Chuck E Cheese

Today we headed over to Chuck E Cheese for Lexie's 3rd birthday party.  I have to say I don't think I have been to a CEC since 1985 maybe?  They have changed a little bit from what I remember in that it is much brighter in there and there are no longer the separate rooms with the games and the animatronic bear band. 

We had a great time playing games and Ava especially loved the air hockey game and a game that basically spit out many tickets at you every time you pumped in all your tokens.  She left with some lip gloss, tattoos, jewelry and other fun CEC stuff when she cashed in her tickets.

Ava & Darren playing air hockey.

 Excited face!

 Happy to see Chuck-e himself.  I have to say Ava is getting so much better with meeting characters...to think that only a year or 2 ago she was scared of Santa and the Easter bunny. 

I have to say my fave part of the party was watching Lexie get in this wind tunnel booth and try to get tickets.  Although she really just stood there in her plastic goggles and wondered what she was doing in there.  Quite hilarious!  Wish I had a better photo to fully capture the moment.

I'm Working on it!/ What Ava Has Been Saying

Ok finally updated more of the blog again.  We are almost up to date, people!  Yeah!  Next step is to upload the photos on my camera from the past few weeks and see if I have any new videos too.  Again, really sorry I have slacked (I know my 2 readers are sad). I did try to get to this point a few weeks ago but Blogger decided it had enough of me and kept mucking things up.

So close to being done!  So make sure you check back from August 7th until now to see all new posts.

And I know will reward you with a little bit of "What Ava Has Been Saying Lately."

1. She continues to sometimes mispronounce words…I know I will be sad the day she says these correctly so I don't want to forget them, especially my 2 favorites 1) Musgit instead of music and 2) bepologize as in “Daddy, I want to tell you something. I bepologize. I really really sorry."  Too funny.


2.  In the car one day, Ava says “Mommy I miss Ford. Can we find him on his adventures? I want to play detectives. I want to detective where Ford is. I want to find his pawprint to see it. Ford is in trouble. He’s lost. He’s in a berry bush and he is stuck. STUCK!!! He can eat the berries. He’s in a berry bush. Mommy Ford is lost. I miss him. I want to go on an adventure to find Ford.”  Note: Ford has been missing since May but Ava does not want to forget about him and although it makes me sad, I love that she refuses to believe he is gone for good.

3. While doing a puzzle, “Mommy I need help.”
Me: “No you can do it yourself, you do this one all the time.”
Ava: “No I need help. It says so in my book. (then says this part really slowly & with hand motions) I need help.” If you’re kid watches Super Why you will understand this.

4. Ava: “Mommy, you’re a good reader. You’re a good singer.”
Darren: “What I am good at Ava?”
Ava: “You’re good at tooting.” Then she adds “You’re a good painter, markerer. You’re a good drawer too.”
Sorry Darren but it is too funny not to post.

5. Ava helped me out with the laundry the other day. She carried it to the laundry room and then put each piece in the washer.  As she is doing it, she spots a pair of my underwear and says "Mommy, your polka dot panties are amazing!"

Haircut

WARNING!!!! Cheesy self-portrait of me below.  But though some of you might like to see that I actually did something different with my hair (I got bangs!) this time around.  For your viewing pleasure....

Sorry!

Sorry I have been SO behind in updating the blog. Let's see, summer happened, then it was my birthday, then my computer broke & had to get a new one, then we went on vacation, then I was gearing up for Ava's school to start (and working on Parent Committee stuff), then I was sick, and now I'm just tired.

So I will be working the next few days to hopefully update this so it is current. Newest old post will be July 23rd and I hope to finish this soon but still getting used to new photo editing software etc. so we will see!

At least I am attempting to start again...it's a bit overwhelming!

1st Day of School

It's that time again!  School time!  Ava now goes 3x a week and for once, she was super excited not only to go to school but also when we dropped her off.  No tears, just a hug and bye! and that was it.  Probably does not hurt that she is in a class with almost everyone from her class last year and her friend Sydnee who started school this year is also in there.  Out of 12 kids she already knows 8 of them.

Here she is with her backpack heading out & on the bench at school.

And here she is last year and the year before on the same bench...look how much our little girl has grown!