Uh OH her comes trouble

I was really hoping to have her walking by her first birthday but she wasn't. One Thursday night about 10 days later we were sitting around just doing the normal thing and she took 3 steps. She had been doing that for a couple of weeks but never more. She was in the middle of the living room with a toy and she looked at me on the couch and took off. UH it was the proudest moment of my life.... I just stared at her. I was so happy that both of us were here to see it she did so good!!! In all the excitement the only thing I didn't think about was a camera HA!!

Neglected.....

Ok so it happened. I knew that I was going to never write in this. I guess we can play catch up from last post. We will start with her birthday party well lets call it birthday festivities haha. Her paternal grandparents along with her Uncle and Aunt live in Pennsylvania, so the weekend they came into town in May her grandparents and my parents came over for dinner and cake and ice cream. It was nice and a lot of fun. Ava hated the whole cake experience. So the next weekend was her BLOW OUT... We went and had a gorgeous cake made, I had a dress made for her, we bought chicken to grill and we were all out by the pool. She had her "Besties Friends" show up, Kelsey Lynn, Goldie Grayce and Kyler. Also, there other people that love and care up her... Her Uncle Chris, Aunt Shannon, Nonna, Granddaddy, Uncle Derek, Mrs. Katie, Ms. Brittany, Ms. Kristina and Ms. Lynn, Ms. Julia.... Also, two very special people that are like another set of Grandparents Mr. Bobby and ms. Lurlene. Luckily her Aunt Laura and Cassidy were able to come from Pennsylvania. Ava did really well until it was nap time and she crashed while eating her chicken it was pretty funny. Because of the busy season everyone came into two groups so it was nice to be able visit with everyone. She sleep for a few minutes and then I woke her up to open her presents. Then all the guys and Kyler went swimming for a little while we were terrified the rain was going to catch up!! We have a lot of great pictures and it was definitely the best 1ST BIRTHDAY party I have ever been to ;)

Playdate

Today I had like three people that needed to stop by for something or another. One being a friend of mine whose baby is like 5 months older than Ava. I have another friend whose baby is 3 months younger than Ava and she has "played" with Kelsey Lynn a couple of times but that usually consists of Ava taking whatever we have giving Kelsey and Kelsey "yelling" at her! We always say we can't wait till they can actually play together without me being nervous Ava is going to beat her up! But today was different Goldie Grayce was walking around playing and Ava was crawling after her. We laughed so hard at them communicating and then it went south. Goldie Grayce is VERY much attached to her blankie and Ava was not being a good hostess. She sat on it and she GG could not get if from her well GG was ticked. She screamed and tugged and in the process fell down and hurt her eye :( That was sad but everytime Ava got near her she yelled and buried her head in her mommma like she was holding a grudge OMG we had the best time. Everything except the injury was just HILARIOUS! We have made plans to for sure do that again!

And she's off...

So I work fulltime but I work from home some of the time and today while my Manny (dad) was watching Ava she did it! She walked....Well only two steps. She pulled up on their dog and then went for my dad. I have spent a lot of time worrying about me missing the big milestones! She did crawl for the first time over there and I hated that but I kind of came up with a rule...If it doesn't happen here it doesn't COUNT! The first time is the first time with me.

The beginning....

I totally enjoy reading everyone else's blog so I thought I would give it a go! Ava is doing some pretty hilarious things these days and like everyone else's blogs I would like to maybe jot it down so I can have record of it! I try and get on the internet for a couple of minutes each night and this hopefully will slide into my routine. I very rarely make time for my friends so maybe they can keep up with us! Ok who am I kidding I will probably neglect this like everything else! HA... Well that is the start right now Brandon is in the kitchen looking for something as usual and Ava is refusing to go to sleep, so this is the LAST thing I should be doing!