Ava is SO much fun. Her speech is amazing and she communicates so well with what she wants or needs. She spends most of her days playing with her little dolls, and each group must stay together! She loves to sort things and takes a lot of pride in the fact that she knows which things go together. She is little miss independent and although I know some moms struggle with independent children, I love it. It may take longer to do pretty much anything but its great that she wants to do things herself and learn.
The other day she sat eating cereal for lunch (her favorite food) and she ate for an hour and a half! She definately didn't get my families "fast" eating genes. She takes her time and thats fine :) I just let her do her thing. She's been a picky eater lately so we just feed her what she likes which pretty much consists of the following: honey nut cheerios, peanut butter and honey sandwiches, grated cheddar cheese, bananas, and animal crackers. Milk is still her FAVORITE drink. She goes through 2+ gallons a week (also didn't get that gene from me!).
She has learned that if she "drops dead" while we are trying to get her to go somewhere that it will take about 4x as long to get there. Going down for a nap, up the stairs, in a direction at the store she doesn't want to go... she just goes limp! And I can tell you 35 pounds of toddler dead weight is a lot! Thankfully she doesn't scream or throw tantrums... she has silent ways of telling us she doesn't like what we are doing. But distraction always wins and we can convince her to do what we need to do :)
Her latest thing we are working on is the fact that she is CONVINCED that Dan's name is "AVA" She thinks they are both named Ava. He will walk into a room and say "Hi Ava" or "you found my Ava!" We are trying to get her to call him Dad again :)
She is a riot and repeats everything. She talks constantly and loves to give kisses and hugs all day long. She asks me "are you alright momma" a lot and likes to hold my hand! She is such a sweet girl. I cannot believe she will be 2 1/2 in September! It simply blows my mind! Also in September we are starting her in Dance at the dance studio near our house :) I'm so excited!
Physically she has all her baby teeth except 2 of her 2 year molars (top) and 1 canine on the bottom is missing. She's about 35 pounds and 38 1/2-39 inches tall. She wears 3/4 in clothes and size 8 shoes.
OH and little miss has developed my love for car seat safety! She buckles her seat belt every time we get in the car (and then we tighten it) as she says "seatbelt! So we can be safe!" thanks dora for teaching Ava about car seat safety! We still have her rear facing and although its not always a piece of cake, I'm trying to keep her that way till she's too tall for the seat.
Oh and if anyone has any suggestions on how to keep a 28 month old from giving up their nap... let me know! I know she still needs one since she gets tired by 5:30 if she doesn't' get one and falls asleep in the car but she's been fighting naps and playing in her room instead.
