Easter

Avery was showing Alia some of the easter candy he found from his Easter egg hunt at Mom's


Easter egg hunt with our playgroup


Aunt Cassie


Great Grandpa Wunderlin


Mom and Joe and family


Dad and Deb and family


Aunt Amanda


Flying kites

Finally caught it....

Alia and I have many conversations and we share many smiles however it's so hard to catch these moments on camera. I finally caught her smile tonight...


And here is a video, sorry it's so long I was trying to get her to talk more.

Alia and Banana 2 months

Alia and Banana at 2 months


This picture shows her fun spunk. She kept using her head to knock herself over into Banana and then she would laugh.


Avery and Banana at 2 months. They are starting to look a little different now.

This could come in handy years down the road.....

Yes, that is my son sitting there trying to use my pump. I was nursing Alia and went to find him. When I saw him, I immediately started laughing. However he was quite frustrated because as he put it, "there's no milk in there Momma. I can't get any milk!"

They should get an award for patience

I have to take a moment to brag. My children are soooooo patient. I had no idea they would be so good this last week. We had to fly down to Georgia to find a home on Wednesday. For two days we looked at well over 25 homes. Now normally with a 2 year old and a 8 week old, this would be a huge feat but Avery and Alia were amazing. Avery enjoyed seeing each home and Alia either slept through most of it or sat quietly. If that isn't enough, they were even patient at the airport when we spent well over five hours looking for a flight. We fly stand-by and all flights home on Sunday were full. We couldn't get on any flight on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday because they were all booked. Since we had to be home on Monday that left one option- drive 17+ hours with them. I really thought we were pushing our luck, but once again they both surprised us and did amazing! We left the airport yesterday at 3 pm and drove through the night and made it home by 9:00 am today. Ahh, the joys of flying stand-by. Avery is great at entertaining himself and I'm always impressed with the creative games he comes up with. It's great not needing toys. This is what he played with for an hour....

it's a wet wipe. He twisted it to look like a dog. When I took the picture he said, "I can't smile because I have a crazy dog with a tail." As for the house, we made an offer on one. I'll keep you posted.

They were flushed.....

This weekend we spent a fun day in Eau Claire at the Children's Museum with the Wangs.


There was a really cool exhibit showing how your body works from the time you eat the food until it ends up in the toilet. Here the kids were flushed out and are laying in the toilet water.


This was the beginning of the exhibit. Avery is climbing up the mouth toward Isaac.


Dining in the diner with Joe, Layna, Sarah and Isaac.

Snapshots of our monkeys

I guess she didn't like the bear.


The dragon and the princess


This is what Avery was doing when I was feeding Alia. He said he was spinning a web. He managed to unravel an entire roll of yarn.


Alia at 6 weeks

A house full of visitors....

We've had lots of visitors over the past 6 weeks, welcoming Alia to our family. Our home has been full of laughter, shared meals, rowdy boys, and lots of ooohs and aahhs. It's been a great 6 weeks. I can't believe the time has gone by so quickly. Thank you to everyone who has called, sent cards and gifts, brought over meals, and welcomed Alia in various other ways.


This is a picture of me holding the spoon Mom and I have passed back and forth since October 2006. Scott and I were at a friends wedding when Avery was 3 months old. I handed him a spoon to hold at the reception and we ended up taking the spoon home because it got lost under his blankets in his car seat. Since we were staying at Mom's I left it there, under her pillow. Since then, we have hidden it on one another over the years. This time Mom gave it to me with new spoons for Alia.


We enjoyed a few hours at the Mall of America. The boys loved meeting Diego.


Bama and her grandkids


Amanda's family and my family together


Grandpa and Grandma Davis with Avery and Alia

Aunt Laura

Alia and Banana 1 month

Alia


Avery

Things we love

We have lived in a northern climate for all of our lives. Now sometimes we have complained (think May in Duluth) but as a whole we have embraced it. We thoroughly enjoy winter and have outfitted ourselves to make the most of it. We have enjoyed snowshoeing, cross country skiing, ice skating, winter geocaching, and exploring the winter wonderland in general. I use the past tense because we are moving to Georgia. I'm pretty sure we will have winter withdrawal in another 6 months and Christmas without snow will be too wierd. But we are hoping to make the most of it and see what another part of the country has to offer. We will be moving in about 2 months, so unfortunately we won't get to enjoy one last mild midwest summer. Wish us luck, it should be an adventure. We will keep you posted on our status.

One scary, big foot

I meant to post this at Valentine's Day but had other things to post so I thought I would share it now. Before Valentine's Day Avery and I made Valentine bees. I painted his foot and traced his hands to make the different parts of the bee. Then he wanted me to make one for myself. Both bees looked good- Avery's much cuter than mine. When Scott got home he felt left out and wanted to make one too. His version turned out scary. It doesn't help when your foot is a size 13.

Avery's bee


My bee


Scott's bee

Can we send her back?

We recently took black and white pictures of Alia for her wall like when did for Avery when he was a week old. The first one is my favorite shot of our family and the second one makes me laugh because of Avery's expression. It's as if he's saying, "what happened?"

Random Pictures and Videos

Not much has been going on so here are some random pictures and videos. One funny development is that Avery has named his pink flamingo "Penguin".

Avery snuck downstairs and by the time we made it down to check on him this is what we found.


A two week photo of Alia with her eyes open.


First walk at 1 week


Girl faces

Avery's photo shoot

After we took Alia's black and white photos Avery wanted to take a few of his own.

Alia and Banana at 1 week

and for a fun comparison, here is Avery and Banana at 1 week

A Brother's Love

Avery has been a GREAT big brother. He's always wanting to hold her and says, "I love her." He calls her Lia.

Piece of Cake

Well I'm sure the spike in hits to our blog has nothing to do with anything besides the expectation that we will be having a baby soon. Yes that's a weird sentence and yes I'm very tired. So here's the condensed version. I brought Brandee to the hospital at around 5:00 am. They got her admitted by 5:30 and at 6:00 am the nurse came in and checked on her. Brandee was calm and cool like always so the nurses were pretty relaxed. At 6:30 Brandee told the nurse that she was ready to push and the nurse was a little shocked but checked and agreed. We waited for the Dr. as they got everything ready. Brandee pushed once and I passed out. (ok get your laughing in now) She pushed a second time and I woke up, By the time I got to my feet she pushed a third time and the baby was out. Quick and easy.

Alia Sydney Davis
7 lbs 3 oz
19.5 long
born 7:02 am 2/7/09

For all you belly fans...

I've had a few requests for one last belly picture. Thankfully, the belly will be gone soon because I don't think I can get much bigger without falling over and needing to be rolled places.