Ava is 11 months

Ava is 11 months - I'm sobbing right now. I just can't believe it! She has one tooth, the one next to where her top front tooth should be. Pretty weird. I'm really hoping she has the 6 other teeth that were suppose to come in before that one! She is always playing with her tongue and rolling it around. She loves the dishwasher. Is always trying to take everything out of it. She has started to walk around using her walker. She loves it! She gets so excited, happy and proud. And when she first started doing it Ryker got SO excited for her too. It was pretty cute. When Ryker is still taking a nap Ava will go to Ryker's door and look under the door trying to see him. Or stand up and hit the door, always looking for him. She discovered she can put her mouth in the water and does it over and over again. She loves the vacuum and will chase it - which makes it pretty hard to vacuum.

 I so wish this picture was clear

 I'm so glad her eyes stayed blue

 This is now Ryker's normal smile haha. He still changes his clothes and socks a million times. He now likes to pick out Ava's clothes. He still sleeps with 5 extra blankets and about 6 stuffed animals. Every morning he eats ceral with Kev. It's like their thing. Then when he is done. He tells me he is ready for breakfast, and eats another meal. The other morning we were laying in bed. Ryker was in the kitchen and starts yelling "Kevin! Kevin! Kevin! Let's eat cereal! Kevin!" haha I don't know where he learned that. I call Kevin, Kev. It was pretty funny though.

February

Our February in pictures

First time trying eggs, not a huge fan.

Playing with Jello....got to try to do something fun when we have had colds for like 2 months!

Bella had a puppy and Ryker is obsessed with her.

Ryker and I drew a picture for Maddy's birthday

We went to Blast off with the Kundes. Ryker loves playing with their girls. It was a lot of fun.

She just all of a sudden grew up. Started pulling herself up on things, all of sudden started climbing the stairs!

Valentine's day for Kev

My mom invited us over for dinner

 Went to Blast off with some of the cousins. It was pretty fun. Notice how Ryker has his leopard pants on backward :)

She wanted to be outside with them so bad.

I'm so grateful Ryker has so many cousins

Her favorite place to be

 Moana had 4 puppies, 2 males and 2 females. We ended up having an emergency c-section. It cost more than both of my children's birth :/ so hopefully we are able to sell them.

10 Months Old Ava

Well another month flew by! This girl is just so sweet and happy! She is still all over the place and into everything. She Loves (and is so quick getting there) getting the dog food and water. Loves Ryker's closet full of toys. She likes pushing his cars around. She loves playing with the night lights we have plugged in. She will bounce/ dance to music. When we are getting Ryker ready for bed, we will put her on the bed and she just gets so excited to play with his curtains (she has loved this since I can remember). When we tell her no, she will stop, look at us, smile, shack her head, then move even quicker to what ever she was doing. She distinctly says "Dada" when he comes home or walks into a room. She still loves sleeping on her stomach - which I hate. A couple of weeks ago I took the vents off to clean. She watched me do it and so for about a week she kept taking all the vents off too. She loves pees, will pick them out when I give her mixed vegetables. She still scrunches up her nose at us - which I love. She will bounce to music. She loves putting her legs up in the air. She is always taking her socks off. She loves looking outside from our patio sliding doors. She is also always playing with the doggy door. We just LOVE her to pieces!

Some things about Ryker: He sometimes calls me babe and It's pretty funny. Kev calls me babe most of the time. One night I was heading out the door and Ryker yells "Bye Babe!" Then one morning he climbed into bed with us and said "Hi Dad, Hi Babe." Kev and I haven't been able to say a prayer for like the last 2 months. Ryker always says the prayer! He does pretty good. He has started to pray that Dad will come home from work soon...which is cute and sad. The kids definitely miss him during this busy season. Sometime Kev helps Ryker say his evening prayers by saying something and having Ryker repeat it. A couple times Kev has said " We love you (as in Heavenly Father)" and Ryker says "we love me". We both love it. Ryker has started to say things like "You want some?" when eating his food. Or "You want to come?" When telling Kev he is going to go play at Carter's house. One time I mentioned how him riding on his fire truck looked fun and he said "You want to try?" He has also started to say 'Remember" a lot. Like "the meat is spicy, Remember?" or when working out he says "it's hard, remember?" He still changes his closes and socks at least 5 times a day. He is becoming just like Kev, always singing and making noises. He loves listening to music, especially "Let it go", songs from Moana and "Rollex". He has picked up a lot of words from the songs and it is so cute to hear him sing along to them. He has also started to learn primary songs, especially I am a child of God and When I am baptized - "the rainbow song". I usually start tearing up when he starts singing these songs with us before he goes to bed. It's just so sweet. Ryker Loves cereal. It has become his and Kev's thing to eat cereal every morning....and then 40 minutes later he eats breakfast with him. He seems to be a bottomless pit in the mornings.

It's definitely not easy with these two but I couldn't imagine life without them.