Getting Ready for Christmas

During our last week in Bellevue, we hit Snowflake Lane - the last time as residents.  And we saw Santa, or as Avery calls him, the "BoogeyMan." 





Avery didn't want anything to do with the BoogeyMan and had a death grip on me.  The result?  A family photo with Santa. 

We finally got Lola the Elf out and she was up to all kinds of chananigans every night.


Partying with Cinderella.

Sneaking cookies

We got a great Christmas tree from the boyscouts at a tree lot just down the street from us, our normal Frasier Fur.

According to Avery she's been a good girl this year so Santa should be coming to our house with a dollhouse and not coal... we'll see!


New House!



We finally moved into our new house in Snoqualmie Ridge the end of November.  And it's been a crazy whirl-wind of moving, unpacking, painting, hanging and organizing.  We're exhausted!  We had the help of our friends Margaret & Scott, and Amy & Jay along with our parents, which was GREATLY appreciated.  Who knew we had so much stuff crammed in our condo?  We're slowly getting through projects but as we've found, home ownership means never ending house projects.  So far we have gotten rid of the horrible red walls and huge holes and replaced them with grey ones.  We painted Avery's room from light yellow (including ceilings) to what was supposed to be tan but turned out a little mauvish.  Next room: Baby girl's - right now it is a baby blue with a horrible Hawaii wallpaper mural on one wall...

Avery has enjoyed having Opie around helping out with projects.  Oma even came one day and Avery got to cuddle with her.   She loves giving people tours of her new house.

Avery has adjusted really well to her new home, I'm so proud of her.  She loves it.  She has her own bathroom now and thought her tub looked like Grandma's tub.  She loves going outside in the yard whenever she wants.

Unfortunately, during our move Avery got pinkeye (a parting gift from daycare) that knocked her out.  Washcloths seemed to help.

Daddy even mowed the lawn already.  He did perfect stripes in the backyard, what a pro!

We got our first visit from a wood-land neighbor.  (Our yard backs up to a greenbelt).  Avery tried to feed & pet the bunny but he wasn't too sure about that.

And, living in the mountains now, we had our first snow, and boy did it snow!  Avery thought it was great, though she's more of a snowbunny than anything.

We're so glad to finally be in a house in a great community with lots of room for both of our girls to play and grow.  We have so much to be thankful for this year.

Hunt Girls Update

Phew, it's been a crazy couple of weeks for us with more to come.  In the midst of our packing up and moving, I volunteered to be an ultrasound model at Siemens in Issaquah.  This was my 2nd time doing this with baby #2 and Andy came along to check out the 3D/4D images.  So far, this little girl is proving to be as stubborn as big sis: she has feet, legs, arms all in front of her face for every scan!  But it looks like she has Daddy's cheeks, Mommy's nose and Mommy & Avery's monkey toes!  (The sonographer was astonished by the big gap between toes 1&2 - they look just like Avery's!)
During this 2nd scan, the tech saw something and out of moral obligation had to tell us that she found something but couldn't diagnose or tell us what she thought it was - just that it was a cystic structure next to her bladder.  Of course that sent us into panick mode.  Since KK is a high-risk sonographer she was the 1st person I called.  She thought it sounded like an ovarian cyst.  We finally had a follow-up ultrasound yesterday at a high-rick clinic and they are 90% certain that KK is right: baby has an ovarian cyst.  It's something that should go away shortly after birth, but they will monitor it with ultrasounds.  It shouldn't cause her or me any pain.  Doctor said only 2 cases in her career have ever needed to be surgically removed.  So it looks like our little girl is a fighter!  Thanks to everyone who said extra prayers for us, they seem to have worked for now.

Baby Hunt, 28 weeks, the first model ultrasound in 3D:

Baby Hunt, 31.5 weeks:

Meanwhile, big sister Avery is busy entertaining us.  Her last day of daycare was last week, and her teachers were very sad to see her go.  She's learned alot socially and educationally in her 6 months there.  And her Avery antics never fail to keep us laughing.  I don't know where she gets some of this stuff but it sure makes life fun!  Here are a couple highlights in the world of Avery-isms.  Some of them are pretty hilarious but also pretty inappropriate.

"I go pottty."  She's a fibber.  She'll pull her pants down and shut the door, only to sit on the toilet with a diaper, wipe, flush and then "all done."  We're working on this...

If you ask her if she wants something (usually food), she'll respond "No, I good now."

My little potty mouth.  With the chaos and stress in our lives right now, Mommy's had a bit of a loose tongue lately.  Somehow, Avery found herself a new favorite phrase, and not only does she use it appropriately (when she's frustrated, things go wrong...) she says it clear as a bell.  My favorite instance was this: her pants kept falling off one day (no draw string & skinny girl) so as she bends down to pull them up again, she says "Son of a Bitch!"  Mom and I had to compose ourselves before telling her how naughty that is.  We're trying very hard to work this out of her vocabulary but I can't help but chuckle when she says it.

Singing.  Avery is very much a creature of habit.  She has created a bed time routine that consists strictly of jammies, brush teeth, kiss Daddy and lead him into her room for rocking/lullibies before kisses & hugs and to bed.  Her favorite songs are: twinkle little star, you are my sunshine, monkeys jumping on the bed, abc's, old macdonald and wheels on the bus.  Too cute to hear her rendition of the classics.