A shout out to the BIG GUY

At dinner tonight with Ava & Bammy...

A: "Prayer Time!!!!"

me: "Yes, it is do you want to say it honey?"

A: "Yes, but you and Bammy repeat after me, ok?

me: "Ok."

A:

"Praise the Lord" (insert us repeating each phrase)

"For our God"

"For our Food"

"For our Soldiers" (insert my confused glance to Bammy over this random insert. She catches my eye and is trying not to smile)

"To keep them safe" (melt.my.heart. at this precious angel and her remembering what must be a 4th of July prayer she learned at school)

"And to keep them safe"

"And from not being dead"

"But some did get dead."

"AMEN."

Uhmmm..oh ok. So seriously I am trying not to giggle at how proud & sweet she was about this RANDOM prayer she concocted, but also so proud that she remembered such a sweet prayer (though obviously not completely the right words).


Happy belated 4th and thank you to all of our service men & women!!!

All or nothing.

She created her dough then they baked it for her at Home Slice {hands down the B.E.S.T. NY style pizza in Austin}. She was beyond thrilled when (the owner) came walking up with her play pizza dough all baked and ready to eat.

She said she wanted to work there "until she died" And told the waitress...in her very quiet Ava voice "hey! I like u, ok? Let's work here. Me and you and mommy can visit too. You clean & I'll make dough."

Then she walked to the pizza "chef" Jose on the way out and said "thank u for cooking my dough. I want to live with u here. Forever."

Uhmmm yes, we're all or nothing right now. She also told me "I have a boyfriend mama. His name is Sebastian. It's been two days."

awesome.

Four, 4, Quatro...6.15.10

How is my baby FOUR today? How in the world did that happen? I remember the day of her birth so vividly. Every second of it. She is such a little person now ;) We have the best time together and I truly want to FREEZE her at this precious age. Yes, I have said that at every Ava-age, but now I want to officially say STOP! I can't believe in less than a year and a half my angel will be starting school!? Ooof. I hope God let's this time go by nice and slowly so I can savor every bit of 4, Four, Quatro.

I love you sweet angel A, to the moon and back and then around again. You are the sweetest, FUNNIEST, most caring, joyful, kind-hearted, sweet baby girl a mommy could ask for. I feel so blessed that you are mine.

I wish you a beautiful year full of fun, laughter, rainbows and smiles.

Happy Birthday Ava Hope!

--love mama

Close but not quite....

I handed Ava her vitamin a few days ago and as she was chewing it she put her hand on her throat...

ME: "Baby, are you ok?"

Ava: "Yeah mama, I'm fine. I just think I have a little bit stuck on my windshield wiper."

I'm screwed.

(Dropping something) Ava: "Oh Dan!"

Me "Ava. No ma'am, you do not say that word."

Ava: "Why, Dan's not a bad word. {thinking} But DAMN sure is, right mama?!"


She found a loop hole.

Damn.

Ava Prayers

Ava: "Thank you God for my mommy, my daddy, for making me and my 'Angel Kiss' (her birthmark) oh! And for palm trees. Amen."

Happy New Year!

Boo!

{More to come from Minnie}

*Lovin' the tights...

One little, two little, three little pumpkins....

Getting into the Halloween spirit we HAD to decorate baby pumpkins! We've had the house decorated since early September so now we can add to the festive feel a bit more. After dinner we grabbed our paints, stickers, googly eyes, glue, cotton balls, feathers, markers and more and set to decorate! With all the pumpkins I was a little excited too but...I got one. Yes, ONE and Miss A claimed the rest. Darn! Guess I'll let the 3 year old have her fun ;-)

Just getting started

This one is hilarious. I asked who the next pumpkin was for, she said "Uncle Andy" and then I had to "not look" until she was done. When I turned around I saw this. A bunch of googly eyes and nothing else. She said "That's it mama, that's what he likes. Googly Eyes." Who knew? Happy Halloween Bro!

Isn't my steady hand amazing in these iPhone pics? My sweet Paiger's will be so proud. She can take these as examples in her super cool photography class and show them what a true "candid" shot is supposed to look like. *I should show up to that class with my iPhone camera ready to roll!

Ok, I digress....

The finished Products! Cole's (the black one) is supposed to be a transformer, his favorite! Lili's is the cotton ball/ghost head on the right. Bammy's is covered w/stickers, Carter's is on the top right with more cotton balls, daddy's is next to Carter's on the left, then mine for Ava and then Ava's for me on far left.

Checkin' out her masterpieces

This is her pose she's showing me "from school" she had her class pics last week. "See mama, this is what I do with my hands and see my feet? Like this. Then I smiled like this."

Then Ava's shot of me. Probably best this was fuzzy my friends.

Happy Halloween!!!

Thank you

Ava's great Nana K gave her a gorgeous necklace recently. I thought we needed to write her a sweet thank you note and boy was Miss A excited! She ran to her coloring book and started to color her a Strawberry (we're loving Strawberry Shortcake right now) then I suggested we write a note....I was F.L.O.O.R.E.D. at her little writing skills. Yes, I know she's my one and only, so I have nothing to compare to, but I still am so proud at three little years what she can write so well. You go girl! Mama is beaming over here!

Thank you Nana! Original will be mailed soon :)

*Ava's writing is the Red and mine in the blue. I love the "hearts" she's working really hard on these, it's her favorite and learning her K's.
Yes, pics are sooo fuzzy since I only have an iPhone for a camera so....this is whatcha get for now!