just time. She only really took it at night and in the car, and when she did have it throughout the day it ended up either getting eaten by our dog Hunter or she would lose it. We were going through at least 1 pack a week and I was getting tired of buying them. 

So this past Friday when we got home from our trip to Costa Rica, we were down to 0 binkies. My mom had made it through the whole week with 2, but that Friday Hunter had eaten one and Avery had lost the other. So we decided to see how things went without it. That night she did great actually. She didn't cry for it at all. 

The second night was a little tougher but still very manageable. I normally would read her some books, we'd say her prayers and I'd give her her binkie and blankie and she'd go right in her crib with no fussing at all. This night, the second night without the binkie, we went through the bed-time routine and she went right in her crib, but shortly after me leaving her room, she started crying and I ended up going back in to rock her to sleep. I've now had to do that for ever night since. Hopefully once she's used to not having it, things will go back to normal.

As for car-rides and through-out the day, she periodically asks for it, but we say Hunter ate them all and she knows that to be true because she would often find the binkies chewed up after Hunter would get a hold of them. She looks at us and says awe, bad Hunter and she's usually okay after that. Hopefully she doesn't hold a grudge against Hunter for eating all her binkies. ;-)

So it's been almost a whole week since she's had her binkie and so far, it hasn't been too bad. The worst has been night-time but even that isn't all that bad. Just a little transitional period and then things should hopefully go back to normal.

Project Life 2016: Week 13

My project life page for week 13 of 2016.

For this page I used the Just Breathe full kit freebie from Anita Designs and Loreta Labarca Designs.

Project Life 2016: Week 12

My Project Life post for week 12 of 2016.

I used the Bloom Mini Kit Freebie from Shawna Clingerman

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It's crazy that a quarter of this year is already behind us!

March was a busy, but fun month for us! I tried harder to take more pictures with my dslr camera and I'm so glad I did. I'm hoping to take even more with it next month. The weather has been pretty good for the most part so we spent a lot of fun time outside in the yard, at the neighbors and at the park! We had our first dinner with friends at our new house and we celebrated St. Patrick's Day!!

We also celebrated Easter with family and at church, saw many of our flowers and trees bloom, got new stools for the kitchen and new rugs for the living room, dining room and Avery's room. My dad has been working hard on the basement bathroom which is coming along quite nicely and Jake and I prepared for our trip to Costa Rica! March 2016 was a great month!!

Costa Rica Bound

We are Costa Rica Bound today and so excited!!! We will be spending 7 glorious nights at the RIU Palace Costa Rica Hotel.  I will be signing off the blog for the next week with only a couple posts scheduled while I'm gone, but I'm sure I'll be posting pictures while we're in Costa Rica to Facebook and Instagram if you'd like to follow along. I'll also have a ton of pictures to share on the blog when I return!

Avery Says... {Installment #2}

1. While in her rocking chair one day she started singing "Rock a bye bay bay!"

2. Our dog Hunter chewed up yet another one of Avery's binkies, so my mom showed it to Avery and Avery said "Humpfer, bad dog!"

3. While running around the patio outside she says... "can't catch me" which she has obviously heard from her brother. Ha!

4.While reading a book before bed one night, there was a page with a man, a little boy and a little girl on it. She pointed at the man and said "daddy", then she pointed at the little boy and said "brubder (aka brother)" and then she pointed at the little girl and said "princess". Now every little girl in her books are princesses and every little boy in her books are brothers. Ha!

5. Everything she points out now is either pink or blue. She will argue with you about the color no matter what color it actually is. I do think she's starting to get the hang of it though because at dinner the other night, she pointed at an Easter Egg on the table and said "yellow" and it was really yellow!! We were so excited for her!

6. While she was coloring one day, she looked up at me and said, "I DID IT"!! She was so proud of her coloring. Ha. :-)

7. As she was sitting on my lap one day something hurt me (I don't remember what it was) and I said "ouch" and she looked at me and said, "Mommy, okay?". What a sweetie she can be!

8. Anytime she asks for anything she always says "Please" and she most of the time says "Thanks" or "Thank you". She's becoming so polite. :-)

9. She makes it so hard to discipline because it's like she knows just what to say or do to make it impossible to be mad at her. One day she was putting a dishwasher cleaning packet in the dishwasher, I turned my head for 5 seconds and when I looked back she had broke it and the orange cleaner had gone all over. I said "Avery"!!! She looked up at me and with the sweetest looking face said, "Sorry Mommy" and smiled! Ugh. She's got us wrapped around her little finger!

10. She hugs and kisses anything with one of her favorite characters on it. Like if I get her Sophia jammies out to put on her at night, she says "see" so she can look at her shirt before I put it on her and then she'll proceed to squeeze the shirt and kiss it multiple times before letting me put it on her. My mom said the other day she found a picture of me and she was squeezing the picture and kissing it. :-) She's a momma's girl for sure.

11. Last night we were trying to get her to eat her carrots and after several failed attempts she finally looked at us and said very sternly, "no, don't like it". She normally loves carrots, but would not eat them last night! Such a stubborn girl she is.

Project Life 2016: Week 11

My page for week 11.

For this page I used the St. Patrick's Day Mini Kit Freebie from Harper Finch.