My Little Growing Angel <3

Ava is so funny now, she was funny before don’t get me wrong but now shes getting her own personality and starting to be herself. She randomly laughs all the time now. She laughs at herself and things she does. She laughs and giggles a lot now too. My favorite things she does is she will be playing or getting into something somewhere, and I will hear randomly laughing and screaming (She does this laugh/ scream at the same time thing its really cute) I look at her and she’s just randomly laughing. You can’t help but laugh at her because you wonder why she’s just randomly laughing at nothing. She gets in to everything now. Ava is now taking steps. She took three steps to me on Monday and it was amazing. I think she will be walking really well by 11 months. She is going to be 9 months on the 19 on this month, so I think she will have walking down in two months (I hope.) some children don’t crawl until after their first birthday and some children crawl way before their birthday just depending on the baby. But in Ava’s case I think she will defiantly be crawling before she’s 12 months.  Looking back at blog number 1, and seeing how big she has got just in this class time of making this blog makes me so sad, and it’s crazy to see. I just seen blog number 4 it was about Ava starting to learn to eat baby food, and start to roll over! That felt like it was forever ago and yet just the other day too. I’m glad I got to write all these memories down so I could go back and look at them whenever I want too. I plan to still keep this blog and, continue to keep writing memories and things about Ava and her growing up. This way I can look back at these blogs any time I want and see what she was doing that week. It’s always nice to see things when she was littler because it goes by so fast. The most everything happens to a baby is when their born to the first year. They learn a lot of things, and develop all their skills, and personalities. It’s an amazing thing being a parent, and I can’t wait to keep watching her grown and she how she turns out to be.

                                               The Trip To See Santa                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday my step mom, my little brother, Ava, and myself went and seen Santa for Ava's first time. My mom’s is a photographer so she was taking pictures  of children and Santa’s at a place down town, and told me to bring Ava. My little brother is 8 years old and is afraid of Santa. He has never sat on Santa’s lap ever. On the way to the place my step mom asked Aiden if he was going to sit on Santa’s lap, and he said heck no. We get to the store and Ava is all dressed up for her pictures and I put her right on Santa’s lap. She is a very outgoing baby and likes everybody so I wasn’t worried about her crying or anything. She sat on him and looked at his beard. She started pulling on it, and wouldn’t stop. She laughed while she was pulling on it, so Santa gave her his Christmas bells to hang on too, to take a picture with so she would leave him alone. I though she was going to pull Santa’s beard right off, thank god she didn’t because there was a lot of other kids there that would have been upset. After Aiden seen Ava liking Santa and sitting on his lap, Aiden decided to go right up there and take a picture with Ava. We were all really surprised, but he said he wanted to there for Ava just in case she didn’t like him. What a good Uncle he was. After Aiden sat down they got their pictures taken, and I had to get Ava off of Santa before she started messing with him again but Aiden stayed on Santa’s lap. My brother is a really being sports nut, so he knows everything about football and everything. While Aiden was on Santa’s lap he started talking about football and Santa’s was a Lions fan too, so they talked about football together and I think Aiden is now not afraid anymore, because he knows that Santa is a lions fan and Santa told Aiden he will get him some lions stuff for Christmas if he’s good. So hopefully next year Ava isn’t a bad girl, and pulls his beard anymore, and hopefully Aiden Starts liking Santa for the next years to come.

                                  Growing Girl <3                            

 

