Six is Serious Business

It has been 16 days since Avery turned six and boy, has it been a busy 16 days.  Milestone after milestone over here at the Simpson homestead!

She lost her first tooth!

Her lower left tooth had been wiggly for a few months, but in true Avery fashion, she was a little unsure about wiggling/touching it too much and had no interest in helping the little guy find its way out.  So, the adult tooth coming in pretty much just pushed it out.  (Yes, she had two rows of teeth for a few months!)

She lost her tooth at recess (like literally lost it - it came out and she didn't know where it went!).  Fortunately, the recess supervisor had everyone in the area stop playing and help look for it.  Avery's friend found it and then Avery promptly walked to the nurse's office to put the tooth in a special tooth necklace that she proudly wore for the rest of the day.

The tooth fairy came that night and again, in true Avery fashion, she had no interest in having the tooth fairy come into her room to make the tooth/money exchange, so the tooth pillow stayed with Jeff and me that night.  Unfortunately, we both slept pretty heavy, so neither of us saw this mystical fairy in action.

Cartwheels!

After many months of practicing cartwheels all over our house, Avery has finally nailed it!  I miraculously got her first "perfect" cartwheel on video late last week and it was a magical moment.  Her reaction says it all!

(I should clarify that getting it on video wasn't truly miraculous... See, Avery asks me to take videos of her 496 times a day doing various gymnastics moves, so in all honesty, I thought this was just going to be another cute video clogging up my phone's memory.  Instead, we got this great memory on camera!)

She has since gotten better at "landing" the cartwheels and continues doing them wherever she can find room.  She also practices handstands on every wall surface of our home and we hope to nail that move (without the support of our dirty, footprinted walls) soon as well!

And to round out the milestones, she learned to ride her bike without training wheels!

She was determined to get those training wheels off yesterday, so Jeff and her spent an hour going all over our culdesac.  Their efforts totally paid off and now she's off!

We are so proud of our big girl!!!

FPT

Why smile for the camera (and the 15 adults urging you to say "cheese") when you can pretend sleep?