Another Birthday Song!

Ava's 2nd First Birthday Party!

We had Ava's second party today and it was great! I haven't been able to get the pix on the computer yet, but I will try to get them up soon. She had so much fun destroying her cake and opening her presents. We thought we were going to lose her to a nap about an hour in, but she managed to stay with us until the last guests left! I just can't believe she is ONE! It just doesn't seem possible! My BABY is ONE! Now I'm off to help the Easter Bunny!

Scrapbooking Layouts!

I finally got a little chunk of time to work on some scrapbooking! I feel so behind!

Zach neglect!

In looking at the blog it seems as if I only have one child! With all of Ava's celebrations he has not had much blog time! Here are a couple of cute pix that I took while practicing in manual mode on the camera. I also have some pix from MyGym the other day that are still on the camera! Zach is also doing great! He just spent a weekend with Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa while us girls were in NH. They went to JumpZone and the Living Desert! He barely even missed me. Some days he didn't even want to talk to me because he was too busy having fun!

Happy First Birthday, Ava My Darling!

Today is Ava's first (second really) birthday! She is one year old! One year ago at this time I was at the hospital getting ready to have her. In about 2 hours from now she will officially be one year old! Since it is her special day I think I will do an "Ava inventory" to write about all of the wonderful things she is doing now! To start, she is FINALLY crawling in the "traditional" manner. She is up on all fours and going all over the place. She started a few weeks back, but this last week she has really taken off. It seems she found her self during our trip to NH. She is also pulling up, still a little unsteadily, but she is getting there. That is a good sign for the neuro visit next week. This week has been eventful in that she has thrown up twice. Once on me on the plane coming home and once in her bed at daycare. The girl was covered! Back to the good stuff. Ava loves to stand and walk with fingers. She'll go 5-10 steps before wanting to stop. She is talking up a storm! She says, mama, dada, papa, nana, bella, baba, baby (the same word as baba but used in context), numnum (for food), tickle tickle, more, up (pup)and she signs all done, more, milk (drink), please. There may be more, but that's all I can think of right now. She loves to feed herself, but just loves food in general really. We will find out exactly how much she weighs at her one year appointment on Tuesday. I think between 22-23 lbs. She is turned around in her carseat and loving it! She is even trying to blow her nose! I guess that comes with lots of sinus/allergy issues. She's learning young! One of her all time favorite pasttimes (aside from giving kisses) is singing and dancing! Overall she is doing great and she continues to amaze us every day!

Nannie's Pictures

Birthday Girl!



Nannie and Ava



Papa and Ava

The Birthday Song!

I wasn't sure how Ava was going to react! We sang Happy Birthday to her yesterday and she loved it! She even clapped at the end and made everyone laugh!

Ava's first 1st Birthday Party!

We had Ava's first of her first birthday parties today! We celebrated with our NH family and friends and it was wonderful! We are still in NH so I have not uploaded pictures, but there are a lot of them!

Technical Difficulties!

This week has been insane for me with technology. I'm almost afraid to touch anything with wires because I can destroy it with the simple graze of a finger! My desktop decided to start crawling and because dear old hubby wouldn't do anything to fix it I just took the initiative to get it done. While I was doing that I hooked up my laptop to the internet. Well, wouldn't you know that I would pick then to get a virus. My "anti-virus" can't even protect against me. My laptop is now in the infermery on life support and I don't know if it's going to make it. My facebook account was hacked and similar email videos went out to all of my friends. I can't beileve I was stupid enough to open the video. The scary thing is it came from a friend from high school so I thought it would be funny to see what it was. One moment of not thinking is all it takes! I am usually so careful. Now I am home sick with a sinus infection. I went to the doctors yesterday and he gave me 3 different scripts to try to relieve my allergies/sinus issues. I loved being pregnant, these things hardly bothered me at all. Now I can't breath either. I have to go get a pulmonary workup to see exactly why I can't breath. The "therapy" I've been on for the last 2 months made pretty much no difference. I'm just a mess! I plan to get pictures up at some point, but I wanted to give an update. I'm usually much better at blogging. Ava and I will be in NH this weekend so I probably won't be doing much then either. I can't believe my baby is almost 1!

Crawling, Tickle Tickle and Uh-Oh!

Ava is finally getting up on all fours and moving around a bit! She is so funny! She goes from crawling to sitting and then claps for herself because she is so proud :) We clap too so she loves it! She is also saying tickle, tickle when we tickle her and dropping things just so that she can say uh-oh! We go to NH next week for her first birthday party and I can't wait for everyone to see her. It's been way to long. I think this is the longest I have ever been away from home.