Ava is now crawling around. She learned how to crawl and she is everywhere now. She quickly learned to crawl, and at the beginning she was kind of slow at it. She would cry while she was crawling I think just because she didn’t know what she was doing and it was scary for her. Now a month and a half later she is now crawling as fast as I walk. She is into everything. Along with her crawling skills advancing, she pulls herself up on everything. She will crawl really fast to something pull herself up and stand there and look around. She is starting to let go of things and balance but she still needs some work because she falls shortly after. When she isn’t paying attention she will let go and balance for a long time and then she realizes shes not hanging on anymore so she lets go. Its really funny that she is getting to learn all types of new things. She says new words like daddy, Mama, the “Na” sound, and she claps her hands and dances now. She started out saying the “da” sound and now she says “dadada”, and then started the “na” sound and then quickly learned “mamama”. I don’t know why babys always say “da” first, some people say its easier to say then the “m” sound. Ava is growing so fast. Watching her just start to learn to crawl to now crawling everywhere to making noises and now saying words. Ava also eats “big people” food. She likes French fries, and bread sticks. We went and got pizza yesterday and Ava ate three breadstick herself and they were big. Lol she kept grabbing them. She doesn’t really like baby food anymore because she gets to taste other food now. Ava is starting to get her own personality. It’s so funny watching her do new things and watching how she reacts to things. She learned to fake cry the other day. I’m thinking it has something to do with my mom babying her to be funny. But now whenever she gets hurt or she wants something she will close her eyes and squint and act like she’s crying and then laugh at herself when we say “awe, poor baby” or something in the lines of that.

Sick, Sick, and more Sick. :/

My daughter has had a really bad cough and cold for about a month and a half now. I kept going into the doctors and telling them the same thing. She has a runny nose she coughs all the time and doesn’t sleep because of it. She Has a wheezing sound when she breathes. At first she got on an anti biotic. Then she got on a breathing treatment. Well today after almost two months of not getting better I took her into the E.R. I was there for five hours, go figure. Ava got chest E-rays and we finally found out that she has bronchitis. I haven’t been feeling that great either the whole time shes been sick, so I asked if I could have it too. After they told me what she had, and they said it was a good possibility that I could have it too. After the five ½ hours at the hospital they checked me too. Guess who also has bronchitis?!? This girl. Me and my daughter both have this sickness. Its horrible. I can only imagine how much it sucks for her because she coughs more then me. It makes you feel drained, and sick and tired and makes your whole body hurt, along with your lungs feeling like their on fire. All of this happened today, while I’m trying to do homework. It’s so hard to get all this homework done with a sick baby, and yourself feeling like crap too.

I never really noticed how much people who run day cares make. I finally starting realizing this when I started taking Ava to day care. I pay a lot of money for her to go to day care for two days a week all day long. She likes going to day care though, and the one I go to is really good. I figure Ava will learn to get along with other kids and get use to being in day care, because she will be going for a long time. The lady I take Ava to her name is Karen, and she has around 2-4 kids every day, and she charges $3.50 an hour. You can only imagine how much she makes just from babysitting. She starts around 830 in the morning and then all the kids leave before 6. That’s not a lot of time really, and she makes a lot of money. It could be a really good way to make an income if you like kids. The only things about having a day care is if you want to be certified by the state you have to make sure you have your house safe and up to date with baby gates and everything. If you can do that, then you could run a daycare. Some day cares are really good, like the ones through the schools. That kind of day care actually teaches kids things and helps them learns, which is really cool. So if you want to make good money and are really good with children, then you should open a daycare.

I think it’s funny that my daughter figured out how amazing big people food is. She didn’t really like baby food to much, so I started giving her big people food and she loves it. A couple days ago I gave her a French fry and oh my goodness, she was sucking on it and loved it. Her eyes got really big and she was in love, you could tell. She also like Ice cream, and peanut butter. Ava will now eat anything u give her. It’s so funny because every time she will just make a weird face, but she will eat it. It’s like she doesn’t know what to think of all this stuff but loves it because it’s not baby food. She also like noodles. Any kind she likes noodles with alfrado sauce or noodles with marinara sauce. Lol it’s so funny. What’s really surprising is she likes lemons. She makes a weird face of course but really likes them, she tries to reach out and get more when I take it away. Along with a new taste for food, my big girl is now crawling. She crawls everywhere and anywhere. She’s a maniac. One minute she is in the living room I leave for a quick second and she’s in the kitchen. She getting fast at it too. I put her in her crib while I was cleaning her room and I look over and she pulled herself up and was bouncing on her legs just standing there watching me. She is getting so big, I love it. She says Da-da-da, and now she’s starting to say the MMMMM- sound. Which is super exciting to me, because of course I want her to say the best word of all ….. Ma-ma-ma! The older she gets the longer her hair gets too. Her hair stands straight up right now and as the weeks go by its starting to get longer and I can see it progressing and starting to stand down a little. It still stick up and not as bad. By the way.. What should Ava be for Holloween Anyone.. any ideas?!?

