Random pictures over the past few months

Sisterly love

Jonathan's parents graciously came down to watch Ava for us overnight a few weeks ago. Ava wasn't spoiled at all! :)

Lily at 5 months - cut her first two teeth.

My sister and her family were in town last weekend. The girls LOVE playing together. We wish we lived even closer, but we are very thankful that it's only a 3 hour drive.

One of Ava's favorite things to do with daddy. She begs him every night to be thrown up in the air. Jonathan gets his work-out for the day, that's for sure!

Ava loves, loves, loves her daddy.

Ava's name

Lately Ava and I have had "school time". I take about 30-45 minutes in the morning to sit with her and work with sounding out letters and writing them. She will ask to have school time every once in a while, too, so she seems to really enjoy it. She's just soaking it up. It's been fun seeing her learn and how quickly she's picking it up. This past week I've been working with her on writing her name. She finally did it all by herself. I was estatic! And I know, her name only has three letters and two of those letters are the same, but she still did it and I was so excited for her. Makes a momma proud! Now we're working on Lily's name. (So I pick easy names for my kids. Didn't have that in mind when we named them, but it's kind of nice when they start learning to write their name!)

*Update on Lily: She is growing a little better now. We started her on cereal, but she doesn't seem to be too interested. So, we'll keep trying and sooner or later she'll be eating like a champ.

Lily

Lily has found her feet! For the past few months, Ava has been biting her toe nails. It's disgusting! She knows she's not allowed to do that anymore, but now that she sees Lily sucking on her toes, Ava thinks she can do it too.

My sweet girl

Lily is old enough for the Jumperoo now. She loves it, although she isn't quite ready to actually jump yet. It brings back a lot of memories of when Ava was a baby. She would jump forever in this thing. That should've been my first clue to tell how active she was going to be. I'm surprised it's still in good shape. :)

And she likes her Bumbo seat. It's great having her sit with us during dinner now.

Lily is growing up too fast. And even though a lot of moms say that about their babies, I really can relate after having Lily. With Ava I was excited and ready for her next milestone. It was all new to us. (Even though I did get sad when she moved out of the babies nursery into the toddler nursery!) But now that Ava is 2 1/2, I really do know how fast they grow up. Every stage is exciting. I'm trying not to think about how fast time flies, but to enjoy this stage of Lily's life.


*Quick update on Lily: Lily's weight is still dropping in percentile. It was at 47% and now it's at 10%. The doctor isn't quite sure what's going on yet, but right now we will keep monitoring her weight. I'm offering her a bottle after every feeding now. She will take it sometimes, and other times she won't. They aren't sure if it's my milk supply or if something else is going on. We check back in with the pediatrician on Tuesday. I'll try to update then.