Mmm...cookie dough

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Avery really likes to bake.  She helps pour in the ingredients, switch on the mixer, and whatever else I'll let her do.  A few weeks ago, a friend came over to make cookies and Avery got to help.  Then Marshall got home and was disappointed we only made one batch, so we made some more cookies with Avery.  The following pictures are most definitely Avery's favorite part of baking.

This was after we were done making peanut butter kiss cookies with my friend.   Not too messy. 

 

This was after making chocolate covered cherry cookies with Mommy & Daddy.  I think it's sufficient to say that she enjoyed herself.

 

Here's some pics of her black eye as well.  It's now in the yellow/green stage, so hopefully it will be gone soon!

A Little Peanut and Avery Gets in a Fight with Her Dresser

Little Abby is really that-little!  She had her 9 month check up a few weeks ago and is in the 25th% for both height and weight.  I knew she was smaller than Avery at that age, but she's A LOT smaller-only 17.5 lbs and 26.75".  So now she's our Little Peanut officially!  She continues to happier (thank you Jesus!) and has a thing with her tongue as you can see in the pic below.  She stands on her own for a few seconds and loves to pull herself up and cruise on the furniture.  She's figured out what, "No no!" means and actually listens-let's hope it continues.  :)

Avery has a beautiful black eye right now-I need to take a pic before it goes away.  I'll post it so you can see her pretty owie.  I'm not even sure how she got it, but I think she ran into the corner of her dresser.  She was supposed to be in bed and I heard her get up and open the door.  I yelled up to get back in bed, I heard a thunk and then crying.  Poor girl!!!  Her upper eye lid was already turning a lovely shade of blue when I got up there.  The next morning her eye was almost swollen shut and had turned purple as well as blue.  It actually looks like she got into some eye-shadow.  She's fascinated by it and frequently wants to look in the mirror at her owie.

 

Here's the latest pic of Gracie-not looking so much like a puppy now.  She's 7 months old and we're guessing at least 60 lbs.  Her paws are still way to big for her body, so we think she's going to grow quite a bit more.  Yikes!  She's mellowed out a lot and loves going on morning runs with Marshall.