Bath Time Fun

We were helping to watch Ava's cousins, Kate and William, Sunday night. Ava was in need of a bath so we threw Kate in with her. They had a great time. We even got Ava to wash Kate's back with the wash cloth.

Ava made Kate laugh hysterically by her excited splashing. Kate didn't seem to mind that it was getting all over her (and all over the floor!).
Ava was T-I-R-E-D. It was already past her bedtime - but what kid wants to go to sleep when there are playmates around? Kate thought it was funny to keep reaching out and touching Ava. Ava wasn't as amused.

An evening quote

“Oh no!”
Chris exclaims, looking into the refridgerator.
“What?”
Lori asks.
“I’ve been drinking squirrel milk!”
Chris replies seriously.
Lori laughs uncontrollably

I should probably explain that we buy whole milk for Ava and 1% for us - and one of Chris' nicknames for Ava is "Squirrel."

I got a pretty good laugh out of that one. I even had to look up whether squirrels did indeed lactate...they do.

We missed you, Camie!

For those of you who know my friend Camie, she had the tradition of throwing a Halloween Bunko party every fall. Since she has moved away we had to carry on her tradition. With her blessing and encouragement, Michelle and I hosted a Bunko party of our very own. Needless to say, Camie was missed. We took a minute to thank Camie (and Matt too) for their great idea and inspiration.

The party was a lot of fun. We had 16 people attend. Since it was a Halloween Bunko party we had costumes for everyone. The costumes included: Little Red Riding Hood, Robinhood, a baker, a movie star, an angel, the devil, a cat, a lumberjack, a nerd, a pirate, a cowboy, a pioneer woman, a conehead - yes, conehead, a witch, a soccer player and a punk rocker.

Not really on purpose - but Michelle and I both made a recipe from Camie. I made her sour-cream coffee cake and Michelle made her popcorn.The only thing missing was Camie herself. You were there in spirit, my friend!!!

Here's Ava up way past her bedtime the night of the party, taking part in the dressing up.

Far from perfect

So I got an email from a certain k8 G.R. about the quilting group she is heading. It was of a cute pumpkin quilt wall-hanging. (some of you probably got the same email). I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought that I could make said quilt even though I have never quilted anything before. (I did make a 9 square pillow-top in jr. high home-ec, but that's it). I bought a set of pre-cut, pre-selected fabrics from k8 to attempt the project.

It is far from perfect, (so don't look too closely please), but it is done and hanging up for us to enjoy. I liked the quilting process in general, although I had to think a long time about how binding works. Now it's on to something for Christmas.

"PUNKIES!"

Boy, it's time for a new post! Like many of you we ventured out to our local pumpkin patch to get some of what Ava calls, punkies.
Here is Ava holding a pumpkin. We thought this was the perfect sized pupkin for her but when we handed it to her she did one of those, "whoah this is heavy", manuevers and almost dropped it. That was pretty funny. She ended up picking a tiny one from inside their store.
Ava and the cousins sure are growing!

Here's last year's pic. Ava was much smaller and Kate was in her mommy's tummy.

Ava loves giving hugs - even to pumpkins!

CHEESE ALERT!

Okay, if you can't stand cheesiness - don't read this blog. I just have to write it!

Reasons my husband is great:
1. He absoulutely adores our daughter and does everything he can to protect her
2. he cooks, cleans and does all of our laundry - without me ever saying a single word - I'm talking dishes, bathrooms, vacuuming - you name it
3. he gets ready in the dark so as not to wake me (he leaves at 6:20). I have fond memories of seeing him poking around our room with a flashlight looking in the clean clothes basket. I've told him it is okay to turn on a light but he doesn't.
4. he kisses me goodbye and tells me he loves me every time he leaves and gives out lots of hugs and kisses to his 2 favorite girls (Ava and I of course.)
5. he is really smart and could win any trivia game - don't challenge him to Trivial Pursuit because you would lose ;)
6. he commutes 45 minutes each way every day to a professional, decent-paying job and works hard so that I can stay home and NEVER complains about it.
7. sometimes in the middle of the night if he gets up - he'll bring me some juice without me asking and asks if I want a drink (I always say yes - juice at 3 am is so good).
8. he would much rather be at home or spending time with me and Ava than be anywhere else
9. he's really funny - our senses of humor usually mesh really well - I like it when he laughs at my jokes
10. a million other reasons.

Sorry for the cheesiness but I just had to post my thoughts today.