The Alford Family: What's up with Ava- January 2015

Ava has had quite an eventful month. We have been playing hard, learning some new things, and becoming a big girl.

She and her sis love to brush their teeth together. Mostly, they just love to suck the toothpaste off the toothbrush and chew on the brush.

Ava was upgraded to her big girl bed. She has become scared of the dark since we have made this change. I think some of it is due to the fact that she has nothing surrounding her to make her feel protected and that feels a little scary to her. She doesn't sleep with a guardrail. She sleeps in a big girl bed when she is over at her Mimi's house without one. She doesn't usually have any issues. She fell out of her bed once, but other than that, she has done well. Sally really wants to snuggle down in there, too.

There she is sleeping away, looking so peaceful.

Ava loves arts and crafts and learning. She got to paint a paper blue and then we pulled the tape off and it looked like white snowflakes falling in the blue sky.

She really is such a goofy little thing.

These two are becoming just the best of friends. It is precious. I love that they have each other. I don't think they would know what to do without each other.

It has been fun and funny watching Ava do things that are mimicking me. She has Sally sit at the little table and she announces when it is meal time. She is using the kitchen now as an actual place to play instead of just throwing all the kitchen toys around. Although, she is quite the mess in the kitchen, just like her mommy. :)

I have been really bad at keeping up with funny things she says. And, lets be real, she says some funny stuff on a consistent basis. But some of the things I can recall:

"I have a booger, mommy. Don't freak out."

While at Target, we were near the bra and underwear section and Ava sees bras. She says, (very loudly, I might add), "Mommy! Those are for boo boos...JUST LIKE YOURS!!!!" My mom and sister would both agree and say it is payback!

She is super serious and almost gets offended if you say she is a stink pot or a silly goose. She is very adamant that, "No, I am Ava!"

Her new favorite movie is Despicable Me. Her favorite line in the movie is when Gru says, "lightbulb". She gets a quick out of that! She has also picked up some very questionable dance moves from Gru. Why are kids so quick to notice that kind of stuff?

She got to play in the snow. She has been wanting to make a snow angel since she saw it done on a Christmas movie we watched. Finally, her day came to be able to do that. She also made a very interesting looking snowman with her daddy.