Happy Birthday Ava!

(post by Marissa)

I'll add pictures in the next post, but they are not on my computer and I want to update this blog. Tax season is over and so life will get much calmer and I will have time to do things like Blog. I missed Ava so much when I would have to go to the office. I feel like she is my sidekick and we have a lot of fun together. She is a great baby with so much personality. She loves to be outside. We have lots of pictures of her sitting by the door just waiting to go outside. I want to document a few things that she does that are cute and that I may forget.

1. She can make a cow, fish, and elephant sound

2. When you said "high" or "arms up" she raises her arms up

3. When I sing the song we sing in our music class at the end, she starts to wave (she knows its the goodbye song)

4. She can locate the duck in the tub when we ask "where is the duck?"

5. She does a downward dog great. If you say bridge or downward dog, then she does this adorable little downward dog.

6. She gets so excited when we go anywhere. She is an on the go baby and loves to be out and about.

7. She still chews/sucks on her blanket when I put her in her crib.

8. When I say legs up when I change her diaper she lifts up her legs

9. She loves the bath and even dunks her head. Loves swimming as well and holds her breath under water.

10. Grabs our hands and wants to walk us everywhere. She will walk us up and down the street. She also pushes her walker down the street.

11. Loves the park and cries when we have to leave no matter how long we stay. She likes the bouncy things. Used to love the swing, but now feels confined. Likes the slide okay. Really she just loves to crawl or walk us around everywhere

12. Is a mamma's girl for sure.

13. Says mamma, dadda, babba and most recenlty bubbles when we were reading her a bubbles book.

14. Food - cheese, milk, cottage cheese, yogurt,

fruit (favorite are oranges, cantaloupe (sp?), strawberries) Doesn't love meat, but did enjoy some steak and fish

15. Loves the beach and sand. She didn't care one bit that sand was all in her face and and in her mouth. She loves every minute of Florida. She is a great traveler and loves vacation. She did some fine dining in Florida and ate Kobe Steak, Mahi Mahi, Bass, and much more!

16. She can put the circles in the shape sorter.

This is kind of a long, probably boring post, but I wanted to jot a few things down for records, etc. I will be better about blogging in case any of you care, but since its all about Ava, you may not!

Other items of interest:

Steve graduates in less than 1 month!! Great job babes!

We move in a month!

Steve has been reading lots about investing and such. He can't wait to get all that going. I take care of the day to day finances, but he definitely has a huge interest in our overall financial well-being, which I am very grateful for.

I'm going ot keep working for the same firm from home when we move assuming everything works out well and such.

Eventually, I think I'll start my own business doing bookkeeping and some tax work and general business consuling, etc. But that won't be for a while. It's just a long -term plan of mine I decided most recently.

I think that sums it up..Life is good, we are very happy, and feel very blessed and are excited for the next chapter of our lives.