3rd day of Halloween

Church outfit on Halloween :)

Happy Halloween everyone!!

2nd day of Halloween

I borrowed my mother in laws camera to take some photos of Ava in her costume and some other outfits obviously :)

1st day of Halloween

We are celebrating all weekend :) Love this little lady bug!

Ava's 1st Snow

Can't believe it snowed before Halloween... Great. Ava looked cute in the snow and just stared at it. Even smiled a bit, but wouldn't look at the camera. Silly girl.

She stands...

in the tub! What! Ava pulled herself up to a standing position for the very first time yesterday. And of course its in a very weird place, the bath tub. Not any bath tub the fake bath tub that is in the shower because the faucet is broken in the real one! Great Ava lol

I love babies

Ava and Marley :) Marley is 10 days older than Ava and they are such cute little friends. They play really well together! They both growl and like to chew on each other. Today we caught Ava chewing on Marley's toes (yes Ava loves feet) and Marley trying to eat Ava's bow!

Swinging

Loved our AZ trip

This is the first time in years that I have basically gotten everything on my vacation list accomplished. Took 2 weeks and I still wish i had been able to see more friends and more often! Here are some pics from our trip!

Ava and Chloe! 7 months old now and love playing together :)

4 generations of Kemptons

Playing at Shawn's house

Petting a buffalo at Great Aunt Susan's house

Holding hands with Chloe at the ribbon store

Hanging out with Grandpa Lane

Playing with Uncle Brett

Grandma stuck Ava in a basket of stuffed animals

Playing with the table her Grandpa gave her

Cute little peanut butter and jelly sandwhich

Ava loves her Grandma!

Happy Halloween!!!

7 Months

This girl is so close to crawling on all fours! She can do the army crawl but she will be on the move much faster soon. She no longer hates baby food and will eat ANYTHING you give her! Love that she is such a good eater. Don't love the insane diapers that comes with it!

Girls love Clothes :)

I am a bit (or a lot) obsessed with clothes. Since nothing I can wear right now is cute, I mostly just love Ava's clothes! I have made this skirt last longer than any other clothing item of Ava's! She wore it for the first time at 1 month old and now at 7 months old! Ava wears 12 and 18 month clothes and this skirt is 3-6 month size, but I was determined for her to wear it lots. She has worn it more than 2x so that's lots in Ava's world. And yes thats the same onesie, just in 3m and 12m size.... Anyway we will retire my favorite Ava skirt now. I've noticed that all my favorite Ava clothes are black and white or red.

Repeat

Ok we are getting into repeat outfits! A ton of Ava's tiny 3 and 6 month clothes went on clearance at Carters so I bought up a bunch of them in 18 and 24 month size. Can't believe we are already getting into the repeats this quick. Anyway I love them and hoping she can wear them more than the first sets!

And yes I'm a freak and I love comparison photos... All the time. Get used to it :)

1 month old - 3 month size7 months old - 18 month size

Sleep

I think I need to get rid of my facebook account, stop talking to other people and stay home... maybe then I won't have to hear about other people's babies that sleep like perfect angels.

Seriously? I am starting to think its a conspiracy, that no one's babies really sleep 10-12 hours a night let alone more than 4 hours in a row?! So if you say your baby does.... I don't believe you :)

Sorry to complain.

AZ trip so far

We left on Tuesday for our 2 week+ trip to AZ. I am so thankful for my sister in law Lisa for letting me stay at her place on Tuesday in Vegas. There is no way I could have done the entire 12 hour drive in one day. On Tuesday morning Ava was up early so we just left at 5:30 and drove in the dark for an hour and a half. As soon as it started getting light out it poured rain till we got to St George. It took us over 7 hours to do our normally 5 1/2 hour drive.

Wednesday we left at 6 for AZ and thankfully the weather was great and we made it in 5 1/2 hours. Ava does really great the first 3 hours in the car and then she just doesn't want to sleep anymore. The last hour of each day was the hardest. I hate having her cry but when I know she is fed, clean and not really tired, there's nothing that will help other than getting the trip over with.

Its been so nice to be here and hang out with my family. Ava is enjoying seeing everyone and playing all the time. She is starting to go to bed earlier which is nice, I just hope I can get her to stop waking up at 2 and 5.

Big Girl Car Seat

After what feels like months of research, we finally picked out Ava's big girl car seat. I wanted a car seat that I could keep Ava rear facing in as long as possible. And since Ava is off the charts for height I went with this Radian car seat because it has the tallest rear facing capabilities and overall can be used till she is 53 inches forward facing :)

By law babies must be rear facing until they are at least 1 AND 20 pounds. Now the American Pediatrics Association wants to change this law to be till they are 2 years old at least. It always makes me sad to see kids who are front facing earlier than their first birthday. Its 5x safer for a child to be rear facing.

The first 2 things people always say to me when I bring up rear facing "but they are happier front facing" and "what about their legs"

I don't know about the happier part... hopefully if she only ever knows what its like to be rear facing she won't mind it until we turn her. And the legs thing makes me laugh. Kids sometimes stay rear facing till 4 or 5 and they just find places to fold or hang their legs. No big deal if you ask me.

Ok now that you probably think I am a crazy person (remember for a second, I was a Public Health Education major :) Here is Ava's new Radian 80 XTSL car seat!

How am I ever sad

when this is the face I get to look at every day!