 

 

 

On Thursday October 10^th my daughter Ava officially crawled. I knew it was coming but I didn’t think it was going to be this soon. On that day right before her nap she could crawl, she still would rock back n forth and really couldn’t get to a place. Ava took a three hour nap, and when she woke up I put her on the floor like usual and she just took off. I was so shocked and surprised because three hours prior to this she couldn’t do it. That three hour nap must have gave her whole bunch of energy because she is now on the go. She went from not being able to crawl to crawling super-fast. It is crazy how quick they can do things and learn things. In a matter of a couple hours my daughter learned officially how to crawl. It was such a bitter sweet moment. I cried! Lol. I was so happy and shocked I got my phone out and recorded her. The first couple times she did it she would cry while crawling. Now (which is the 2-3^rd day) She doesn’t cry doesn’t wine, just goes. I sat her down and ran into my room to grab a sweater and she was half way to the kitchen. Gosh I am in trouble now. Baby gates are going up today. It’s so sad my baby is growing up and beginning to be a big girl. Pretty soon she will be pulling herself up on things and then beginning to walk. What I found out too now that she can crawl is that she likes everything that’s not her toys. Such as, computer cords, random stuff on the floor, light sockets, and mostly paper. She loves missing with newspapers, magazines, anything paper. She is going to have such a fun time unwrapping all her presents when its Christmas time. I am so excited and can’t wait to see what she will do next.  

Baby Food & Prices

Why is my daughter so picky? Ava had been able to eat baby food for three months now, and she has been able to eat adult food for ½ month. Ava doesn’t like eating anything. I’ve tried baby sweet potatoes, baby green beans, pears, peaches, bananas, any kind of baby food. She doesn’t like any of it, so always spits it out and makes funny faces. At first I thought that was ok because she was getting use to it. No! She still hates it and doesn’t want any part of eating baby food. I have been trying to give her adult food now, such as mash potatoes, a little piece of noodle, and any kind of liquid substance. The only thing I found out is that Ava likes ice cream. Of course she likes ice cream mostly everyone likes ice cream. She doesn’t like anything besides ice cream, and she can’t live on ice cream. Not only is ice cream really bad for you, she needs healthy food, ice cream is not healthy food. Hopefully the older she gets she will start liking different foods because as of right now all she like is her bottle and no kinds of foods. Ava is in the right percentile and height and everything for her age so it’s not affecting her right now, but soon I will have to start shoving stuff in her mouth until she likes it (which I try to do now).

 Baby food, is cheap but when you go through a lot every day because your child wastes it all it gets expensive. I knew having Ava was going to be expensive, especially since I love dressing her up and buying a lot of clothes and shoes and head bands for her but I didn’t realize really how much money she is.  I love it and I am still going to buy her everything unnecessary she “needs”. Everything is expensive for babies, from food to clothes to diapers. I don’t know how they can price baby clothes at $20 for just an outfit. $2 for two jars of baby food.  Its ridicules! Having a baby, I guess you have to pay the price literally.  

Sleepless Baby

Ava decided last week that she didn’t want to sleep in her crib anymore. Every time she is getting tired I give her bottle and rock her to sleep and it always works, then I out her in her crib. The past week I will rock her and go to put her in her crib and she wakes up crying, of course. So I had to start rocking her to sleep and then putting her in my bed to go to sleep. This is annoying in so many ways by the way. For how little Ava is she thinks she needs to take up the whole bed and lay the opposite way your suppose too. I don’t get much sleep between her feet in my face and her rolling around so much. I needed to find a way to get her sleep in her crib again. I went online and the internet said to find her a “security” toy or blanket or something that will comfort her. It also said I should lay with her toy or her sheets so it has my scent. Baby’s have a strong scenes of smell so the moms scent comforts them also. I haven’t tried these tips yet because I just found them yesterday. Tonight I’m going to sleep with one of Ava’s animals so It smells like me and let her sleep with it tomorrow to see if it helps with her sleeping in her crib better. I hope it works because going to school and working everyday is really tough especially when my baby doesn’t let me sleep at night. 

