Ava: 138 weeks old…
Hi. Big sister Ava is now 138 weeks old!
Ava’s week began with a trip to the hospital to pick up Mila and me. She had fun playing with the remote control bed, eating my leftover sweet potatoes, and playing the pretend piano that Dada drew for her. Piano, you ask? She is currently obsessed with a Deets’ song that has a piano solo in it.
She was more than excited to help get Mila ready and take her home.
And immediately insisted to hold her new little sister.
When we got home, things didn’t go so smoothly. Even with the new big sister princess dress that Grace bought her. She started to melt. It was way past her ‘quiet time’ hour. There was just too much excitement. Melt. Down. Poor Grace. She has to listen to Ava say ‘No Grace… my sister‘ when she got too close to Mila. Thankfully, that only happened once. Only when we first brought Mila home.
Ava has been so loving with Mila right off the bat. She likes to say ‘Baby wants to sit by to me‘ a lot.
She’ll kiss and hug and stare at her for a bit and then will ask to hold her.
After a few seconds, she will announce ‘Okay, I’m all done‘.
Now that I don’t have a baby in my belly anymore, I can pick up Ava again. You would think she would want non-stop hugs and kisses now. But no. She saves most of her kisses and hugs for Mila now. Not us. And we were worried Ava would be the jealous one? Ha!
We do try to spend special time with Ava when we can. Like Dada and Ava bike rides. Or Mama and Ava reading time. It’s easy to do now because Mila is so small and sleeps all day long. I’m sure it will be harder to balance special time once Mila starts interacting more.
Everyone has been so thoughtful of Ava. She’s gotten a lot of big sister gifts. Like this magnetic art board from Barba Frank. When I asked her to give me a thumbs up if she likes it, I got this. Hehe. Ava has been a handful for the past few weeks now. The worst of it peaked the day before we left for the hospital. But during Barba Frank’s visit on the 3rd day of Mila’s life, Ava started to turn the corner. For a few hours that afternoon, our old Ava was back. It was so nice. And ever since that afternoon, her attitude has been changing for the better. Yeah.
Oh, and Ava now knows that visitors also equal chocolate. It’s a girl chocolate cigars to be exact.
Before Mila was born, Ava liked to say ‘I’m going to share my toys with baby‘… and after a few days, she did. Let’s see how long that lasts once Mila starts grabbing things. Hehe.
During my pregnancy, Ava insisted that we were having a girl. She kept saying that she had a little sister. I’m so glad that her wish (and ours) came true.
Now that Ava is starting to act like her old self again and is not in and out of time-outs all day long, she gets to play with new art supplies. Because new art supplies are for good girls… not bad girls. Here are Nona and Ava enjoying art and sunshine outside.
Later that day, Ava jumped into my bed and pulled up my comforter… and then announced that this was her wedding dress. Silly girl.
And then she told Nona and me that she was going to marry Dada. I then told Dada what she said and she got really embarrassed. Oh oh. Wrong move Mama. But luckily Nona saved the day by saying it’s just girl talk. She was okay with that. Now you may kiss the bride.
Dada joined us later on the bed and told him her name was Miss Alice and that we have to listen to her. Oh boy.
And then Miss Alice went to the hallway and knocked on Tinkerbell’s door. But she wasn’t home. And speaking of Tinkerbell, that is what Ava wants to be for Halloween. She has never watched Tinkerbell on TV but she still loves her. So strange how that happens.
On Tuesday, we took Ava to school…
… and she came back home with a 102 degree fever. Ahhhhh!!!! Motrin time.
So then we had to figure out how to tell Ava not to touch Mila anymore. So we told her she could hug…
… and kiss… but not on lips. And to not scare Ava from Mila forever, we told her that Mila has a boo boo on her lip. That’s why she can’t kiss her on her lips. LIES! Shame on us! Well sorta. Mila does have a nursing blister on her lip. Does that count?
So if you read this blog often, you know how the rest of this story goes… no school, lots of pajama pictures, art time…
… and silly eating pictures. Here is Ava with her Mac ‘n Cheese choo choo train.
On Mila’s 5th day at home, Ava was finally a good girl for most of the day… and I got to finally give her my big sister present. A Snow White dress-up set.
And Dada gave her his. A big sister Dora play set for her dollhouse.
There was lots of princess time too. Here is Ava dancing with Prince Dada. Her words. Not mine.
And we watched Deets singing the Chicken song a lot online… and she wanted to spin like the little girl in the video.
And later in the week, he showed up and she got to dance with him in person. How cute is this picture?!?!?!
And a visit from Deets meant that Nona was going home. After they left, she spent a couple days asking if Nona and Deets are coming back soon.
And then she had another fit. She started asking if Rudy was coming home soon. I told her that Rudy was up in the sky with the angels. But she didn’t like the answer I gave her. So she kept crying and crying for Rudy. It really sucked. My hormones didn’t like it one bit.
Eventually things quieted down. This is what our house looks like during the day. Mila sleeping in her bassinet. Ava trying to peek over couch and trying to convince me that Mila is awake… so she can hug and kiss her some more.
Oh. And BIG news. Deets (a.k.a Novi Split) has a song on the season premiere of One Tree Hill tonight. Channel 5 at 8 pm. Watch it. His song ‘Hollow Notes’ will appear during some flashback beach scene. YEAH DEETS!!!! Bye!!
September 16th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
finally catching up on posts, and i must say, this one has it all….hope i get to see you guys soon. i miss you!