Pole sana!

Last night as Avery was getting ready for bed her and Babe were talking about the day. Babe mentioned something and in very typical Kenyan fashion Avery responded saying "pole sana", which means very sorry. We both cracked up at how 1. she knew to say it and 2. she had perfect timing! Hey at least soon she can start teaching us more Swahili and even more important when it is appropriate to say what.

Future golfer...

Making her daddy proud!

Springtime!!!

It has slowly been warming up and we had a wonderful treat of really "warm" Kenyan weather the last two days. Here are some pics of Avery enjoy the warmer weather and wearing shorts! She had the cutest little dance walk when we first got outside and she was getting use to her shorts!
Disclaimer: The pic of Baba and Avery was a staged shot, she did not go on the piki piki with him. :)

Safari Avery!

After many attempts of trying to get a good shot of Avery in the adorable safari hat Nana gave her I had about given up. Then one evening she comes into the kitchen after putting the hat on herself!

Jolly Roger!

We had some friends who live in Sudan come out to Kenya to give birth to their second child. Their first, Samuel, is about Avery's age so we enjoy getting together and letting the kids play. We were able to spend a wonderful and warmer than usual Saturday at a place called the Jolly Roger. It was a great find! This place had a pool, bounce houses, even a bouncy water slide, tons of toys for the kids to play with, face painting, you name it! Here are some pics of Avery enjoying the bouncy houses!

Peek a boo...

Avery loves to play peek a boo with the camera. It is adorable but it makes it hard to capture her doing something else because when she sees the camera it usually ends up with shots like these. :)

Games, games and more games...

Avery has really enjoyed the green space to run around in here at the SIM Kenya compound. There have been more kids than normal these last few months which has been wonderful too. It has been fun to see her learn new games and have her imagination sparked all because of finally having little friends to play with right outside her door. Right now she is running around me and roaring saying that she is a dinosaur. It makes me smile when she and other little kids play hide and go seek with their own rules. The counter usually keeps their eyes open and the hiders usually come out of hiding and announce where they are. Ring around the rosie is another popular game and I personally enjoy having others to play it endlessly with Avery since I get pretty dizzy after a few turns. Simon says and duck, duck, goose are other hilarious games to watch them play!

Overdue update

Since our little camera broke I got out of the habit of taking pics of Avery all the time. Now that we have a new one and I am slowly remembering to capture some fun pics I will hopefully be better about updating. Some recent fun Aveyr facts are that she loves playing with the kids on the compound right now. She has playmates to play endless rounds of ring a round the rosie. Yesterday she played with her imaginary baby for about an hour. She changed the baby's diaper, took the baby to the potty, feed the baby, put the baby down for multiple naps and walked pretending to hold the baby's hand as they walked. It was cute because she sometimes held the baby in one hand and then other times it seemed the baby was almost as big as her. It is so fun to see her grow up and grown into her imagination!

So, how was your weekend?

I can't wait until our trip to the U.S. so family can see and hear Avery live and in person! She is just exploding with words lately. After playing with the older kids on our compound she started to really jabber away. I don't understand a lot but it is still cute. She also has been picking up some Swahili and random English phrases. My favorite right now is how she will randomly ask me, "How was your weekend?"! I guess she hears this a lot and is trying to find the proper time and place to say it. I have to say again how she is just he most adorable thing ever.

Could it be....

Avery has gotten sooo much better about using the potty. This week I had a bunch of meetings so Miss Maria watched Avery a few mornings. This was the first time Avery was around someone besides me who worked with her and using the potty...and it went so well! She started to tell Miss Maria when she needed to go! I could never get her to tell me when she needed to go. I have been asking her or setting her on her potty every so often to avoid oppsies but suddenly with Miss Maria she knew to tell her!
She even has been going poo-poo on her potty as well. Yea for Avery!!!! She also has been in big girl pants during her naps and staying dry. When have gone out a few times with big girl pants and tend to have accidents but that is probably due to her being so excited to play with other kids and forgetting about using the potty. I can see the light at the end of the diaper tunnel!!!