Happy Half Birthday Avery JoJo Bugs!

It's a Kebert family tradition to celebrate half birthdays. We can't pass up on tradition so here are some pictures of our party:

Daddy's half birthday in 1984

Avery Jo in her half hat and half bib

Catching the theme yet? Everything is only half!

Playing with Grandpa's mustache

Grandma and me on my half birthday

A table of halves...even the burgers were cut in half.

 

I like this one Great Grandma!

Kind of looks like she's eating some cake here, but she's not.

Mom, this is torture...why can't I have cake?!?

Party girl playing on her blanket. You'd never guess she has double eye and ear infections!

Avery is so close to rolling from her back to her belly!

Last shots of 5-month-old cuteness

She reminds me of the little girl from "Monsters Inc" here

Do you like "see" food? (Those are peas in her mouth, if you were curious.)

Avery Jo now eats baby food!

Kory and I decided we wanted to try making our own baby food for Avery. We got a cookbook for Christmas that has all kinds of recipes (not that it's too hard to cook and puree food right now). The book will come in very handy when Avery is a toddler eating actual meals, but it was helpful now too in broadening our ideas of what we could feed her now.

Our first food choice for Avery was butternut squash. It was really easy to make. We just cut it in half and baked it for 45 minutes then scooped it out of the skin and mashed it with the immersion blender. Then a quick trip through the sieve and it was ready to eat! We both tasted it of course, and actually we really liked it! We'll be making it again for ourselves soon.

As for Avery JoJo...she loved it too!

This is what was left of Avery's first real food feeding.

Look at that happy, full girl!

Here's a video of how the first feeding went. I'll warn you, there are no great faces or spitting actions. Our good girl just ate bite after bite, no problems.

I will say I have since fed her the same squash again and the feeding didn't go quite as smooth. She still ate it, but she occasionally shook like she got the eebie geebies. Anyone who knows Momma knows what the eebie geebies are and they aren't good! Let's hope Avery isn't as susceptible to them as I am and can enjoy many foods to come.

More Christmas photos

Avery's post-Christmas Christmas party dinner...looks like Tramp wants some too.

Avery met Pretty Aunt Jeannie. She was a little taken back by why this doll laughs so much.

Avery sat pretty comfortably with Uncle Jeremy. Of course they were watching the Illini game.

Updates, updates, updates

So it's been way too long since we've posted an update on our Avery JoJo. She'll be 6 months old this month. Time is flying! We can't believe how fast it is going by and how much she's grown.

Here's some photos since the last post:

Momma, I don't want to alarm you, but this frog is staring at me!

Daddy and Avery at Grandma & Grandpa K's for Christmas Eve.

Avery with Santa and Kory's childhood Christmas friend, Mistletoe Bear

Opening presents is so tiring!

Merry Christmas from Avery and Spot

Avery Jo with all her Christmas goodies at Grandma & Papa C's house Christmas morning

Avery tries cereal

After our 4-month check up this week, we were given the go ahead to try rice cereal. Here's how it went:

Avery's first Thanksgiving

Avery celebrated Thanksgiving twice in her first year of life...that's just how we do it. :)

The first dinner was at Grandma and Papa's house. We didn't take too many pictures that day, sorry!

This is the only picture we have of the front of this shirt. Thankfully we were able to snap this photo before the poop made all the way up her back!

This is Aves' new favorite chewey. We think we can see the start of her 2 bottom teeth!

Later that week we made our way down to Hernando, MS. Avery got to meet all of our "Southern" family on this trip! She did such a good job on the 10-hour car rides and it didn't take us too long to straighten her sleep schedule back out.

We were even worse parents and didn't take a single photo on this trip, but thanks to Jeremy and Kristin's awesome camera and photography, we have some really great shots. Enjoy!

Avery and Grandma Kebert at Great Aunt Cheryl's

Taking a quick nap before the big meal

A lot of people together at a huge table enjoying a ton of food!

Avery standing on the table after dinner...and the poop that claimed the Thanksgiving Day outfit.

Mmmmm, my fingers are yummy.

Some fancy photography...love those big eyes

What do you mean I can't have turkey?!

This is Avery's future boyfriend. She apparently has a thing for blond headed southern boys. She couldn't take her eyes off him!