Little Mamma

Averie is quite the little mother. Anytime that we have our friend Hunter over, she wants to be right with him the entire time. She will go up to him and hug him and give him "pat, pat, pats". She is always very concerned when he cries and she does her best to keep in entertained. These first two pictures are of them sitting on the couch together. She is not big enough to climb up by herself, so she asked me to help her. They sat like this for about 15 minutes. It was very cute.

This was the night that Averie just took over all babysitting duties. I was eating super with Bruce, so she just took it upon herself to entertain Hunter in his bouncy seat. She would reach out to him and try to get him to come see her and then she would push on the bouncy seat to keep him from crying. I had to help her bounce him just a little. Hunter was loving it. He would just smile and coo at Averie. She is something else!

Sweet Faces

Andrew as discovered the joy of spitting. This is his new spitting face. He is just the sweetest little boy. He loves his mommy and boy does his mommy love him!

This is a sweet smile from my sweet girl. She is just the cutest little girl. Sometimes she has a very big attitude, but I know she gets it from me. I know that is hard to believe. She does have one of the sweetest smiles I have ever seen.

Fur Rondy

Fur Rondy is the festival/carnival that takes place in downtown Anchorage the week leading up to the start of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. The night we went down there was the night they show off fireworks. My husband LOVES fireworks so I knew he was going to make us go. We ended up having a good time, but it was really cold. The first picture is Bruce and Andrew coming down the super slide.

My little snow angel. She can't walk in all her winter gear. It's kind of funny!

Andrew and Averie on their first carnival ride. They did great!

Sea Life Cener

Bruce is currently on a week long vacation. We decided to take a mini-vacate to the Kenai Peninsula for a couple of days. There are many places to visit, but we went to a town called Seward, Alaska. We ended up in a blizzard, but we made the best of our visit. We had some really good food and had a great time with the babies at the Sea Life Center. This is primarily a place where research is conducted. However, they do have some really cool things to see and read about. The place was practically empty the day that we visited. It was great because Andrew and Averie could just run around and enjoy themselves. There were two really cool animals that we loved getting to see. One tank had three Harbor Seals and the other big tank had a 2300 pound sea lion. I can't remember his name, but he was HUGE!!! The first picture is of me and the babies watching the sea lion swim by.

This is Andrew looking up at the Sea Lion. This picture shows how big this animal is.

This is Averie and her friend the Harbor Seal. There were three of them and they would just swim right up to her while she was standing there.

The next two pictures are of the little boat they had on display for kids to climb in and pretend to drive.