Land of the Princesses

As of late just about EVERYTHING Ava does has something to do with princesses, dressing up, fingernail polish, and everything girl. She is the biggest girly girl ever, which is quite a strange thing to me. For any of you who knew me when I was younger, I was just about as Tom Boy as they get. I have no idea where she gets her girlyness from. Although, I must say, it is quite humerous. Since she is so girly, naturally her 3rd birthday party HAD to be a princess party.

She had such a blast with all her friends! They were all dressed up as princesses and did all girly things. Here's some pics.....

Playing in her room waiting for everyon to show up

One of my BFF's Tiff doing face painting for us.

BFF Heidi doing painting nails

Of course there were presents

she got more stuff then she knows what to do with

Naturally, there had to be a princess castle cake....yes...that's homemade

Thank you so much to everyone who came to Ava's party and made it such a special day for her. She still talks about her party every day!

Herriman recently opened a new rec center. We got memberships with the intentions of working out....HA.....so far we've really only used it to take Ava swimming. Although, Rhett did go play basketball one day with his work buddies. Surely we'll get around to the actual purpose of the memberships right?

Ava and Dad just hanging out

Ava singing.....she's saying "give me attention!"......right....as if she doesn't get enough attention.

Longest month ever....

Wow.....seems like January is never going to end. Well....I can't blame it solely on January....December is partially to blame too. That's when it all started after all. Poor lil' Ava got a cold around Christmas. You know the typical runny nose, sore throat, blah blah blah. Well after two weeks I took her into the Dr. He decided to put her on antibiotics because "it should be gone by now" according to him. That's when the cough started....more of a hack than a cough. So 1 week later, the hack is worse...sounded nasty. Ava is of course DYING (as was I) at this point because we basically haven't left the house. So, I take her into the Dr. again...this time...yup...pneumonia. Poor thing. He changed up her meds and I can officially now say (basically a month later) all is finally back to normal. If you consider the Walker household to ever be "normal" that is. Hopefully she doesn't get that freaky transient synovitis again...gooo.....don't even want to think about that crap. Anyway....we had a great Christmas. Ava was spoiled beyond belief. Here's some pics of happenings lately.

Sitting on Santa's Lap at the family Christmas Party
Sitting in the rocking chair Aunt "Corinnie" made for her
Corrine, Brayden, Jake....and....Rhett's foot ;)

Ava INSISTED on wearing the pajamas that Santa gave her to the family Christmas brunch.

Last week Herriman opened their new firestation and had an openhouse. We took Ava to go see the fire trucks. She LOVED it!

Rylee with Superman at the Winter Palooza

Ava after getting her face painted at the Winter Palooza

Lately.....

So, I do realize it's yet again been over a month since I updated my blog. I know...I'm horrible at it. I do have some new family pics to upload for ya, and once I figure out how to make blogger upload COLOR high resolution pics....I'll get right on it ;) Rhett's last final for the semester is tomorrow! YEAH!!!! Can't wait! Joy to the world that he won't go back to school until January 11th. Poor guy...he's seems to be stricken with all sorts of illness lately. Luckily he's better today. We'll see what tomorrow brings I suppose. We are getting super excited for Christmas. Ava is going to absolutely LOVE it this year! She keeps asking when it's coming and keeps singing Christmas songs. She has turned into quite the little character and says some of the funniest stuff ever. I'm sure every parent says that though. Here's a list of some of my personal favs....

"Oh my gosh Mom, they put toilet paper on that cupcake! You've GOT to be kidding me!" (They really put white fondant on a colorful cake to make it appear as a bow)

"Mom! Look!!!!! A MONSTER POO!!!!" (thanks Rhett)

"Bye Bye poo....I love you...be a good girl for daddy!" (as her poo flushes down the toilet...thanks again Rhett.)

"Grandpa! HURRY UP!"

"That's not funny mom! I'm not laughing!"

"Probably he'll just laugh at me."

"I'll tell you my thoughts. Either I can sleep in your bed, or I can go downstairs and play the Wii."

"NO!!!!! I'll do it all myself"....ok this one isn't really a favorite, but it's about all I hear all day.

"Where's my pretties?!" (Lipgloss)

"Where's my bandaids?!" (Silly bands)

"MOM! MOM! MY HIGH SCHOOL!!!" (preschool)

"I need my ipod." (anything that is small and appears to be electronic)

She seriously keeps me laughing all day long! She is definitely still a typical 2 year old with fits and all, but they seem to be less often than they used to be. She is still tiny, but then again...she doesn't have much hope. Last I checked she weighed around 22lbs and was about 33 inches tall. People that don't know her usually about die when she opens her mouth. They always think she's about 18 months old. Uh....yeah....try a year older. Oh well....we think it's pretty funny. Night all!

