Ava's adventures with her dada!

I left Ava for the first time since she was born. I spent two days and a night in Rockport celebrating my friend Corinne's 45th birthday. From the moment I left Ava's dada had a jam packed 34 hours planned. I was constantly curious about what they were doing...if he remembered to give her a bottle, snack, change her diaper ;-) and put sun screen on her, etc, but when I returned home I realized he is just as good with her as I am...maybe even better. They have such a great time together. They went to the park (where they met other children and their mommy's...which I think Ava's dada loves ;-), the grocery store, ate out for lunch and played allot around the house since it was so darn hot outside. Ava even got carded for the first time and denied entrance to a bar (see attached photo of her with Dean who was celebrating his 40th birthday) in downtown Austin. Chris has toted Ava around since she was only a couple of days old. He has never feared having her and going on what they call Ava and dada adventures! The weekend before last they ventured to Cabela's in Buda for the afternoon. Yesterday they spent a good part of the afternoon at Chris's office getting ready for the week. Ava has a blast doing things with her father and her father loves having her with him!

Ava and Auntie Tiffany

Little Miss Ava and I visited Tiffany and Kay at the Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) offices twice this week. We borrowed several strands of pearls from Kay for Ava's first professional photo shoot (photos to come soon). Kay is one of the attorneys for the TFC so we felt like big wigs walking into the Legal Department - especially when on our second visit the receptionist remembered us and just sent us down the hallway on our own. Ava took over the office. The legal department is made up entirely of women (YES!) and they let Ava have run of the place. It was so much fun. I let Tiffany take Ava to meet other people in the office and when I caught up with them she had a du rag on her head - precious.

Ava's friend's Jack and Mia Powell

Ava and I made a road trip to see Mia Powell who just turned six weeks old. She is absolutely the tiniest thing and so sweet. Her big brother Jack was showing me all of his tricks and Ava loved going through his toy boxes in his big boy bedroom. It is always good to see Chrissy and JP. They recently left Austin for a job in Corpus Christi and then were relocated to San Antonio - one step closer to A-town although we are in SA often and can see them when we are there. We had such a fabulous visit and you could never tell that Chrissy just had a baby. She looks terrific! It was so fun posing the children for this adorable photo and to see it come out so cute!

These legs were made for walking!

Ava is about to start walking. She has been standing alone for about a month. Now, she can multi-task while doing it as seen in the one photo where she is standing while playing with her daddy's CD cover. We were in San Antonio yesterday visiting Chrissy and JP Powell (Jack and new addition to the family - sweet little Mia) and they loaned us this push toy. Ava immediately took off in their home and walked all over the place.

Chris is in Canada on business and asked me to hold Ava back from actually walking until he gets home. Will do, dada! We're waiting for you, but you better hurry.

Ava's pretty hat

When we were in Dallas for the weekend my sister in law's close friend knitted a precious hat for baby Addison (due to arrive later this month) just like this one and I fell in love with it. She went home, made one for Ava and shipped it to us! It is absolutely precious although Ava isn't enjoying it at the moment and not at all appreciative of the special gift custom made for her sweet little head. Get used to it little Ava - come fall you will be sporting it!