Tuesday, March 17, 2009


Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Huff kiddos!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Avery - 9 months of cuteness


Avery turned 9 months old last Thursday. What an adorable baby...even if we say so ourselves. If you look really close you can see her first tooth peeking out...bottom left. She can officially crawl and can pull herself up on just about anything. (The fireplace is the perfect height much to mommy and daddy's chagrin.) She can say "mama" and clap her hands when you sing patty-cake. She stills loves her food but now she wants "grown-up" food like pasta, veggie puffs and french fries:) Mommy caught her chewing on some cat food this morning...YUM! She's getting pretty good at using a sippee cup and she's a hefty 21 pounds already. Her laugh is a riot (big 'ol belly laugh) and she smiles ALL the time. Ken and Valerie are really getting into entertaining her and she's now taking a bath with them which they get a kick out of. We're still working on getting her into her own room and we ordered her new furniture last weekend...it will be sad when she moves upstairs and obviously Mommy has prolonged the process, but it's time:( We love our baby Averina!

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Houston Zoo

February 27, 2009
Meet Miles the baby Masai giraffe at the Houston Zoo. Miles was born on January 30th (which makes him 28 days old!) and he's currently 6'5'' and 155 lbs of pure cuteness! He's one of the most precious creatures Mommy has ever seen (I'm a little obsessed about him...check out www.houstonzoo.org/babygiraffe if you're interested in Mr. Adorable) Mommy is also a little partial to his name...for those in "the know";) We are all looking forward to visiting Miles and watching him grow which apparently giraffes do pretty quickly.
It was Avery's first time to the zoo and she had a blast. She's very observant and when we would put her in front of an exhibit you could see her look at the animals in amazement. Ken's favorite was the lion (that's him in the background being lazy ...like cats sometimes are:). The lion's name is Jonathan , but Ken and Val call him Alex...as in Alex the lion from the movie Madagascar. Speaking of Madagascar... we found out that there are REALLY animals called fossa and over 50% of there diet consists of lemurs! Ha Ha!


Valerie's favorite was the meerkats. They are so cute and interesting. This picture is hilarious because you can't see the glass separating them!


The Houston Zoo is constantly improving and expanding (as much as they can). It it one of our favorite family outings. We usually ride the Hermann Park train , but this trip we missed it. They closed just before we got to it, but we are looking forward to our next visit when the new train depot will hopefully be finished.