The 'A' Team

I just received a gift in the mail from one of my mom's dear college friends. Her name is Amy and she has a super cute baby girl named Dylanne (she is turning 1 soon). They live in Bozeman, Montana. Maybe we will go visit some day and I will be able to play with Dylanne (she looks like a lot of fun).

Pictured below you will see me proudly wearing and attempting to point at my new tee (that is the cool way to say t-shirt) with the letter 'A' on it. By the way, this t-shirt is extra special to me because the letter 'A' begins my name Avrey (I just learned that). I also received pink shorts to go with my t-shirt.
Amy and Dylanne sent me some wooden blocks with the letters that make up my name printed on them too. I can't wait to learn how to spell my name!

Thank you Amy and Dylanne for the wonderful gifts!
After all that hard work... opening up the package, trying to spell my name, and learning new letters - I needed to relax. I decided to try out Pop Pop's massage chair (see above); it's tough being a kid you know!

How did this happen?

One year ago I looked like this...
Now I look like this...

I have upgraded to a bigger chair but I have the same great smile!

Everybody says that I am getting so BIG so quickly!!! I guess they're right.

I think Mama wishes she could slow down time but she tells me it doesn't matter how big I get because I will always be her baby.

Playground Playfulness

I love to go to the park with Mommy and Daddy! We try to go often throughout the summer and since it has been sunny out lately we have been frequenting the playground on a daily basis.
I especially love to swing and slide. My personal record for the "longest continuous period of time spent swinging" at the park is just under two hours. Yep - I am one serious swinger!

However on this particular day I was really working hard on improving my sliding skills. Daddy and mommy are always catching me at the bottom of the slide so I decided to return the favor (see below).

Now I cannot lie - this was one scary endeavor. My fear was largely due to the fact that 16o pounds of pure muscle (mama told me to say that) was torpedoing toward me. It took a lot of courage to catch my dad instead of retreat. Thank goodness daddy listened when mama said "put on the breaks".
Mama and I like to slide down together at times but sometimes I like to go by myself and I have even learned to go down head-first. I will give you one guess to figure out who taught me this fabulous trick; let's just say it wasn't my mother. However, as you can tell I REALLY LOVE IT...


... so Mama plays along and catches me at the bottom.

Playing at the park is better than (hmmm - let's see) ice cream. Although it would be great if Uncle Nathan would come and visit us again because then I would get to play at the park and go for ice cream right after! Miss you Uncle Nathan and Auntie Leith.

Father's Day Fun

We celebrated Father's Day at Jackie's Place (one of Great Granddad's favorite local restaurants) for breakfast.
Pictured above Great Granddad Campbell.
Here you see two other popular Campbell papas: Pop Pop Harold (my grandpa) and Great Uncle Cam.
Above is my daddy and Great Uncle Vernon - definitely two fabulous fathers!
Here is my dad showing off his best Daddy's day pose.
And... here I am. Enjoying my tasty Mickey Mouse pancakes. Life doesn't get any better than this.

Happy Father's Day

Avrey's 2nd Birthday Party

My friends and family joined me in celebrating my 2nd birthday on the evening of June 10th. Over 40 people (some small and some tall) showed up to party.
However this was an especially cool birthday because my Uncle Nathan and Auntie Leith were visiting from Canada and they got to come too!

I guess someone (and when I say someone I am referring to my GRAMMY CAMPBELL) thinks that I am really special because I had two birthday cakes! I am hoping that this tradition keeps up and that I get three birthday cakes next year. Thinking ahead on this subject... my sweet 16th birthday would be 'truly' sweet with 16 birthday cakes GRAMMY!






















My girlfriends and I decided to eat the cake daintily with our pointer fingers first and then with forks a little later (as they were speedily provided after we began our initial descent on the icing). It may not have been the most well-mannered way to go about eating birthday cake but in our defense, it was not the most intelligent idea to put a large tasty birthday cake down on a table in front of six little girls without forks!



As you can tell (by looking at the above photo) the cakes were definitely satisfactory!!!

Next it was time to open gifts. I got so many special presents. I am such a lucky girl!
I especially enjoyed reading my NEW BROWN BEAR BOOK in my NEW ARIEL LAWN CHAIR (it is extremely awesome - it's the lounging type of chair).
I even read my new book to my friend Brooklyn. She is still working on being an attentive listener and respectfully tuning into the reader.
I had so much fun playing at the park with my friends...













... but I think DADDY might have had MORE FUN playing with his friends. He got to play frisbee! Those big boys were laughing so loud and running into each other all over the place. I think Mommy said it's because they are 'still little boys at heart!'
I had such a wonderful 2nd Birthday! Thank you to everyone who celebrated with me.