Uncle Lew & Olivia visit

The past two years Lewis, now Uncle Lew, has come to visit with Olivia in February to celebrate her birthday. While this year's trip was a bit different now that Averie is around, it is always so nice to have them come and spend time together. Luckily, the weather cooperated so they were able to escape the bitter cold and snow in New York for sunny 80 degree pool days. Averie was in the spot light with Uncle Lew was her new personal paparazzi! I enjoy it because he is able to capture so many of the faces she makes, her personality and the rare family photo. Hopefully, this trip will turn into a new family tradition!

Chilling by the pool with Dad

Valentine's Day

Happy belated Valentine's day from Averie! We had a nice family lunch outside at a real restaurant, huge accomplishment for us. All feeling very loved by our little addition.

10 weeks

Some fun pictures from the week:

Averie has become really active and loves to kick! We don't know where she is trying to run to though.

How can anyone resist this pouty face?!

Averie woke up after a 10 minute nap and I told her she needed to go back to bed, she laughed in my face…at least she woke up happy.

Averie loves tummy time with Daddy after work!

Averie's Baby Naming

In the Jewish religion baby girls are officially brought into the Jewish covenant with a baby naming ceremony, where they receive a hebrew name from their parents and rabbi. It is also tradition to chose a name honoring a loved one that has passed. Averie is named after Alexis' Pop-Pop Al who passed away when she was in high school and held a special place in her life & heart, and will be honored through Averie. We chose Averie's name Adira for its mean of strong/mighty. So far it has been fitting for her personality and her physicality.

We were lucky to have so much family join us to help celebrate Averie. Both sets of grandparents joined us and Nana came from Atlanta to celebrate. It was really great to have 4 generations of women together.