Can I Eat It???...please???

Ava and I made this beautiful gingerbread house last night. I think even Hansel and Gretel would be drooling! All she has done since then is beg to eat it. We barely had enough icing and candy to finish decorating it.

Chuck E Cheese

We missed Autumn's birthday party yesterday due to the football game, so we met them at ChuckECheese for some fun on her real birthday (and Michael's birthday...that's really why we went). They had a great time playing all the games with each other.

Ava owns the family high score in skeeball believe it or not.

One of her favorites...she wants a real horse at her house!

Some silly game.

Both of these shots made it and got stuck in the net.

What form!

Spider Infestation

Quick...call terminix! Check out the really scary fangs!

Sunday

It's been a rough few weeks with the healing and all. Ava has had a really tough recovery, and thus so have we. She goes back for her post-op Dr's visit on Tuesday, so maybe we are finally reaching the finish line.

T & A

Little baby Ava (aka big girl Ava) had her tonsils and adenoids removed today. She came through pretty well. She pushed her baby doll, Nellie, back to the OR on her stretcher. She didn't cry or even look back at me. They said she did really well going to sleep and was very cooperative and didn't cry a bit. Same report from recovery room. When she got back to the room she told me "I swallowed a sucker". That's a pretty good analogy for a 3 year old. Anyway, we are home now and she is doing pretty well. Getting her to drink is proving to be quite the challenge, though.

Homecoming

We attended Homecoming at MSU. Our friends Amy and Jacob got to join us with their two, Owen and Elizabeth. The three of them had such a good time playing together. They were so silly!

Me and Amy

more sillines with Capri-suns

What we knew as Bristle Blocks are apparently called Krinkles.

Player Down

This has been my reality since Sunday. I broke my patella and this brace is my new bff for 6 weeks. This isn't an excuse, but merely the reason for no new photo updates of our family. Ava is with my parents for a few days, so maybe they are taking photos of her.

Yes, the couch does appear two-toned. Ava peed on the brown cushions last week, and apparently it isn't possible to clean goose-down cushions...so we have combined our two couches till the new cushions come in. Oh, you gotta love toddlers!