Two Days in a Row?!!!

Yes, I am posting again. After I posted, I read Magi's post about our time together. My posts are few and far between and don't include much detail. I hate to write and it is not something I am very good at. I think clever thoughts all day long, I just don't post any of them (at least that is my story) Anyway, Magi did a much better job of posting about our time together. Not just a better job, but a job because she actually mentioned it and posted pictures about it and I did not.

Well, since I am already here I will post some cute pictures of Ava playing with her adorable Calico Critter's House (I included this link so you can see how cute this stuff is - I know nothing about this particular store...it was just the best picture I saw). She got this last year for Christmas from her Aunt's, Donna and Debbie, but at the time she really was not interested. I brought it out the other day and showed it to her and she got so excited; it was the cutest thing. The house has a family of rabbits, and yesterday before school she was holding one of them and actually said bunny (it was actually bummy, but anyone who knows Ava knows that that is HUGE!!!). We have spent the morning playing with the house including putting in WORKING lights...too cute. I have also been putting stickers on all of the little pieces (butter, milk, cheese, etc...) to stock the refrigerator. It is the most adorable toy.




Well, I better run...it is Ava's therapy day and I just noticed that Ben left his lunch on the dining room table.

Family Photos

Ava's first Auburn Game

Well, I officially stink at blogging!!! I am going to try and do a better job. Everyone is doing well. Ben is enjoying 2nd grade. He is in the cub scouts and he is also taking hip hop at school. They are practicing a routine with Michael Jackson's Beat It...I can't wait to see it! Peter still loves Kindergarten and he is really into Pokemon cards. In fact, he plans on being a Pokemon Card artist when he grows up. Ava is enjoying pre-k and she is doing SO well. Her teachers and therapists really think that she is going to catch up with her peers. In the last month or so I have seen so much improvement in her receptive language. I think her adenoid/tonsil/nut removal surgery has made a world of difference.

I have uploaded several pix from the summer and this fall to try and catch up...here they are.

This past weekend we traveled to see our China travel group for our first year reunion. It was so good to see all of the families and their girls. Everyone has is doing great and the girls were all adorable. I can't believe it has been a year.October 2008

November 2007

Our Sweet Ava November 2007

Here are several beach pictures from this summer

Granddaddy helping the boys build their sand castle

Grandmamma and Ava

Josie

Ava piling sand on Granddaddy

Ava and Josie enjoying the tub

The "triplets"

Ben went to drama camp this summer. There performance was from Dr Seuss

The Set

peeking out at the audience

Ben beatboxing

More beach photos...Ben's first golf outing

Peter and Ava take their bath together...here are some of them the other night enjoying their bubbles:

These are some pictures from Callaway Gardens...Peter was not happy to be in the tree

Donna and Jim watch the kids during several football games in the fall. The boys

started having fall festivals a couple of years ago and it has really grown. This year there was a hay ride, a scavenger hunt, a pine cone relay, a maze and even a wood chopping competition.

Kim and Ava

Granddaddy and Grandmama (I forgot to add that there was a back drop for photo ops)

Peter at the craft store


Here we are chopping wood

Granddaddy shows us how it is done

This was the free transportation

Family Hayride

Happiest boy on earth

Here is a video of the pine cone relay.