Sick Day

Everyone is sick here today! Ava hasn't been feeling well for a few days and then all of a sudden both Dan and I got really sick in the middle of the night. I hope Ava doesn't get a fever and that she doesn't have an ear infection but she has been acting like she has one and won't eat very much. Guess we will see tomorrow if we like her new Dr.

Hogle Zoo

We had so much fun taking Ava to the zoo! I think we enjoyed it more than her but she loved looking at everything with us :)

The right way to use a binky! (according to Ava)

5 Months

5 Months Old

Ava is 5 months old today and to keep my records going, she weighs 19 pounds today, is 28 inches long. She still has a 17 inch head. She is wearing 6-9 month clothes but we have already started pulling out 12 month clothes as well. And she is fitting nicely in size 3 diapers.

Ok now that I have gone through my usual stats. When is my child going to slow down!!! It only took Ava 2 months to gain the first 6 pounds and now 3 months to gain the next 6.

She is starting to eat solids but we are kinda going back and forth on starting them. If I only fed her carrots she would be happy but she can't just eat carrots forever.

She rolls everywhere, sits up and is starting to scoot herself forwards and backwards. I have a feeling she will be crawling soon!

I miss my PC

All I have right now is a really old Mac Powerbook that won't recognize my camera, which makes my life hard since I take so many pictures. Thank goodness I bought a 2nd SD card for my camera. But still, it has been hard not being able to send ppl photos right after we moved!

Hopefully after Dan's friend comes over tomorrow we will have a working desktop again, if not we are going to have to go buy a new computer... not what I want to do but I will in order to be able skype with my mom and upload my pictures!!!

Update

My baby girl is going to be 5 months on Sunday. I can't believe she is almost 1/2 a year old. How did that happen!? She is over 18 pounds now but I don't know exactly how much she weighs. She has been wearing size 2 diapers for a little too long but I was determined to make them work a little while longer because we had so many. They fit great around the middle but are finally getting way too short in back. That's the story of Ava though, long torso baby with a little middle. But today we start size 3 diapers :) Hopefully she can stay in this size for a little while longer than 1 or 2's cause we have a lot of size 3 diapers!

Yesterday we weighed her car seat (with her in it) on the scale and it is nearly 30 pounds!! OMG its sooo heavy to lug 30 pounds around. I am dreading getting a new car seat though with our car because it will be even harder to get her in and out with only 2 doors. Will we ever get a new car?? We need to start saving money so we can upgrade soon.

Since we moved

We only moved up here 2 weeks ago but a lot has happened. Mostly with Ava (of course)! Its amazing all the new things she has done since we moved. Here is the list of all of Ava's new things in no particular order because I can't remember when she did them exactly:

1. Sits up now (usually only lasts a minute or so).
2. Grabs her feet all of the time.
3. Weighs about 18 1/2+ pounds now.
4. Rolls over constantly. Lay her on her back and she is immediately turning to her belly.
5. Sounds like she is saying MaMa all of the time, she gargles too and doesn't growl as much as she used to.
   
6. Sleeps 7+ hours now in her crib, before we left she was still sleeping only 3 or 4 hours in a row.
   
7. Drinks 6+ ounces now instead of her usual 3 or 4 (must be what helped #6 happen).
8. Grabs at things a lot better now.
   
9. Loves carrots, went a lot better than when we gave her avocado at 4 months.
   
10. Misses her family in AZ (or well I have decided that she misses them)

I am still having a hard time with our move. A lot of things have changed and I miss my friends and family. I miss my mom so much. I miss seeing Ava play with my family. We have a lot less interaction with people here, probably because I don't know very many people.

We like our new ward, its extremely loud, there are about 1 billion babies, most of which seem to be younger than Ava. They must have had a ton of births between April and June! Not to mention there are quite a few pregnant ladies that still haven't had their babies.

I met a mom who's little girl is 2 months old and lives close to us and another mom who's daughter is 3 but she makes all of her daughters bows so we are going to get together and craft together, so that will be fun.