7 month old Ava...

This little angel of mine is now 7 months old and growing fast!  I must admit in the first few months of her life I thought, "Can you please be 3 months already?"  as I was told that was the magical month for a colic baby to turn over a new leaf.  Well it was.  Her first 3 months are a blur really.  But now I need things to slow down a bit just so I can enjoy and remember her at such a young age.  So without further adieu here is "the list"


1.  My little Ava is a feisty girl!  She grabs and plays with things so intently.

2.  She will definitely tell you when she is not happy by yelling and screaming at you.

3.  She loves her brother to death and will mangle his hair and face for as long as he'll let her.  (Which is usually about 30 seconds at a time until he gets absolutely fed up with her.)

4. She is such a mamma's girl!  You read that right...MAMMA.

5.  Ava now reaches out her little arms to embrace you!

6.  Her favorite thing to do is kick.  She kicks while changing her diaper, eating, watching Einstein videos, watching her brother play,  doing tummy time, etc...

7.  She hates green beans and will gag with every bite (I probably only get a quarter of the way down the container before I feel bad and stop).  But she'll eat everything else.

8.  She is now starting to eat table foods.  Bread mostly.  It's so fun to watch her expressions as she tries to figure out how to eat it and what it is.

9.  She LOVES to be held and cuddled!

10.  Oh does she LOVE taggies!  She will find the tag in a pile of toys and start to suck on it.  Her new fav thing is her taggie blanky.

11.  SHE GOES TO SLEEP ON HER OWN!  I feed her a bottle, talk to her for a bit, kiss her goodnight and lay her down.  The rest is all her.

12.  I don't think she wants to crawl.  When I put her down for tummy time she either rolls over, lays down, or cries.  She'll prop herself up for a bit then doesn't want anything to do with it.

 

A visit from the police man...

About a month ago Dezi's school had the Police Department come down to do a little career day.  They spoke to the kids about what they do, how they help people and the differences between some of the other community helpers like the firemen.  The kids got to sit on the motorcylces and ATV's and got to go inside a police car.  The officers even let the kids start up some of the vehicles and push buttons to hear the different sounds they made.  I thought it would be a great opportunity to take some pictures of Dezi at a school function but it didn't go as I had hoped.  

Dezi was not at all into wanting anything to do with the police.  Which I have to say is probably Gil's and my fault since we would tell him that if he was not good the policeman would take him away.  Ooops!  But since then we have not mentioned anything about the police man in a negative way and now only talk good things about them.  Whew!

In the picture above you can see how totally unhappy Dezi is about being so close to a police man and sitting on the bike.  I asked him about it later and he said.."But mommy I didn't want the police man to take me away from you."  I feel bad about it now.

In this picture his teacher Ms. Mary is coaxing him to take a photo for his I.D. card.  He eventually did it but you should see his expression on his card.  She also had to be there when they took his finger prints too. 

Oh my Dezi Kain.  He can be so sweet, so annoying, so outgoing, and so shy at any given time.  But I love this little man to pieces!

My kids...

They crack me up!

They love each other!

Are to adorable for words

Are my world!

Are super silly...I love them so!

6 month old Ava...

 Ava is 6 months and I don't like that she is growing up so fast!  I need a "slow motion" button to slow things down.  But, I get to write another list of her accomplishments thus far, Yay!

1.  As you can already tell by the picture above everything is now in danger of the slobber monster!  She'll shove her whole hand down her mouth if she can and has gagged herself  a few times.

2.  She still has that smile that can light up a whole room.

3.  She is now starting to notice that she doesn't like to be out of mommy's sight OR arms.

4.  Still does what girls do best....TALK!  But it's super cute to watch her expressions.

5.  She is now eating baby food.  And does not like prunes at all.

6.  She is constantly blowing bubbles and spitting and especially loves it when I am feeding her.

7.  She can pretty much sit up on her own now and only topples over a little.

8.  She grabs at everything in reaching range. 

9.  She gets angry and flaps her arms when you take a drink from a cup and don't give any to her.

10.  She loves her brother and wants to grab at him when he holds her.  (He doesn't like it but I think it's hilarious to watch how irritated he gets...Is that mean?)

So there's my list for 6 month Ava.  The pictures below are just because she is so darn cute!

So here's a question for ya....
I've seen people post pictures as a collage and even can write on each picture and was wondering HOW DO YOU DO THAT?  Any and all information would be kindly appreciated!  Oh and Thanks a bunch in advance.

4 year old Dezi...

So since I did a post on Ava I thought maybe I should do one for Dezi too!  After all I do have 2 kids now...

1.  He is a very lovable little "Big" boy! 

2.  Loves cuddling, hugging, kissing, basically anything that shows his affection for you!

3.  He is very strong willed...or in other words STUBBORN!  When he wants something he'll do anything to get it and throws a mean tantrum when he doesn't get what he wants.

4.  My little man is also very shy.  But once he warms up he is his lovable self.

5.  He's got energy for miles.  Kind of like the Energizer bunny that keeps going and going and going and, well you know.

6.  He can write almost every letter in the alphabet.  He has started writing our names but will purposefully write the letters in the wrong order.   Why, you might ask?  I have no clue and don't even try and correct him or you'll see his lovely tantrum.

7.  I love the way he pronounces some of his words and to tell you the truth I don't correct him either because it's so darn cute...

   Spaghetti----Basketty
   Belinha (his cousins name pronounced...Be-leen-ya)---Baleena
   Filipino---Flipino

Okay that's all I can think of right now.

8.  Sometimes it takes a little while to get what he's saying like,  " I can how mom."  He means I know how.

9.  He is truly a boys boy!  He runs, tumbles, jumps and flips.  He is still is my daredevil boy!

10.  He is quick to apologize!  (hoping he won't get punished I think)

11.  He is so silly sometimes and tries to make you laugh.

12.  And he loves his sister to death!  As soon as she makes any noise he's right beside me telling to go pick her up.


This  boy does give me a run for my money but when he does slow down he is quite the sweet little boy.  I love him to pieces and wouldn't change anything about him.  It's been an interesting and fast paced road so far and can't wait (or maybe I can) to see how he is grown up.  I love you Dezi Kain!  More than you'll ever know!

Oooh Dezi...

 Couldn't keep a straight face when I asked if I could take a picture of him.  This is what I kept getting.

 Don't quite know how he ended up like that.  He eventually fell all the way forward before waking up and sitting up in his chair.  He saw me with the camera and starting smiling!

 And it begins!  She got up later than usual and I wondered why.  When I went to check on her this is what I found.  I guess he's good for something...Lol!!

He got tired of me taking pictures and wanted to take some of his own.  Thanks Dezi!