Ava at 18 months

18 months. What a milestone! I cannot believe that little baby is now 18 months! (I've been working on this post so long she is now 19 months, but oh well) I wanted to make a list of all the things she is doing at this point so I don't forget. However, there are so many things that I have no idea if I'll be able to write everything!

Words that most people can understand:
People:
Ava
Lexi
Mom-o (this is my name. I have accepted it and now absolutely adore it)
Caca/Gaga (ok, maybe not most people understand this but its "Daddy" haha)
Gigi (my mom)
Papa (suppose to be Poopaw / my dad)
Papa (suppose to be Poppy / Chad's dad - yes these two are the same)
Mimi (Chad's mom)
Pepper (their dog)
Cocoa (my mom's dog)
Kyle (sounds more like Cow)
Chelsie (Chee)
Brian (Bown)
Brett (Bett)
Kevin (He is know as Uncle Toomah so she says Moomah)
Donna (nona)
Blair (bur)
Laura (yarah)
Ellie (Eee)
Dana (nona)
Pooh
Roo
Eeyore
Owl
Rabbit
Simba
Mufasa (sasa)
Blue (from Blue's Clue's)
Elmo
Abby
She knows a lot more people if you ask where so-and-so is, she can point to them.

Animals:
Woof-Woof (for a dog)
Meooow (cat)
Elephant and sound
Sheep and sound
Lion and sound (sounds more like raiuhn)
Giraffe
Turtle (Turl)
Gurrr (for a Bear)
Tiger (in a whisper/growl voice - kygahh)
Ribbit
Oink-oink eeee (Pig)
cococoOOOO (rooster)
Horse and sound (howse)
Cow sound (mooo)
Zebra (babah)
Monkey sound (AEH AEH AEH! - this is always extremely loud)
Snake sound (ssssss)
Bee and sound (instead of buzzing she just says beeeeeee)
Bird and sound (ee ee ee)
Panda (she adores pandas, its hilarious!)
Owl and sound
Hippo
Alligator (aldigurdur)
Bear and sound
Antelope (weird that she knows this one, but she does!)
She says bee for ladybug but I guess that wouldn't really count haha
Penguin
Whale (this is my fav right now! its hilarious. Whaaaaayle)
Kangaroo (garoo)
Butterfly (and she flaps her hands around)
Duck and sound (guck)
Chicken and sound
Mouse and sound (mowf)
She knows a lot more if you say "where is the ____" and she can point to it, just hasn't figured out how to say it yet.

Body Parts:
eyes
nose
mouth
ears
hair
head
hand
feet
toes
tongue
eyebrow
(she knows where just about everything is, but can't say everything yet)

Foods:
banana
grape
yogurt
cheese
fruit snack (nack nack)
cracker
puffs (for recces puffs)
peach
apple
orange
chicken
pizza
doughnut
waffle
pop-tart

Colors:
red
blue
yellow
green
pink
purple
orange
black
white

Other Words:
baby (and she says ohh baby! when she is rocking a baby)
milk (nuk)
chocolate milk
juice
more (MO!)
me
yes
no (she knows this one too well)
mine (this is new - and she uses it ALL the time)
hello
bye-bye
ball
potty
this
pool
bite
yum
all gone
all done
please (peeeeeese)
thank-you
bath
shoes (oofs)
hat
book
hot
wet
night-night
blankie
paci (pas)
swing
bite
teeth
lab
water (wa-wa)
march
hop
moon
sun
sock
go
color
piano
ride
bowl
hooray
amen
buckle
bow
diaper
tv
picnic
pretty
sit down
pillow
candle
oval
fly
flower
tree
ice
wipe
bubble
dance
light
lamp
Cardinal
baseball
War Eagle!
alright
oh wow

She's also starting to put words together. She's said several 2 word phrases like a word and then the color of whatever she is pointing out, or a person and a description word about them but the longest sentence so far was when we were watching Lion King and she said "Oh! A baby lion!"

Speaking of, her favorite things to watch right now are The Lion King and Winnie the Pooh. I believe we've watched them a combined total of 5000 times now. I must say, these are SO much better than watching the little baby shows. Those were getting a little annoying... :)

Favorite food: any fruits really. Blueberries and bananas are at the top of the list!
Favorite color: I'm not quite sure on this one but I'd say either pink or yellow is what it seems like.
Favorite animal: Dogs, giraffes and pandas
Favorite activity: anything outside and swimming, also dancing

She is a very smart little girl which can make things challenging at times but she's getting through it! She still isn't the best sleeper, and her sister is outshining her in that category for sure, so maybe she'll learn something from Lexi! She has a very sweet heart and is always hugging and kissing things and people. 95% of the time she is very, very sweet to Lexi and I love watching them interact.

Mobile Monday's Magnificent Make Up!

Weeeee'reeee Back! Here's lovely pics from the past few weeks. I'll have to do some sort of HUGE post of all the ones we've missed the past several months, but maybe this will hold you over for now!

Isn't she precious? I can't get enough of this cubby girl!

First pedicure for Ava! She held so still - such a girly girl.

Went swimming for the first time last week - Ava LOVED it. We were the last ones out of the pool because she did not want to leave!



