Chasing Baby

It's starting...for several weeks now, we've been chasing little miss Ava down over and over. Our living room could look like a nuclear blast filled with toys hit , yet she'd still rather crawl off into the dining room/kitchen. She's getting better at it...faster...and also getting more attitude when we pull her back into the living room. We put the baby gate up between the living room and dining area the other day, and it made her so angry! I wish I had had the camera at that moment, it was hilarious!. But now in the last few days, she has been pulling herself up on things like crazy. First it was just pulling herself to her knees in her crib, but now, within a week of that episode, it's full-blown standing. She likes to try pulling herself up on unstable objects, like her sound stage in my last post, or the mini-basketball hoop Austin got her for Christmas. So we constantly have to watch her to make sure she doesn't fall, or let her fall so she'll learn (which sounds terrible, doesn't it?) I usually try to prevent the fall, but when I do that she gets a 'tude with me. It won't be long and she'll be running around on her little feet. Crazy. Here's a picture of her when she first pulled herself up in the crib.

Pics from the holidays

Wow I've been slacking on my blog! The holidays have been very busy, as well as life in general. Ava is just getting busier and busier all the time. She keeps us on our toes. Just thought I'd post some pics from the holidays.

She had some fun under the Christmas tree at home

Here's a few from Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house

Here's one of Ava and Nick smoochinStarting to get tired here...note thumb in the mouth, mom had to help her a lot on opening presents toward the end there. She managed to stay awake til the ride home though...poor tuckered out baby. And now for Christmas morning at our house

Oliver has become so tolerant of us in his "old" age

And someone started pushing herself up onto her feet for the first time on Christmas day!
One of her favorite toys was from Grandma and Grandpa...she has so much fun with her little "sound stage"!
Here's one more pic just because I think it's so cute

I guess that's all for now! I'll try to post more often