Friday, February 26, 2010

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!!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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.

Valentine's Day



Ava loves her new Valentine's Day book from Nana and Grumps! It's called "Snuggle Puppy" and is named after a song on the "Philadelphia Chickens" cd that she has - she loves the book and can say the title. And isn't she just so cute?



Listening to her Valentine's card :) She loves the cards that play music when you open them.



More investigation of the book. She also had a little Valentine's party at her school that Perry and I went to. It was fun. Her favorite thing was the cupcakes!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Kitchen



Ava got a play kitchen today!!! It is fabulous. It was only $45 at Walmart..... but we discovered it was so cheap because we had to completely assemble the entire thing ourselves. It took over 2 hrs of both of us working on it to put it together! But it's worth it - it has a stove, oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge, sink, and cabinets. Also pots/pans/plates/cups/cutlery. And a cordless phone!



Ava was "cooking" up some treats tonight - on the menu was baked Play-Doh!! She kept "checking" it in the oven to see if it was done (imitating me). She is a very busy little girl and is very happy to be "bustling" around her little kitchen like quite the little suzie homemaker :)

Monday, February 8, 2010

Fun in the laundry bin



What a goofy kid! They do the funniest things. Look at that perfect drumming form! She was doing a great job - just sitting there in the laundry bin, drumming away.....

SNOW!!!!!



Well you may have heard that it snowed a little bit last weekend........



It was way too deep for Zoey to walk in it. She refused to pee and poop in the yard.



I decided to continue the Pendley tradition of baking cinnamon rolls from scratch on a snow day. We were totally snowed-in - absolutely impossible to go anywhere all day Saturday. And a good thing, since the cinnamon rolls take about 5 hrs to make!! Boy were they YUMMY! They turned out great. We ate half and brought the other half (pictured above) to a Super Bowl party on Sunday, where they were a huge hit.



A picture down our street taken Saturday afternoon. You can see that the snow is quite deep!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Praying



This is Ava's prayer posture. She loves to pray recently, and asks me to pray "again" and "again." She loves to say "Amen" at the end, and she is pretty good about closing her eyes and putting her hands up to her face to pray. She was obviously peeking in this picture, but that might just be because she knew the camera was out! It is so adorable. She will even remind me when we sit down to eat if I forget to pray. She says something like "dear jesus blehta hesoitja oaisdhfoij amen." :-)

Ava is learning how to sing bits and pieces of songs, such as "twinkle twinkle little star," "ashes ashes all fall down," "row, row, row your boat," and the "wiggle wiggle wiggle" song from the Mickey Mouse clubhouse album (a new favorite). It is so amazing how quickly she is learning. I think that in a few months she'll be able to sing entire songs on her own. She can also count from one to two :) Haha I know that's not much. But she does understand what "two" is and will say "two" when she has two of something. I'm trying to work on teaching her "three" but she seems to have some sort of mental block with that one. Maybe soon she'll figure it out.