Florida Part 4 - At the Beach

Beautiful sky, beautiful bundled up little girl at the beach :)



Fun cold day at the beach. Actually the beach trip lasted about 30 mins. before Ava started repeating over and over again "all done, all done ocean" and we had to go home :)



Daddy doing what daddies do at the beach.

Florida Part 3 - At the Pool

Family photo at the pool! The ONLY day of our vacation that it was warm enough to swim in the pool.



Little cutie in her swimsuit.



She loved swimming! And playing with her buckets "making pancakes". (hahaha)

Florida Part 2

Ava got a lot of practice on the stairs. She became quite adept (finally) at descending the stairs on her own.



She loved watching us ride the bikes.



We played with bubbles for a long time - always a favorite activity.



And then hopped in the puddles that were left by the morning rain.

Florida Part 1 - At the Zoo

I am going to divide up the photos from our FL trip into a few different postings. The first one is from our trip to a little zoo that we took.



Here are some of the baby gators we saw! The adults were MUCH MUCH bigger, and there were a ton of them all together, all over the place. Ava loved pointing out the "aggigakers".



Ava and Grampy.





Cutie all ready for her day at the zoo!

Baby Love and Peekaboo

Playing peekaboo with Mommy.



She loves being upside down - can't wait until she can start gymnastics, I think she'll love it!

Another snow day

It's tough work looking cute all the time :) Sometimes I just need a quiet moment to drink my apple juice and collect my thoughts.



I try to keep up with friends and family on email as often as possible. I also check the baby blogs and news stories.



I've been busy letting my mom pack our stuff to go to FL on Sunday!!

Little Shirley Temple

A little photo of Ava dressed up to go to church this morning. I'm not sure why, but this reminds me of an old photo. Maybe the pose and the coat (the wool coat used to be Julia's). Either way, she looks cute! She loves to wear her "fancy shoes."

Perry taught her that when he asks "what does Mommy say?" she says "I love you!" It is adorable. And today we asked her "what does Grampy say?" and she said "Grampy says MOOOO"!!!!! So she answered in a 3 word sentence! Normally she just says "Moo," not "grampy says Moo". She says so many words I can't even begin to count them, and often says 2-3 word phrases consisting of subject and verb. She doesn't understand "me" and "you" or "mine" and "yours" so she always talks about herself in the 3rd person. But she definitely gets the point across.