What the?!

Ever heard of Transient Synovitis? Yeah....I hadn't either, until today. So, yesterday morning Ava wakes up EARLY EARLY yelling and crying that her leg hurt. She kept grabbing her knee and made me rub it for a while. After about a half hour or so, she stopped complainig so we figured she just had a dead leg or something. This morning she wakes up at about 6:30am screaming and crying that she has an owie. Same thing....same leg....same exact spot that she's pointing to and grabbing. I think it's weird, but figure she must have slept in the same position and has another dead leg. After a while, she wasn't getting any better. It was way worse than yesterday. She was just cryin and shaking every few minutes because it hurt so bad. I try to get her up to go potty, but she wouldn't put ANY pressure on it. Every time she'd try she'd just fall to the floor. Saddest thing you've ever seen. So, naturally...I call the doctor. We take her in and he suspects it's something called transient synovitis. Evidently what it means is she had a viral infection somewhere else in the last few weeks and instead of the antibodies that faught it leaving the body, they settle in a joint. Typically they settle in the hip, but he thinks they settled in her knee instead. It was all swollen up. We also had to take her to get blood drawn so he can make sure it's not bacterial (which would be much worse). Unfortunately, there's not much they can do for her. It will supposedly pass in about a week. All we can do is treat it with motrin for pain and inflammation. As we got home tonight she says to me....."Mom.....I had a rough day. That lady poked me. It hurt really bad!"....poor kid. Here's a pic of her knee from this morning.

I know right?!

Two days in a row...can you believe it?! Me neither! Ever have those days that just don't end near quick enough? Today has been one of those days. Nothing really bad happened, just an ornery 2 year old who has decided to test me clear to my last nerve...that's all. Thank heaven she's in bed. Here's a little video of what I have heard constantly over the last week. I took these videos with my phone and can't get them to flip....sorry.



Freaking out because I buckled up her seatbelt instead of her doing it herself. Even though I gave her ample opportunities to do so, but she would just stare at me with a crusty look and not do it.




And then there's moments like this that just make me laugh. Don't ask me what she's saying cuz I've tried and tried to figure it out...NO idea. All i get is 1,2,3,4,5.....something something something....RIGHT NOW!...

And moments like this where she sings her little heart out in the tub (I believe she's singing a song from Pete's Dragon)....

We sure love our little girl!

Update

It's been a while....AGAIN....I know, I know. It is what it is. We've been busy as ever. Rhett's back in school for the semester, Ava is as sassy as ever, things are pretty much the same as always around here. We got our flooring in our kitchen redone....tile instead of linoleum, YEAH! Now I just need to pick out some new carpet. I love it! Seems like we've still been constantly out of town or crazy busy with one project or another. Rhett and my dad went hunting a couple weekends ago, with zero luck. That's totally fine by me! :) he he he..... Here's some pics

Flooring before

Flooring after (still needs cleaned)

Me and a couple of my friends took a cake decorating class. Ava is enjoying the fruits of said class....

My final creation from my class

Ava at Jumpin Jack's in St. George

Holding a lizard that Rhett caught in my gma's backyard in St. George

Time flies!

Wow....I can't believe it's really been that long since my last post on here. Craziness! Summer has been insane. Seems like we've hardly been home at all! Oh wait! That's cuz we've been out of town constantly. Between a wedding, girl's trips, visiting family, boating, family reunions, and just little fam vaca....we've been busy. I can't believe that summer is basically over. Just a few warm days left and then it's another long hated winter. UGH.....does anyone else just HATE the snow?!?!?! SOOOOOOO not ready for it! And thanks to my dear neighbor (who reminds me all the time) Christmas is just around the corner. Unfortunately, Ava has been sick for almost the past week. She has what we thought was a sore throat caused by a virus, but turns out it's the same virus as what you have when you get cold sores. She's been miserable! High fever and little coldsore-like lesions all over the inside of her mouth. Her gums are swollen and hurt so bad she can't eat anything.....not that she ate a lot to begin with. She's been living on pediasure and yogurt for the last week. Poor little thing. She still manages to be as sassy as ever. Here's some pics....

Wearing Dad's socks......yuck! Rylee, Ava, Grandpa

She was such a trooper the whole time. Didn't complain at all....

Stick 'em up!