Now 11 months old we are counting down the days until Ms. Ava Kai's birthday! I know I say this all the time but what a blessing she is! She is a wonderful little girl.
It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote an update. Last week Ava turned 11 months. My friend Beck, watches Ava a few days a week and started doing the two year old lessons with Ava, they started with "Bu Bu Bee" to get the B sound down. Ava can now point at things, we can ask her "where is the dog" and she will look around for the dog in addition to saying "dod dod" or "Daa Daa". On Thursday July 1st when I went to pick up Ava, I learned how to make Heavenly Balls (crushed up Oreo with cream cheese drizzled with melted chocolate chips) for the pot luck at work on Friday July 2nd. Beck also made a practice run of Ava's cake. She made two chocolate cakes with chocolate moose filling and some stuff that went over the top of the cake along with three colors of fondant. Beck made a ladybug cake!!
It was totally awesome! We are going to change up the colors a little but the cake was truly amazing! I took it with me to work on Friday to see if people like it, it was a huge hit!!! Along with the Heavenly Balls.
On Friday July 2nd, it was a very chaotic day! I had to be to work at 5:30 in the morning. I set 4 alarms, I slept through ALL 4 alarms!!! I was 45 minutes late! Good thing we didn't really have to do anything until 6:30am. I had to be to work to get the kids off on the buses for summer break. It was one of the most orderly send offs we've ever done!!! We had the students leave from the dorm. The pay at 6am went really smooth, at 6:30 the cafe opened. It ran flawlessly. In the gym, where the students left, the luggage was put in the right lines, the students didn't try to sneak liquor or drugs, they didn't cause problems. The buses left promptly and the students were out before 8:45!! It was amazing! Phil was wonderful. He took Ava to Beck's house. He got lucky, Ms Ava decided to sleep until 8:30am! They got to Beck's house around 9:30 or so and I picked Ava up around Noon. Phil did good!
She is funny and her little personality is popping out more and more each day.
On July 3rd we were able to participate in Kids 4 9's! We also had a garage sale! I sold some stuff, but was mostly there to take pictures for Kids 4 9's. What a wonderful opportunity that was!
Ava did really great! We were outside for a very very long time and she was such a trooper! Phil also left for his camping trip in the afternoon, so unfortunately I didn't get to see him much at all.
On July 4th Ava and I went to church in the morning. The music was awesome. We go to Summit Christian Church in Sparks. We sang American songs! It was super fun! Very patriotic! After church we went on a short shopping trip to Target. I got bar stools, which I've been wanting since we moved into our home! While Ava took a nap, I assembled the stools and also made Cheesecake Balls aka "Heavenly Balls". They are very yummy!
Around 5pm I went to pick up my dad, he was going to the BBQ at Beck's with me. We ended up taking two cars because my dad didn't want to see the fireworks afterwards but we went over to Beck's house and we had a wonderful super awesome BBQ. Billie, Steve, Luka, Juno, Vinny's parents, my dad, Vinny, Beck, Tasha, Thea, Zaya and myself and Ava were there. It was a blast. We all sat around. Then I sat down with Ava on the ground and Beck was sitting there too and Ava took her first three steps by herself!!! I'm so happy that I got to be a part of that. I've been really lucky and I've gotten to see a lot of her firsts. I'm really glad that I was there for the walking one. She hasn't done it since but we got it on video.
After the BBQ we went to see the fireworks. Ava loves fireworks. She sat in my lap and looked up at the fireworks the whole time. It was great! I hope she will sit still again like that next year!! I also took a zillion pictures of her this weekend! I have to get all my baby pictures in before she turns one!!!
It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote an update. Last week Ava turned 11 months. My friend Beck, watches Ava a few days a week and started doing the two year old lessons with Ava, they started with "Bu Bu Bee" to get the B sound down. Ava can now point at things, we can ask her "where is the dog" and she will look around for the dog in addition to saying "dod dod" or "Daa Daa". On Thursday July 1st when I went to pick up Ava, I learned how to make Heavenly Balls (crushed up Oreo with cream cheese drizzled with melted chocolate chips) for the pot luck at work on Friday July 2nd. Beck also made a practice run of Ava's cake. She made two chocolate cakes with chocolate moose filling and some stuff that went over the top of the cake along with three colors of fondant. Beck made a ladybug cake!! 
It was totally awesome! We are going to change up the colors a little but the cake was truly amazing! I took it with me to work on Friday to see if people like it, it was a huge hit!!! Along with the Heavenly Balls. 
On Friday July 2nd, it was a very chaotic day! I had to be to work at 5:30 in the morning. I set 4 alarms, I slept through ALL 4 alarms!!! I was 45 minutes late! Good thing we didn't really have to do anything until 6:30am. I had to be to work to get the kids off on the buses for summer break. It was one of the most orderly send offs we've ever done!!! We had the students leave from the dorm. The pay at 6am went really smooth, at 6:30 the cafe opened. It ran flawlessly. In the gym, where the students left, the luggage was put in the right lines, the students didn't try to sneak liquor or drugs, they didn't cause problems. The buses left promptly and the students were out before 8:45!! It was amazing! Phil was wonderful. He took Ava to Beck's house. He got lucky, Ms Ava decided to sleep until 8:30am! They got to Beck's house around 9:30 or so and I picked Ava up around Noon. Phil did good! 
She is funny and her little personality is popping out more and more each day. 
On July 3rd we were able to participate in Kids 4 9's! We also had a garage sale! I sold some stuff, but was mostly there to take pictures for Kids 4 9's. What a wonderful opportunity that was! 
Ava did really great! We were outside for a very very long time and she was such a trooper! Phil also left for his camping trip in the afternoon, so unfortunately I didn't get to see him much at all. 
On July 4th Ava and I went to church in the morning. The music was awesome. We go to Summit Christian Church in Sparks. We sang American songs! It was super fun! Very patriotic! After church we went on a short shopping trip to Target. I got bar stools, which I've been wanting since we moved into our home! While Ava took a nap, I assembled the stools and also made Cheesecake Balls aka "Heavenly Balls". They are very yummy! 
Around 5pm I went to pick up my dad, he was going to the BBQ at Beck's with me. We ended up taking two cars because my dad didn't want to see the fireworks afterwards but we went over to Beck's house and we had a wonderful super awesome BBQ. Billie, Steve, Luka, Juno, Vinny's parents, my dad, Vinny, Beck, Tasha, Thea, Zaya and myself and Ava were there. It was a blast. We all sat around. Then I sat down with Ava on the ground and Beck was sitting there too and Ava took her first three steps by herself!!! I'm so happy that I got to be a part of that. I've been really lucky and I've gotten to see a lot of her firsts. I'm really glad that I was there for the walking one. She hasn't done it since but we got it on video. 
After the BBQ we went to see the fireworks. Ava loves fireworks. She sat in my lap and looked up at the fireworks the whole time. It was great! I hope she will sit still again like that next year!! I also took a zillion pictures of her this weekend! I have to get all my baby pictures in before she turns one!!! 
I love it all. You are one busy mommy. Ava took her first steps!!! omg she is getting so big.
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