moving forward...

For the past two months Ava has been up on her knees rocking back and forth, getting up on her toes in push up position (she can do a better push up than me!), balancing back and forth on each arm, and so on and so forth. She has been desperately trying to crawl, but just hasn't gotten it figured out. She isn't sedentary though, she can roll anywhere she wantes to go, do 360s on her tummy, pull herself across the floor with her arms, and even crawl backwards... just not forwards. Then this past Thursday after taking one crawling "step" and then stopping to rest on her stomach, she took off.... and hasn't stopped since!

playing with Mia and Hali at Daddy's soft ball game

what?

peek-a-boo


cheese!

"I'm coming to get you Mommy"

This past weekend we made a trip down to VA to see my Grandmother and suprise her for her birthday, she'll be 80 this week. Ava loved getting to be outside on the farm, seeing the animals and crawling anywhere her heart desired, that is until we stopped her. It was a short trip time wise, we were only there one night, but a long trip as we had to stretch the trip out over four days... it was exhausting, but nice to see family that we don't see often.

So now that we're back we're trying to get back to our routine, and I'm praying it doesn't take long. Ava isn't good when it comes to sleeping somewhere other than her own bed, I guess she gets it honestly as Nathan and I are the same way. So she slept horribly the whole trip, and I spent two nights sleeping on the couch with her so she wouldn't wake everyone else in the house. Unfortunately her first night back in her own crib wasn't as great as I thought (hoped) it would be. This morning she was up at 1am on her knees in her crib looking over the railing, crying/screaming. After about an hour and a half, she finally was so tired she passed out. (She'll sleep as long as I'm holding her, but the minute I put her down she is wide awake again... not fun). But so far, her naps have been pretty routine, which gives me hope for tonight.

We hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend!

taking it all in

here I go...but how to do this while holding the camera case?

oh so tired, I'll army crawl instead

breakfast - sitting in the "ancient" high chair - used by 4 generations

fairy princess with her wand