Weekend with the Grandparents and Great-Grandparents

Ava was so happy to see her grandma and grandpa and grgrpa and grgrma that she got right to her feet!

Grandpa kept Ava happy while waiting for our table for dinner that night.

Great-Grandpa even got a kiss good-bye!

Some Recent Favorites

So I have not done such a great job of keeping up with this blog (obviously) and to catch up I will just post some of my favorite recent pictures of Ava. She is going to be 10 and a 1/2 months on Sunday and it's just so hard to believe she will be 1 soon! She has mastered crawling and I am pretty sure she can beat me in a race. Her favorite food is Yo-Yo baby, even dad tries to steal bites of this yummy stuff! Currently she loves to pull herself up on everything including her crib, coffee table, baby piano, and my personal favorite-the dishwasher.

Baby Mozart (yeah right, not with these parents!)

What were you thinking mom?


Special Delivery

Happy Halloween (and Happy Birthday Dad too)!

Poor Ava...because Mom likes turtles she is stuck with lots of turtle clothes, decorations, bath mats, and of course she had to be a turtle for Halloween too! Grandma Kuehn found a "Squirt" (Crush's sidekick from Finding Nemo) costume at Disneyland and Ava fit into it perfectly.

By the way, this was the best costume ever! It was designed so that the top was a zip-up jacket with a hood and pants, so Ava probably had no clue she was in a costume and could carry on-crawl-like normal!

Pumpkin Patch

Our neighbors invited us to go to a local pumpkin patch with them and I'm so glad we went. It was so nice to see our little pumpkin mixed in with all the rest!

First Trip to Disney Land

Ava took her first trip to Disneyland when some of her favorite cousins were visiting from Boston! She was completely mesmerized by all the new sights and sounds. Her first ride was "Buzz Lightyear" which she rode with Grandma Kuehn and Auntie Lyndsey. After that it was time for "It's a Small World," in which Ava looked like she could be one of the little people-she was just their size. I can't wait to take her to Disneyland as she gets older, it really is the happiest place on earth-as it keeps Ava very very happy and therefore Mommy very very happy!

New wheels!

Grandma Susan bought Ava her first car and she loves it! She will let you push her around in that all day long. She's such a natural, isn't she?

Where did we leave off? September updates

Wow, I am way behind here...a lot has happened over the past few months. Ava spent Labor Day weekend in Newport Beach with Grandma and Grandpa Susan. See below how she modeled at the Anthropologie store.
She also got some good time in with her Great Grandpa.
Then she took her first visit to the San Diego Zoo with mom and Auntie E (Dad was away in Vegas hanging out with some other animals). Where she had her portrait taken (she was all smiles over that one):
She went apes over being at the zoo and stuck her neck out to see everything!