Changes

Well, Blogger has lots of changes if you go to the draft section.  For example, now you can have comments embedded at the bottom of the page rather than a pop up. Try making a comment and see.  I'm not sure I like the new editor, but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.

We've had a busy and social week.  Wednesday, we went out strawberry picking with Sara & Alexandra and Christie & Henry.  Avery and I arrived a tad bit late, but that worked to our advantage since Sara and Christie helped me pick my strawberries - sorry guys!  Then we went over to Alexandra's house where we made jam and had lunch.  It was adorable when Alexandra helped me feed Avery.  She sat on the chair next to me and then did a great job of holding the bottle.  I was quite impressed with her stamina.  She had to hold her arm up quite high and did so for a fairly long period.  She then said to Sara, "Mommy, I feed Baby Avery."  So cute!  I sampled the jam last night and it was delicious.  What I learned was that making jam is really easy when other people do all the planning, set up, and basically all of the work!  Thanks, Sara!

Today we're meeting Sarah & Benji for lunch and a stroll around the park.  We haven't seen Benji in a while, so that should be loads of fun.

Avery absolutely loves being around other babies.  I would presume that this is true of a vast majority of babies.  I love watching her watch the other babies.  Sometimes she has a look of wonder, sometimes curiousity, sometimes confusion.  She is particularly enamored with Henry.  I think it's his beautiful brown eyes.

Avery's sleeping has almost returned to an easy, non-night waking state.  Avery's not completely going down easily at nights as she was before, but I am starting to wonder if she's needing to push her bedtime back to about 7:30 or 8:00.  This would be rather ideal for D and I because then we could take her out to dinner with us, as well as have her eat dinner with us at night.  Plus, then D would get to see much more in the evenings.  It's about a 50/50 shot that he sees her when he gets home from work since she's often already asleep.  This slightly later bedtime is also working to our advantage because she makes it until 6:30 or 7:00 am, which is infinitely better than any time starting with a 5.

On Sunday, we are having a visit with Avery's birth family!  We're meeting in a park for a pot luck lunch.   I think there will be some additional relatives there whom we haven't yet met, so that will be an added bonus to seeing her birth parents. I'm so happy they were able to do it this weekend.  I can't wait for them to see how much she's grown since their last visit.  Hopefully I do a better job at taking pictures.  I don't want to be the person who is so obsessed with taking pictures that I don't enjoy the moment, but thus far, I've been not so great at taking pictures.  I'm sure that Avery will really want to see pictures when she's older, so here's hoping I find a balance between not being the pesky "let's pose!" person and the slacker not taking pictures.

I should really get to tidying up the house before we head out for our lunch.