Bits by Becca

Sunday, September 22, 2013

A Few Pictures :)

I've totally slacked on the blog posts so I figured I'd get some pictures up. We have been enjoying the little things and the regular moments in our day to day lives, always looking forward to the times we can have as a family. Ava is almost 20 months old! She is growing like a weed and is tall and skinny mini. She is talking non-stop and loves to sing her ABCs. She is fascinated with letters and numbers. She consistently knows all of her letters with the exception of J. :) That one is hit or miss. She likes to count and does really well with 1-5 all the time, she forgets numbers 7 and 12 in her random counting bursts. We think her favorite color is "boo" (blue) but my favorite for her to say is "ellwo" (yellow) and Scott's is "purrpoe" (purple). She has one speed, non-stop trot. She cracks herself up with her fake "ah, ah, ah choos" and then says "neeze" (she cracks me up, too!) Her favorite food is still "cheee" (mac n' chs) and she has a recent fondness for Ba-ga (bagels). She loves all things Sesame Street, especially Elmo (sometimes Momo, allmo, , "Ah-bee" (Abby), "Ro-ray" (Grover) and "Coo Coo Monga" (Cookie Monster)

Loves swings

The first pic I have that looks IDENTICAL to me at that age :)

Baseball with Dada

My sunshine

Her face cracks me up every time "Whoa!"

She loves her swings

Ava shared her pretties with "Goo"

She loves showing off her belly button (Bae-Bae)

Loves making faces at herself

...and she gets sick of the camera too.

She has an obsession with rocks

Baking

Her first lolli

Sitting pretty

Cheeeeee

Ava's "Momo" hat

This girl loves chalk...

...and letters!

She got excited because she saw an "aeee-pee" (airplane)

Making her Christmas list early :)

Quite fond of "lollis" (lollipops)

Always on the move

We are excited for all that Fall has to bring. Looking forward to apples, pumpkins and cute little ones in costumes. Until I get around to posting again...love to you all!

Friday, July 26, 2013

Some Summer Fun

Fun in the sprinkler

We have had a wonderful summer! I can't believe that it is almost over! :( I haven't blogged at all for a couple of reasons, mainly because I lost all of my pictures to a crashed hard drive but also because I feel like there is never time for it! I have been in the process of trying to recover photos from anyone and everyone I can. I am thankful for grandparents that have pictures and for Shutterfly (they let you order an archive CD of any pictures you have uploaded!) I was thrilled to learn that. Now I just have to go through all of the Flickr pictures and save them to my computer. It's not everything but it is certainly better than nothing!

Ava will be 18 months old on August 2nd. We can't believe it! She has 40+ words, still babbles her own language for phrases (although she had her first full phrase a few nights ago, "we brushing teeth" - sounded more like ear bushing deef, but that was with a toothbrush in her mouth, haha!), and is positively all over the place. She loves to spin around, run everywhere she goes and say "hewwo" (hello) to anything new that crosses her path. Her 7th tooth just cut through and she is still a macaroni and cheese fiend, (I don't know where she gets that from). ;) She can identify and find the numbers 2 and 8 and the letters O and sometimes B. She's a goof! Her favorite songs to sing are "Row, Row" as she calls it, ABCs, Itsy Bitsy, and Teapot. (all titles sound like forms of those words but not exactly, except for Row Row, she will say that loud and clear.

Here are a few highlights of our summer, in pictures - no particular order. It began with a family vacation to Colorado and South Dakota, most of those pics are gone, but I will write about what ones I do have next time. We have had many fun adventures this summer; swimming, boating, strawberry picking, time with friends and family...we need more days!!