10 Months!

Independent, fearless, confident...These are the words that I have heard over and over again the past few weeks to describe my sweet Ava and they are true! She loves to explore and will go anywhere and everywhere. She will stand for a couple of seconds on her own and will walk all over as long as she is holding your hand. Ava is primarily eating finger foods. The main reason for this that she thinks she is too big to let anyone else feed her. She loves her veggies and cheese. She plays hard and sleeps hard. Still taking two great naps a day and sleeps all night. It is so crazy to peek in her crib at night and see this long, almost one year old where my little, tiny, swaddled up baby use to sleep. Ava is really learning to play now. She is a pro at peek-a-boo, loves to knock over blocks, read and be tickled. And have I mentioned how loud she is? I love it! She is expressive and engaging. Brent and I get so much joy from watching her grow and seeing her little (or big) personality develop.

She spends a lot of time sitting in this little corner "reading" her books.

Watching the Care Bears movie...the one that was out when I was a kid.

Ava LOVES to play outside. She cries when we come back inside.

This is one of her favorite hang outs...one our from front where she can watch all the dogs and cars go by. She likes to stand there and talk to everyone.

Here is my little busy baby trying to climb up to get the window AC unit.

Little Friends

We have some friend that live in our neighborhood who have a little girl that is a few months older then Ava. Her mom and I have start taking turns watching each others little girls. We switch off once a week to give each other a few hours of "baby free" time to run errands, clean or whatever else we want to do. It has worked out so great. We usually do it over nap times and they both sleep wonderfully. However, they don't get a lot of play time since they sleep most the time. I did manage to get a few pictures of them playing together. They are so cute together and it is fun to get to watch them interacting with each other.

So cute!!

I love it when they just look at each other like they aren't quite sure what they are suppose to do.

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