Mom and Ava

Since everyone insists that Ava resembles Christopher much more than I (I happen to agree), I thought I'd try placing our two pictures at similar ages together to see if any kind of resemblence is emerging. Let me know what you think...

Little Miss Flexible!

I knew this day would come, seeing the acrobatics that happen daily on the changing table. Not only can Ava turn complete circles on the changing table, it offers her a wonderful opportunity to get a hold of something pretty exciting.




You guessed it--her big toe! She still hasn't got the gist of the fact it is attached to her leg, so she'll move her leg and not know why the foot she just had in her hand/ mouth is now gone. She is talking a lot now, and it really cracks us up! To some untrained ears, it may seem more like a squeal and noise with bubbles, but her expressions are so animated it just makes us laugh. There is new joy every day! Parenthood is an exhausting and yet exhilerating ride--no words can adequately describe it. It is something you have to experience first hand to understand what everyone else was talking about! Time has never flown by faster than since we became parents. It seems every day is over in a blink, and the weeks fly by too quickly.

Ava says "Go Blue!"

...in not so many words, but you can get the idea from her game day attire and prop.

Ava turns over

As of Thursday, September 7, Ava can now roll from her back to her stomach. She isn't quite able to reverse it to go onto her back again, but that time will soon come. Now all the safety harnesses and belts are getting put to good use!

Christopher has a birthday...

That's right! Almost exactly 2 weeks after my birthday, Christopher has his birthday on September 6. Where as I never had to be in school on my birthday (which is one of the reasons I thought it was so great as a kid), Christopher will probably always have to be unless it falls on a weekend. And the first week of school is always a bit crazy, so it is hard to actually plan to go anywhere and really celebrate his birthday until some time after. So how did we celebrate his birthday this year? He went to work, and I went to the dentist. But in the evening, I made him his favorite pork chop dish, and his birthday pie--strawberry rhubarb.
We bought some decaf coffee (unheard of here), because my grandmother taught me the best time to have coffee aside from first thing in the morning is with a good piece of pie. Since we both had to get up the next morning, it worked out okay. And it tasted so good with the pie! He opened his gifts, and we made a good time out of the short time we had to celebrate after he got home from work. He got a couple of CDs, an X-box game, a DVD series from the show 'Numb3rs', and other assorted gifts. Ava got Dad a Curious George cookie, which you can see sticking to the pillow in his birthday picture. It was a good birthday for Christopher.