Mall

It's been another fairly productive day. Avery and I hit the mall in search of some long sleeved white shirts for D and me to wear during our photography session with Avery tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's the wrong season for long sleeved shirts, so I had to buy short sleeved. D will stop at Nordstrom Rack after work to see if he can find us some. Ironically, the first photographer we attempted to schedule with (many, many scheduling issues later I just went with a different one) wanted us to wear only black. This one wants white and distinctly not black. I just want simple. I don't want the clothes to be the focus of the picture, so Avery won't be wearing any cute outfits. I tend to dress her the same way I dress myself: solids without patterns. She'll probably end up being a fashion designer and hate me for life.

This video made me laugh and want a cat; that second desire hasn't really dulled much, even with Avery coming into our lives. Alas, the stray I need to wander into our yard/path hasn't shown up. That is my only hope of getting a cat.


I managed to do a tier 1 walk with the dogs and Avery today. I was hoping for a Tier 2, but Avery wasn't much in the mood. I'm going to try to take the dogs again after dinner in an attempt to replace my immediate after dinner munching on sugary things with something more positive. The dogs seem to like it!

We have a busy weekend in store. Tomorrow is the photography session in the morning and dinner at the G's in the evening. Sunday I am going hiking with some of the Lister's. I am going to take Eddie with me since he's a bit easier to handle if there are other dogs around (oddly enough). Turtle just gets so.very.excited and pulls every which way. Eddie likes other dogs, but after a sniff or two, leaves them be.

Avery has been napping extremely well lately. The PIO has worked wonders for her. I would say that 75% of the time there is zero crying when we put her down; 20% is very short; 5% is reserved for anomalies. She seems to make up for a missed/shortened nap with a longer nap later in the day with no issue. Today, she only slept 1 hour during her morning nap and it was an early nap, so she really needed a second mid-morning nap, but we were out and about. When we got home, she went down at noon and slept until 2. Hey! So did I! I guess we're both doing really well with our naps. Pat, pat on my back. She's taking a third nap now, which is very late in the day, but she was tired and despite the instructions in the sleep book that you should "protect the bedtime," I can't stand to make her stay awake when she's tired. She'll go to sleep slightly later than usual, but that's not a big deal at this point. Oh! The other good news: she had only ONE wake up last night. It's too early to celebrate since she's had one and no wake ups before, but I figure a trend has got to start somewhere. This could be it. Fingers crossed.