From the Mouths of (Our) Babes

This LOOKS like we are still at the beach, but this is the awesome little sandy playground they have in Narberth. Avery is so excited to visit Hopie this weekend and play at the Narberth beach. Avery had a hard time being dropped off at school this morning again, even to the 'big kid' room. They are a little tougher on him up there, too...the baby is growing up! In his toddler room, they are full of hugs and reassurance when he has trouble. In the Intermediate room, the teacher was speaking more sternly to him and reasoning, "Avery, it's time for school now. No kicking. Let's go, and start your day. You'll see mommy later." The teacher said I have to just drop him off and leave quickly. ... I guess it's like pulling off the bandaid.

This is me trying my only move on Jane. Thankfully, it works...

This is a tough call...

Avery and various others helped build ponds and islands in the sand.

We kind of missed the sunset part, but still very beautiful on the rocky beach.

Avery was just eating some cherries, cutting out the pits with his tiny fingers. We were remarking about how agile he was at extracting the pits just so. Tom said, "He's been watching all of us closely, but I was using a "K-N-I-F-E." Avery replied, "That means KNIFE."

Avery and I went on a walk this morning and took some looks at snails and barnacles. Avery found one that he thought looked like a fox (tilt your head to the left).

Lots of rain during the day on Tuesday and we got to see the rainwater wash out the beach from the outfall pipe. Pretty cool.

Avery was doing some quick recon on the beach this morning before breakfast. There are hermit crabs and other sea life down there.

We were in the park last evening and Avery was playing with his new trains. Walker exclaimed, "Look, Avery, there are a bunch of rollerbladers!" Avery misheard, and very calmly replied, "Where, daddy? Where are the monkey rollerbladers?" You know, he just thought he'd take a break from his trains to see the monkeys zooming by on rollerblades.

...a year old, but... Avery and I were looking at old videos this morning, and found this one from last August 8th. It made us laugh. This boy has got some moves.

Avery stalked and documented this great looking caterpillar over the weekend.

And it was written with a piece of cheese! The carrot did not work as well.

THIS PIC WAS NOT POSTED BY JANE :). ... it was posted by Walker. And where is Avery in this picture??? How do we get two authors on the blog? I am sure there is a way to do it... More funny pics of Avery from Walker's new camera. Avery is going to be even more well documented now (and we didn't think that was possible).

We spent the day with Charlie up until around nap time. Charlie and Avery played at Three Bears park with like forty other kids and their nice folks. First we walked a few blocks and then ended up at the Kimmel Center, which was cool but made us all a little bit acrophobic. I got a new camera and took some snaps of Jane and the kiddies. Kimmel is cool but it never seems as lively as it should be. Great views. I'll upload a few more of the snaps from the day as there are lots of great ones.

Avery ran up to his little friend Charlie last night, who was wearing new orange crocs. He said to him, "Nice shoes! You look like you are getting bigger."