Ava took her 1st steps while we were visiting my mom in AZ 5 weeks ago! Now 5 weeks later she has gone from first steps to finally walking part time :) Still favorite mode of transportation is crawling but dang 2 days ago she walked 5 steps for the first time and that was the most she had ever done. Now its just no big thing for her!
We have been joking for a while that she would just up and start walking as soon as Dan went out of town to the Indy 500... while Dan was on the plane, Ava just started walking! So at 14 1/2 months we have a little walker :)
Here's the video :)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
I want 10 Ava's!
This may be one of those famous quotes that goes down in the history of our family as hilarious (well others in our family find them hilarious)! Dan only has 1 famous quote which will forever be "I'm married, I have no problems" ~ said the day after our wedding and very quickly regretted I'm sure.
2nd famous quote in our family "I just want her awake and screaming" ~ said by me the night before Ava was born. I still stand by that one!!! I was a very nervous pregnant lady who often feared the worse and nothing brought me greater happiness than the realization that soon I would have Ava and I'd get to hear her and know all was well with the world. The second I heard her first noise was like the weight of 10 million pounds and 9 months of stress being lifted off of my shoulders and into my arms.
Lastly (and I say this one all of the time) "I want 10 Ava's" I hope and pray I can stand by this one the rest of my life as well... those teen years will probably be tough, maybe I'll only want 5 but still. She makes me so so so happy! She exudes so much love and joy I can only imagine how wonderful it would be to have 10 little Ava's to love. I will never know what its like to actually have 10 of her but I guess that's what makes the 1 so special!
2nd famous quote in our family "I just want her awake and screaming" ~ said by me the night before Ava was born. I still stand by that one!!! I was a very nervous pregnant lady who often feared the worse and nothing brought me greater happiness than the realization that soon I would have Ava and I'd get to hear her and know all was well with the world. The second I heard her first noise was like the weight of 10 million pounds and 9 months of stress being lifted off of my shoulders and into my arms.
Lastly (and I say this one all of the time) "I want 10 Ava's" I hope and pray I can stand by this one the rest of my life as well... those teen years will probably be tough, maybe I'll only want 5 but still. She makes me so so so happy! She exudes so much love and joy I can only imagine how wonderful it would be to have 10 little Ava's to love. I will never know what its like to actually have 10 of her but I guess that's what makes the 1 so special!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
14 Months Old
Ava was 14 months on Sunday. She started taking steps the day before Easter. Everyone said she would be taking 6-8 steps within a week of her first steps.... nope! It took her 3 more weeks to work up to 3 steps in a row. She now takes a couple of steps each day trying to get from one piece of furniture to the next. Its very cute :)
She is starting to say a few more things. Number 1 word is "dada" after that she loves to say "hi" and "num num" and every so often we can get her to say "mama" and "wow". The cutest thing is when she 'pretends' to eat and says num num! She knows 3 signs now. "more" "all done" and "eat" It is so adorable when she signs! I want to teach her more.
Ava is getting so big. She is wearing 24 month and 2T clothes. Seriously how can she be this big? I haven't been able to get good measurements of her weight or height. I think she is 33 inches tall but she is wiggly! Lol.
Ava got her 3rd tooth yesterday! She's catching up in the tooth department! She got her first tooth April 1st but it took nearly 6 weeks to get her second and then 6 days after that to get her 3rd :)
She is so much fun and I am excited (no matter what people tell me) for her to start walking full time!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thank you Ava
My first Mother's Day:
My Second Mother's Day: 
Today should be a day to celebrate my little Ava for making me a Mom. It has been exactly 2 years since we decided we wanted to start trying for a baby. I remember coming home from church on Mother's Day crying and devastated that I had been recently told that I A) shouldn't get pregnant and B) probably couldn't get pregnant. Within the week after mother's day we decided that we weren't going to go along with what the doctors were telling us and that was the best decision of our lives! I pray for the day that we will be able to get pregnant again and although its not as 'easy' as it was last time I know our next child will be worth the wait.
My Second Mother's Day: 
Today should be a day to celebrate my little Ava for making me a Mom. It has been exactly 2 years since we decided we wanted to start trying for a baby. I remember coming home from church on Mother's Day crying and devastated that I had been recently told that I A) shouldn't get pregnant and B) probably couldn't get pregnant. Within the week after mother's day we decided that we weren't going to go along with what the doctors were telling us and that was the best decision of our lives! I pray for the day that we will be able to get pregnant again and although its not as 'easy' as it was last time I know our next child will be worth the wait.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Luckiest
I find it hard to put into words how much I love Ava. Every time I listen to the song "the luckiest" by Ben Folds, my heart gets full because that's how I feel about Ava (even though technically I know he didn't write that about his child).
I feel like I have made so many many mistakes in my life and somehow everything I've done has brought me to this moment. This moment where I'm a mom and Ava is my everything. I am the luckiest. I'm thankful for every mistake, every tear, every hardship I've had to face. Everything I've had to go through growing up has shaped me into a better person, for her.
This Mother's day I'm so thankful for my mom and for my future little mommy, Ava. I know she came first in our family for a reason. She loves other children and she already acts like a little mom at 1. I can't wait till she's a big sister.
I feel like I have made so many many mistakes in my life and somehow everything I've done has brought me to this moment. This moment where I'm a mom and Ava is my everything. I am the luckiest. I'm thankful for every mistake, every tear, every hardship I've had to face. Everything I've had to go through growing up has shaped me into a better person, for her.
