Happy Birthday Month!

It's April!!!
Ava was due to be born March 30th...her birthday is April 6th!

Anyway, we started singing "Happy Birthday Week" to Ava on Tuesday, March 31...kind of funny that we were singing to her before her birthday month even started!

Today we had a very mixed up scheduling snaffoo.....yet all worked out well in the end. The girls were babysat by a new sitter after their 1/2 day of school and I took Ava & Colin out for lunch at Noodles. At Noodles, I let Ava open her card from Great Grandma.....and told her that we'd celebrate her month by using the money sent at a place she's been begging to go to....Build A Bear. (However, the secret was that first, she had to have her 5 year check up, which included 4 shots!) She endured the shots with huge tears streaming down her face...and then we were off to BAB where she picked out the above shown bear and a Cinderella dress for the bear. Right now, she's snuggled up to the big girls watching Little House on the Prairie cuddling her bear! We will take a birthday break now for a few days, focus on Easter and then we'll be right back at the birthday celebrating!

As for what else is new in our home...We have some big news at our house: the 2 little girls are working on not sucking their thumbs and Colin is officially paci-free!!! It was hard for 2 days, but now he just goes right to sleep! We are loving the nice warm weather and have spent hours outside. We have freshly washed windows, we're excited to celebrate Easter as a family.....and then next week, we have THIS:
It will be fun--12 little girls from school ☺ Andy is off next week, after traveling to the east coast this week and we'll definitely enjoy lots of family time!

Oh, and for those of you who really know Ava, you get 1 guess on what she named her new bear.....Hint: it joins the ranks of every other animal that she has named, using the same name!