New words and phrases

Ava is becoming such a big girl!

She says so much stuff!
Some of her new phrases are:
"I don't want it"
"I want it"

Some words are:
"Baggins" = blanket
"Hungry" (she always signed before)
"Apple" - applied to everything fruit like
"Dragonfly"
"Heli" for helicopter
"Stroller"

She is funny. We ask her to pose for the camera and she says "Cheese" but doesn't look at the camera.

Ava has learned a new trick. She now takes off her diaper when she is put in her crib. This morning Phil walked in to find her pant less and to say the least...what was supposed to be in the diaper was in her crib (thank goodness it was lemonade not chocolate!)
Same went for the nap.
So tonight I put a strip of duct tape over the tabs. Hopefully she won't be able to wiggle out of her diaper tonight.
I'll ask at school tomorrow what the next step is from here. If they are willing to work with her, then I will too but I want everyone on the same page. This came WAY too soon!


We had a very very quite Labor Day weekend. We spent the entire weekend at home! It was so nice! Well actually, we were sort of forced to. Ava acted up every time we went out. We came home and actually we had a pretty good weekend. We saw a couple of movies, Ava played with her toys, we took pictures outside, we played on the computer. We listened to Phil play guitar. Ava colored, and played with her doll, we had hide and seek contests. We went on a couple of walks. It was nice.

We will probably be staying at home more (unless we travel) because Ava seems to be content in her home. We also enjoyed family time and we, together as a family, cleaned the house today! I had the kitchen, Phil had Ava's playroom and picked up clothes and Ava did an excellent job putting her toys away in the appropriate buckets! We had a good day.