Cha Cha Cha Changes

This girls is transforming before my eyes!  I swear this girl does something new everyday!!  Our newest "tricks" are waving bye bye and clapping.  I must say my girl is very smart...when the music comes on, she stops everything and starts clapping.  It is SO funny to watch her.  She is also cruising and standing unassisted for several seconds at a time.  It will not be long and this girl will be walking.  This cannot be possible.  She is only 8 1/2 months old!!!

Ava also LOVES to go to the sitters house!  She loves her yaya and gets so happy when she is going.  She has such a great time being one of the big girls finally and getting to ride in the wagon!  So sweet to see these precious friends.

It also seems like overnight Ava's hair started growing like crazy!  I have to tell you that these soft little curls just beg for me to touch them!!!  They can be tamed but man can this girl have some WILD hair!  It just fits her personality perfectly :)

Speaking of personality....this girl has more than enough for all of us combined.  She is loud and has a lot to say.  She talks from the minute she wakes up to the minute she goes to bed!  Some of her favorites are: dada, mama, nana, yaya and then she is a master of giberish!  The best part is to listen to her change the tone of her voice as she talks to you...she really is telling quite a story!

I kid about her growing up too fast but I have to say she is SO much fun.  I really wonder what I did before her.  It is also really making me slow down and just be.  I want to enjoy and cherish every second I have with this precious girl.  I know one day very soon she will think she is too big to sit in my lap or to lay down and nap with mommy.  As much as I want her to stay little, I am so excited about the little person she is becoming.  I am striving daily to be the mommy God intended me to be for her.  I am learning so much from her about how to really love unconditionally.  I look at her and wonder how its possible to love more than i love her.  At church on mothers day, the pastor spoke about Hannah and the love she had for her child.  She prayed and pleaded with God for a child much as I feel I did after we lost our sweet Ian.  After much prayer God blessed her with a son whom she then gave to the Lord.  I don't know that I could give up my precious girl.  I am praying daily that Ava will always be in God's will for her life and if that means one day she leaves to fulfill His plan for her, that I will have the strength to let her go.  But...until then, I am going to love this sweet girl with my whole heart and make sure she knows that she has a mommy and daddy that love her so much.

Sorry to get heavy for a minute---now for some pics of my pumpkin!

I am going to try and do better about posting....I promise.  I know I say this everytime but I promise I will!!

April Showers

April was fairly uneventful for our little family.  Nana and Papa came down for Easter so we had lots of fun spending the weekend with everyone.  Ava has finally decided she is going to give kisses and let me say they are the sweetest kisses EVER!!  A little wet but super sweet!  Here are a couple of pics from the weekend.

We also had a fun picnic at the arboretum with some of our friends.  It is really sweet watching these 3 girls together!  We all waited a really long time for our sweet girls!  They are all stairstepped about 7 months apart.  I sure do love these girls and their mommas!!  As you can see in some of these I'm not sure Ava is QUITE ready for a sibling!!

Here are a few of my fav photos from this month of her--again--just a few!!

love you all--

March Madness

Ava is 6 months old!!!  How is it that 1/2 a year is already gone??  We are having such a great time at the Freeman house.  Our pumpkin is showing ALOT of personality these days!  Here are a few of our lastest stats:

** 27in long and 14lbs 13 oz (long and skinny--definitely did NOT get that from her momma!!)

** crawling EVERYWHERE and starting to pull up on things--slow down little momma!!

** things i like to eat--avacados, bananas, PUFFS--she doesn't like these...she LOVES them!

** things i don't so much like--cereal (instant gag when she eats this) and most baby food--she doesn't like the thin texture

We have been just hanging out mostly and spending some fun times with our cousins.  We are so blessed to be living so close to my sister and her family so we can see them fairly often and so that our kids can grow up together.

Ava's crawling is coming right along and she is now pulling up one things everywhere!  Can someone please tell me where my little baby went??  She is just way to big.  Suki--the cat--is her new favorite play thing.  Luckily Suki is relatively tolerant of a lunging baby!!

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Here are a few of my fav pics from the month---i said a few---there are a TON more in the gallery!

Hope you all are having a wonderful day!!

yes...i know i am a bad mommy blogger :)

We have been super busy this month!!  We helped celebrate Ava's besties birthday.  Sweet J turned 1 and Ava had such a fun time at her party.  I love watching these girls together!  They are such sweet friends and we love our lunch dates with her and her momma!

We also had an old friend of mine take some 6mo pics for us.  Thanks Carie for such great photos.  Carie is an awesome photographer in Ft. Worth.  Check out her website: www.monkeyhousephotography.com

There were so many great pics to choose from but below are a couple of my favs--

Ava's biggest accomplishment this month is learning to crawl!!  5 months old and crawling....this is not supposed to be happening.  She had a hard time trying to figure out what she was supposed to do.  So funny!  Most of the time she she tried to get up on her hands and feet and bear crawl but couldn't make that work either.  It didn't take her long to figure it out though!!

So many fun things happening these days.  I just can't believe my sweet girl is almost 6 mo old!  Time is going by way too fast.  We are just trying to enjoy the journey and cherish each moment we have with this special little girl!

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Ok...you guys have got to check this out!!!  I mean really.....over $2600 worth of goodies all going to one winner???  I have done every possible entry...well...except for twitter and that is only because I don't tweet!!!  These are some really talented mommas that are giving away REALLY cute things.  Please hop over and check out their shops and facebook pages!

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I will have another post tomorrow but for now I am one sleepy momma.  Work was a little busy today but tomorrow I will fill you all in on what I am spinning around in my head and having some serious talks with the big man upstairs about!!!

talk about a teaser!!!!  love you all---