All by myself...

The warmer weather is back! With its return we've been able to get outside and enjoy the sun a little, as well as the longer days. Every day Ava asks to go swing... what she really means is, "I want to play in the sandbox." There is no way to go out and swing and not get in the sandbox, it's just too tempting. So most afternoons after her nap, we head out to play. Sometimes Joshua is able to join us, and other times he isn't. Either way, Ava loves it, and it makes the afternoon/early evening fly.

We even talked Daddy into a little sandbox time on Saturday. He and Ava spent a good 20 minutes putting sand into the funnel toy and watching the wheel spin... great fun.

Last week we took a little walk over to a neighboring playground. We have friends that live in that neighborhood, and knew that the playground was rarely used during the day. Ava loved being able to walk around, free to do what she wanted. I wish we had one in our development.

I think we've mentioned before that Ava's favorite thing is the slide. She loves all slides, twisty ones, short ones, long ones, doesn't matter. We spent most of our time going up and down and up and down on Wednesday.

Here is a video of Ava sliding all by herself. She is getting so big, it's hard to believe that she will be 2 in less than 4 months. (Please ignore my incredibly annoying "yay!!!" at the end of the video. Since losing our camera I am unable to edit videos - our new camera doesn't have that function. I downloaded software onto the computer, and it works wonderfully, but increased the size of the video - go figure- and blogger wouldn't upload it... so you'll have to deal with my cheering, sorry)