and Punky is in bed, but this was her for the kickoff!
She was trying to watch the game. Such a football kid! 
She BARELY was able to squeeze in to this onesie. We bought it at the start of the season and it is a good thing the season is over tonight because she would not be able to wear it again. And, nevermind the red eyes. It is obvious she was very tired but bed time is not 6:30, it is after 7….gotta stretch that awake time out so she sleeps at night!
It is a big day for most of us! I think the vast majority of our readers are Colts fans, so we are all anticipating the game tonight! We have no big plans, just hanging out here at home and watching the game. I would post a picture of Ava in her Colts outfit, but that will have to come later….she is currently napping! Lets hope for a great game!
GO COLTS!
First things first:
Thankful Thursdays-
1. We are thankful for the ability to communicate with family and friends so easily. Sometimes technology is a curse, mostly it is a blessing!
2. We are thankful for having a doctor for Ava we really like and trust. That is so important!
3. The weekend. This weekend is one of the few where we do not have a lot of plans.
4. Our dishwasher…it sure seems as if that thing runs every night.
5. Our dogs…they sure have been very patient since Ava has taken over the house.
And now on to the pictures!!
Our printer ran out of ink so I had to use a blank sheet of paper and add in the text….Hey, it worked. However, getting Ava to sit with a sheet of paper is impossible now! She grabs it, puts it in her mouth, shakes it, looks around with it, etc. Just check it out for yourself!
We also replaced our non-working door bell. Ava helped out Jon, she was just thrilled with the ladder! She liked to stand and smack at the sticker that was on the top step!
THEY SEARCHED THAT AND IT LED THEM HERE??????
I have done this once before, but I will explain again. Our blog interface tells us what search engine terms people type in that leads them to our blog. Everyone so often I check it and I am blown away by what leads people to our site. So, lets check some out!
1. “new pentax dslr”- uhh, really? I do not own a dslr (a fancy digital camera), nor have I ever blogged about one!
2. am336 blaa- because this makes total sense! Why WOULDN’T this lead you here?
3. why is my belly getting bigger- Let me see if I can answer this one: 1. You are eating too much. 2. You are drinking too much. 3. You have a tumor. 4. You are pregnant. 5. You are being taken over by aliens. Take your pick!
4. size baby pictures quarter blueberry- I am fairly certain that all of those words are included in our blog, however…that is some search phrase, huh? It is like running tons of random thoughts together and searching them. I just love that people don’t know how to search. My students think that they need to type entire sentences in to a search query to be successful. This is usually the way to be LEAST successful. If you want to know how to harvest oranges the proper search term would be “harvesting oranges”, not “how do you harvest oranges during the orange season in an area where you grow oranges?”
5. \”belly picture\” -porn - This one is my favorite. I mean, we would ABSOLUTELY be posting belly picture porn on here if it weren’t for the people who read it. You know…my parents, Jon’s parents, siblings, friends…well…everyone. Oh, and then there is the part about not having any belly picture porn that stops us, too. I love people!
Ava turned 9 months old on Friday. It is hard to imagine what our life was like just 10 months ago, preparing for her arrival. She has just grown and changed so much, it is unreal. In just a few short months we will be celebrating her first birthday, and I am sure time will only go faster after that! She is full of entertainment, that is for sure. She crawls around and says “momma, momma, momma” and “ba, ba, ba, ba, ba”. She makes a rasberry sound with her lips. She scrunches up her face and makes a raspy breathing sound whens she is excited. (I will have to get this one on video, because it is hard to explain!) From the time she wakes up until she falls asleep she is just jabbering and making noise. It is so fun!
So….videos! I have two to share with you!
Just Ava playing and babbling!
And, having some “air” time in her crib! Here you can hear her rasberry noise!
The photos will follow in another post, right now the camera is hooked up and charging!
We have a 9 month update, with video that will be up soon! I know you are all waiting, hanging on the edge of your seats!
So this past weekend we visited Jon’s 95 year old grandmother, one of Ava’s two great grandmothers!! She is a snowbird and comes to Florida for three months a year. Her house is about an hour and a half from us and is always a wonderful time…below are a few picture from this past weekend!!
Thankful Thursday time!
This week we are thankful for:
- finally painting our living room. We had a baby shower for some friends at our house on Sunday afternoon so we decided that we should finally (after 4 years of living here) paint the living room, the only room in the house we had yet to paint. We decided at 10pm Saturday night, when there was NOT ONE THING hanging on our living room walls, the curtains were in the dryer, and the furniture was pulled away from the walls, that we were out of our minds. Did you know- painting a large room when you have a small child is a large task? If you didn’t, you do now! However, we are loving the results of our hard work.
- We are thankful for finally having something above the couch we both like. This is the THIRD thing we have hung there. Megan didn’t like the first, Jon didn’t like the second…we can finally agree on this one! Yay!
The saying says “Family- Where life beings and love never ends”. Say it with me now..”Awwwwww!”
- We are thankful for our little panda butt. Wait! Huh? Did she just say panda butt?
Yes, yes, I did just say panda butt! Look at her, all big and stuff. Standing so casually with one hand resting on her little table. Darn her for getting so big!
- We are thankful that we are finally getting some help with the laundry around this place. It is about darn time Ava starting pulling her weight around here.
(if anybody was heading off to call Child Protective Services because of the child labor implied here….it was a joke!!)
- thankful that we are finally getting in to an exercise routine. After Ava was born things got a little wild. Ava finally has a regular-ish bedtime, so we are back to the exercise. I suppose if we put it out there on the internet we can’t fail at it without the risk of major public humiliation. Jillian Michaels 30 Day shred is our weapon of choice! She makes a mean workout video!
And, a “just because” picture:
I just love a freshly bathed baby!
1. We are thankful for the past two nights that Ava has slept all night long without waking. I am even afraid to type that all out for fear she will be up soon!
2. Megan is thankful for MLK day on Monday, that means a long weekend!
3. We are thankful that we got to turn our heat off today! It has finally returned to a normal SW Florida winter! (not bragging at all, we know that most of you who are reading this are doing so from the comfort of your blanket by the fire, admiring the snow out your windows!)
4. Thankful for Jon returning to the office and doing the job he loves the most. My husband is happier now then he has been in a year. I would say he is, officially, back in his element!
5. Thankful for friends and family who have beef and pork. I think when Jon and I packed out suit cases to come back down here after Christmas we must have had 50 pounds of meat spread between 3 suit cases. That sure helps the grocery bill! We even still have some in my parents deep freezer….it will just wait for our next visit!
We have taken LOTS of pictures since the birth of our little Punky.
1,356, to be exact. That is an average of 5 pictures a day. Wow! I was worried I wouldn’t be good at taking pictures…I guess that is a worry not worth my time! Lets look at picture #1 and then the most recent! This will be good!
Ava, a mere seconds old…and the best OB/GYN on the planet, Dr. Murray! Love that guy! (oh, and sorry…it is kind of an icky picture!)
Ava at almost 8.5 months old. Never, ever in my wildest dreams could I have pictured a more perfect baby in my home!
