friends. (i'm getting lame with the titles :))

we had a really great weekend filled with seeing friends :)

james and brian came over on saturday, bearing coffee, smiles and love for avery! she returned the smiles and love, left the coffee for me and felt comfortable right away.

she watched some tv with brian and practiced waving

she ate some bananas and pears with james--though she couldn't quite figure out the airplane noises he was making to entice her (she hasn't needed much coaxing to eat :))

and let us take a picture of the three of them for our friends and family wall of pictures that we're putting together in her sunroom/playroom

she's recently become very interested in seeing pictures of people and we've got boxes and boxes of frames that have no homes yet, so we're making one of the walls in the downstairs sunroom dedicated to pictures of people she knows and

loves (or will one day know and love).

tonight we got to have our second date, just days after our first! we met with phil and jill for a post-wedding/honeymoon celebratory mexican dinner. congrats again guys!! it's so unbelievably nice to be back in the area and know we've got such good friends as "neighbors".

we left avery with grammy and gramps, this time at their house, for some play time, a walk around the neighborhood and finally bedtime. it was uncomfortably warm upstairs where the "grandchild" crib is set up, so my parent's brainstormed and got her comfy on the couch with the a/c near by, where she snuggled into her favorite position and slept soundly. it was quite the sight to come back to :)

(hope people like the new look of the blog. it's still a work in progress and i'm sure it'll change many more times before we settle on something we really like.)

**ps thanks for the comments/suggestions that i've gotten from various sources on avery's crying fits :) we're not doing the crying it out thing yet (there may come a time for it in the future), mostly because there have been so many other things going on that could be contributing to her random fussiness. since we've been back, and since she's gotten back on her nap schedule, she's been back to normal. but thank you again for taking the time to offer help!**