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It's only 7:30am and I am remembering all the words I left off Ava's word list, lol. Because in the last 10 minutes she has also said: I want Daddy, outside, bubble, pop, I want up, I want chair, swing, ready-set-go!, weeee, inside, and wower (for flower). If you put all those together you can probably figure out that she wanted to go outside, blow bubbles, and swing:) Which we did and are now inside approximately 9 minutes later. Gotta love that 2 minute attention span!

Happy Monday!

Happy 18 months Ava!

Funny "cheese" face with crazy hair (always) and feeding herself yogurt



Technically, Ava isn't 18 months old until Tuesday, but since I have a few minutes I thought I would do this post now. It's hard to believe my baby is already 1.5! She is growing up so fast, she's such a little girl already and not a baby any more. She still adores her binky and her Pinky Bear (I have a feeling breaking her of her binky might be tougher than it was with Aiden!), but she is talking so much and is very independent.

She loves to follow directions and especially likes to throw things away (she always claps for herself too), use the broom to "sweep" the floor, put her clothes in the hamper, and pick up crumbs off the floor and bring them to me saying, "Dank you! Dank you!" She's talking so much these days, even combining 2 and 3 words together. I doubt if I'll get a complete list, but here is what Ava is saying at 18 months:
Mommy, Daddy, Aiden (she also calls herself Aiden, apparently their names are too similar, lol)
Hi, bye, hello, see ya (for see ya later)
Car, wee-ooh wee-ooh (for fire truck), ai-bo (for airplane) buh (for bus)
Ball, choo choo (for train), baby, juice, num num (for any type of yummy food)
Thank you, all done, all gone, no, yay, wow, yee-haw (when she is riding on my back), giddy-up, wook (for look)
There she is, there it goes, I want this, I want juice, balloon
Duck, cow, neigh (for horse), meow (for cat), roar (for tiger and lion)
Booh (for book), go...

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them! She surprised me the other day when Chuck left for work and she ran to the window saying, "Bye Daddy, go car, bye, see ya! All gone." So cute!

Happy 18 months Ava! You are a silly and adorable girl and we love you so much!

Cute video

I've been getting some flack for not taking more video of Ava since she's been talking a lot more lately. This video isn't actually of her talking (sorry Liz!) but it is too cute not to share. It is really long, almost 5 minutes, but she was so hilarious. Aiden was napping (for once!) and she was playing with Bailey and couldn't stop laughing. So cute!

Hanging plants make the best homes...

Is it Thursday already? This has been a weird week. I finally drug myself to the Dr. on Tuesday and got some meds for my sinus infection and bronchitis, so I am on the mend. Thankfully, the kids seem to have fully recovered from their illnesses and Ava's molars are starting to come in on the bottom. I will be sooo glad when she is done teething--she is even more miserable than Aiden was, and I didn't think that could be possible!

I don't remember if I mentioned it, but my OTHER hanging plant on the porch has some new inhabitants:) Apparently, hanging plants make really good homes for baby birds, lol. There are 5 eggs, and 4 have hatched, so we'll see if the 5th is a dud just like in the other nest. Aren't the babies cute? Very newborn--2 of them hatched just hours before I took these pics!

We've also been trying to play outside in the afternoons, when the driveway is in the shade. It is so HOT, but the kids love playing in the sprinkler and Aiden's new favorite thing is cleaning the moss off of the trees, lol. Wonder who he gets his cleaning instincts from? ;) I like the pic of Ava going backwards down the slide, just like Aiden did when he was a baby. It's such a SMALL slide, but she really feels like it's the most dangerous thing she has ever attempted, lol.

Pic of the day

I couldn't resist posting this picture from yesterday. How adorable is she? Hair in her face, like always, lol. Don't you just want to eat her up?