Baby proofing now begins!

So it's been a long time since I've posted pictures of Ava. We have been getting complaints from people saying they are sick of looking at the cracker, which I'm really tired of looking at it too. And for the record, I put my peanut butter on the TOP of the cracker. Why would you put on the bottom and eat it upside down? (That's just weird!) Ava has definitely had lot of changes since I've last posted. For now, I have posted two videos of Ava. The first is of Ava crawling!! Yes, Ava is crawling now. She's slow at it (for now), but she can definitely crawl to get to where she wants to go. The videos that you will see have no sound, due to our camera without a mic. I tried uploading a video from our video camera so you can hear her, but it didn't work out so well. This first video is of Ava when she first found out she could crawl, which was a few days ago. (Now she crawls a lot faster. It's only a matter of days until she's crawling so fast that I won't be able to keep up with her!) The second video is Ava clapping. She has recently learned to clap her hands together. (It's just so darn cute!) I hope you enjoy and hopefully soon my electronically savvy husband will try to upload some videos with sound soon!

Butter me up!

Ok, so while sitting in my house yesterday I witnessed what can only be called, "A flagrant foul of the buttery kind"

In order to remain impartial in this story and the results of the above poll, the real names and events have been changed.

While enjoying a delightful lunch with my wife and child of Ritz crackers and Peanut Butter I glanced over to see my life partner enjoying a cracker with peanut butter carefully placed on the (inappropriate side of the cracker). I exclaimed, "whoa now, you can't be puttin that p-butter all up on that side, it is unnatural" the person in question responded to me with, "whatever are you speaking of, I can butter whatever side of the cracker that I please."

A ten minute conversation ensued on the correct placement of the butter on a singular Ritz cracker, it got a little heated and some yelling was done, but after some time we decided to agree to disagree, until now.

I am putting it before you, the loyal masses to put this issue to rest. Please voice your opinion on the above poll about where the Peanut Butter should be placed in order to have correct consumption. The results will be available when the truth is known.

Pulling up

Tonight, while I was starting Ava's bath, I put Ava in her crib to play until I was finished running the water. When I went to get Ava, I came in to find her standing up in her crib as you see in the pictures below. This is the first time she's done this all by herself. I couldn't believe it so I ran to get my camera, thinking that by the time I find my camera, run back upstairs to take the picture, she will have already sat back down. But, she was still standing by the time I got back in her room. It was pretty funny too, because you could tell she didn't know what to do with herself. She couldn't figure out how to sit back down apparently. We probably don't have long until she's mobile, so we are going to savor the moments of her sitting still.

Cousins & Relaxation

This weekend my sister and her family came to visit. On Saturday, my sister and I had the idea to take the girls to a park and take pictures of the three cousins together, especially now that Ava is a little older. Once you see the pictures you will soon see what a disaster it was. No one wanted to cooperate, so we left after we were there for only about 5 minutes. The first two pictures are as good as it gets. The third picture depicts the "fun" day at the park. Fortunately, Ava wasn't fussy, but she had no interest in looking at the camera, she just wanted to play with the grass.

We did capture this picture below of Ava while we there. It's one of me and Jonathan's new favorite picture. (I'm sure next week we'll have a new favorite though!)

So, while our husbands were gone for the morning having "guy time", and my sister and I had a stressfull time with the three girls, we thought it was necessary to pamper ourselves that afternoon. Here are a few pics of our time together.

The last time I've had a pedicure was for my wedding, so I felt like I new woman!

Happy Fourth of July

We hope everyone had a great fourth of July. Ava celebrated by wearing red, white and blue. (Don't mind the green bean stains!)

Happy Birthday to Grandma Newell whose birthday was on the fourth.
We hope you had a great celebration!!

6 months old

Ava had her 6 month check-up yesterday. She had a really hard time at her check-up. She wasn't sure what to think of the nurse and the doctor. They were pretty sure they knew what she thought of them though by her screaming the whole time. She's becoming very scared of new people - or she's always been like that. Ava was doing fine until the doctor came in the room and wanted to check her. Then it went down hill pretty quickly. She weighs 15lbs 12oz (50%) and 26 1/2" (75%). Here are a few of my new favorite pictures of Ava...

Don't worry...I was right behind her. She's not doing this all by herself yet, but she sure wants to.

Ava is showing off her new tooth in these last two pictures. We have always loved when Ava smiles, but now we love it even more.

Just when you think your daughter can't get any cuter.