11 months ago....

Finally a picture of Gabrielle

My assistant!

My soon to be other assistant!

LOVE baby toes!

Cheeks!

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Avery is now over 11 months old! As I have said before, where has the time gone?! Seems like just the other day, we were calling up Chrystelle frantic (since she was not answering) to come and stay with Gabrielle at our house at 2 in the morning! Jake asking me, "Do you really think it is time to go, I do not want to get there and they send us home. Lets see how close the contractions are........oh a minute....i guess maybe we should go!" And we were off, him and I driving downtown Sioux Falls at 2am ...which happens never! Later that morning we would welcome Avery into our lives! And what a joy she has been (no really seriously!). She is just a great little kid and as my Dad called me when I was born "a ham". Next month, we will be celebrating her 1st Birthday and Gabrielle's 5th Birthday! So we are getting everything in line for that! Can not wait to see family and friends! And see my girls with cake all over them!

Gabrielle is in T ball (they still have not met since it was rained out last week). Hope this Monday works for the kiddos! They will get together from 10am-1030am every Monday and Wednesday! There are a lot of kids from her Preschool in it so she is very excited! Next month, she will be starting swimming lessons also! Can not wait for this either! She is pretty excited!

I hope to see you all in about 1 month for the birthday party! It is really fun to see everyone and celebrate such special moments together!

May Love...

So much hair...

Chillin in the grass!

Love her baby blues!

Smiles

Crawling in the grass! She is starting to not mind this now! She, for awhile, did not enjoy this!

I love this one of her!

This is her ET pose! She loves pointing and will usually say some jibberish when pointing!

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Is it just me or has May just flown by!? Guess they say, that is what happens when you are having fun and enjoying life!

As of this past Thursday, Gabrielle is done with preschool for the year. She will be attending the same place next year in the afternoon class, 4 days a week! We will be having play dates and such with her friends from school!

Avery, she is still as sweet as can be! She is such a great little girl! She will be turning 1 on the 10th of July and Gabrielle will turn 5. Avery now has her 2 top teeth and her 2 bottom teeth. We are working with her on the walking (she walks holding onto things and will stand for a few seconds by herself!), eating table food, holding her own bottle, and sleeping through the night. Can not complain she only wakes up once, drink a bottle and goes back to sleep.

I have attached a few videos and pictures for you to all enjoy!

Lots of love!

May...already....

As Mother's Day approaches us this weekend, I think of how thrilled I am to be the mother of 2 healthy little girls. They have taught me so much about life and love, and they do not even know it. They are everything to me and the reason I stay home everyday to ever miss anything with them. Which some days can be pretty overwhelming! Whoever said being a stay at home mom was easy and full of bon bons and watching TV------has never been a stay at home mom before. It is more like cleaning, meal preparing, playing, laundry, daily tasks, and the list gos on and on. I am still very honored to be able to stay home though and would not trade it for anything!

To all Moms, Happy Mother's Day because you deserve it and you are the one who keeps the house together and strong!

I also wanted to share some family/girls pictures we had taken about a month ago. To me as most of you all know, pictures mean a A LOT to me and I have many of them in my house. I never want to regret the day where I did not do a family picture because of my insecurities because I do not want it to be to late. (After all that the Thovson family has been through I think they can all understand where I am coming from.) So to me it is important and Jake gets it when I do some explaining! (He is great! Love him tons too! He is my best friend and my amazing husband for almost 6 years!) And the lady who took them could not help herself and needed to get some of our pretty girls!!! She was so amazed by all of our SUPER blue eyes!!!

As you can tell, I am feeling a little mushy today! Not sure where this is all coming from. I am just so thankful for everything right now, even on my hard days.

Enjoy the pictures and have a great weekend!

Videos and Pics!

Standing last night

This a picture Gabrielle drew on our chaulkboard. I just love watching her learn to draw new things! It is SO much fun! It is a picture of our family....Mom and Dad are the big ones, and her and Avery are off the the left side!

Avery standing lastnight

My little Photographer again

My little Photographer took this one of Avery Standing

Sitting in the laundry basket w/ sis

Avery and Gabrielle sitting in the laundry basket!

I know you will all enjoy these new videos and some new pictures!

Spring....Can you hear me?

I am back after being gone from the blog for awhile. Just waiting for Spring to show up one day. It will be 55 here one day then snowing and 30's the next day. Gotta love MN. Think I would be used to it after living here my whole life (except those couple years in SD, but really what is the differnece!) I know one day Spring and Summer will be here and I love that!

Gabrielle is still attending preschool 2 days a week. She loves it. She is so proud to show us eveything she has done that day out of her school bag when she gets home. She is a great helper around the house!

Avery will be 9 months on the 10th of April. She is growing so fast. S

he now has 2 teeth and is "taking steps" while holding onto things. Such as moving from one thing to another using shuffle steps. (If that makes any sense to anyone!) She will hopfully be getting over being sick soon. She is up coughing all night and the house is not getting much sleep.

Crawling....

Avery is now crawling. She is just learning and still getting the hang of it. But set her down on the floor and if she wants something she will will be to it before you know it! So much fun watching her learn new things! And she is also waving bye bye! So cute!

Crawling Videos!

7 Months Old

Our little girl is now 7 Months old!!!! She is growing up so fast! Her 2 teeth are SLOWLY coming in. They seem to not cause her pain, so far at least! Gabrielle always did really well when her teeth were coming in, so hope Avery is the same! She has been happy and healthy. Loves playing with her toys, laughing at and with her BIG SISTER and just being a happy and cute little girl. We are so blessed with 2 beautiful girls who we love tons.

We are very excited for the HEAT wave that is heading our way. No more -20, bring on the 30's and maybe low 40's for this next week. This is going to be great. Spring will be here soon!

Otherwise everything is going great in the Thovson household. Have a great weekend!