Look at me go!!

Avery LOVES to walk! Crawling is still her preferred method of travel, but she's working on walking skills every time she gets a chance. Collin and I made these videos last Friday while we were waiting for Gram and Grandpoppy (my parents) to arrive from Austin. It was a fun weekend celebrating Collin's Birthday! I'll post more about that next... We're so happy to see her trying to walk, but at the same time we KNOW that life will never be the same once she does! :/ Taking it a day at a time... :)

(My personal favorite part of this video is when Avery says "Hi... Hi..." towards the end. She's such a ham infront of the camera already!) OH! And another tip- if you click the curly-arrow button to the right, the videos will play right-side-up!

4 NEW posts! ...What else do you do when your AC goes out?...

So, apparently the heat got up to a "feels like" 107 degrees today and we felt every bit of that at the Poage household. What a splendid time to have the Air Conditioner go out, huh? ...thaaaaat's right... our AC went out.

We started noticing some funny-business last night when we had Collin's family over to hang out. The house just wasn't cooling off and the air coming out of the vents felt warmish. No good. If you went back to May of '06 on this blog, you'd read all about the AC going out a year ago and getting "fixed" so we've been down this road before. FORTUNATELY God is good and we were able to get the unit serviced today and the repair man, Daniel, (who I may seriously consider naming a son after someday as a debt of gratitude for what he did for us) was able to identify the problem, fix it and have us back to cool & comfy in no time! Hallelujah! :)

BUT, in the hot hours before Daniel brought us back to our climate-controlled way of life, Avery was ready for her nap and was miserably hot in her crib. I had her stripped to her diaper, but she was still really hot and fussy. So I got creative and tried AC the old school way and propped a package of frozen broccoli up in front of a fan that was aimed into her crib. Cool air was all it took for the crying to stop! She took a good nap and woke up to an air-conditioned house. What a life! :)

Anyway, the pictures were classic! (Broccoli by the crib?!) Poor sweet baby... SO glad it looks like the AC issues are behind us for now.

I'm 10 Months Old!!

Better late than never! ......again.......

Avery is TEN months old! Her favorite foods right now are Gerber Graduates turkey/chicken sticks, vegetable crackers, just about anything we'll feed her off of our own plates and of course the "staple" favorite: Cheerios. Her new tricks include crawling EVERYWHERE including the fireplace hearth, (I have no idea how she gets up there so fast) pulling up to her feet holding onto the couch, and walking around the house holding onto our hands for support... although she needs our hands less and less each day! "DaDa" is still her favorite word (sigh...) but "MaMa" and "BaBa" come out when she wants something. (Go figure...) She makes a variety of noises that keep us laughing including "the growl" and "singing." She loves to play "roll the ball" with me and Collin in the floor (she actually tries to roll it back to us! ...it's not usually aimed very well, but it's the cutest!) and she also likes going down to the neighborhood park to swing in the big swings, but isn't so much for the heat and sweating. Bathtime is still her favorite time of day and "Bullfrogs & Butterflies" is her favorite CD to fall asleep to.

She's a blessing! On one hand I can't believe she's already 10 months old, and at the same time I feel like we've had her forever.

Love to YOU, baby girl! We love you more than words can say!

A night out!

We got to dress up! Collin was a groomsman in a wedding on August 5th, and so Janice was our hero for the weekend babysitting TWO nights in a row. What a blessing it is to have an in-town "Nana" to babysit Avery. They have such fun together, but it really was sweet of her to choose to spend her weekend taking care of Aves while we were on wedding duty.

Collin looked so handsome in his tux! It was a fun weekend... Congratulations, Mark & Lauren Satterlee!

I wanna be like DAD!

Some of life's everyday moments call for camera flashes... This was one of those moments. Collin had just come home from work and was finishing up some business via cell phone. Avery helped. :) It was so much fun to watch her as she mimicked Collin in "business mode." We never know what she's picked up on until she starts doing things WE do! It's very convicting... She didn't know what she was playing with, but she was enjoying the time with Dad and having a lot of fun.