Just look at the form on this kid!!

Ava started crawling last week and is now very difficult to keep up with. She is a girl on the go! Her goal most of the time is the catfood bowl....as luck (and diligence) would have it, she has yet to reach it!

Look who's crawling now!

Well, it took her almost 8 months, but she finally got it down! She has been "on the verge" of crawling for a long time. We thought she just might skip it and go straight to walking, but now is crawling up a storm! She tortures the poor kitties, who are constantly on alert now. They are actually quite patient with her and all of her energy. Just look at that form!!! HAHAHA! She is also pulling up on just about everything she can find.
God bless her! She was so cute in her little outfit, that I ran out back and took a few photos in the yard.

She almost looks like she is trying to wave! She is also shaking her head "no" now and it is precious! We will have to get it on video. It obviously doesn't show up in a photo.


Mommy's little democrat!! We are sending another photo into http://www.sendbarackyourbaby.com/ . She was the second baby on the site, but she was only 2 months old in the photo. She has a new shirt on the way and we will send another one of her in it to the site, so be on the lookout for her!
She wouldn't take her eyes off of her Daddy mowing the yard!
I could just eat her up!!!

Crashed out with the stuffed poisonous dart frog she got at the zoo.

She LOVES to give raspberries!!
She literally bounced until she dropped the other day. Brad and I were looking at something on the computer and noticed that she was suddenly quiet. When we looked over at her, she was OUT! And as any good parents who know NOT to wake a sleeping baby....we left her there to sleep! She was only out for about 30 minutes and woke up with a smile.

Here is Ava with her cousin Ashby at their Great-Grandmother's house. They really seemed to get along well and we hope they will be close.