Work it, GIRL.

  Greetings from girl land!  It’s been a fun day with Avery so far.  She is much more easy going without her brother around to make her mad.    So far, we have snuggled, watched Sesame Street (Dylan HATES Sesame Street, so poor little Avos has never actually seen it until today.  Truth time though – she wasn’t a fan.  She just doesn’t quite “get” the draw of tv yet. Oh well!), had a yummy treat (see below), took a dip in the hot tub and had an almost 17 month old photo shoot!  Its nap time now, so I’m decompressing and trying to make my darn neck feel better.  Yet ANOTHER neck kink.  This happens to me a lot, I’m afraid.  Anywho, check out what we had for a snack! 

This is OSG’s Pumpkin Spice Latte.  Gooooooooooood.  

We surprisingly had whip cream on hand!  Woohoo! Avery’s was sans coffee.   

  After that, I decided it was time to practice being a girl again.  Here she is laughing at me b/c I was chasing her with a comb and rubber bands.  It’s not funny, Avos!  Its time you become a girl!  Dang it!

No, Mommy, I don’t WANT to be a GIRL!  

Not even if I wear ponytails, too? Nope.  This didn’t work.  So we moved on to the next task…

Trying to duplicate this picture, ‘cept with Avos as the subject.  This is Dylan when he was 15 months old or so.  I’ve been meaning to try to do a similar photoshoot with Avery for a few months now.  Better late than never! 

It started out rocky.  She was all, “ooooooh, the stool you always hide from me!  Sweet!  I’ve been wanting to climb on this!”  Dang it, Avery!  Be a girl! 

Getting warmer.

Nope, not quite right Avery.

Avery!  Come on!   Tha

t’s my GIRL!  

Oooooh pretty girl!

Had to bring in a prop.  She was wanting to leave the scene.

Bingo.  

Mission Accomplished!!!!

 

Well, better enjoy nap time while I can!  Later!

Girls just want to have fun!

  When is Avery going to start acting like a GIRL????  I got her these cute little “Ugg” boots today at Target and so far – she’s not a fan.  I’m hoping she was just in one of her “moods.” 

She is stomping her feet in protest here.

GET THEM OFF OF ME!!!!!

WHAT is NOT to like here, Avos?!  Cuuuuuuute!  She won’t let me do her hair and she won’t let me dress her up!  If she didn’t LOVE to dance, I might be more worried.  

Eric and Dylan left this afternoon to go BACK to Crookston.  Eric is going to coach Dylan’s hockey team this year and in order to do so, he has to take a class on being a coach.  He claimed that none of the other times or cities would work for him to go to, so back they went to C-Town.  Which means – Girls Weekend! Just me, Avos and Millscat.  This also means I can make whatever the heck I want to eat and I won’t get any guff from anyone (Avery can’t talk very well yet, you see)!  So today while I was killing time in Brainerd, I picked up a wonderful little portabella at the Co-op for my consumption this evening!   

Behold – the Portabella Burger with Avocado Spread.  When I got home from shopping, I had to figure out what I had on hand in order to come up with what to make.  I had some avocados that were in desperate need of being used up, so this recipe it was!  I used Greek Yogurt in place of the regular yogurt and opted to not put extra slices of avocado on top (mainly b/c the avocados I had were having some issues and were unusable for the most part – thanks a lot Cub Foods!). 

Had a side of Kale Chips and also some Alexia Spicy Chipotle Sweet Potato fries.

Oh, was this a good dinner!  LOVED IT!  Would totally make it again and am contemplating driving back to the Co-Op for MORE mushys!  And higher quality avocados too!  Hmph!

Well, I must go enjoy my tv viewing freedom!  Adios!

The Land of Several Lakes

  Yesterday morning, we woke up to find that our yard had grown a few more lakes.  Not only did we have Lake Dylan (completely normal) – we had Avery Canal, Milly Pond, Trishy Lagoon and Eric Reservoir.  It was definitely the most water we had ever see in our yard.  Ever.  I think Eric said we got 4 inches of rain? 

Avery Canal is over to the left.  Milly pond is up by the beach.  Lake Dylan is that big lake in the middle.  Don’t confuse that one with Lake Sullivan.   Eric Reservoir is up by the swingset.

Even the Winerchesky’s got a new body of water in their yard! After we oooh and ahhhed at the water outside, we had to make up the pumpkin seeds!

Would you believe that Avery was mad at me because I vacuumed up the crumbs of the brownie she was eating.  Yeah, she wanted to eat them off the floor.  I swear, I think I’m going to start putting her food on the floor because it appears that’s the surface she prefers to eat it from.   

While the seeds were baking, Dylan insisted that I “take our picture!!!!!”  He’s really been into pictures lately – as if you hadn’t noticed!

Here they are.  I didn’t like them.  Dylan thought they were okay.  Avery is a fan. Thi

s picture cracks me up.  He knows she’s mad, but continues to antagonize her.  Story of my life, lately.

And here is what we woke up to this morning.  Snow.  And no power.  Yeah, lights went out at 8:30pm and didn’t come back on until 6:30am.  And then went out AGAIN this morning for a couple hours.  That was one hefty wind, I tell you!

More pictures!  Surprise, surprise!

And dinner tonight was this:

These are Korean Meatballs from Cooking Light’s October 2010 issue.  They were okay.  Kind of a bitch to make because handling raw chicken is not my most favorite thing to do and forming them into balls was tricky because they were so sticky.  Hey – I’m rhymin’!  We had orzo with pine nuts and garlic as a side along with steamed broccoli.  All in all, a solid meal.    

And lets not forget about a brownie for dessert!

Goodnight!