I think another reason why Ava isn’t sleep in her crib is because she’s teething really badly. I can’t imagine how bad it must be to get all your teeth in. My grandma told me one time she got a tooth in when she was old and it hurt really bad and she cried, so for babies to go through it I understand why they are so crabby. I feel so bad for them. I try to help Ava by giving her Tylenol when needed at night and giving her teething toys. She likes the little rings that you put in the freezer. Every time I give her a cold teething toy, her eyes get really big and she drools everywhere. Between Ava teething and being spoiled and not wanting to sleep in her crib I feel like I’m going to have a hard time getting her in her crib asleep. Any ideas would be nice as well as new tips :) 

Learning How To Crawl

 

 

The last couple of weeks Ava has been learning how to crawl, or the initial steps on how to learn to crawl. I have friends that have babies around the same age as Ava and they are starting to crawl or doing the steps to crawling. The steps of crawling I mean, starting to get on their hands and knees and rocking back and forth, or crawling backwards. Ava didn’t do any of that, so one day I put her on her knees and put her arms out so she could get in to stance. Ever since that day (Which was about a week and a half ago) she now gets on all fours and rocks back and forth. She hasn’t crawled forward or backward yet just that little rock. I have a feeling she is going to start to crawl soon though. Every day she gets better and better about picking herself up and going into that “on all fours” stance. Two nights ago Ava wakes up next to me and I’m still half sleeping, all of a sudden I feel something hitting my back multiple times. Its Ava on all fours rocking back and forth hitting her head on my back. I look at her and she just smiles and plops back down to her belly.  When she wakes up in the morning or from her nap I will look on the baby monitor and she’s rocking back and forth trying so hard to crawl but just ends up on her belly. It’s such a bitter sweet experience.  I of course want her to grow up, but she’s growing so fast. First she’s going to learn to crawl and then she is going to be running around talking back to me. Why can’t she stay little forever. Just kidding I want to watch and see how big she gets and see all the new and exciting things she does in the near future. I have faith she will be crawling soon just because she already has made a lot of progress compared to what she was doing before this.

Why I chose to write about " My Daughter Ava"

I am choosing to write about “My Daughter Ava”.  I am choosing to write about Ava because there is nothing in this world I would rather be talking about, and everything she does and will do is always changing. There is always something going on exciting and funny with Ava. There is just so much I can talk about, and not only talk about but want to talk about.  I can start off talking about when I had her and how the changes were to me, and how I quickly adapted to the new changes, or right now when she starting to learn to crawl.

I can even talk about how she learned her voice in the past month and now screams such a high pitch scream, just to hear her voice and then laughs at herself. Everything about Ava to me is so exciting and that’s why I picked this topic. I think people are going to read this but enjoy reading this too, because almost everyone goes through having a baby and almost everybody likes babies so to read weekly about interesting things and new things Ava does seems enjoyable.  

I had Ava on March 19, 2013. She is going to be 6 months old on Thursday. I feel like these past 6 months have FLOWN by.  It seems like just the other day I was taking my 7 pound 1 ounce baby home with me. Watching Ava grow these 6 months are amazing to me. Watching the things she picks up, like learning to crawl, or learning that she has a voice and screams super loud now. Or the concept of eating with a spoon, which she has not mastered yet not even close too either.  

Every month I see Ava learn new things and it absolutely amazes me. I see the progress she makes and it makes me sad and excited at the same time. Sad because my little baby is growing up so fast in front of my eyes, and excited because I get to watch Ava grow up and teach her things and watch her become the person she will be 20, 30 and 40 years from now. My daughter is growing up so quickly. Everybody use to tell me to enjoy it while it lasts, and time fly’s by when you have kids, or time flys when you’re having fun. It’s all true and you never notice how fast time is going by or how you will never have that same day again. Every week I will be writing about Ava and all the things she does or my experiences I had with her that week.