New toys and other "firsts"

For those of you that have tried it, aren't consignment sales great? My parents have gone to several now in the Dallas area and have found all kinds of great stuff for Avery. Both the
Leap Frog Learning table and the swing came from a consigment sale, along with a bunch of other toys and more fall & winter clothes than Avery could ever wear! I have yet to go to one myself, but I definately plan on it in the future.
The story behind the bottom pic is that in the time it took me to go out and get the stroller out of the car, Avery went from a sitting position in the middle of the floor to being underneath her exersaucer facing the opposite direction! I did a double take when i walked back in the room! It's amazing how much she can get around even though she can't really crawl yet. She just rolls and slowly inches her way toward things.
Two other little updates are that she went to Bible class for the first time this morning and she ate her first few bites of cereal today. As for Bible class, she did great according to her teachers, but the food didn't go quite as well. She "ate" a few bites (most of it was on her face) but lost interest pretty quickly. So, we'll just have to keep trying and I'm sure she'll get the hang of it eventually. Grandparents and other family-- we'll post of pic of her first try at eating sometime soon.

Sitting pretty

Over labor day weekend we went to visit Scott's parents in Waco. They had not seen Avery since she was 7 or 8 weeks old. First we stopped off in Dallas and spent Thursday night with my parents. When we got there Thursday my sister and her husband were at my parents house to celebrate my birthday with cake and ice cream. Scott and I laughed about the birthday party because Avery got a present too and a balloon. If you didn't know better you would have thought it was her birthday! But that's OK because I really have no more use for birthdays after this one since I'm staying 29 forever!

While in Waco we went to West Fest, which is a Czech festival in the town of West, TX. We ate yummy sausage sandwiches on homemade bread and kolaches and watched some Czech dancers. The Bedicheks originally came from the Czech Republic, so we had to celebrate the family heritage. Other than that we didn't do much, mostly just relaxed. Scott's brother Mike and his sister and her husband were there too, so Avery got to see lots of relatives. As you can see in the picture, she is sitting up on her own now, but she still falls over some. I'm just hoping that it takes her a few more months to figure out crawling because I can already see myself chasing her and trying to keep her out of things. I guess we'll have to add babyproofing to our never-ending "To Do" list, which I can now keep better track of on my handy-dandy Palm that Scott gave me for my birthday!