Ava {20 months}

Words she knows as of today (RED ones are new words this month):

Jesus, uncle, airplane, egg, tractor, what's that (waz dat), two, car, orange, blue, purple, bird, bus, Misty (the horse), Oma (what she calls Becky), knee, amen, byebye, octopus, fishies, keys, sit, achoo, look, hat, kick, stick, Auntie, puppy, elbow, banana (nana), walk, eyes, hot, yeah, play (pay), swing (wee), cup, buckle up (buka uh), bubble gum (bubba guh), apple juice, happy birthday (appie day), cupcake, goodnight (nye nye), oh cute (ohhh toote), moon, bow, ouch, cookie, all done, water, happy, moo, baa, thank you, truck, duck/quack (same thing right now) car, balloon (boon), cake, please (meese), flower (wow-wee), belly (buh-bee), clicker, cup, oh no, ball, bubble, up, apple, cool, Elmo, baby, no, grandpa (says poppy), grandma (says mama), ow/owie, milk (muk), paci (she actually calls it mammy), cracker, shoes, dada, mama, hi, more, uh oh, wow, cheese, book

Highlights:

• My favorite new thing that Ava does: she points to something and asks "Waz dat?" when she doesn't know what something is. 
• She is now making two-word sentences, such as "No milk," "More juice," and "No night night." 
• Songs she loves and knows the motions to: 5 Little Monkeys, Wheels on the Bus (her favorite is saying "shh, shh, shh") Bubble Gum, 5 Little Ducks, Daddy Comes Home, Popcorn Popping
• She tries to count, but only says "two." So instead of saying, "one, two, three," she points and says, "two, two, two." 
• She has started going to bed earlier, around 8pm, and wakes up around 8am.
• We are working on her colors. She can say orange, blue and purple.
• She is starting to recognize letters. She knows A for sure, and that it says "ah." She can say most of the letter sounds.
• She loves to color. I only give her Color Wonder markers that only color on special paper, otherwise she draws all over herself, on the table and probably all over the entire house if I let her. When she is using a marker, she takes off the lid and puts it on the other end. When she is done with that marker, she puts the correct lid back on and puts it back into her little marker pouch.
• When she cleans up, she sings "Dah, eee, Dah, eee" to the tune of the "Clean Up" song.
• She LOVES flowers and picks every.single.flower in our backyard. Sad. She also loves to pick (or harvest as Bryson says) the fruit and vegetables in the garden (raspberries, snap peas, tomatoes). 
• She LOVES animals and is completely fearless around them, which is good, but also scary haha. She especially loves dogs.
• Animal sounds she can make: duck, lion, tiger, bird, cat, dog, horse, elephant, whale, monkey, bee, cow.
• Family members she recognizes and calls by name (in parenthesis is what she calls them): Momma, Daddy, Gavin (Baby), Grandma Webster (Mama), Grandpa Webster (Poppy), Grandma Schooff (Oma), Grandpa Schooff (Poppy), Uncle Blake (Uh-koo), Aunt Maddie (Aye-tee), Aunt Kaitlyn (Aye-tee), Uncle Brad (Uh-koo), Uncle Jayson (Uh-koo).
• She recognizes who Jesus is and gets excited anytime she sees a picture of Him. (Funny story: in the airport, she saw a man with a full beard and excitedly pointed to him and exclaimed "Jesus!"). When we say "Ava it's time for prayer," she folds her arms. We say family prayer every night and she lists off all her family members that she is grateful for. 
• This month she went to a little amusement park called Santa's Workshop in Colorado. She rode every single ride, and not a single one scared her, not even the ones that I sincerely thought would be too intense for her. She is truly fearless. 

Here are some random pictures from this month:

And here are some videos of Ava working on her alphabet. I love this app on Bryson's iPad.

Wow, I am so incredibly blessed to have Ava as my daughter, my little buddy. She truly brightens my life and brings completely JOY into our family. She is happy, bright, smiley, smart, funny, spunky, and full of non-stop energy. She is definitely on the go-go-go 24/7. :) And I wouldn't have it any other way! I LOVE her more than I can ever express. 

Until next month. :)

(Crazy to think, only 4 months until Ava is 2 - I don't want to think about that just yet.)