Sunday, September 18, 2011

KISS!

What do Monkeys say Ava?

Here's a fun video of Ava making a monkey noise.  She loved the huge gorillas!

Elephants go like this!

Ava's room is decorated in Elephants....and she LOVES them.  She makes the noise that Elephants make all the time.  Here's a video of her making the trumpet noise.  She was mesmerized by the Elephants.  So sweet. 

Day at the Zoo

We took Ava to the zoo yesterday.  She LOVED seeing all the animals....and the people watching. Ha.  She makes animal noises all the time when we are reading books...and today she saw them in real life.  Pretty amazing to watch her face.


Ava loved watching the Sea Lions play



Mama...did you see them swim?

I love Ice Cream

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Things that make me smile

Ava is nearly 1 1/2 and she does new and funny things every day.
Here's a list of the things off the top of my head that she does...that makes me laugh;
  • She says "Hi kitty" to our cat and does the sign language sign for cat...over and over.
  • Her teachers say she loves to pass out kisses to all her friends at school (note to self, that's ok now when she's 1...but not 14).
  • She loves to pucker up and give me a kiss, then run to Todd and give him a kiss and back to me...over and over.  We laugh and laugh.
  • Every time she sees a car she signs car and says "Ca Ca Ca".
  • And same goes for an airplane, every time she hears an airplane, she signs airplane and says "pane pane pane".  Please note, we live near an airport.
  • She is getting so adventurous on the play ground.  The other day she climbed up the ladder and was mad when I wouldn't let her go down the HUGE slide.  She would have fallen right off the end sliding down so fast.  Mama and Ava rode down together....about 10 times.  She laughed and giggled.
  • She sings along with the radio or tv all the time.  She seems to really like Katy Perry especially the "Firework" song.
  • She LOVES to dance.  A good song comes on and she stops what she is doing and gets her groove on.
  • She loves to act like she's talking on the phone.  She will hold most anything up to her ear and talk and talk...and laugh and laugh.  Then she sets down the phone and goes about playing.  I have been asking her "Did you say bye-bye?".  She smiles at me.  She's a riot.
  • My dad taught her how to wink and she will wink at us at really appropriate times.  
  • She has this baby doll that she loves.  She holds her baby and rocks her and makes coooo noise at her.  She also takes her sippy cup and puts it up to the baby's mouth and makes a "t-t-t-t" noise like the baby is drinking.
That's all I have time for right now.  But this girl is amazing.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Chase me!

Here's a video of Todd and Ava playing!  She is laughing so hard!  Love it!

Visit to see Ava's great grandparents

Ava and I went to have lunch with her Great Grandparents today!  We all had a great time!










Family

Ava loves the Broncos! We are #1
Ava and Daddy read Dr. Suess

Ava playing at the playground!

Ava loves to climb on everything.  Here's a video of her sliding and some pictures of her playing!








Wink!

Ava's Grandpa A taught her how to wink.  She winks all the time.  Here's a cute picture of her winking!

Monday, August 15, 2011

Calling daddy

Here's a video of Ava calling her daddy on the phone!

Blowing kisses to mama!

Our sweet girl loves to blow kisses! Mwah!

I love to talk on mom's cell phone

Ava loves to talk on my cell phone!  It is so sweet and cracks us up!  Here's a video!

I love reading with Grandma, Grandpa and daddy

Showing everyone how to read the "Peek a Boo" book

Our Glenwood Springs Vacation

We just spend 5 days in Glenwood Springs!  We an amazing vacation!  We fished, went white water rafting, spent a day at the Hot Springs, played cards....and relaxed!  Great family time with many laughs!
Our family

Todd, Ava, Natalie, Emily, Rylie, Calea and Danny in the Hot Springs

Ava and Grandma

Our house

Our family enjoying the sun!

Natalie, Calea, Danny and Rylie

Bob & Rebecca (she's 6 months pregnant!) :)

Grandma, Grandpa and Jack
The girls getting ready to play on the deck!

The amazing views from the house

Our girl napping

Rylie Elisabeth (16 weeks old)