Snow Day!

Lots of snow over the weekend! Ava was interested in it, and was trying to help Daddy shovel with her little plastic shovel. However, her efforts were hampered by her absolute REFUSAL to wear her mittens, which makes for cold hands and unhappy times in the snow. By the way, she also REFUSED to wear her boots.




I tried to get a picture of her goopy pink eye eyes. This was Sunday so they were starting to look better. Poor baby - she sure hates getting her eye medicine.

You can also see in the background my beautiful new Keurig Select coffeemaker!!! YAY! Thank you husband Perry and Lis and Perry! It makes YUMMY coffee and is so nice and easy. It can also make tea and hot chocolate! Here's a better shot of it:

Thanksgiving and etc.

Ava finally figured out how to walk and push the poppy ball thing at the same time.


The whole Hodge side of the family together for Thanksgiving dinner.


Us at the Hodge house over Thanksgiving. Ava loves "playing" the piano :)


Happy Ava rolling on the floor.


Nothing much new is going on around here. Perry is busy studying for finals and writing papers. We have been busy with the usual Christmas season stuff. I am thinking about starting to train for another marathon (4/10/09 in Lancaster). (i.e. this would actually be the end of week 1 of training!) We'll see how that goes.

A new cute thing that Ava has been doing lately is saying "hug" and hugging us, stuffed animals, the dog, etc. It's really adorable! And she says it when she's scared and needs comforting, too. She is really obsessed with Winnie the Pooh now, and asks all the time to watch Pooh on tv (we have videos) - this is getting to be a problem because she really likes it, but I don't want her to watch much tv! I didn't think this day would come so soon...... I just need to continue to be strict about limiting tv even though she asks for it. She doesn't watch it daily, and on the days that she does watch it, it's for about 30 mins or so.