All About Ava

Ava is nothing short of AMAZING. I'm sure I'm bias but she lights up our life. Literally. We love her more than words. She is smart. I hope, that in the long run she doesn't have trouble learning. Sometimes she gets things confused, but she is only 2 years and some change. She can count to 20. She can count backwards from 5. 5,4,3,2,1. She can sing several songs: Bringing home a baby bumble bee Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Wheels on the Bus Itsy Bitsy Spider A,B,C's The Good morning song- a song they sing when they get to their classroom She knows several others but I can't think of them at the top of my head. She loves to dance. She learned how to "skip" last week. Her skipping is more like galloping. She LOVES books. She rather sit down with a book than play with toys. Although she has a weird obesession with her toys. She packs them all up in purses and bags and tries to see how many bags she can carry. Her favorite books this week are: Goodnight Moon Curious George goes to the zoo Because of her skin "condition" she takes a bath daily. We've learned to curly her hair. Its the only way we don't end up fighting at the top of our lungs at each other. Ava likes to wear dresses. Ava is mostly potty trained. I say mostly because for some reason she has reverted back to NOT telling us when she has to go to the bathroom. She had an accident on the floor at home this week. Last week she had an accident in her pants in public. We ended up throwing away her pants and underwear. It was horrible. Usually its only the BM we have an issue with. The accident this week involved pee. Then last night she took the liberty of taking off her dirty diaper, put it on the floor, tried to clean herself went back to bed and had two more accidents in bed. I kind of wanted to rip my hair out only because I thought the TWO mattress protectant covers were water proof, but they weren't. Disappointed in myself for not knowing that earlier. She is truly a blessing. This weekend we've had fun, mostly hanging out at home. Today we had fun, we took a drive, then went to the store, then we hung out at home for a bit, took a long long walk, and off to bed for a nap. This afternoon was a lot of fun. Phil painted her toe nails, we went on anotehr walk. She tried on her dress up shoes and walked all over the house. She played tea party, she colored and played with legos. The only thing we are really having a problem with is her eating. She won't eat meals. She relies on pedisure/ensure and then thinks we will give her fruit snacks, cakes, cupcakes for the rest of the day. Not happening. We gave in with the fruit snacks. She only thinks she can have cake now because she has been deemed egg free (or able to have eggs) and we've been to birthday parties every weekend for the last several weekends. We are pretty good about not getting her candy. She is doing pretty good.