Some of Avery's favorite things

Avery LOVES the hairdryer now that he understands that even though it makes a loud noise, it is not scary (he is still afraid of the loud vacuum cleaner though). This one is not plugged in and has become a toy of his. See how he is holding it up to his head to pretend he's drying his hair? We now have to blow-dry his hair after baths. He likes to look good!



Avery LOVES walking around our apartment with his walker. He is GREAT at steering around furniture (we're seriously really impressed with how well he can get around). He spent a lot of the weekend walking back and forth from our living room to the kitchen and sometimes to our bedroom chanting "eee yaa eee yaa eee ya" and calling out "Mama!" whenever the wheels got stuck in our kitchen rug and he needed help. Notice how Ruby is running away from him as he enters the living room.



Avery loves to go for a walk in our neighborhood, especially when we head to one of the playgrounds nearby:

Avery's latest thing is going into his room, taking most of the books off his shelf, dumping them on the floor, and then sitting in the middle of all of his books to "read." He almost always holds the books upside down, like he's doing here. It's pretty adorable. Yesterday, there was a horrible incident in our apartment (I smelled something funky in our kitchen and finally realized that there was a dead mouse under our sink. Carolyn was at work, so I had to take care of it alone and it was horrible!). I told Avery to go to his room and "Read books for a while so Mama can take care of something yucky" and he did! What a good boy!

Avery LOVES sunglasses. These are a pair of his mama's: