March 2011

So much has gone on in the last couple of months. Ava is 4 days shy of 10 months. That was painful to type, I'm not a fan of how fast time flies by. She will be walking before you know it. She can balance and stand on her own and has taken two steps by herself. She pushes her walker toy around and can really move with that thing. She's walking around furniture. She refuses to eat baby food, she'd much rather have what Mommy and Daddy are eating. She eats oatmeal with us in the morning and then has her 8 oz. bottle of formula. For a pre-lunch snack she eats some fruit chopped finely. For lunch she usually eats a hotdog and fruit or she will eat macaroni and cheese with a fruit or hotdog. She LOVES hotdogs and macaroni and cheese. She snacks from lunch to dinner on gerber lil' crunchies or kix cereal. It's amazing what she will eat and try (pretty much anything).

Shane and I are expecting again. We are due in September 2011. This wasn't something that we planned but we are overjoyed and thrilled to have this new child in our family. God had it in his plan all along! Ava and the new baby will be 16 months apart. It will certainly be a struggle but I think we are pretty prepared for it. God will put nothing on this family that we can not handle.

Ava will be 1 soon. I can't believe it. This year has flown by so quickly, it's like that Kenny Chesney song, "Don't Blink". I am looking forward to her birthday celebration. We are having a small gathering at a park and I forsee brisket, sausage, macaroni and cheese and BALLOONS!!! I'm hoping she will be walking around by then so she can play with some of the older kids.

I probably won't post anything until her birthday and of course I will have pictures too!