Parent and Tot Class

Steven's cousin works at Youngsters Inc., it's a gymnastics place for kids here in Yuba City. All the employees get to have one free child enrolled under their name and since his cousin is only 20 and has no kids she enrolled Ava under her name for us! There is only one class she is old enough to attend and that is the Parent and Tot class that Emma (his cousin) teaches on Monday evenings. The class age range is 18months - 3 years. Ava is just 20 months, so she barely makes the cut off, the next youngest in the class is 2 1/2. Needless to say I'm the only parent who really has to participate in the class and help Ava, the rest of the kids are old enough to follow what the teachers do and listen to the instructions on their own. But, Ava loves it, she really doesn't get that she is supposed to be doing certain things at certain times, but she is willing to try everything. Every time we do something she says "ooh" or "wee" or "hooray", it is pretty cute. So I try to keep her following the rest of the class the whole time, it wears me out, but it's fun and she'll eventually get it. Here are a few pictures Steven took of her last night. (please ignore how gross I look)

She does really well on the balance beam, I was surprised at how easily she does it at her age. I hardly have to hold on to her.
Getting ready to do a backwards somersault

Her favorite part, getting a stamp at the end of class

Trying to weasel her way into getting as many stamps as possible.

I just thought this was a cute picture of her. She is getting ready to get her shoes on to go home.

Yes, we're still here....

Hello long lost blogging friends!! I know I have been a terrible blogger the past few months. It all started out with a crazy but fun summer that I got way behind on trying to post pictures from, then I just got overwhelmed with it, then I just ignored it all together...which got me to where I am now....December with no pictures of what we have been up to since JUNE!! So I've decided to start from now instead of trying to go back and play catch-up, kinda.
Below is just a cute picture of Ava in front of our tree we took last Sunday before church.

So I know Halloween is long over, but I wanted to post a just a few pictures of our cute lady bug. We did a lot during Halloween I didn't want to let it go without posting a couple of pictures.
Our ladybug throwing a nice little fit in the middle of our church Halloween carnival because she didn't want to let someone else have their turn for the bean bag toss game.

Here she is looking cute before taking her out on Halloween to see family and friends.

She was very excited to carve pumpkins! She wasn't too excited about all the slime inside, but loved that I let her sit on the table. She is always climbing onto the table and I am constantly pulling her off, so she thought it was pretty cool that I was allowing her to sit on the table that night.

Okay...done with Halloween.

UPDATES:

Yes, I am pregnant! I'm sure this is old news to everyone, but since I have never made the official announcement on my blog I decided I better do it. I am 23 weeks I think? Or maybe 24? I have been so bad at keeping up on how many weeks I am this time. It looks like it's going to be another girl, I was secretly hoping for a boy. During the ultra sound she had her feet crossed, so we didn't get a super clear view. But, we are pretty sure it's a girl. Don't get me wrong I am very excited to have another girl, but it's just hard to imagine having another baby girl to melt our hearts like our baby girl has. I know though, that as soon as she is in my arms she will fill our hearts just as much as Ava has. Plus, it is so nice to have everything we'll need, I don't need to worry about getting a bunch of boy stuff. My due date is April 8th, four days after Ava's 2nd birthday! Crazy! I hope they will grow up to be close friends. As for a name, we have a few that we are thinking about, but nothing official yet.

Ava update: She is 20 months and busy as ever!! She keeps me on my toes!! Talking like crazy, she is starting to put two and three words together to make short sentences, she can count to 10, and knows most of her animal noises. She loves baby dolls and playing outside or working in the garage with her daddy. She is so funny, she would love, if I let her, to put on a dress and all her accessories and then go out in the garage or in the yard and work with Steven. He has a few tools that he lets her carry around and "help" him work on things. I think she will be a good mix of girly girl that's not afraid to get dirty. I don't think she really understands yet that she is going to be a big sister, but if you ask her where the baby is she'll point to my stomach. She is such a strong willed little girl, which can be very frustrating at times, but I love spending all day with her and watching her learn and grow.

We are all decorated and getting ready for Christmas! I love this time of year! We have so much going on this month, I plan on being better at blogging our happenings. I hope all of you are enjoying this Christmas season and hopefully we'll get to see some of you that we don't see often!

Sorry for the very random blog, but after not blogging for five months it's hard to know where to start and what to say. So heres to a fresh start of blogging for me!