Christmas!

A few of my favorites from Christmas. This was the best Christmas yet, seeing Avah & the kiddos excited over gifts was the best! We celebrated a few days early at our home so we could travel to Ohio on the 21st. She opened her Christmas eve gift which was the DVD player for the car. BOY was this a life saver on the trip! Avah slept the entire time or watched a little Baby Einstein. :)  Thanks to Nana. Her favorite gift from Mimi was the ball pit or the shape box. Little puppy mojo enjoyed the ball pit too. The photo of Avah in the puppy bed makes me laugh...she LOVES sitting in anything that she isnt supposed to-boxes, serving trays, cabinets..or dog beds to name a few.

9 months!

Avah's 9 month well check is Thursday, cant wait to see how  much she has grown. These days she does not stop moving!! She started walking with a push walker yesterday...walking by Christmas? Thats everyones prediction..

Shes been eating a lot of finger foods. She likes scrambled eggs, toast, french toast, chicken, string cheese, fruit..just to name a few.

8 months!

So I know the picture says 7 months but her 8 month picture must be on the other memory card. I cant believe I havent posted on all the changes that have been going on. UGH, busy at work and busy chasing Avah leads me no time to unwind at night. Thankfully since I am a teacher we are getting 2 really good breaks coming up! 
What new:
Avah crawls EVERYWHERE, room to room leaving us behind :)
She cruises from couch to ottoman, window sill to kitchen chairs & buffet to dining room chairs! 
She can go from standing to sitting by bending her knees AND will pick up a toy she drops.
She LOVES feeding herself by picking up small pieces like cereal puffs and tonight we tried carrots. She mainly just smashed them all over the place and left some for Loki & Lola to eat of the ground.
SAYS "DADA" ALLLLLL the time. I love it but it would be nice to hear some "MAMA" too!
Into everything! I had to move her toys away from one corner of the house to the other because she kept going for all the rocks in the fireplace that was near by. Well we still find her other there so that didnt really work! LOL
She laughs and giggles all the time, loves peek-a-boo.
Exactly one year ago we had moved into our house and 2 weeks ago found out we were having a GIRL!!!
Dressed as Minnie Mouse for Halloween.
Has majorly regressed in sleeping...many nights in our bed..(I know bad mommy) But when Ive got to work I need some kind of sleep so at this point im desperate! Going to try more finger foods..maybe thinking she is hungry. She still doesnt love baby food...I think she would rather feed herself.

This picture was almost a year ago! With sweet lil Avah in mommy's belly. We never knew at the time how much MORE we would smile everyday! Seriously, I've never smiled so much in my life.

Charleston Weekend

If you get a chance to visit Charleston you must check out the South Carolina Aquarium. It has so many great exhibits, beats our Ft. Fisher aquarium out of the ball park!

7 month pictures

So we just got back Avah's 7 month pictures and they are ALL so good we cant decide!! She was so good for the pictures, it was her bed time and all. We got to the beach around 5:30 then we needed to wait an additional 30 minutes for the sun to go down. Avah's typical routine is bath around 6, sleep by 6:30. So you can imagine my anxiety on the drive there. Im thinking crabby, fussy baby- take me home MOMMY! LOL but she loves people and will smile every chance she gets with a little attention :)

We are going to have a crawler soon...

Avah is moving around like crazy these days! I look over and shes getting a toy from her toy basket?! I tell her "stop, Avah mommy wants you to stay little forever!" :) On Sunday we look over and she is attempting to pull herself onto our ottoman, I grabbed a picture of this one. She stood there for a good minute then plopped down.

We have officially stored away 6 month clothing, her swing & baby bath tub. All too small. She is so much fun, I just cant tell everyone enough...she is seriously such a good baby! Scares me to even think about trying for a 2nd..there is no way we could possibly get this lucky again!!

The sleep training no sleep training did not work for us. We both cannot deal with a screaming baby at 3am when its time to sleep and get up for work in 2 hours. It just is not going to work for us. So, even though Dr. said Avah should sleep all night without eating, its not happenin' in this household. In fact, since we tried it that night I feel like her sleep has gotten worse. Some nights she is awake every  3 hours. Last night she'd wake every time we laid her in the crib. So that resulted with David on the couch and us in the big bed! Her normal night is sleeps really well 7-1, then up at 3am and 6am. She eats each time, goes right back to sleep. But recently, shes waking more. From what Ive read it could be teeth or growing-who really knows? Shes drooling a lot though. But I know this will past, she will sleep when shes ready and until then I am tired! Ready for 3 day weekend with my babes! We have 7 month pics at the beach, hitting up the pumpkin patch, cleaning up the beach in our beach sweep, buckeye game and a day off with the hubby! Going to be a good weekend!

*Avah's purple shirt in the pics says- Im the princess, Mommy is the queen and Daddy is around here somewhere. So fitting.. haha..