Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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July 2009

Ava Marie - 14 months old
Such a happy girl!!!!

Ava loves "reading" books! She is quite content to sit in her crib with books and toys - It's fun to listen as she reads to her animal friends :)

Ava now says "Da Da" (Dad), "Ma Ma" (Mom), "Pa Pa" (Grandpa), "Puh Puh" (Puppy), and "Boo" (Book).

She can sign for milk, more, thank you, eat, ball, and all done.

She is SO close to walking all around the house. She will take a few steps and then go to her knees or grab onto the furniture - She wants to walk, but crawling is just so much faster! She's pretty much mastered the stairs too - yikes!

Ava is eating and drinking like a big girl now (we're down to 1 bottle at bedtime - Mommy's afraid to give that one up!) So far some of Ava's favorite foods seem to be...pizza, grilled cheese, watermelon, yogurt, pancakes, waffles, green beans and corn.

She cut 2 more teeth (bottom molars) on July 21st making it a total of 10 teeth so far!

Poor Emma is always being pestered these days, but she tolerates it well...probably because she gets so many scraps thrown from the highchair :)

Ava LOVES Emma

Emma tolerates Ava
They really are pretty good buddies

It's fun to watch them interact :)

Ava will dance when she hears music - It's so darn cute!

It's just amazing how much she already knows - She's quite the little Einstein :)

Silly girl :)

Ava finally got to meet Dr. Teigen - He's the one that took such good care of Ava and Mommy during pregnancy! He came to visit us in the hospital the day after Ava was born, but we didn't get a picture, so finally a year later we did :) He's the BEST!!!

Ava loves bathtime! We took this pic so Ava could be Mommy's mascot for fantasy football this year - Her team's name is MEDUSSA - We may look cute, but we're tough!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Little Baby Grace

While we were in Sioux Falls over the 4th of July weekend we got to visit with our friends Andy & Alison and their sweet little baby Grace!

"Uncle" Andy...AKA "Grandpa" & Ava Marie


Grace (5 months) & Ava (14 months)

Pretty little girls!!!

4th of July at the Zoo!

Ava's 1st time going to the ZOO!!!
July 4, 2009

The Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, SD
Ava made lots of new friends :)

A peacock

A camel

A tiger






and bears - Oh my!!!


So many fun animals to see!!!

We tried the carousel again (not a fan of it at the MOA)...


Still not a fan :(



Our family :)


Fourth of July Weekend

July 1st - 6th we went to Sioux Falls to visit Grandpa & Grandma Nolte.

I remember last 4th of July Ava seemed so tiny in this chair - Now her feet hang over the edge!


Spending some time relaxing with Grandma :)



Grandma & Grandpa have a huge toy bucket filled with lots of fun things!

And yes, Grandma has the same purple princess chair at her house that we have at home :)

Can you tell someone is loved?!

Mommy & Grandma bought Ava a kiddy pool so we could enjoy some time outside!