Weekend Fun

Ava had a fun weekend that included turning 5 months yesterday. She is progressing nicely, and is definitely a little crowd pleaser, with her constant smiles.

Saturday she came out and supported mom at the “12K’s of Christmas” race to benefit the Maricopa County Animal Control Center. While all participants received a Santa hat, Ava came decked out in her own.

After the race we hit up “The Good Egg” for a carb-a-rific breakfast of pancakes. Ava had fun sitting on our laps playing with the single serving jam and jelly condiments. She may have also knocked a few spoons on the floor.

We chilled out at home the rest of the afternoon and wrapped presents and listened to Christmas carols. We discovered Ava is obsessed with the wrapping paper. Here she is “helping…”

Finally, a birthday bath. I thought it was cute how she has her washcloth. I guess she heard about the bath tub shots that parents bring out to embarass their kids at graduation and other big events.

Ava 5 months; 12/13/09

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

With the morning temperatures in the high 30’s here in the desert, it is definately feeling a bit wintery.  Ava is playing this particular morning in her long sleeve, footed jammies.  Happily playing with her “cell phone.”

:02 minutes later, concentrating hard…

:03 minutes, cell phone isn’t that interesting, but blanket is…

Before 4 minutes…bored to tears, pick me up now mom!

But at least during those 3 1/2 minutes I was able to get up a few Santa Bears in the living room.  Later, after getting dressed, Ava demonstrates. 

 

Heading out to a party, she wore her “Santa’s little helper” hat.  

Yesterday we woke up to this magnificent sun rise over the McDowell Mountains. 

After coming in from a walk, I find Ava helping dad with his computer work. 

 

Hopefully, the day will warm up a bit so we can get out for a walk.  This weekend perhaps sitting on Santa’s lap. 

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)

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!

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

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

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

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.

 

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

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

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.

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. 

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!

On the way into court…

In the courtroom, after it was made official…

 

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

And spinning her toy on the bumbo chair.

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

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…

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.’

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…

And finally, our Sweetpea on Halloween.

Baths, Bands, and Buddies

This week’s big milestone – rolling over. Ava likes her tummy time now, lifting her head to see what is out there. She even manages to roll over onto her back every once in a while…

Ava is definitely a water baby – in addition to having fun swimming, she lover her bath time.

Our neighborhood did a fall festival on Saturday, which was a great chance to dress up Ava in her Halloween costume. The yellow and blue M&M’s in the background are our friends, Max and Mason.

 

We also got out to see some jazz bands on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. Here’s Ava clapping along (or maybe just happy with her outfit).

 

Chase and Ava are definitely buddies, as the following demonstrate…