Baby Doll

Last weekend my cousin's child, Danica, who is three years old was given a new baby doll as a gift.  My Aunt Sue asked Danica what she wanted to name the baby doll and Danica told her that she wanted to name her doll Ava Marie.  Then she decided that the name may be too long so that she would just call her Marie.  This made me so happy and melted my heart when I heard this.

Thanksgiving

Ava celebrated her first Thanksgiving and despite all of the yummy food that we prepared, she is still too young to enjoy any of it so she will have to wait until next year to experience her first Thanksgiving meal.  Our Thanksgiving week started off with a visit from my cousin Mary who was able to meet Ava for the first time.  We had a great visit and it is so nice to see family that you do not get to see on a regular basis.
This year I had decided to host our Thanksgiving meal and thankfully my mother came down the day before and prepared most of the food.  Last year we really enjoyed frying our turkey so we had wanted to do this again this year but my mother was not too excited about this idea.  We ended up with two turkeys so my mother was able to roast one and then Travis fried the other one.  Before my mother left on Sunday, she said that she really enjoyed the fried turkey and that it was more juicier and flavorful than her roasted turkey.  We had a nice Thanksgiving Day and was happy to be able to spend time with some of our family members but wish that we could have celebrated it with our entire family.
The rest of the weekend was spent with decorating for Christmas and my mother doing DIY projects around our house.  I cannot believe that it is Christmas time and I am looking forward to spending our first Christmas with Ava.

Newborn Pictures

Since I finally have Ava's birth announcements out, I thought that I would go ahead and post some of the pictures from Ava's newborn photo shot.  These were taken at our home when Ava was twelve days old by our friend, Beth Sims.

Two Months Old

Ava had her eight week check up last week and weighed 10 pounds and 6 ounces and was 22 3/4 inches long.  She is in the 50th percentile for weight and the 75 percentile for length.  She had her first series of shots and after dreading this moment for the last eight weeks, I ended up crying more than Ava did.

Playing Catch Up

Since my last post so much time has gone by and I feel like I have a completely different child.  She changes so much each day and I love looking back at pictures of her to see how much she has changed already.


Ava has had so many first already and has been lucky enough to meet a lot of her extended family.  At two months old, she has been a busy baby and has gone to her first wedding, traveled up to Pennsylvania, and has gone to her first birthday party as well. The first couple of weeks after she was born I could not imagine ever being able to leave the house but now I am trying to do so more and more.  She is a sweet baby girl who loves to coo, laugh, and giggle and will start rolling over, sitting up, crawling, and then walking before I know it!

I am looking forward to the Holiday's coming up and being able to enjoy everything with Ava.  She is a little young to do a lot of the fun Holiday activities but she will be getting her picture taken with Santa!

Here are some pictures from the last month.

Meeting Uncle Joe

Aunt Becca

Hana and Miller

Cousin Sarah Rae's Wedding

Great Grandmother Grace

Aunt Ann and Cousin Jennifer

Cousin Danica

Tinkerbell on Halloween