Ava

This is her wink - It's blurry because I had to take it quickly

In the drawer

Ava had her well check Friday. She is 30 inches tall and 20 pounds. Her hemangioma is almost flat to her head now. It is remarkable how small it has gotten. I know that the 1o months on the steriods were pretty sucky but they did their job inhibiting the growth of the hemangioma and even reduced in size. Now that she is off of them she is a lot friendlier to be around. She is thinning out her cheeks no longer rest on her shoulders, she sleeps better (whew!)

She is 15 months old now and has quite the extensive vocabullary. Most of which even strangers know what she is saying. Some of the words she says are:

Baby (her first word reading a baby face book Lorelei gave her)

Mommy

Daddy

Puppy

Brooby (Brookie)

DOOOOGY _DOG (I call Snoopy 'Snoop Doggy Dog')

Uh-oh - when lauching things she no longer has an interest for

Up

Out

Hi

Hi der (Hi there - a talking bear my folks gave her says "Hi THERE!")

bye-bye

No

num num

NANA (banana - when I had 22lbs of bananas in the kitchen making bread for everyone, everytime we came in the kitchen she thought that she needed another banana)

biiiiiite

bah- bah

T-AHHH (after she drinks something refreshing, she also does it especially loud in church after she drinks the water)

Nigh- nigh

Tank-ewe (usually handing me one pen at a time from the pen drawer)

other funny things she does are:
She likes to scream along to songs ---again mostly during church, she needs to be the loudest one there.

Blows kisses

Makes a kiss sound

Says " SHHHH" w her pointer finger either up her nose or as near to her mouth as possible

Makes a fish face

Tries to wink but hasn't quite figured out how to close her eyes

fakes a cough and covers her mouth - but won't cover her mouth for a real cough

Tries to feed herself

Likes to dump the rag and towel drawer to crawl in and play

And she has the BEST big sister ever! Brooklyn is a great sister.

She will walk around the house with the phone between her ear and her shoulder and say "HI" and then just scream into it.....I wonder if that is how she sees me?

I think that is about it on my Ava update