First beach day

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Mothers Day

What a beautiful weekend! The weather was perfect, Avah slept all night, had a yummy breakfast and got our first official beach day in! This Mother's Day weekend started with a play date on Friday evening at the park.. Saturday we had Mommy and Avah time at the beach. It was perfect, I couldn't believe how well she did. I pictured chasing her everywhere- she did everything but that. We pointed at every bird that flew by and even fed a couple, she says "bir" :) we ate snack on the blanket for about an hour.. And I swear she even laid down next to me, already teaching her right. Beach time = lay out time. I'm sure once fun Daddy comes along with surf boards and all shell be into the water but right now not so much. Then we took a 2 hour nap together, ahh it was amazing! Been a long time since I napped when she did. Can't wait for summer break. There will be no household chores to cram in while she sleeps. Today we went breakfast and had dinner with David's family at the south end. Now if we can just get over this head cold crud, we are off to my bfs wedding this week!!
Here is our annual front porch pic!

Spring Break thus far..

L o v i n g it!! Just a little dose of what summer entails, I cannot wait! There have been Easter hunts, golf dates, spinning classes, children's museum, play dates and dinners out! Here's a photo dump!

13 months, 2 weeks!

I've been so slack I'm blogging lately, partially due to the amazing weather we've had and business of the house (David's working a night now) But I thought i just had to write up a few of "Avah-isms" so I don't forget!

Says hello is all people and things- literally. We can't sit at dinner without her greeting everyone. It's quite cute, hopefully the strangers enjoy it too. She says hello everyone she sees a cell phone as well :) she brings Dada his cell and remote, interesting huh?!? Haha she's very much an outgoing baby!
She loves must food- still can't disguise the avocado but she even drank some of my green spinach smoothie!
Her current words are.. Hello, hey, bird, ball, mama, dada, nana, Elmo and she says goes ruff ruff when u ask her what dogs make. She runs to fridge when you ask if she's hungry and runs to the changing table if she needs a diaper change. We think she's a genius but were a little bias ;)

Painting playdate

2 mamas+ 2 babies + fingerprint + yummy gluten free pizza ++ a cold blue moon = a GREAT time for all!! On Saturday we spent the afternoon with our friends Angela and Ella. Ella is almost 10 months so she and Avah are really beginning to play and love each others company. Angela and I always have a good time so in all it was a fun afternoon! Ella has this big toy they can crawl through so Avah had fun with that and she enjoyed trying to eat their doggies food. Towards the end they were both getting tired so they were talking and yelling up a storm at each other which was really cute! It's so nice having a friend on this journey with. I think it's so important having mama friends to share all the interesting tid bits of motherhood with..

Today has been rainy so we did our usual Sunday morning breakfast at sears landing and have vegged out all day!

First Birthday!

I still can't believe it's been a year...this past weekend we celebrated with a Tea Party. A huge thanks to my family for traveling from Ohio and helping me decorate! I ordered some of the decorations from etsy ( bday banner, high chair banner and Pom poms) I made the food labels and ordered cupcakes from coastal cupcakes here in Wilmington. We had chicken salad, fruit/ cheese and pea salad and of course pink lemonade and tea with honey and orange slices.
At one Avah is 29 in and 20 lbs. the doctor said she had a really great "disposition" she was waving, all smiles and asking to be held the entire visit. While we were in the waiting room she wouldn't stop smiling and laughing at everyone. She is so happy and very out going. She is also very determined and strong willed. I can say she pretty much seems to have the best of both of us. Its amazing how much she can problem solve already, smart cookie. She understands "no thank you" and understands things we say to her like come here. We try to say no thank you in hopes she wont yell NO!! at us LOL Her bedtime routine is pretty much the same. Always to sleep by 7 and wakes sometimes once during the night. She loves giving the dogs, us & her baby dolls kisses. She continues to love finger foods and this week we started some chicken which she seems to like. We are transitioning to whole milk and she stopped breast feeding last week. Hard to believe at 3 months I almost gave up and now it's over.. Those 12 months went so fast.. Trying to savor every stage!

Nursing

I think this might be it. It's been 2 days now and Avah has not even tried to nurse. Usually at bed time she always wants to nurse right before bed until this week. She just stopped! I lay her down, turn on her lullaby music and she's out! I really thought I'd nurse until the summer at least once a day but if she isn't pushing it then I guess I'll let go - haha. Her party is this weekend and I am so excited! It's been a lot of planning- we are going with a tea party. Not really baby friendly but I figured she has her life to make me do tacky themed cartoon parties! I have balloons ordered, cupcakes ordered ( yeah I'm the mom that does not make a bday cake)Mimi's tea cups/saucers on their way and cutesy decorations!

She's already obsessed with the car we got her. In fact we put it in the garage bc she would've leave it alone!