Silly things Ava does

This week is the kind I like - one that goes quickly! I'm ready for the weekend. Zach had his first day at his new job this week. Of course, the kids aren't there yet so he argued it wasn't his real first day, but I objected. So I made him pose for a picture!


Ava and I have been hanging out tonight while Zach was on the golf course. I caught some of her silly quirky traits on camera! She loves to crawl up to the TV for just a minute and see if she can grab whatever is in there! Her favorite thing to try and get is the logo for the local news in the bottom left corner - so cute! Tonight it was Mickey Mouse!


She has also mastered standing up on her own without holding on to anything. However, sometimes it just takes a little extra help!


One of Ava's favorite toys right now is this bucket where her blocks go. She plays with it and tries to do all kinds of things with it. She puts things in it, puts it up on her play 'n learn table, carries it around and has even put it up to her mouth thinking she could drink out of it!


I love this last picture - so precious!

Random Picture Post

I had some pictures that didn't really fit into a post so they get their own random post!

We went to visit Zach's family this weekend and his grandma lives on a lake and I caught a picture of the sunset with my phone:

Where's Ava?

So incredibly nosey!

Love this funny face!!

Sweet, little girl excited to try on Momma's necklace!

Hope you are having a fun-filled weekend!

Pure Randomness

It's just been another normal week here in the E household. Next week Zach starts his new job and while he is so excited about it, I'm a little sad. I won't get to see him or my girl when I come home for lunch anymore! I really enjoy that during the summer. I'm also going to miss Zach doing the grocery shopping during the day and keeping the house nice and clean! :) Thanks for your hard work this summer, hon!

Ava has taken a few more steps. She's not real sure of herself yet but she has taken about 4 in a row! She's getting there! She also rode in her big girl car seat for the first time tonight!


I ordered this about 3 months ago and haven't really needed it yet. We went with an infant seat that would hold her until she was 30 lbs. She still has a way to go on that but she was getting close to being too long for it so Zach wanted to give her new chair a try! I think she'll enjoy being able to see out the window better!

Speaking of being too long, I was looking at this picture and it amazes me about how long this girl's legs are! We've gotten lots of comments recently about how "tall" she is!


And finally, she loves crawling under here. It's like a hut or something to her! Silly girl!


Hope you are all having a good week! Thankfully we're two days away from the weekend!!

Giveaway winner!!

Thanks to all who entered the giveaway! Just so you know how I did this, for each person who left a comment, I assigned their number of entries in sequential order. For example, if the first commenter also follows and posted an entry, they would have entries 1-6. There were a total of 52 entries and the winner is:

#3 - HOLLI!!!!

Congrats, girl! Shoot me an email at EFamilyblog@gmail.com with your contact information so I can get your goodies to you! Thanks to everyone who entered! Keep coming back and hopefully there will be more giveaways in the future!

Giveaway - final chance!!

Just a quick reminder that the giveaway ends tomorrow at noon. You still have time to enter for a chance to win some various items and a Target gift card!

Go here to enter! The winner will be announced tomorrow night!

10 Months Old and First Steps!!!

I had not planned on doing a post marking Ava's 10 month birthday today! But then my big girl decided to take her first steps tonight!!!! For several weeks now, she's been "walking" while holding our hands or holding on to furniture or whatever would support her. Tonight we were cooking dinner and she took two steps. She was on the third when I got excited and said "YAY AVA!!!" and it startled her and she stopped. We got out the video camera and tried to coax her into doing it again but she wouldn't. I was just so glad I got to see it! I just knew she'd do it while I was at work and Zach would get to see it and I wouldn't! I was so happy to see her do it, even if it was just 3 steps! I'm sure in the coming days she's going to really figure it out and the rest will be history.

I thought I would also just document a few of facts about Miss Ava these days:

• She has 6 teeth
• When we finally found a sippy cup she liked, we had no problems transitioning from the bottle. Tonight she even had a sippy cup before bed instead of a bottle!
• She loves to try real food but hates the 3rd stages foods so we just quit trying.
  
• Even more so than baths, she loooves showers!
  
• She can semi-wave bye-bye - first she waves her arm and then she opens and closes her fist! She can also say bye-bye but she likes to whisper it.
• She will give me "kisses" - opens her mouth and puts it on my cheek but she won't kiss Zach.

I cannot believe that two months from today she will be 1! This year has flown by. We were looking at sale clothes for next summer and I could not believe how big they seem! It almost made me cry! My baby really isn't much of a baby anymore. I guess it was inevitable that she'd grow up!

Fun day and giveaway reminder!

We had such a fun day today. Our friends asked if we wanted to meet them because they were going to look at some golf clubs in a city that was halfway between us. Because it's so hard to find times where we're both free we thought it was a good idea! So we headed out this morning and met up with Chuck and Chenin. Chuck tried out some of his clubs while we played in a room where you could practice putting. Zach decided it was time to test Ava out for her first set of clubs.

She's a cutie with her pink clubs! She didn't get any today but I bet her Daddy will have her golfing before she's 2! I think she had a better time just playing with the golf balls like she was trying to get here.

After we finished up there and had lunch and chatted for a while, we set out for the next part of our day. We headed to NWA to do some shopping and meet up with another set of friends. Sandy and I are planning a shower and wanted to get together to finalize some of our plans and we decided to have dinner at Abuelo's. Yum!! It turns out that today was the end of their week long celebration of their 20th anniversary so when we left we got to spin a wheel to win various items. I won a free entree. They told Ava to spin and she won a free appetizer. And Zach spun and he won free queso for life!!!

All he has to do is take this foam golf ball in and he gets a free queso! How funny is that?

We had such a wonderful day seeing friends. I was also complimented tonight on how well behaved Ava was at dinner! This made me so proud! We drove a lot today and for her to behave so well after riding in the car and shopping was so great! That's not to say she didn't have her moments but I'm so thankful we have a baby who likes to go like we do!

And finally, don't forget about my giveaway! There's still time to enter and you have a great shot at winning! Click here for details and how to enter!!

Hope you're having a great weekend!