FB - July 2 at 7:35pm: Ava walked! It was totally legit, too! She was holding onto the coffee table, turned toward me, let go and stood there, then took 3 steps over to me! :D - YAY! It was AWESOME! It took her a WHILE before she was steady, but now she's running around and I can barely keep up with her!
FB - July 6 at 3:51pm: Ava's new trick: Blowing raspberries. Favorite time to do this: Mealtime. .... :P - Oh, THAT was fun! Fortunately, she only did that for about 3 days.... but blowing raspberries has a completely different affect when you have food in your mouth... :P
Photo - July 10 at 10:54pm: Random picture of Josie.
FB - July 11 at 4:42pm: The downside to having a baby who sleeps 10.5 hrs at night: nap time is nearly nonexistent... - Oh, boy, Sara... you have no idea!
FB - July 11 at 11:38pm: FRIENDS WITH KIDS: How do you transition a kid from nursing/baby food to cow's milk/table food? Ava is nearly a year old now, and I'm wondering how this is supposed to work. I can't imagine you should just go, "BAM! No more of anything you're used to! Here's some whole milk and a sandwich! Good luck, considering you still only have 2 teeth!" Thoughts/ideas? What's worked for you? - I got a lot of great advice, and Ava did just fine with the transition. She doesn't eat NEARLY enough grains, so I'm working on that.. But she's got 8 teeth now, and she's learning how to use them! She LOVES fruit! She'd eat nothing but fruit all day long if I let her!
Photo - July 12 at 10:14am: Ava at story time at the library! The lady who runs story time (in the cropped pants there) blows bubbles for the kids at the end of each session, and Ava LOVES it! She always ends up with dried bubble soap in her hair, but that's fine!
FB - Suzi Grant - July 12 at 3:10pm: Holy 8 years of being married, Batman!! I can't believe it's been that long. Hope y'all are enjoying the ride! Talk to you soon. Can we do math? O:) - Jason and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary this year! And I use the word "celebrated" VERY loosely! I think I saw him for 20 minutes that day. I'm trying to remember if we even celebrated later... I think we might have gotten Chinese or something. *shrugs* We'll do something nice for our 10-year.
Photo - July 13 at 5:22pm: Random picture of Lucy. Sometimes when we go on walks, she gets tired and just lays down... *eye roll*
Photo - July 13 at 7:58pm: Ava says, "Mamamamama... is it bath time?"
Photos - July 14 at 9:40pm: So, for about 3 months, we didn't have access to our little storage room attached to the building. The people who lived here before us (who are related to the owners) still had their stuff in there. So we had a bunch of broken-down boxes stacked against the wall in Ava's room.. Mr. Kiggerz was having fun with them, but then Ava came over to "get" him... So he escaped and perched juuuust high enough that she couldn't reach. Butt head... ;)
FB - July 15 at 12:54am: Am I the only one who feels like they can TOTALLY wait to see Harry Potter when it comes to redbox? I've been over it since before book 7 came out... - Ha! I was kinda surprised I didn't get lynched when I posted this! I dunno... I'm just so OVER Harry Potter... I wonder when it's coming to redbox though. I wouldn't MIND seeing it. And in my defense, I haven't been to the movies in MONTHS. I didn't even get to go see The Help! I AM going to go see Breaking Dawn, part 1 though. It comes out ON my birthday, and I'm getting a sitter. And I might go eat Chinese buffet by myself while I'm at it. Yummmmmmmmmm....
FB - July 16 at 8:42pm: For dinner, we're doing grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup Mexican style: cheese quesadillas and black bean soup (which has a can of tomatoes in it). I used dried black beans, which I soaked and cooked earlier today.... First time using dry beans.... Wish us luck! - YUM! So I have a ton of bags of dried beans, but I've never cooked with them before, so this was an experiment. The soup turned out really yummy!I've made it once since then, too. The cheese quesadillas go GREAT with it, too! If you're interested in making the soup, HERE is the recipe. I couldn't find veggie stock, so I used chicken stock, but the original recipe is vegetarian. I subbed half a bag of dried black beans for the 2 cans. A bag of beans really only makes about 3.5 cans of beans, but since it's a soup, exact measurements aren't so important... and I wanted to be able to make it twice!
Photo - July 18 at 9:55pm: The beginning of Ava's climbing phase. It's getting worse and worse and worse the older she gets... (Jason is JUST outside the picture to the left, in case you're wondering... or worried....) The color on this picture is TERRIBLE. I don't even know which onesie she's wearing, because she doesn't have one THAT color! And that's Jason's iPhone 4! Just saying... My phone's camera may have worse resolution, but at least the color is okay!
Anyway, I'm not sure what all this tells you... That we're boring and don't really do anything? Probably. The bubbles are a highlight of MY week, too... ;)