This Mother's day I'm so thankful for my mom and for my future little mommy, Ava. I know she came first in our family for a reason. She loves other children and she already acts like a little mom at 1. I can't wait till she's a big sister.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Ava's 1st Steps!
Ava took her very first steps yesterday! 2 to be exact! I always thought kids walked by 1... nope not Ava. I then found out its totally normal for them not to walk till even as much as 18 months... OH so not okay. Ava weighs about 28 pounds and it really really hurts my back to carry her around all the time.
Ava is pretty timid about standing on her own. She has only been doing it for a little while. She will let go of things and stand there for a minute or so, maybe. Yesterday we gave her Grandma's phone to play with and while she was playing with it and standing there she took 2 steps towards me! I started screaming I was so excited, and of course my mom started crying!
The day before Ava was sitting on the floor playing with a toy carrot. She started picking pretend pieces of off it and eating them while saying "yumm" both my mom and I started crying on that one. I could not believe she was old enough to pretend like that! It was so cute.
Speaking of being around my mom, we made a quick impromptu trip to see family here in AZ. I was having a hard time thinking that it would have been 5 months between visits if we waited till the end of May so I couldn't do it. I had to come for Easter.
Ava has been having so much fun here in AZ. She has a lot more room to play and lots of people to see! She went swimming in a baby pool for the first time and LOVED it. We will have to do that more when it warms up in Utah. She also went to the Phoenix Zoo for the first time! Thanks Aunt Kate and Uncle Kirk :)
I think we will be staying another week here, so we look forward to seeing people and 'enjoying' the heat. I will say, I have become accustom to Utah weather and AZ is SOOO hot to me now!
Ava is pretty timid about standing on her own. She has only been doing it for a little while. She will let go of things and stand there for a minute or so, maybe. Yesterday we gave her Grandma's phone to play with and while she was playing with it and standing there she took 2 steps towards me! I started screaming I was so excited, and of course my mom started crying!
The day before Ava was sitting on the floor playing with a toy carrot. She started picking pretend pieces of off it and eating them while saying "yumm" both my mom and I started crying on that one. I could not believe she was old enough to pretend like that! It was so cute.
Speaking of being around my mom, we made a quick impromptu trip to see family here in AZ. I was having a hard time thinking that it would have been 5 months between visits if we waited till the end of May so I couldn't do it. I had to come for Easter.
Ava has been having so much fun here in AZ. She has a lot more room to play and lots of people to see! She went swimming in a baby pool for the first time and LOVED it. We will have to do that more when it warms up in Utah. She also went to the Phoenix Zoo for the first time! Thanks Aunt Kate and Uncle Kirk :)
I think we will be staying another week here, so we look forward to seeing people and 'enjoying' the heat. I will say, I have become accustom to Utah weather and AZ is SOOO hot to me now!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
13 Months
Ava's 13 months old now! Dang time goes way too fast. Still no walking but she is standing on her own more and more often. She will let go of things and wave or clap or play "so big" and then go back to holding onto whatever piece of furniture it is.
She is playing more games now, she's had 'patty cake' down to a science for a while but now if you ask her how big she is she will throw her arms up and we say "so big" and she will also do "popcorn popping" and if you ask her to do "popcorn" she will pop with her hands. Its so cute!
She still doesn't say any words other than make noises like "mama" and "dada" but she's got time. I'm trying to get her to say "ba" lately, she used to say it more but now I'm trying to get her to say it for "ball" She has this little kick ball she loves, she throws it or kicks it or rolls it all around. Today we all sat on the floor rolling it to each other :) she loves it!
Ava loves books. She will sit and 'read' forever. Its one of her favorite activities. She also adores other kids. Whenever other kids are around she has to be turned around looking at what they are doing and starts making all her happy noises. It sounds like she is trying to get there attention.
Ava still sleeps really well! 6 months now she has been a SOLID sleeper and I am so thankful for it. I can even go into her room at night (while she is in there asleep) turn on the light, put laundry away, clean up and she doesn't wake up. One night this week she sat up but kept her eyes closed so I just had to go over and lay her back down and she just stayed asleep! Every now and again I get her out of her crib in the middle of the night to cuddle her and rock her in the rocking chair. If I stop rocking she starts pushing against my legs to tell me she wants me to keep going. I love it. She won't cuddle with me or sleep in our bed so when she lets me rock her in the middle of the night makes me really happy.
We love our little Ava. She won't stay little for too much longer, she'll be 21 before I know it!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
My babies 1st tooth
Ava finally got her first tooth! She's been teething for a couple weeks now. The doctor pointed out that she was getting this tooth when we went to her 1 year check up on the 16th. It finally cut through today. It is so sharp! No wonder babies are tiny monsters when they are teething! I would be too!!
Anyway, I'm sad to see her little gummy smile go away, but excited that this tooth finally broke through and she can get a break (for a minute).
Anyway, I'm sad to see her little gummy smile go away, but excited that this tooth finally broke through and she can get a break (for a minute).
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A 1 year olds favorite things
Pushing buttons
looking at books
dogs
bathes
patty cake
shopping
pianos
bubbles
putting things in boxes
and dumping them out again
.... pushing things
looking at books
dogs
bathes
patty cake
shopping
pianos
bubbles
putting things in boxes
and dumping them out again
.... pushing things
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