She ROLLED OVER!!!!

Today Rich painted the family room while I went up to Rockport with Ava to visit her greatgram. She was on the best mood, all smiles and chatter. I got her some building blocks which she loved. The cardboard kind with letters and nursery rhymes on them. She tasted them, pushed them, held them and tried to crush them!!

Low and behold she rolled over from her back to her tummy for the first REAL time. She did it once at the doc 2 months ago, but this time she did it on her own because she wanted some toys. She then did it 2 more times!!!! Once while I was talking to Rich even!! Then when she rolled over she pushed herself up on her hands arms out straight and smiled!!!! What a funny bug!

Not only did she roll for the first time but she ate her first mushed peas!! I'm not sure she digs them as much as the sweet potatoes, but she did eat some with a few scowls. Heh!!

More pictures!

Ive been a bit lax on putting up some photos, so here is a collection of them from random visits and playtime. Enjoy!
Random Ava shots on Flickr

Sweet Potatoes!!!

She likes it!! She really likes it! As Rich and I would sit down for a snack or a meal....or if one of us would be feeding Ava and the other eating....Ava finally realized that 'hey-I'm not eating that'. So she would stop eating and watch us. Time to introduce solids. Rice cereal was OK...but not enjoyable and she only ate it some of the time. Time for some sweet potatoes!! After her first screwy face of taste, her mouth was wide open for seconds and thirds!! Yay! So fun!

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Our lil' talker

I thought that she was a talker before, but now she just has conversations with herself, whether in her crib, excersaucer or on her mat. Even in the car seat! My how times have changed!!! There was time when i thought the only thing she would do is cry in her car seat.

Shes loves chatting when on the changing table while reaching for everything in site. I think shes really trying to master the raspberry. Then out come these angry noises...always followed by big smiles. Stretching her vocal chords they say! One of my favorite things right now is when coming into the room where she is at, esp when she is in the excersaucer, smiling and clapping at her...she gets SO excited! Its just about the cutest thing ever!! We will have to get some video posted to support this note here.

This Friday we have our FIRST swim class! I cannot WAIT to see how she handles it. I hope she loves it. I also wonder how I will handle singing in front of strangers to nursery rhymes I forgot the words too. I don't think lip syncing will fly.

Tha Bottle

Oh yea! Shes been holding her bottle a few times at feedings! Not for crazy long but she holds it herself and brings it to her mouth, has a few sips, and then puts it down...talks a little bit and repeats! How fun!!

Ear Pulling

Sometimes this action it means 'teething' and sometimes, I guess it means ear aches/infections. Since shes been ear pulling for a few weeks I assumed it was teething, but after the runny noses, coughs and 3 days of fever above 102....we saw the doc. It ends up she has an ear infection in her left ear and some puss(EWE!) in here right ear. Not to mention the doc had to remove what she called 'potatoes' of earwax from her ear before she could examine it. Just to clear the parents names in childcare grooming, there was NO WAY we could have seen these 'potatoes' to remove them ourselves. She had to use a long teeny weeny ice cream scoop thang.

So Miss Ava is currently on antibiotics and getting her step back. If you have met her or seen her you know shes on the go all the time. Those lil legs just don't stop, not even for sleep. However, this labor day weekend she was a giant sack with that glazed look in her eyes. It was so sad! It gave some real meaning to being parents though. The only thing you could do was hold her and do your best to comfort her over anything else. Rich mentioned last night to my bud Chris, 'this was the first labor Day in a long time that I didn't have anything alcoholic.' Now that I'm thinking, no burgers either. Ha!