A Day in the Life...

...Of an Almost 2-Year-Old!

We started the day looking like this... Ava being goofy in the morning with her bloomers on her head (she did this all by herself... doesn't she look proud!).

...and we ended the day looking like this. This was after falling down the front steps of our porch going to get the mail (poor little thing!). Looks worse than it is (thankfully!). It was an all-around adventurous day! Let's see what tomorrow holds! :)

Hair Goodie Giveaway!

If you have a little girl, you want to enter THIS giveaway! A bunch of bows, flowers, and hats from Leslie at "One Day at a Time".

Hyper Girl!

Just a crazy little girl dancing. She refused a nap today and this was after I got her out of her bed after an hour of playing and talking. I don't think she really needed a nap today if she had this much energy. This all started with her standing on her head and doing summersaults. Then as soon as I got the camera out, she wouldn't stand on her head anymore but wanted to dance. She wouldn't let me stop taking pictures of her and loved seeing herself on the camera and computer.

I LOVE MY DADDY

Happy Valentine's Day!

Ava eating popcorn with Daddy.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Char

My Uncle Mike and Aunt Char were in the area for vacation so they stopped in at our house for a night to spend some time with Ava and I. They live in Estes Park, Colorado so unfortunately, we don't get to see them very often. But hopefully we will see them more since Papa and Nana only live 30 minutes from them. Ava really liked them and even cried after they left. They were very generous and brought her many gifts...and most of them were Mickey Mouse which she absolutely loved! We had a wonderful time visiting with them. Thank you so much for coming! We love you!

Aunt Char reading Ava a book.
Coloring her Mickey Mouse valentine's from Aunt Char and Uncle Mike. (I think Shadow wants to help!)

Putting her valentine's in her new purse.

Ava with her new purse. She loves anything that she can put things into and take them back out.

Ava with all of her gifts...Mickey and Minnie plates, valentine's, Mickey and Friends calendar, purse, and a Max and Ruby book. She still hasn't stopped carrying all of this around the entire house! She's 1 happy girl!

Baby Isaac Belly! :)

Well, some of you have asked for a belly picture. Here you go! We realized that we have completely forgotten to take pictures of the stages of my quickly growing belly. I guess it's because I started showing fairly early and we are so busy keeping up with Ava. On Tuesday, I will be 31 weeks along. It has gone by pretty fast so far but I have a feeling the next 9 weeks will not go by so quickly. I have already started having some contractions...nothing to be too worried about but I have been ordered by my doctor to "take it easy". That's hard to do with a 21 month old running around. We are slowly getting ready for Isaac to get here. Some of my good friends here are throwing me a little sprinkle in March to help celebrate. My best friend Lydia will come down that weekend to also help in the celebration and we can't wait! It's getting close and he'll be here before we know it! Can't wait for everyone to meet him!

Ava's New Table

While Grandpa and Grandma were here, we went shopping for her Christmas present. We wanted to buy her a table and chairs set and we found the perfect one at IKEA. Ava loves it and does everything at this table now, including cooking, coloring, play-doh, eating, tea parties, etc. We put it close to her kitchen and she will go back and forth pretending. It is the cutest thing ever. I will try to get a video of her soon.

Playing Tea Party with Grandpa.

Grandma's turn now!

Visit From Grandpa & Grandma

This past weekend, Grandpa and Grandma came down for a visit. We had a great time and really enjoyed spending time with them. Unfortunately, Ava has not seen them since last March so we were a little concerned with how she would do with them. She loved them! She was obsessed with making sure that they were always near her and would count heads whenever we were going anywhere. She had a great time! We kept ourselves very busy with a trip to Vero Beach to see Curt's Uncle Tom and Aunt Paulette, went to a home and garden show in Orlando, and did a little shopping in between everything. Here are some pictures from our great weekend!

Grandpa reading a story to Ava

Grandpa and Ava watching TV. Ava was in her favorite spot in the corner all covered up in a blanket! So cute!

Grandma and Ava reading a book.

We had to make a visit to the local Red Lobster! It was so good and we all ate way too much!

All ready for church.

Bath time! Daddy did her hair in a mohawk and Grandma thought it was the cutest thing ever! :)

In the hot tub at Uncle Tom and Aunt Paulette's.

Grandpa reading another story to Ava.

THANKS FOR COMING! WE MISS YOU ALREADY!

Ava's Big Girl Bed

One of the things we wanted to get done before baby Isaac arrives, was refinish Ava's future big girl bed. This was my bed frame from when I grew up. We are converting Ava's crib to a toddler bed and she will sleep in that until May sometime. Isaac will just sleep in our room in a play yard until Ava moves into this bed, which is also our guest bed. Whenever guests come, Ava will get to have a slumber party in Mommy and Daddy's room on the floor! What a lucky girl! :) Last weekend, we had nothing else planned and it was extremely cold out (high in the 40's!) so we decided to refinish her bed. As you can see, we forgot to do the nightstand but Curt will do that some other weekend and it won't take a long. It was a lot of fun and we are very happy with the finished product. This is the bedding that I bought at TJ Maxx and we will repaint the room sometime in the next month. We haven't decided how we are going to pain it yet so if any of you have any suggestions, please send them our way! :)

Finished Product!
Finished but not put together!

Before Picture!

Big Girl

I took these pictures this morning. I wanted to see if her hair would fit into pig tails and sure enough, it does. Isn't she so cute?! She reminds me of my niece Emily. This outfit used to be Emily's too so that helps a lot! She is getting so big and days like today make us realize how fast time flies. We can't believe how independent she has become and what a wonderful, beautiful little girl she is turning into.