Trying to make this positive

So I'm going to do my very very best to make this post as positive as I can! I have a feeling Ava's 3's are going to be a bit more challenging than anything we've encountered so far. Ava is doing pretty amazing. She does well with the potty 95% of the time! She uses the potty all day long and we just put her in a pull up at night, unless she decides to take it off at night then we have accidents. At school Ava is doing well. She participates, she really likes her friends. We can drive by her school on a weekend now and she says "Am I going to school today?" Instead of "I don't want to go to school!!!" Ava's love for clothes has come out in the past few weeks. The other night she tried on most of her clothes in her dirty laundry basket. She likes dresses these days. She will put on the clothes that she picks out. We've had some interesting outfits but she's actually been pretty good about matching. Some of her new favorite words and phrases are: Pinky (imaginary friend or toy) Actually "You are so beautiful" "I love you so much" One of my all time favorite quotes from this past week: Mommy: "Ava, mommy really wants to take a shower." Ava: "No" Mommy: "Please let mommy take a shower?" Ava: "FINE THEN" *waving her hands at the shower* Yup...teenage years are going to be a blast. But I'm trying to stay postive. Another favorite is when I put Ava to bed, if I lean down and tuck her in and kiss her she rubs her hand on my cheek and says "Mommy, you are so beautiful". Or I was laying down on the floor and she was playing hair dresser (yup, hair dresser and coffee maker are her specialties) and she said "Mommy, you have such beautiful hair". If I ever need a positive boost, I just let her do my hair or hug her goodnight. :) Her best friend: Addison (Addison feels the same way, Addison told me so yesterday). Favorite book: Hard to say right now because Miss Ava had a birthday party and all of the presents were books! YAY!!!!!! I think the Hello Kitty puzzle book tops it right now, but the Leap Frog Tag it reader book comes in at the top, Pinkiclious, Fancy Nancy, the princess and Disney books. They are all up there. She loves reading so much. I find no less than 10 books in her bed. Sometimes ALL of the books are in her bed (close to 50, at least the books in her room). Ava has a very vivid imagination, she loves playing coffee shop or Tea party. She isn't really into dolls all that much, books, painting, stickers, toe nails. We still haven't gotten her a present this year, maybe we will do a dress up box. That might be fun. She loves to read. She rather read, play coffee shop or hair dresser than sit down and play with toys. We've gone outside a few times in the backyard, we have to run from snakes, and allogators. We rush away from bee's and fly's. We turn on the hose and water the dirt, and pretend its raining when its not. Ava loves pizza. Pizza day at school last week, she ate three slices. I'm pretty sure we had pizza almost everyday last week. She still loves fruit, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries. I mentioned above, Ava had her 3rd birthday. It was a Tea Party! So much fun. Mostly 2-4 year olds. I guess we didn't really have a tea party. I guess you can't expect that much out of 2-4 year olds, but it was a lot of fun. The kids made noodle necklaces, my friend did the food and the noodle craft. I had someone come and take pictures since I knew I'd be out of sorts to do that on Ava's birthday. Hopefully next year, I can get myself more together and I'll be able to do that. But it was fun. Ava got to blow out 3 candles. We've been practicing for about 2 months now. She knew what to do. Ava is a lot of fun. She totally has her moments though...like yesterday when she flooded my friends bathroom. Fun times. But she has lots of good moments.

So much good stuff!

Well we are at it again! Three weeks before Ava turned 1, she started sleeping through the night. Two weeks before Ava turned 2, she got rid of the pacifier. This year, two weeks before Ava turns 3 she is potty trained and learned how to ride a bike with training wheels!! We are some happy parents over here! Ava has really broken out this summer. In the pool she tries to take off swimming on her own, she is loud and wants to be heard, she dances, she always asks if we are going to dance class or if we are going to go swimming. I'm still undecided if Ava should do gymnastics, swim lessons or dance classes. Ava is one active little thing. She is crazy! She runs all over the place, if she isn't bouncing, she is dancing, if she isn't dancing she is singing. If she isn't singing, she is reciting poetry. If she isn't reciting poetry she is reading books and if she isn't reading books she is playing with dolls or lining up rocks, cereal, crackers or fruit. Yup, 3 is going to be fun. And maybe my question shouldn't be what class should I put Ava in, but rather, what times do all the classes start and can we fit them all in? Ava has so much energy! I'm hoping we can channel all this extra energy. Ava has been doing really well. She is doing better at school. She is eating breakfast, she is now eating her lunch. Still having trouble with dinner, but breakfast and lunch are good! Last week we had a lot of fun. Ava was invited over to swim with Addison. The girls had a blast! Ava and Addison were flirting with the boys. Addison, Ava and their friend Avany got to attend the first Music in the park at Lazy 5 this summer. The girls had a blast running all over the park.