Ava has the best sleep schedule. She wakes up at 7, takes half-hour to hour-long naps at 9 and 12 and 4 and then she is awake until 8 or 9 cause Daddy is home. Once it is dark she is asleep for good unless we are out doing something. Se eats every 3 to 5 hours at night. When we are out the world holds her attention too much and she resists sleep until we get home where she crashes. We went on a double date with Mike's brother Dave and his girlfriend Bonnie to Applebees on Saturday and Ava did really well even though she had a little fever of about 99 degrees. I'm still not sure what that was. It was gone by the time she went to bed.
This is the look she always has on her face. Strangers tell me she looks mad all the time. But I know that it means she is trying to figure out what she is seeing. It's a very serious face for a very serious baby. New people and people she doesn't like get this look. I love it. Nana says that out of her three kids Mike was the only one who made this look too. Can that sort of thing be hereditary? She tells us that Mike would scowl at almost everyone and didn't like to be cuddled or picked up by anyone but family. Ava is exactly the same. Someone at church (who shall remain nameless lest I expose her) commented that Ava is never put down. She said it like it was a bad thing! I love it that she is never alone - I think it will make her a confident and well socialized baby and child.
I had to include this picture because it is so cool. We were outside - the weather here has been downright chilly and beautiful lately. Well, the place where I put down the blanket had this cicada shell only a foot away. This bee was eating something inside or on it. It was really fun to watch him chewing away.
Ava just liked looking at the tree blowing in the wind above her. Poof - natural mobile!
Geting those hands working to the detriment of any kitty tails resting nearby! Funny thing is, MoMo has gotten so used to LuLu fighting his tail that this didn't phase him in the least!
Ava has been sleeping really well lately. She is starting to figure out how to fall asleep on her own now so there are a lot less tears and crying when she is sleepy. I used to have to take her in the bathroom and turn off the lights so that she had no stimuli. Now she's figuring out how to work through the stimuli in her life and she can get through it now. A big plus for mommy who could have pulled her hair out everytime little Ava got tired.
She has reached another weight milestone (at least as far as we are concerned). She now weighs 15 lbs - as much as our kitty MoMo! She is doing really well and has only had two illnesses. The first was a gastro thing that we all had but it didn't seem to phase her. The second was a head cold that still seems to be lingering a bit. Her nose is stuffy when she wakes which only makes her mad. She never cries about it but she grunts and snorts in frustration.
When there are toys within reach she now has control of those tricky hands. Today she switched a toy from one hand to the next! And a few times she has taken her pacifier out of her mouth, played with it and gotten it back in which leaves Mike and me saying, "Did you give her her passy?" "No, did you?" It's a really special trick! She has a very special toy - her favorite - that is a rubber ducky with plastic ropes all over it. This one is easy to hold on to and she is perfecting the toy-to-mouth trick and likes to chew the ropes. Frustration is around every turn for our super star. She wants to do more than her body allows and you'll most often hear her yelling at things when they won't do what she wants. The chair she's in in this picture vibrates and she calms right down when she's in it. It's her T.V. chair. Something I resisted doing for a long time but it's the only way to calm her down sometimes so I've promised myself that we will teach her the rules of T.V. instead and limit it.
Ava and her cousins are very close. Shawny and Ava match every Sunday for church, something Shawny adores! She tells EVERYONE about "baby Ava."We have noticed that Hunter is very protective of Ava. We call him her little protector. Unlike the other two, he wont leave her side to go play after a while. He also doesn't beg to hold her like Shawny and Preston. He prefers to watch her and make sure she's ok. It's like she has a big brother!
Preston is ready for Ava to be bigger so he can take her outside to play on the "cabin" (what the kids call the jungle gym/swingset at Nana's house). He has had the twins to play with for so long he thinks Ava is indestructable like they are and we have to watch him closely when he holds her. He thinks he's strong enough to walk around with her and that's just a little too scary for mommy.
Thats all for now, as I'm writing she's getting hungry but I had to update everyone because my computer went kaput for a while and I missed getting some things on here.
All our LOVE!
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