So, you know how you do your laundry and sometimes find lots of interesting things in the dryer... like wrappers, or old movie tickets, or change, or maybe a missing earring, or maybe a BIRD?!?! Really, that's never happened to you?
So today, Jesse and I walked in the door and heard a loud noise coming from the laundry room. We walked over to the dryer and could hear a loud clamoring coming from inside the dryer. We opened the dryer door but nothing was in there. We thought that a mouse or some sort of creature must have crawled inside somehow, because it was so loud. We pulled the dryer out a bit and could see that the grey, metallic tube thingy behind the dryer was moving all around. Upon closer inspection, we saw a BEAK protruding through the tube! We started to come up with all these plans of how we could help that poor birdy escape. We thought we could put on some gloves and cut the tube loose, freeing that poor, helpless creature.
Poor, helpless creature indeed! He proved us wrong! That smart little birdy continued to maneuver around until he had poked his whole head through the side of the tube. As we were standing around, debating what to do, he managed to free himself and flew right out from behind the dryer, straight toward the bathroom window, only to find himself crashing to the ground. Back and forth he went, between the laundry room and the bathroom, trying to find a way to escape. Here is our little dryer pet:
Ontario, Oregon is where we spent the weekend. Bryan was kind enough to drive the whole way there and back. We watched another awesome Stampede game, with another TWO TOUCHDOWNS made by the amazing Jesse Yarger :) Here is the newspaper clipping:
Today mommy had a craving for Angie's and daddy was nice enough to take us to lunch. Mmmm! Avril especially enjoyed her free kids ice cream cone!
Avril was having a bad hair day today. The waitress kept saying what a cute turkey tail she had! Avril is very good at making animal noises. She will always make the sound if she sees a picture or hears the word. She knows how to do a monkey sound, a lion sound, a cow sound, and a fishy face. The monkey sound is a bit hard to hear in the video clip... sometimes Avril does the sounds so quietly, and other times she'll belt out the animal sounds. She's such a smarty pants. We love her to pieces!
I have to thank my friend Britney, or I should say her little girl, Hannalee, for loaning us her fun little walker toy. This has been a hit for Avril. Although Avril can now walk on her own... she prefers to have fingers to hold, or her walker for security. We all just get a kick out of watching her speed around the house pushing her baby walker. Obstacles do not slow her down. She just maneuvers the walker and goes back to her baby speed walking. This girl certainly gets enough exercise!
Avril has never been too fond of doing things the conventional way. She likes to show off by playing her keyboard while moving it all over the place. Isn't the music so pretty?
Somehow I managed to be missing-in-action for every single touchdown that Jesse made in football last season. I was either nursing the baby, using the restroom, or didn't make it to that game. Jesse started joking that maybe I shouldn't come anymore because every time I was there, he didn't make a touchdown. The whole team didn't want me there because of this wretched curse!
Well, my friends, this season started out with a bang! The first real game of the season I was there, watching my hubby the WHOLE game. And he made TWO touchdowns!!! I even saw him look in to the stands after each one to make sure that I was there and watching. He even pointed at me and winked... I was just beaming, so proud of my hubby!
This game was just fantastic! We came back from a 12 point deficit to win the game. The weather was perfect, and Avril didn't take any tumbles this time :)
We decided to go for an afternoon swim with grams and gramps at the Sports Academy. What a great idea! Avril turned in to a little fishy and just couldn't get enough!
April 16th marks a special day for our family. There are 3 siblings with the same exact birthday... My brother Jared, my brother Adrian, and my sister-in-law, Arleen. We celebrated early and all went out to eat at Sizzler.
I had been looking forward to Baby Animal Days all year long. I couldn't wait for Avril to get to pet all the animals and to spend the day with all the family... even my brother's family from California! We had so much fun!!
Grandma Carme mailed Avril an Easter package for the special day. Avril got a new Easter Lamby (we had a debate over what kind of animal this was and eventually decided that it must be a lamb), a cute dress, and a soft, furry, cuddly bunny.
Here is Avril dancing to the Easter Lamby song:
Avril already likes to turn up her music loud.
Daddy bought Avril a fun exercise ball, just her size, for Easter. We had a blast watching her push the ball around! Notice how she tries to motion the ball to "come here", haha!
More fun with the balls!
And here are some more shots from Easter:
