42 weeks old…
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Our silly little Ava is now 42 weeks old. There is only 10 more weeks until her first birthday. Where has the time gone?
Well, the time has gone into lots of dancing. Anything that even resembles music, like reading out loud, makes Ava shake her booty.
And Ava still loves walking. She is gaining more control when she only has one of our hands to help her and is very careful with her technique. But if two hands are available, she prefers to run and giggle.
We have been practicing her alone walking too. Dan and I sit face to face, leg distance apart, with Ava in between us. We take turns asking Ava to walk to us. She has been taking up to 5 steps at a time. Most of time she tends to veer to the right. And if we don’t have her balance before asking her to walk, she flies into us like superman. This kid trusts us a little too much.
I’m not sure why all her walking pictures look like she is on Saturday Night Fever. She looks like a mini John Travolta. hehe.
This week was picture day at daycare. Ava did great during her class picture with all her friends and teacher. But when it was time for her individual pose, Ava got a case of ‘the stranger anxiety’. So, the photographer wanted to try again the following day. The daycare directors tried everything to make her round two photo shoot go smoother. They even put a real bunny on her lap to distract her. It worked for the most part. We are not going to have a smiling picture of Ava but at least it won’t be a crying picture.
When Ava is on the loose at home, she loves cruising around the ottoman… scoping out what type of stuff she can throw onto the floor.
Destructive Ava hits again.
Every night when bedtime draws near, we have tickle time on the couch. We gently throw Ava onto a pile of pillows and tickle her with everything we have.
Here she is ready for more tickles.
And here she is after too many tickles.
I have a headache this big and it has Excedrin written all over it.
When the three of us go out for dinner, we keep Ava entertained with Cheerios while we eat. She ends up double fisting them into her mouth and we have to keep repeating ‘one at a time, Ava’ to her.
Over the weekend, the nice people at the Cheesecake Factory brought over a kids plate for Ava that had bananas on it. What a nice surprise.
One of Ava’s new favorite things is helping me fold laundry. But every once in awhile, I will forget to add a dryer sheet to prevent static cling and this happens.
The only way to reverse static cling is to eat the articles of clothing until they are all gone.
As a reward, I gave Ava a ride in the laundry basket. Weeeee.
Here is Ava playing peek-a-boo with her mommy.
And here she is staring at the front lawn getting watered.
Hi sprinklers.
Ava discovered the diaper caddy this week and thought it was a good idea to pull all the diapers out of it. Good thing there were only two in there or she would have covered her entire bedroom floor with slippery diapers.
Here is Ava waiting for her dada to call from work in the afternoons.
The phone is ringing!
Hello?
A new thing Ava likes to do is to stretch out her arm whenever she is holding onto to something. Not sure if she is trying to hand things to us or not because sometimes she doesn’t let go. She does this a lot with food before she shoves it in her mouth.
I sometimes take this opportunity to take the object out of her hand and say ‘thank you Ava’. Then I give it back to her and say ‘thank you Mama’. She thinks I’m silly.
She is starting to point a lot too this week. Here she is pointing at the camera after we picked her up from daycare.
Seconds later, Ava pointed to her eye and passed out cold in her car seat. Playing at daycare tires her out.
And speaking of daycare, we caught Ava this week standing by the crib area, watching one of the little boys sleeping. Silly Ava.
Alrighty. Time for Ava’s opera lessons.
Figaro. Figaro. Fig. A. Ro.
