A Month in Review

The end of September is here already! As I look back over the calendar, we had some fun events going on. Here are just a few...At the beginning of the month Avery Jane started preschool. She is going to Small Stars Preschool with Miss Michelle again this year. She goes from noon to 2:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. During the summer she wasn't quite sure that she wanted to go to school again. Though now that she has been going for a month now, I have not heard one complaint. She was one of the first in her class to celebrate her birthday. Chloe and I took pink cupcakes (Avery helped frost and sprinkle) for the class to have for snack and Avery got to be the teacher's helper that day. She had a coloring test the other day and got very good scores! She is becoming very interested in how to spell words and loves to draw and write.
Avery also had her very first Primary Program. She got to sit on the front row of the stand, right next to her teacher. That was a good move on her teachers' part! They are so patient with her! She seemed to know the words to most of the songs. There were some we couldn't tell because she was turned around playing with the chairs! She had a speaking part with 2 other kids from her class. She said, "We search the scriptures and we ponder them." She did great!
Chloe has become quite the mover! She can crawl just about anywhere she wants and is starting to walk along the furniture. We have tried to get her to walk or stand alone and she just goes floppy! She still only has 2 little teeth on the bottom, yet she wants everything on my plate! She has tried macaroni and cheese, fruit and veggies, Sunday dinners, hot dogs, etc. She just gums everything until she can swallow it. It makes her so happy when we give her what we are eating. She doesn't say too many words yet, just "mama", "dada", "ooooh", and "oh", and the occasional "wow" and "uh-oh".
As for Stephen and I...our nights out usually involve and dry pack assignment, visiting/home teaching, Relief Society visiting/meetings, etc. We did make it to a movie (or was that in August? I can't remember). We saw Mamma Mia and loved it! The ABBA music was so fun that we had to buy the soundtrack. We have converted Avery to it as well. Whenever we get in the car now she wants to hear "the money song"!
In the middle of the month we had a girl's night out with Grammie Jensen and the cousins. We all went to dinner at Robintino's and then to Roger's theater for High School Musical. Avery did okay with the first part, but quickly lost interest and got sleepy. By the finale she was out cold in my lap!
Today (Sept. 29th) Avery, Chloe and I rode Frontrunner from Woods Cross to SLC to meet Stephen on his way home. Usually when Stephen has to go into work he rides the train home and we pick him up. Avery loves to stand by the railing and watch for the train and her daddy and today she got to "go inside". She loved sitting by the window and watching how fast the train went. Chloe even seemed to enjoy herself. What a fun day.