Welcome, 2010

We celebrated the New Year with our friends, Jake and Tina. They have a little girl that's about 3 months older than Avery. The babies had fun staring at each other. Because what else can you do when you can't really go anywhere? I should say that we only sort of celebrated the New Year with them, because we were home by 9 and in bed by 10. I guess that means we're probably getting old...Avery and Sophie, best buds


Why do you people keep taking our pictures?!

Did I mention that baby girl found her thumb today? She has previously figured out how to suck her fingers, but today she found her thumb and was going to town on it!

Avery's First Christmas

Avery enjoyed her very first Christmas! On Christmas Eve, we traveled to Tama to celebrate with Matt's Dad's family. It was a little scary, because it was raining and 33 degrees out, but luckily we made it all the way back to Waterloo before it started to turn to ice. On Christmas morning, we opened gifts with Avery's Grandpa Johnson, Aunt Steph and Uncle Tim. That evening, we went to her Great-Grandpa Nichol's house, where she got to see Grandma and Grandpa Sime and lots of other family.

The next day, we went to her Great-Grandma and Grandpa Platte's to celebrate with my side of the family. Avery really liked seeing her little cousins again. Danny (who is 3 or 4) almost had her laughing. He kept talking to her about her cute little pants, and socks, and ears. :)

On Sunday we had our last get-together, with Avery's Grandma and Grandpa Platte and Uncle Josh and Aunt Jenna. She did really well with four days in a row of traveling and pretty much nothing that resembled her normal routine!

She got lots of fun new toys and cute new clothes. She is one loved baby girl. :)

P.S. We did miss one four generations picture with Matt's Grandpa and Mom.

Four generations: Great-Grandpa Platte, Grandpa Platte, Great-Grandma Platte, Avery, and Mommy.

Avery in her pretty Christmas dress from Grandma and Grandpa Platte.

Four generations-Daddy, Great-Grandma Johnson, Avery, and Grandpa Johnson.

Playing with her links, waiting to go to Tama.

All dressed up to go to the Christmas service at church.

In her cute Christmas pajamas. She looks like she doesn't know quite what to think about them!

Look what this big, big girl can do!

Avery learned how to pick her head up when laying on her belly. This picture was from the beginning of December, after her photo shoot for her three month pictures. A couple days later, she also laughed for the very first time! She hasn't laughed a whole lot since then. It's a lot of work when we do finally get her to giggle! :)