8 months

I feel as though every month I am later and later with posting Averie's picture and accomplishments. I swear she is growing so much so quickly and I don't know where the time goes. Doesn't hurt that we have been busy traveling as well.

Averie has seriously mastered crawling and even tried to crawl out of the chair while taking her monthly picture! She has started pulling up and standing holding onto furniture...eek! She is starting to play more on her own and crawls over to her toy bins to dump them out and find whatever toy she wants to play with. Now if only she could put them away too ;)

We continue to try new foods and she loves to feed herself. We started more finger foods like her morning banana, cucumber spears, and cooked pasta. So far we have been lucky that she is an adventurous eater, the only foods she doesn't like are avocado and asparagus.

Rhode Island

Every 4th of July week my family rents a house in Rhode Island. This was Averie's first real year going, last year she came in womb. It was definitely a different type of vacation than in the past, but it was so nice to be able to share a special place for my family with her and add on to the tradition. We took our annual trip to the lighthouse and luckily Averie woke up at the end to ensure her picture was taken there too. We have pictures there from when my mom was pregnant with me and my brother, and us through the years growing up. Now we have pictures with Averie to add to the collection. She was too young this year for lobster and steamers, but hopefully next year she can enjoy them with us.

This year Uncle Lew and Olivia came, which was a nice treat. It is always fun to see them and watch them interact with Averie. Olivia brought her ukelele, which Lewis played for Averie to dance and kick along to!

We made a trip to the beach, but unfortunately, the water was too cold to play in and was so windy everything was coated in sand in a few seconds. Who knew how long it would take and how much stuff one little baby would need for 15 minutes at the beach! Luckily, she didn't mind and had fun anyway.

 

And no trip is complete without going to the rocks...even if we didn't get any sunbathing in we had a relaxing picnic breakfast!