Carving pumpkins!

We carved pumpkins tonight! It was fun! :) Ava wouldn't touch the pumpkin insides with her hands. I guess it was too icky. She is such a girl... :) While Daddy and Mommy were cutting out the faces with sharp knives, Ava painted her pumpkin.
They turned out cute! Now we have a matching pumpkin family on our doorstep! Ava was very excited to see them lit up!! :)

Ava kept telling me today that she wanted to trick or treat. She is excited!! :)

Beautiful day!!

It was gorgeous outside today!! I love it when it is sunny after a week of rain. It is so pretty! Everything is still wet outside, but smells so fresh!

Ava had so much fun! I finally decided to stop telling her to stay out of the puddles and just let her get dirty and have fun. She even sat down in a puddle. We had a bath when we got home. :)

We want to order some wrap canvas photos for the wall. I wanted them to look more like a painting rather than a photo. This is what I came up with after messing with a few pictures we took at the park today.

You will get a better idea of what they will look like if you click them to make them bigger. :)

Fun with Uncles!!

Uncle Ro left tonight! We had fun while he was here! We made a few trips to the starfish store (Toy's R Us). Ava calls it the starfish store because the "R" has a star behind it. Uncle Ro spoiled Ava with some new stuff for her Thomas train set.

Poor Uncle Ro just got over Pneumonia. He started getting sick with some swelling, and sore muscles while he was here. He wasn't feeling too hot. We hope you feel better soon Uncle Ro!! We miss you!!!

Ava is so much fun to talk to! She understands just about everything you say. She says EVERYTHING and surprises me every single day with new sentences! She is singing whole songs now without missing many words. I have been singing her "The sun will come out tomorrow" before bed. We have been talking about what tomorrow will bring and what are plans are, right before she goes to bed. When I leave her room she lays there and sings it. "Tomorrow, tomorrow" it is SO cute!!!
he has also started this new thing a few weeks ago. When I lay her down and pile all her stuffed animals on top of her, she grabs my hand and holds it to her cheek and says "Mommy wait" or "Mommy wait a minute". It completely melts my heart and makes me want to get in her crib with her and go to sleep!!

We got Ava an alphabet puzzle! She is SO smart! She recognizes I would say about 20 of the 26 letters of the alphabet! The puzzle is great. She loves to play with it, and when she takes the letters out, she can match the colors to figure out what order they go in to put them back.

This picture was right before Ro left tonight. Ava said "Uncle Ro gonna go airplane fly sky!"



Ava really liked to watch her Thomas show on Uncle Ro's iphone. She must have asked him 100 times while he was here.
Uncle Cade! Ava was completely beside herself when I told her Uncle Cade was coming to see her. She is so in love with him!! I told her a little earlier in the day that he was coming over that night. As soon as I got her up from her nap she said "I wanna see Uncle Cade". She kept saying that ALL day. She was eating dinner when he finally arrived. When I told her he was here, she started shaking and trying to unbuckle her booster seat to make it to the door.

AWWW!!!!

Uncle Ro had this old picture on his phone. I almost died when I saw it!! I hardly remember when Ava looked like this, and that was only a year ago!!!

Yay, it's almost Friday!!!

Uncle Ro is coming to visit tomorrow!  He will be here until Tuesday.  Ava is excited!  We have been talking about it today, cleaning up the house, and getting ready for him to come!




Our friends Andrea and Chad gave us these books that their girls have grown out of.  Ava LOVES books and it was a very special treat for her to get all of these at one time!!! :)  We've spent a LOT of time reading her new stories over and over the last few days. Thank you Luke family!!! :)

Hugs!

I'm not big on bare belly pics, but Raf and I were laughing about my "old man at walmart" belly sticking out of the bottom of my shirt tonight. I guess I am past the point of being able to wear non-maternity shirts. He grabbed the camera to take a pic, and Ava ran in at the last second! I thought it was so sweet! Hugging her little sister. :)


This little girl is definitely more out front like a pumpkin than Ava was. 4 months to go!!


Ava moved her stool into the bathroom and got in to Mommy's "Lakeup" (Makeup) today. Luckily I caught her before she got into the messy stuff. :) She said "Mommy's Lakeup, so pretty!".

Sunshine!

It was gorgeous out today!! Daddy had to work overtime. We get to have him tomorrow though!!! YAY!!

Ava and I spent some time at the park. She is getting so daring and wants to climb on everything! She is pretty good at it now. Now it's just me that needs to work on just letting her do it.

Tonight we caught Ava sitting in the hallway brushing her barbie's hair! It was SO cute!!

So pretty!!

I had to offer chocolate to get Ava to wear the headband long enough for me to get some pictures. Ava cracks me up. She has such a cute personality! She is so sweet and gentle, but still so goofy and silly!

Here are a few pictures I got today. I know they are all very similar, but how many times do I actually get pictures while she leaves a headband on?!


This is what Ava does when I tell her to smile. Haha!

Pictures!

We were having fun emailing Daddy pictures of us while he was at work today. These first 3 pictures are some on the ones we took.

I know I have written this before, but Ava LOVES Bella and Senna! They came over last night for a little while, and tonight we watched Senna while her Mommy and Bella went to a parent/teacher conference. Ava was in heaven! When she knows they are coming, she waits by the front door for them! It is so cute. :)


*Smooosh* We missed Daddy a lot today so we sent him lots of pictures at work from home. :) I do realize I need more pictures of me and my girl. I am always the one holding the camera!! I will work on that!!



Bella, Ava, and Senna.

Silly faces!

Coloring!

Ava is getting really good at coloring! She colors the faces on every page in her coloring books. When she is done with one face, she will move to the next page. I love watching her little mind work when she is concentrating! :)

So smart!

Today we went to the pharmacy to see about getting our flu shots! Ava was having so much fun in the toy isle! When we left, we told Ava that it was time to go. On the way out Ava said "I don't want to go". We cracked up! She is forming these perfect sentences lately! I love it!!!

When we say bye to anybody/anything lately, she also throws in a "Be back soon" and a "See you later"! It is soooo cute! She is so much fun!! :)



Glow in the dark skellie jammies!