No, You Are...

My son Avery loves to hit with the comeback, "you are..." or "you need to..."  He knows it gets on his momma's nerves, so I have been trying not to let it.  The other night at dinner I told him to stop messing around and eat his mac&cheese.  His response was "you eat my mac&cheese!" So I reached over with my fork and picked up some of his dinner. "NO!!!! DON"T EAT IT!!!!"

That is my Avery, super strong, super smart, supper sensitive and not to mention supper independent.  Sometime it drives me crazy, but I know with guidance he will do great things in life.  Avery was born October 18, 2007 at 7:58 pm.  He was 21 1/4 inches long and was 8lbs 4.5oz.  It took 2 hours to push out his stubborn little head, I guess I should have know that was a sign :).

Avery has always wanted to do things for himself, this made him an easy baby... not too demanding or needy.  A lot of the time it threw me off guard.  The things I was looking forward to teaching infant Avery he did not want me to show him, he just wanted to observe and try himself.  Forget showing him how to play with a toy... he would play with it how he wanted to.  He also wanted to be perfect at what he was doing, at 8 months old he would stand up in the middle of the living room, not holding on to anything... and that was it.  He would be so proud.  By 9.5 months he decided that he could master walking... and he did.   He gave up the breast... when he wanted to, the bottle... when he wanted to.  There was the large disruption with potty training due to Andrew's accident... but finally Avery did it... when he wanted to.

Avery did not start talking until he was two.  Well before he was 2 he would say a word and then you would not hear it again and there is no way he would repeat it on demand.  After his 2nd birthday he went from saying nothing to saying 3 or more word sentences, name all colors and 17 letters of the alphabet at random.  It was amazing what this little boy was keeping from us.

He has always liked patterns and comparing two or more items.  He loves collecting things and his momma enjoys helping him collect them.  He now loves to play with other people, but even I have a hard time playing with him because everything needs to be the order Avery sees it.

Avery is funny too.  He can make the funniest jokes.

Even though my Avery is tough and very strong willed, he is very sensitive.  He is also a great big brother to Miles even if sometimes he gets a little too rough.  He stands up for Miles even when it is only me taking Miles' cup away because he was spitting milk on the floor.  He cried because Miles was in timeout at childcare.  On his worst days, like when he is not feeling well, and it is hard to express his feelings (he is only 4 anyway), he can go from telling me he loves me to he does not love me anymore, to he loves me again.  I don't get upset about that... he is just a smart little boy who wants me to know how bad he is feeling.  It always ends with 'I love you' anyway.

My Avery James is going to grow up to be someone great.