Mommy and Ava Date

Ava and I have started going on dates to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. I love our special time together. We order the same thing every time. Ava gets a kids soft serve cone & I get a chocolate chip scoop on a sugar cone. We also sit at the same table right by the front window and watch the people pass by or come in.

This picture is from our date Wednesday.

 

Our Christmas Tree

We put the Christmas Tree up the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I thought Ava would be really interested in helping mommy, but that wasn’t the case. She was more interested in climbing the ladder. So I decorated the tree while Ryan helped Ava climb up and down the ladder .

Family Pictures

Rough Week

Oh Sunday….how you dragged on…and on. Little Ms. Ava decided not to take a nap. Which was not a good thing for this mama. I started feeling horrible. The up side is once she went down about 7, I went down too. Haha! Ryan had to wake her up at 7 to get her ready for school. I sure hope that is the last time she pulls that one for a long time. I'm not ready for her to skip weekend naps. That is the best time to get caught up on stuff around the house or take a family nap.
By Tuesday I was out for the count. I stayed home from work with a horrible cold. I did my best to stay away from Ava, but she caught it Wednesday and we both stayed home Thursday. Although we were both sick I really enjoyed one on one time with my love bug. We snuggled all day, watched cartoons, dad brought us lunch and we decorated the house for Christmas.

 

Tree in her room



Party FUN

Ava had a birthday party Saturday. She had so much fun. Ava is a very independent little girl. She jumped right in the mix with all the other kids as soon as we got there. She is not shy at all. She even rode on the little train all by her self. I was one proud mama!

Guess what my princess told me?!

….Shut up!! YES! I couldn’t believe it. Ryan & I were shocked. He wanted to laugh but kept it in. I told her that isn't nice to say & the next time she does she will go in time out. Well the rest of the evening she never did. Then the next morning she told Ryan while he was getting her dressed. Ryan put her in time out. Once they got to school he informed her teacher & told her how we were handling it at home to continue to do they same at school. Well then I get a call from the director who said she knew exactly where Ava could have heard that word. In the mornings all the kids eat breakfast together. She probably heard it from Michael an older kid who has been known to say that. She assured me she would monitor the situation. A couple days have passed now and Ava has only said it once or twice since.
So now Ryan and I are watching very closely what we say. Ava is a little sponge and repeating EVERYTHING. We even have to spell things out now (like "do you want to take her to the p-a-r-k", "its almost time for b-a-t-h", "I'm about to g-o" etc.) so she doesn’t know what we are talking about.

Trick or Treat

What a fun night for the whole family! The festivities started about 5 with a pre-party gathering and dinner in the cud-da-sac. Ava had a blast hanging out with Emma & Annabel. They are so cute to watch & they play so well together. Once it started to get a tad dark the moms took the girls up & down the street to trick or treat while the dads stayed to pass out candy. Ava was the leader of the pack. She would be the 1st one to knock on the door and say trick or treat. Every house that gave her a lollipop she would say "candy" and ask me to "open it". Needless to say, she went through about 3 lollipops by the time we made it back to the cud-da-sac.
The party wasn’t over yet. We hung out in the cud-da-sac with about 5 other families passing out candy. Ava enjoyed all the kids stopping by & even helped pass out the candy. I enjoyed watching my big girl experience Halloween!! She was the cutest little lady-bug EVER. She ate way too much candy and stayed up way past her bed time, but daddy let her sleep in today.

Fun times!!