Goblin Glow

Tonight we headed over to Lakeway City Park for their Goblin Glow Trick or Treating event...we had no idea what to expect but had a blast...we did not know how much fun Ava would have and had to drag her kicking and screaming home...literally.

Ava was shy at first (the stilt walkers creeped her out) but once she saw the face painting tent, she got excited...

Here she is sitting still (for once!) getting her kitty cat face on...

Afterwards!! I swear after she got her face painted she went from being shy to being super crazy fun girl.

Darren showing Ava how to trick or treat (you went from hot air balloon to hot air balloon to get candy..they were grounded of course)

Me & Ava being silly...rare Mommy & Ava photo.

and the balloons all lit up...hence the name Goblin Glow. All in all it was an amazing (and free!) event that I definitely want to do every year. Live music, trick or treating, face painting, balloon animals, stilt walkers, what more could you ask for???

Pumpkin Patch

We headed to the pumpkin patch today with Gabe & kids for a little bit of fun..Ava as always enjoyed the playground there more than the pumpkins but I still managed to get some photos of her in the pumpkins...

Ava loved picking up pumpkins and either throwing (thank God none of them broke) or moving them to another spot.

One of the actual posed shots..too bad Lexie did not make it in this shot.

Moving pumpkins...

Sliding with Sawyer...

Sliding/hugging with Lexie & Sawyer

Espanol

Ava has been counting in Spanish lately at random times. The first time we heard her do this, she skipped around a lot but tonight she actually almost got it all right (she missed tres/three but whose counting? other than Ava that is?)

Playdate with Sienna

We had Sienna, a girl Ava knows from tumble class, over today for a little playdate and the girls had a great time together. They probably played with every toy we had, and what I thought was going to be a short little playdate ended up being a nice long 2.5 hour event. It was great! The 2 girls entertained one another enough that Jen & I were able to actually talk and hang out a bit.

The girls loved when I got the playdough out....

and played a game I like to call "Open Wide" since that is all they said for about 15 minutes as they pretended to shovel "food" into one another's mouths. Pretty funny. It went so well that we are planning on doing this regularly with Sienna & Jen.

The Musical Stylings of Ava

Ava loves to sing. I constantly find her singing a wide variety of songs and sometimes even made up ones. For at least 15 minutes the other day, she entertained Darren & I with this ditty. She basically repeats the same word/words over and over and we are not sure what she is exactly saying. Which is weird since the majority of the time we know what she is saying.

It sounds like "Yesterday" or maybe "Doctor say" (which is almost a line from 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed) but when you ask her where she learned this song she says nothing. So who knows. All I know is that she is one funny little girl.

Princess Obessesion

So ever since Ava played with Sawyer's Cinderella doll, she has had a thing for princesses. Awhile back we bought her a bunch of Disney princess figurines and she LOVES them. She loves to take the dresses off and switch them around and I'm always surprised that 1) she knows which princess is which even if they are not in their original outfit and 2) she knows which outfit actually belongs on which princess.

We finally watched Cinderella on DVD (thanks to Me Mommy) and just recently watched the Little Mermaid and Snow White. Next up: Sleeping Beauty. We do fast forward through some of the scarier parts or talk her through them (Ava always says "She's not nice" whenever the stepmother in Cinderella is on the screen) and so far she has liked all of them a lot and none have scared her.

Ava & AJ Dancing

Finally got around to uploading these from my video camera...these are some funny videos of Ava & AJ dancing from our trip to Houston in late Sept. These kids have some moves!