Monday, July 13, 2009

Ava's day with Maddie Rae

Maddie Rae is one of Ava's half siblings. Her mother used the same donor that I used for Ava. We are in touch with 4 of her siblings (all girls) and have been lucky enough to spend a day with Maddie Rae and her mother last summer and now this summer. The girls played in the water on the back deck in 100 degree weather for about an hour and then we changed clothes and went to Jump Zone to jump on the slides, etc. and have pizza.

They are obviously still in the ORAL phase. EVERYTHING had to go into their mouths!
Lisa and Maddie at Jump Zone. (Maddie was smiling/laughing when they came to a stop!)

This is my favorite! She looks like this on the way down and then lands laughing and screaming!
Watching Kinley come down!


Maddie Rae about to go down by herself!
Even the big girls enjoy Jump Zone

Over and over and over and over.....



It is so cute to see them together even though they are really interacting that much....hopefully next summer they will be able to communicate better.


Going down with Daddy this time.

It's hard to tell who is actually having more fun here!
Oh, are they going to sleep tonight!!!!! Yippee!!!


Kinley and her friend after pizza....they are going to sleep well too!
Maddie Rae, Lisa, Tracy and Ava....we have a picture from last year that is similar. We had a very nice visit and are already looking forward to seeing them next summer. It is so fun to watch the girls grow!

This is a short clip, but shows how fearless Ava is....we had a hard time getting her off most of the slides, etc... This particular slide (the tallest) is her favorite!

Fourth of July

"The girls" at Willow Springs.

Ava in her strawberry swimsuit playing in the "Lil' Kids pool for once"!


Brad took the kids on a hayride all around the neighborhood before time for fireworks.


Ava LOVES her Daddy's gator and thinks it is her toy. She climbs into it each time the garage door opens. She tries to steer and shift and screams "My GO" often. Sometimes she points to the passenger seat and says Daddy or Mommy...I guess we are allowed to ride shotgun.



I missed getting video of Ava going down up and down the waterslide, but here she is in the "Baby pool" yelling "TOOT TOOT" at the train behind the house and then freezing in the cold water in the "Big Kids" pool. Cold as she was, she wouldn't get out!

Kinley's 11th birthday!

Kinley wasn't able to open gifts without Ava right up on top of her!


Ava checking out the pool with Nana.
Here, Ava is teaching her cousin Hayden how to open the safety (AKA Childproof) gate. I'm not really sure why we even keep it up anymore...
Ava's newest cousin, Mia, having fun with a cup!
Ava went back into her bedroom MULTIPLE times and changed shoes throughout the day...these are her favorites.
She looks very serious and determined here....scarey.

Kinley and her cousin Ian, who turned 8, with their cakes.
Jacob (the werewolf from Twilight) had chocolate under his side of the cake and Edward (the vampire from Twilight) had red velvet under his side of the cake. The cake was designed by Kinley herself and prepared by Mickey's Special Affairs. It was SO YUMMY!!
Everyone steered clear of Brad with his giant Japanese knife!

Grandma Davenport with but a few of her great-grandkids!

Poser!


We couldn't get her to play in the kiddy pool. She wanted on the big kids pool all day long!