Laying out - haha



Krispy kreme trip for some free doughnuts!

Helping brush sisters hair...

silly faces



This is what Lexi does - holds on to her own hair. Sometimes she pulls it but its more of a comfort thing. Crazy girl!

Which one is ava?

Sister love!

Tummy Time

Yes. That IS poop.

Both girls at 15 weeks. CRAZY!

Krispy kreme trip again- the blog messed up the order

She is getting so big! I cannot believe we had to break this out already.

Ava showing Lexi her "pretty pink toes"

Sweet sleepy times

Some prizes from Gigi and Poopaw - all the Disney Pooh characters!

Friend hug!

Lexi Lee Burris 5/4/12

Very early in the morning on 5/4/12, Chad and I left sleeping Ava with Mimi and Poppy and snuck out to head to the hospital. We were in a brand new part of the hospital so it was different from what we had just done 15 months ago with Ava. We arrived and met our friend from church who is a L&D nurse there and started getting everything ready. She is the same girl who helped deliver Ava! I put on my wonderfully flattering hospital gown and then went through all the routine things of medications, IVs, monitors, etc. At about 7:45ish I was wheeled back into the OR. This is always the part that takes forever. With Chad gone and with them setting up and getting everything ready I feel like it takes a minumum of an hour, when in actuality Chad was back in that room in about 10 minutes. My favorite part of setting up (feel the sarcasm here) is when they take me and roll me over on my left side - because I'm numb and can't move myself - and then they slip a board under me and roll me back over, then move said board to the operating table, roll me to my right side, remove board, and then they all leave. I'm a fan of roller coasters, but that's not one of my favorite rides. So an hour  10 minutes later Chad finally comes in and here we go! Lots of pressure, tons of tugging and then at 8:14 AM little Lexi Lee comes out weighing a whopping 7lbs 15oz and we get to hear that much anticipated first cry. They held her over the sheet for us to see and it's that moment where you quickly, without realizing it, count every finger and toe and completely check her over and let a sigh of relief out when you see she is healthy and normal. Chad then gets to go do all the fun stuff and watch them clean her off and weigh her, etc, etc while I get to lay there alone on the table as they sew me up. Yay. Thankfully there is a screen where I can see everything going on with Lexi. They came over when they got her all swaddled up and we took our first picture together :)

Chad then goes with the baby and I keep laying there and then am wheeled into recovery where the skin to skin action and first breastfeeding moments occur. Everything went great. Couldn't have asked for it to go smoother!

We then get to go to the room and see the families which is always exciting. I say this as if I have 12 kids when in actuality I've only done this once. Anyways we see the families, and I was a little nervous about how Ava would react. She actually did wonderful. She came in, hugged me, saw the baby, hugged and kissed the baby, snuggled with me and the baby, etc. It was precious! I was so thankful to have lots of family around to keep her entertained. My dad brought over this horse balloon that was weighted down so it looked like a miniature horse floating around the room. If you know of anyone having a baby that has an older sibling - get one of these. It was perfect. We just had to 'put him down' a couple weeks ago. He lasted a long time!

We were there for 3 days. The first night Lexi slept for 6 hours straight at night and I woke up shocked, scared, (and in pain haha) and completely excited that maybe THIS child would sleep! Yeah, the next night she was up every hour and a half. Comes with it, right? She ended up dropping down to 7lbs 4oz at her discharge weight and we almost had to do the bili lights but decided to try just keeping her in the window and getting her lots of sunlight. It took a while to get over her jaundice but eventually we did and she looks great now! Still has a little tan like Ava did, but definitely not as dark as Ava was.

Dr. Kennedy was great the whole time from delivery to discharge and I've loved her being my doctor with both baby girls. If there is a next time we will plan on using her again!



Little Sister shirt!



This is Ava's big sister gift - her very own chair. She LOVES it.

4 years down, many more to come!

It has been 4 years since Chad and I got married. Honestly, I feel like so much has happened in those 4 years and it has absolutely flown by, but seems like forever ago when we were first married. It's very hard to remember life without kids. Very hard. I know there was a lot of free time which is a word I don't even know the meaning to anymore. But I can not imagine life without this man by my side. He is one of the best things that has ever happened to me and I am so blessed to have him!
(**I'm just going to pick back up blogging again as if there wasn't a 3 month lapse and hope that no one noticed I was MIA for a while...**)

Mobile Monday!

Ok after this post I am not making any promises that Mobile Monday will continue EVERY Monday -- I will try my best to keep up with what I can but I will have a newborn and a toddler, and no sleep so we'll see.

New big girl booster seat for the dinner table! (ps - Mimi she LOVES that bunny rabbit. She carries it around everywhere!)

Trying to get ava to 'smile' - instead she said the word smile and apparently spit out some drool on her chin at the same time. 

Ava helping Daddy put together Lexi's dresser!

Ava had to come to work with me on my last day. She actually did REALLY well.

Hanging out at work! Sweet girl :)

This is how ava sleeps. Originally she's covered up with that pink blanket and the white 'blankies' are all up around her head. She's just a bit of a wiggle worm...

I know it's dark but we got some new Elmo pajamas on sale for $3!  

Lexi's dresser!

Lexi's crib!