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!

The girls at Heifer Village Grand Opening (we left BEFORE the Yak got loose!)

First "real" pictures of Miles, Ava on Daddy's Gator and Sponge Bob!

Here are some of the 4D ultrasound pictures of Ava and Kinley's baby brother at 29 weeks.  The video is a bit better, but I haven't figured out how to edit a small clip yet to post it.   He will probably be here before I can figure that out!  Kinley was excited to get to be there for the ultrasound. He was very busy, although not quite as busy as Ava was (we can only hope!).

There were a couple of views in the video where he looks just like Brad in his baby pictures.  I personally believe the world will be better with 2 Brad's in it!!

Brad won a John Deere Gator from work and has figured out how to put her car seat in it (it has 3 point seatbelts in it).  Ava LOVES going riding on the golf course with her Daddy!

She waves at me and just keeps going!

Like her cousin Ashby, Ava LOVES spongebob...or "BOB BOB" as she calls him.  She points the remote at the TV to make BOB BOB come on!

We took the girls to Jump Zone the other night and let them jump on all the equipment and have pizza.  Ava went on every big one they had!  Unfortunately, we forgot to take the camera.  Guess that means another trip to jump zone for us!  Will post pics when I take them!

Springtime is finally here!

It has rained here for weeks on end and Ava has been so anxious to go outside to play. We got her a pair of rainboots and even though the rain is gone she insists on wearing them everywhere! She puts them on each night after her bath and wears them around. No one has been able to mow their yards for a while due to the saturated ground, so the grass is high...so I guess the boots came in handy anyway!

Ava LOVES animals! She loves to hug and kiss them (with an open mouth!) and feed them. Here she is with our neighbors dog, Maddie. She is a rescued dog and so gentle with Ava.

Ava posing in her boots!

She was so excited playing catch with her new ball and mitt. Little did she know that the velcro in the mitt was actually the secret to her success! Oh well, it's building self esteem, right?

Like her cousin Ashby, Ava LOVES Sponge Bob Square Pants, or as she calls him, "Bob Bob". She has hundreds of books already and 'reads' them daily! We have to keep books in the car, my purse, our room, her room, the bathroom...everywhere. This is a good thing though, I think.

Ava's first attempt at fingerpainting something other than yogurt, applesauce, or marinara sauce. She found out quickly that the paint doesn't taste good.

Reading "Bob Bob" in her swing....the only place that she is calm and Zen-like!

We have been letting her use utensils lately on her own. She will no longer let us feed her. It is messy, but we figure it is the only way she will learn. She also has a pair of toddler chopsticks, but they are a tad big for her fingers still.

This picture was taken on April 8th. Ava had tubes put in her ears that morning. She was fussy for only about 2 hours afterwards and then her Nana and Daddy stayed home and fussed over her while Mom had to work. She seemed to do just fine. Very Zen in her swing. She will literally swing for hours.

Ava on Easter playing with a rubber ball that has a rubber string on it. She had more fun with it! Unfortunately, she fell a couple of times going up and down the stairs and bonked her head. She was fussy all day, but we figured it was due to no nap and sugar intake. But later that evening she started throwing up and bought a trip to Childrens ER and a CAT scan! Everything turned out to be fine, we found out the next day that she actually had a GI bug.

Ava and Kinley on Easter! Aren't they the cutest ever!?!