a crazy morning.

Well we had an exciting morning yesterday along with the rest of the metro area. Edmond was hit with 9 inches in 13 hours. Here's some pics several are of "the valley" and that is the neighborhood adjacent to ours in which they rescued residents by boat, Ryan saw a giant sheriffs truck and some sort of hover/craft type boat driving through our neighborhood to get there. We had no flooding at our house, thankfully:

http://newsok.com/multimedia/photos/gallery/600917

There was also a man they rescued out of tree when he had to leave his vehicle just a few miles from our house.

Ryan stayed home till 12:00 as most of the roads were closed around us. Ava and I had a real red-neck day and doing laundry and watching all the live rescues on the news all day.

Ryan and his mini-me

Well you can't deny that Ava looks a lot like her dad. Here's some pics from the weekend of the two of them hanging out, Ryan and his mini-me.

watching the world cup game together:

Ava's first concert, she seemed to enjoy it. She loves being outside and seems to love music so the combination was perfect for her:

Notice anything different?

Notice anything different in these pictures??

Besides the random flying butterfly toy, The answer is this weekend we had to take the new born head-ring out of her car seat because she out grew it and we also had to move the straps up. I felt a little sad but so glad she is healthy, thriving and growing.

6 changes at 6 weeks.

I do love doing lists on my blog so here's 6 changes at 6 weeks:

1. She is awake and more alert, loves to look around and check things out. She loves to look at our faces, her mobile and a black and white book her friend Quinn sent her (thanks guys!).


2. She grew! She's now 9lbs. She has graduated to her 0-3 month clothes instead of just newborn outfits. This makes the morning so much fun to get her ready so many cute little outfits to pick from. We also survived our first growth spurt which included her first episodes of inconsolable crying.

3. She took a bottle for the first time. I was so glad this turned out that we only had to work with her a little bit to get her to take it. This even gave me one night of some solid sleep when Ryan did the middle of the night feeding. Pumping is going well so starting her supply to have for when I return to work.

4. She is so content during the day time. She gets a bit fussy before bed but still a great baby!

5. She can be seen sticking out her tongue a lot as she loves to have something to suck on when she's getting sleepy or hungry.

6. Someone else has been still adjusting to all these changes in our family. One day Rory was in the Boppie just hanging out:

a few favorites...

Here's a few of my favorite shots from Ava's newborn photo shoot with Courtney, a friend from church who happens to also be a talented photographer! Ava was just one week old during this photo shoot. This is Courtney's website if you want to see some of her other work: http://www.courteywaugh.com/.

Also, The little knit items in the photos were made by another friend from church, Shannon who happens to be talented in many creative arts including knitting.

Just love how all these pictures turned out!

One Month!

Can't believe my sweet little baby is one month old today! I really am enjoying getting to be home with her. My only "job" is taking care of her right now for these first few months which is so nice. I know this is such a special time that I will always cherish and I am glad I get to take the time I do to be with her during these first months.

(I wish I had some great one month pictures, but been having computer issues this week so more to come later.)

This made me laugh at myself today. I heard from many of my mommy friends about the forgetfulness that comes with lack of sleep and the care taking of a newborn. Today I had us all ready to leave the house, I pause at the door with baby carrier and diaper bag in hand and I am thinking I know I'm forgetting something but what can it be? Then it hit me....I am not wearing any shoes.

For my mom...

I've been a bit behind on my blogging lately so thats why there are multipls posts today. So for those of you, including my mom who check my blog relgularly for Ava updates here's a few sleeping pics for your viewing pleasure.

She loves to sleep in her bouncer during the day heres a shot of her sleeping a couple weeks ago in it.

She also can be seen sleeping frequently with her moth open, Ryan reminds me he knows someone else that sleeps with their mouth open...

I love her sweet rosey checks in this picture. This shot is from this week:

While she does sleep a lot, she is starting to be more awake and alert. It almost makes my heart skip a beat when her little eyes are just studying my face and she is so content.