halloween carnival

this carnival is one of both Keegan and my most distinct memories of baby baby Ava. It is also one of the only things we have now done two times surrounding a holiday. Ava was into it big time and did not even know where to start. We were trying to write bzzzz on her cheek before she left and she was not having it so Keegan drew on both of our faces and from that mon on she new this was a different night. She was very excited during the car ride and once we got there she did not know where to start but she is likeing Halloween so far this year big time.

Ava's perfect pumkin....

Happy Birthday Keegan

Yesterday was Keegan's bday. He had to work all day but we did have some of the fam over after work for apple pie, choc chip cookies and brown sugar and ginger ice cream - (Keegans requests) to celebrate when he got off work. Ava had a ball and Keegan had fun playing with Ava and her cousins.

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just got home from an early morning walk with rufus... ava still in her monkey suit..... insists on wearing the ruby slippers that were actually my little sister Annas when she was little and are still about 4 sizes too big and walking around the house very seriously talking on keegans phone.

doughnuts with dad

I really do not know who was more excited for this day. Keegan has been talking about it since i told him the date and to make sure he could be a little late and take ava to school. He has never been to school so this was a big deal to him and also he just loves taking ava places.... Ava had so much fun and had a fit when the teacher held her so Keegan could make his hand print, the art project they were doing with all the kids and dads, i mean she was pissed and screaming. Never seen her like this at school. I think she caught the teachers off guard too.
Keegan also picked Ava up from school at 2pm and then the two of them went and played 9 holes of golf and had the best time... keegan said it was so great. Ava needed a daddy day and well really I have not had a day in well ever since Ava was born. So I needed it too.

afternoon

we do a lot of plat grounds and often have more fun doing something else than sliding although that is not to say that Ava does not climb all the way to the top of a high slide and go down by herself head first but lately, like this week, she is getting the whole running thing down and likes to try that too.

it happens so fast....

Ava went for her 15 month apt last friday and well yes she is 16 months today but regardless she has grown and changed so much. Part of me loves it and she is so fun right now and the other half of me makes me want to cry... she will be off at college before I know it. She weighs 22 pounds which is practically triple her birth weight and 32 inches tall which is a good 12 inches taller then when she was born. Where is my baby? all I see is my little girl.