Pump it Up

AVA IS A DARE DEVIL!!! Ava would climb all the way to the top of the slide by herself and jump to her booty to slide down which bounced her, flipping her all the way down the slide!! She came up laughing. Everyone is the room saw this 15 month old plunging down this huge slide and kept laughing and telling me how daring she is...THEY DONT HAVE TO TELL ME THAT!!

Yesterday, I had to hammer the ladder down from the backyard playhouse. She scared me so bad I immediately took the ladder down. I was sweeping the garage, peeked around the gate to see about them and Ava was sitting on the very top in the house ON THE EDGE facing outward toward the ground. She was half way on the top of the step and the inside of the house. I calmly told her to stay there (like she was going to listen & VERY surprised she did) dropped the broom, went inside the garage, started running and praying for her to stay put and to give me speed!! I got her down safely, grabbed a hammer and started pounding down the ladder! I dont know what to do with her. Her new thing is to climb my kitchen table. What is her obsession with CLIMBING!!! AHHHH!

Anyway, I am sure everyone gets the point of her being a handful! :) Gotta love her though.

Ava is 15 months old now!!!

Oh boy and she is as busy as her brother. She does anything she sets her mind to. She talks like crazy, she thinks she has to use the potty everytime she is fixing to get into the bathtub (she takes her diaper off, lifts the lid, I help her on and she turns for the toilet paper, wipes, and flushes), she can now climb all of the beds in the house, can get into all chairs, can open the bathroom door now ( which is just wonderful since she is not allowed in the bathroom) and can throw a temper like a three yr old!!

She is perfect though! I love her and although she is a hand full she has so much personalitly and is lots of fun!This Halloween she was TinkerBell. CUTE! She is beautiful!Her favorite things to do is still pretty much the same with the added fun of playdoh. Her and Matthew get to play with playdoh everyday now and they have lots of fun cooking with it. She plays just like a big girl.

Went for her shots the other she weighs 24 lbs and is 32.25 inches long. She is in the 94th percentile in her height and 72 percentile in her weight.

Until next time...

Ava Alyese at 14 months old

Ava is growing SO fast it is almost hard to believe. It seems that she is too little to know the things that she does. She mocks everything Matthew does and climbs twice as bad!! She watches exactly how he does things so she can do them. He grabs a box to stand on she knows she can go to that same box and do the same thing and succeeds at it. If Matthew runs down the hall fussing about not getting his way, Ava is behind him doing the same thing. If Matthew is sitting in time out Ava goes and sits beside him. It is quiet funny to watch and AMAZING of the things she can and tries to do.

She eats whatever she wants and how dare me fix her something different when we are eating dinner. She ALWAYS wants to be invovled. She refuses food that does not look like "big girl" food.

She has a new word...She started saying it her 13th month, AND...of course it is "outside." She says it very well! One thing that has changed with her is that she LOVES shoes now and always wants to be wearing them.

She is a digger!! Oh my goddness is she ever. I am exhausted everyday from telling her "get down" and "get out." She most definetely keeps mommy on her toes.

She is signing so much these days. It is amazing how I think "oh well she just isn't interested or getting it" then one day she starts telling me what she wants by her hands. This is just awesome to watch. It shows how smart and how much children learn everyday by watching someones every move. She signs eat & drink, I love u, light, bath, book, hot, all done, hat, more, kiss, and toothbrush. She also is talking very good. She can say mama, dadda, knock-knock, no-no, & outside... oh and she will bark when she hears a dog. :)

Her favorite things to do right now are sing and dance, play chase, anything outside, ummm and EAT! The child could eat all day.

Oh and she still LOVES her momma. Such a momma's girl!!

Well, that is all for now until next time...

Enjoy!

Ava's mommy