Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving Week Fun

Each week seems to be more fun and more smiles with Ava.  She has been obsessed with putting her feet in her mouth.  Maybe I’m just jealous that I’m not that flexible. 

Here Ava is picking out a Christmas present from the Crate and Barrel catalogue for mommy.  (hint, hint)

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Dressed warm for our early morning walks with the dog.  Hard to believe less than 4 months ago she couldn’t go on the morning walks because it was to hot! DSC01189

Ava is finding that Chase’s hair is as fun to pull as Mom’s hair.  Poor Chasey – he’s so tolerant.   DSC01193

Thanksgiving Day with her little Turkey outfit, chilling out watching football while mom and dad cook.   DSC01207

Hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving weekend.  Let the Christmas decorating begin!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Ava’s week of field trips

We had a fun week here at the Ameduri household.  Ava had her first professional photos taken.  Here is one of them.  She was a total ham, and obviously likes to be in front of the camera.

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Next up, we took advantage of the Phoenix Art Museum’s free Wednesday evenings and discovered our little girl loves to look at art.

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(Seen in her 4 month, going on fourteen, jean skirt and leggings.)

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Thursday we walked down to Westworld and hit up the Cynosport Dog Show.  Of course Chase wanted to partake in the amateur division of Splash Dogs.

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Ava was fascinated with the dogs.

Finally, on Saturday she spent a little time at the Village Health Club watching daddy play tennis.  (No pictures)  She was curious and behaved perfectly watching the match.  Dad says she is destined to be the next Anna Kournikova. 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

It’s Official!

Today was our court date. Ava is officially an Ameduri now! After all the paperwork was filed, we simply had to go to court to swear under oath on it all, and the judge then made it final! So here’s to Ava Shea Ameduri!

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In the courtroom, after it was made official…DSC01146

 

And of course a few more photos from the last few days. With her “tambourines”…DSC01139

And spinning her toy on the bumbo chair. DSC01132

And a few taken by someone when we were at a jazz concert a few weeks ago…image004 image006

Monday, November 2, 2009

Last Week in October

Another month has flown by.  Since Ava was born, I think time has sped up three fold.  The last week of October was also my last week of work.  I received this as a text message on my phone on one of my last days…

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I am now a full time stay at home mommy.  Here are a few more adorable pictures of Ava from this past week.   Apparently she is already hooked on the ‘crackberry.’

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I especially like this one.  One of the cooler evenings last week, we put on one of the vintage looking onesies my mom had sent.  I asked her where she got it, and it turns out it was mine!  There was something so sweet about dressing her in something I once wore…

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And finally, our Sweetpea on Halloween.

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