Beautiful Avery

Avery has been doing great! She is now almost 7 weeks old and we've been doing a lot of fun stuff. I've tried to get her to nap in her crib, so that when we move her there she is already used to it. Unfortunately she naps a lot in her car seat because we are always running around with Jonah. Also, here are some more photos of her, I realized that a lot of the photos of my first post you couldn't really see how gorgeous she is. :)

Avery started smiling at us around 5 weeks, but at 6 weeks she was really giving them to us!

The 2 above pictures are from her photo shoot at 2 weeks old. I am so tempted to put them all on here b/c they all looked so great, but here are two of the ones we picked. It was really hard to choose between them all!

Hanging out with Indy on her playmat.

Jon found this beer made my Avery brewery. We couldn't resist..pretty good beer too.

Working on tummy time. Shes doing pretty well with it now. She can really lift her head!

First bath in the bath tub...she loves the warm water, but who wouldn't ;)

Welcome Avery!

Welcome Avery Melissa Bell Posner! 

She made her grand entrance 7 days late on August 22nd at 6:28pm. I had gone to my 2nd biophysical appointment at 2pm that day and while there they were seeing contractions every 4-5min. I knew I was having contractions, but they weren't unbearable. I went home and about 1hr they had gotten a bit more uncomfortable so we decided to go back to the hospital. When I got there I was already 6-7cm dilated and around 3 hours later she arrived at 9lb 7oz! What a big girl!! It was a surprise to us all since Jonah was 7lb 11oz when he was born and I had measured and weighed the same with Avery my entire pregnancy. Thankfully, I was once again able to do it all natural with the help of our doula Beth and Jon.

Its definitely been busy with 2 babies and this blog post is a bit late...so here are some pictures over the last month of the new member of the Posner Pack.

The family right after Avery was born.

Jonah meeting his little sister.

Beautiful Avery

My family

Jonah helping with Avery's bathtime.

Sweet baby girl

Taking a quick wagon ride with big brother Jonah

Getting in some morning paper reading with dad while Avery is napping

Holding his little sister, what a great big brother!

Summer 2011

We've done a lot since I posted last. I wish I had more time to do regular blogs, but being pregnant, any downtime I have has usually been spent napping if at all possible! So heres a quick peak at the last 4 months. Baby is due in 9 days so I figured I needed to get his in before I get really busy and wanted to catch up before posting pics and info about our new addition!

Jonah turned 2! Crazy how fast it goes and no matter how many people tell you that, its still a surprise and a bit sad. We celebrated at the park again this year and had a great time. Jonah got to play with some of his friends and got his official 1st bike. Its a balance bike (no pedals), if you've never heard of them and are curious, shoot me an email. They're awesome. We enjoyed some of 'Mom Moms' (aka Grandma Posner) awesome cup cakes and dad's great grilling skills.

We had a summer birthday beach vacation. Jonah, Jon, my sister Tara and her two boys and my mom all have summer bdays, so we all (including my dad and Eric, Tara's husband) traveled to Ocean City for a week at the beach. We had a GREAT time! Jonah wasn't a huge fan of the sand, but he loved the pool and we had great weather and got to enjoy a bunch of each. The cousins all got along great and we even had a small bday celebration with lots of gifts and birthday cake for everyone. We even got to be pirates and go on a pirate adventure and look for 'buried' treasure! Very cool!

We celebrated July 4th by going to the famous July 4h Catonsville parade. It is a BIG deal and after almost 6 years living in Catonsville, this was the first time we actually made the parade. Not sure why it took us so long, but taking Jonah was a great excuse to make sure we made it. We had fun, but it was HOT! Jonah loved all the cars and firetrucks and people walking by...what a fun day!

Jon and Jonah frequent our new favorite bakery and coffee shop, At Waters so often they know what we want when we walk in the door! Jonah is, of course, their favorite customer.

Jonah LOVES reading....well...looking at pictures, we aren't quite to the reading part yet. But he can now recognize letters, which is fun to practice. Heres Jonah entertaining himself in the car while we run errands.

Jonah goes to story time at the library. He loves it and loves to go see Ms. Pat. Its one of the 3 classes he goes to during the week and one of his favorite.

We've been working on the nursery. We decided since we don't know if its a boy or a girl we would go with an owl theme. We got this great decal from Etsy.com. I love the fact that its just one big sticker and you can take it right off if you ever want to change it. My sister found this great owl fabric and sewed me a crib skirt and valance. The room is tiny, but super cute!

So thats it for now. The next posts will include new baby poz. We are getting anxious to see if Jonah will have a little sister or brother. Life is going to get VERY busy!

Busy days

Since the last post we've been very busy. Nothing in particular...just life in general. Saturdays are our busiest..we have both swim class and music class all before 12pm.

Jonah has really changed in the last two months. He is talking a ton and knows so many words! He constantly surprises us and makes us laugh constantly. He is a smart little guy and will pick up on any little thing you do or say, so you definitely have to watch it! Below are some photos over the last few weeks. We are so glad it is finally starting to get warmer, it was a long winter!

Playing in the snow.

Thanks Aunt Tara for our bibs and boots, they were awesome this winter!

Finally a nice day to be outside...time to cut the foliage and get ready for spring!

Being silly in the morning, sometimes he doesn't even want to get out of his crib!

Finding things we shouldn't put in our mouths. We have no idea where he got this, but it seemed to be a piece of chalk? But where in the world did it come from?!

LOVES playing in the sink...sometimes this lets mommy have enough time to make dinner!

Wearing the hat he got from Aunt Tara, decided he loved it, although its now getting a big small.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, caterpillar. One of our favorite stories.

Loving our sunglasses or 'shades' lately. Gotta get ready for summer!

Jonah's new shirt

Jonah's going to be a big brother sometime around August 15th.
Another 6 months before we know if he'll have a little sister or brother!

Winter + Christmas Time

Life in general just seems busy all the time nowadays :) Jonah is growing up SO incredibly fast and no matter how much I try to take it all in, its just going too fast. We've done a lot since Halloween. Here are a few things and some cute photos we've taken along the way.

We attended our 3rd session of our Kindermusik music class. It is a ton of fun and Jonah loves it! I think he has learned a lot of skills from the playing we do and really enjoys music now because of this class.

I was on the ball this year and got our tree up Thanksgiving day weekend. I hadn't put the tree skirt on, but was trying to get a picture of Jonah in front of it. This was the best one I got, as he ran the other direction. It was so much easier when he wasn't running everywhere!

Jonah and I went to a Festival of Trees. He LOVED the train and all the trees. There were a ton of things to see and the place was packed! We had to stand in line for 20min just to get in.

Jonah and Dad went together to the Baltimore Symphony and Orchestra to see a kids version of the Nutcrackers. Jon said Jonah was totally enthralled and watched the entire production without taking his eyes off of it.

Jonah sees Santa again and was still cool with it. Our friends Chris and Melanie always throw a holiday party and their neighbor is nice enough to dress up as Santa and come over. I think the line at the party was longer than had we gone to the mall ;)

Hiking out to say hi to Dad who was out doing some trail work for MORE.

Answer to 'Whose the cutest baby?' haha

We always find the funniest things in Jonah's crib that he manages to reach in the middle of the night. As you can see on the left, the bear almost made it, but was just a little too fat to fit.

We went to Austin for Christmas and all the boys had a good time together. It was a crazy Christmas with a log of toys. Just one pic out of a ton we took.

While we were in Texas we went to a Children's museum, Jonah had a blast! It was a pretty cool museum, although a bit smaller than the one we've been to in Baltimore. It had some really cool stuff to check out and things to build.