4 months

I know! The month has totally passed us by! It has been a crazy crazy month!

I finally figured out how to get to work on time so our week goes something like this:
Get up at 5:30am feed Ava, dress Ava, mommy showers, then gets ready and we head off to Grandma's house. Drop Ava off at Grandma's house then off to work for mommy. Mommy gets to work pretty close to 8am. Then works all day, picks Ava up around 5:45 or 6pm (depending on traffic) feed Ava at Grandma's house then head home. Get home around 6:30pm. Phil has been great he usually has dinner ready when we get home. Then I feed Ava again and by 8pm Ava is in bed. Our day is short and long and all that jazz.

Ava has done lots of really awesome things this month! She has gotten so much better! She smiles most of the time, she sits up pretty well in her bumbo seat, she has amazing head control, she rolls over, she has a piercing cry when she does cry (mostly if she's really tired or if she's hungry), grabs toys, plays with toys when they dangle in front of her. She knows her name, she is beginning to understand that I'm mommy and that daddy is daddy. And on Friday when she turned four months she began to giggle. She thought it was funny when I blew on her stomach and was pretending to eat her feet. She also loves to talk. She talks all the time. She has a schedule which has been great. Ava is so amazing!

This month her friend Alison came over. We had fun weighing the girls on Phil's shipping scale. According to Phil's scale Alison weighed 15,95 lbs and Ava weighed in at 10.9lbs. Both girls are a week a part in age. It was fun to watch them play together. Ava rolled all over the place and Alison was attempting to sit up by herself. Ava enjoyed having Alison over.

I have gotten over most of my fear of the cats being near Ava. So I put a blanket on the ground and let Ava roll around on it. I'm still a little weary of cat hair and I don't like the cats on the blanket for that reason but...I'm trying hard. We are so in love with our baby girl. She is amazing. We love her more and more each day.

The day before Thanksgiving we had our Thanksgiving dinner with Phil's brother Steve and his family. Ava was able to see her cousins Luka and Juno. She had fun.

Thanksgiving we spent the entire day together as a family. We drove out on Pyramid Hwy and we saw the Moonrocks. We were gone several hours. Ava slept the entire time. The rest of the day we pretty much spent at home as a family.

The day after Thanksgiving we set up our Christmas tree. Ava loves the lights.
Ava is fun and amazing. We could not have asked for a better child. She is great.

3 months!

It has been a few weeks since I've last posted.

Our life has been full of fun things lately! On October 22 my Grandmother and Uncle came to town for my mom's birthday and to spend a little time with Ava! It was great to see them both!

During the week Phil and I worked really hard to get Ava's room painted and ready for the company we were going to have. We picked out some really great colors for Ava's room and while Phil was away on a dirt bike ride with his friend I decided to go ahead and paint on the walls in Ava's room. And boy was it pink! It was super pink!

On October 30th we had a Pampered Chef Party. Lot of people showed up and Ava had three little friends to play with. Ava's cousin Juno came over to play, and Ava's friend Alison came over to play. My wonderful husband and his friend and my dad watched the babies while us girls got to view the Pampered Chef demonstration. It was really fun and wonderful of Phil to watch the kiddos!

My friend Monica came from San Francisco came to visit for the weekend. Phil's friend Nick also came down for the weekend. We had fun together at the Pampered Chef Party on Friday night. Then on Saturday we all slept in and went to breakfast. Then in the afternoon we thought it would be fitting to go up to Virginia City on Halloween. Our first stop was the Cemetery. We had a blast. We saw a couple getting married. It was interesting. Then we walked through the town. It was a lot of fun.

We had a lot of fun.

Ava has been wonderful! My parents watch her everyday while Phil and I are away at work. They do an amazing job with her. Several weeks ago Ava began rolling over. From there she has taken off to do amazing things! She found her feet and can now successfully pull off her socks. She can pull her legs under her while she is on her stomach getting ready for the crawling stage (which I hope won't happen for a few months!. She smiles, and coos and over the weekend Monica and I swore that we heard Ava say "hi" but maybe it was just wishful thinking. She likes her hands and now jams them in her mouth and makes loud sucking and smacking noises. She loves to fly through the air and she loves being held above our heads. She squeals with delight. She can sit for a second with out assistance. She can grab on to her stuffed monkey and she can grab blankets and pull them over her head. She pulls her nuk nuk (pacifier) out of her mouth.