Update on Vocab

Another lil update: =)
I can't believe I forgot this one...she has been saying "hot" forever now. All summer she'd say hot when I made my coffee and also around the oven.
This past week she has been saying "up", "nigh-nigh", "papa", and attempting "cracker" more, too.
Also, surely I've put this one in but she says "HI" all the time! She is starting to say "bye" though she waves bye-bye typically rather than saying it!

Ava's Vocabulary:
*update*

Miss Ava is saying so many new things EVERY DAY! I am trying to keep track so I can scrapbook all the info later (when I finally get to scrapbook past 4 months old. haha!)

•No (one of her first words other than mama and dada)

•She used to say "pup-pup" and she still says "woo - woo" for woof woof

•"Uh-oh"!!!! (over and over and over)

•"Tick-e, Tick-e, Tick-e" for Tickle, Tickle

•"Icky"

•"Emma" (the babysitter's dog!)

•"Ish" for shoes

•"Ball"

Update:

• pretty sure she is saying "Cookie" and "Cracker" now
• Travis thinks he heard her actually SAY "Please!" awwwwwww! She still signs it like crazy
• "MOMMY" She has moved on from "ma-ma" to "mommy" and she pretty much says it all day long. NOT COMPLAINING. I love it. She has even been waking up and calling me..."mommy, mommy, mommy"
• My mom and I think we heard her say "Snack" over the weekend, too.
• Oh and she will even say "icky" and go throw her diaper away! Cracks me up every time! I just say, "Ok, Ava, Icky, go throw it away!" and I just help her lift the lid on the trash can. This might backfire on me, as I caught her trying to throw a measuring cup away yesterday! Wondering if that is where the missing blue lid is I can't find!!!!!

I have been home the last 2 days with Ava b/c she had a slight fever on Monday and has been experiencing some lovely diarrheah (me too!...TMI) so I had to miss the Baby Communication class I was going to take with my friend Brooke. Bummer. I am sure it would have been fun!

Baby Communicating

Sept. 2009




Sept. 2010




Ava's Vocabulary:

• No (one of her first words other than mama and dada)



• She used to say "pup-pup" and she still says "woo - woo" for woof woof



• "Uh-oh"!!!! (over and over and over)



• "Tick-e, Tick-e, Tick-e" for Tickle, Tickle



• "Icky"



• "Emma" (the babysitter's dog!)



• "Ish" for shoes



• "Ball"

She cracks us up each and every day. She is starting to have fun wrestling around. She is also becoming a bit ornery (that is the weirdest spelling for a word!). She is starting to stand up on her various chairs we have (the Pottery Barn chair, her little toy chair) and she will look at you to see if you have noticed and give you her cute little grin! Hard not to laugh.

She now religiously and I mean RELIGIOUSLY signs please now (after several days of screaming her head off when we told her to say it!!! Stubborn little booger!). She still signs "All-done" and "hungry." She doesn't mess around when it comes to food. If you even mention "hungry" or are fixing food for a meal, she gets VERY antsy to eat!

I am super excited to be taking a "Baby Communication" class with my friend Brooke at the end of the month. It is through the local community college and it's FREE!

15 Month Chair Pics...

Well, I decided to take Ava's chair pics for her 15 month mark (and then 18 month and then yearly at 2 and so on). Here's my ATTEMPT!!!!!!!!! I suppose she is a typical 15 month old.

Ok, so not sure what is even in her hand! A cotton ball?

You want me to sit in my chair? Not without my kitty!

Uh.......not so much!

Oh, I'll sit on this chair, all right!

And again, not so much! =)

ps: check out that LONG strand of hair!

15 months!

Miss Ava's 15 month stats:

Length: 30 inches - 30th percentile

Weight: 21 pounds - 20th percentile

Head Circumference: 19 inches - 97th percentile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still a peanut!

Travis took Ava to the dr. today for her 15 month checkup. All was well. She is doing all the things 15 month olds should be doing. I also officially used my child tonight to go to the other room and get something for me. Is that on the list? LOL. We were getting ready to go on a walk so I asked Ava to go get my shoes and bring them to me. It took me a few times of asking and pointing (and then her bringing me two different pairs before she brought the ones I wanted) but she did it. I was cracking up!

These pictures were taken on Labor Day. Travis and I stopped in Jacksonville to meet up with friends Alex and Stephanie on our way home from our annual trip to Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton (I'll try to post pics soon!). Anyway, we decided to meet up with them because we hadn't seen them in forever and they suggested Nichols Park (after partaking in some DQ!), which just so happens to be where we took some of our outdoor wedding photos so OF COURSE I was thinking----photo op for Ava!!!!!!!! =) She had fun running around the gazebo and even saw a puppy. This was her reaction!