Christmas

Santa came...and Ava REAAAALLLY enjoyed the whole Christmas thing. She wore a santa hat for nearly the entire month of December, and actually had trouble falling asleep on Christmas Eve...at the age of two......I wonder how next year will be. She became very efficient at opening presents. She wanted to unwrap them all, then see what she had gotten. Except for when she opened a pack of colored socks, now THAT was a big deal. We had a great Christmas. Randy's family came on Christmas Eve, and we had a nice dinner together, visited, and laughed as Ava tried on her princess gear which includes princess shoes. She is a princess in the making for sure. Christmas Day was fun as well, but without a nap, Ava was crashing at her Great Grandma and Grandpa's. She did well though, she shared her tea with everyone, and wore her pretty pretty princess dress all day long. Amazingly, she has not asked for her Santa hat since Christmas Day, I thought that was going to be a struggle. Good bye Christmas, see you in a year!

A 3.5 foot tall Santa? Naaaaaaa

Ava would like to set the record straight, and is informing everyone that she is NOT Santa, I repeat, Ava is NOT Santa Clause. Sorry for any confusion that was caused. :)

Snow men and snow monsters

Ava helped create her first snow man this week. We took a short walk to the neighbors to see their Chistmas lights, which Ava LOVED. She loved them so much she wanted to go in his house. We then returned to our yard and Daddy showed Ava how to make a snow angel. I will have to post a picture of this, it was a priceless moment! We then made our snowman. Ava loved it, and talks about him everytime we go outside and insists on making another one. Too bad toddlers just don't understand their is packing snow and powder snow.
Ava loves the old movie Rudolph, and everytime we mention snow or she looks out the window, she yells "oh no! The Snow monster!" and sometimes it is accompanied by an ear shattering squeal. I am starting to get worried that she will really believe there is a huge snow monster that wants to get her, I try to reassure her :) In other news, Ava informed Randy that she has two daddy's, and the other one was beside him. Naturally, Randy was troubled by this and told me about it, and said "Ava, how many Daddy's do you have?" And she smiled, crossed her eyes, and said "I have two daddy's!" It was hillarious. Randy was not in front of her when she said that the first time and couldn't see that she had crossed her eyes.
This semester is almost finished, and I am counting down the days. I turned in the largest homework assignment I have ever completed today, and it felt great. One more week to go, then a nice little break. I can't wait to have normal sleeping hours for a few weeks.
That's all for now, take care and watch out for the snow monster.

It is amazing how fast children develop at this age. One day they are saying one word. The next one or two. All of the sudden they are making cute sentences and having small conversations with you. Ava is very much so looking forward to this santa man bringing her presents and putting them under her tree. We talk about it every day. And every night when it is close to bed time, she will be sure to tell you that her eyes are still open. This is such a great age, but tiring!! She loves to play with her daddy, they have such a great time together. They play hide and seek all over the house and they have a blast.

I gave in

I finally caved in a created a blogspot. We are all doing well, staying busy as usual. I am finishing my semester, soon start my last before I student teach. The house is beautiful, I am so thankful we had the opportunity to find a house and make it our own. While Ava is running in a circle with no diaper, I will keep this short and sweet. Yesterday she was a free bird (I call her bare butt brooks) and she said "See my pee pee?" Me: "What peepee" Ava: "See my poopoo?" Me: "What poopoo?" Ava: "In my room. See it?" Sure enough, there it was. At least she told me about it. Potty training is always exciting, fully of pee pee in the potty dances. Until next time.....