* Taking bike rides on the new 3.5 mile trail around Lake Lewisville, the trail is just a few blocks from our house. We borrowed a friends bike trailer and Ava sits back and looks at books while we ride. Her feet are, of course, propped up on the seat . . .
* I tried to help out my roses in the backyard by spraying on some fertilizer which turned out to be heavy duty weed killer. I think my roses may be finished. This is why "they" always tell you not to have unmarked bottles around.
*Tony pulled out the fencing for the dog run in the back yard that's been here since we moved in. Our yard looks twice as big now. Yay!
* I spend most of my day cleaning up puddles of milk and juice off the floor after the super-duper-special-absolutely-no-leaks-possible sippy cups leak and Ava finger paints in it.
* I discovered a newly opened Rita's Italian Ice (the first in Texas) and surprised Tony by taking him there. He was not surprised that I also took us on the wrong highway and got us lost en route. I do that often.
* Ava watched her first fireworks and pointed, laughed and clapped.
* Our friends Andres and Katie stopped by and stayed the night at our house. It sure was good to see them again.
*Ava has walked a few more steps on her own but for the most part refuses to no matter how or what we tempt her with. NEWS FLASH!!! Just as I was typing this I looked over, and there's Ava WALKING all on her own across the room with her hands straight up in the air above her head for balance. She walked about 10 steps and then sat down to pick up her stuffed dog. I clapped and said "YAY! Ava! Good girl!" and made a big deal over it and she pretended she couldn't hear or see me. She's always like that. She likes to try new things in private.
* We hung some photographs of us and Ava in her room above her bed which look really great but have been a bit of a problem because she'd rather stand up in her crib and laugh and point and the pictures of herself than sleep. We're hoping she finally gets bored with them.
*We had to move her crib mattress down to the lowest level. Now she's just one step from a big girl bed. :o(
So that's about it. And now here's some pictures.
Ava enjoying her first spaghetti dinner. She loved it but I didn't particularly love the mess.
One evening (after 8:00 of course) we took Ava out to our front sidewalk to walk with her hippo. A friend of ours passed it down to us and Ava loves it. Her favorite thing is to load it up with her baby doll and her sippy cup and push it around the house. She was in heaven pushing it down the sidewalk with nothing to block her path and she cried like a baby when we got tired of following her and took her back inside the house.
Tony took these pictures after Ava had eaten a particularily large dinner. We were looking at and feeling her belly because it was so full and so she had to check out her belly too.
1 comment:
Oh, so adorable!
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