18 months- House possibly sold

Playing in my crib "reading" a Biscuit book of course

I'm ready for school mama!

mmmm had a little fun with the do-doot.

So much to update on my sweet little Angel child. The last few weeks she has been just a sponge and is so eager to learn! Every morning I say Ava get your lunch box and she grabs her lunch box, walks to the door and says "bye bye Magna" and off we go! As we drive to school I play her CD with kids music on it and she bobs her head and dances all the way. Then when we get to school she squeals with excitement and wants to walk in by herself and carry her own lunch box. She even takes it to her cubby by herself and puts it away. Then we go into the class and she runs and hugs her teacher. She loves books and always brings the teacher a book to read to the class. Her teacher said "Ava is always taking care of David" I asked her what she does and the teacher said that David is the one that is usually lagging behind when they come in from outside and always wants the teachers to come carry him. So Ava will wait with him and then grab his hand and walk him into the classroom. They say it's really cute how nurturing she is with him. She never leaves him in the dust, but hangs back and helps him in. Now is that a sweet girl or what?

She loves playing the name your body parts game and we'll go through all of her body parts and she can point them all out and say them. Her new words are more, door, apple, Casper (apper), down, pants, night night, book (she says this a lot and we have to read lots of books over and over again), out, moo (cow), sheep, puppy dog and bow. Her new word for shoe is now foo. She also now tells me when she is about to go "potty" by doing the "potty" sign and saying "doo doo"

She's known what hot means for a long time, but now she has figured out cold. When it's cold outside she throws her arms up and shakes them together and says "brrrrr". It's been really fun watching her do the stuff she's learned in school, like the hand motions to itsy bitsy spider. She gets the biggest kick out of it. When I dropped her off at school today the teacher was reading a book and doing hand signals with the book. Ava stood there and watched her and tried her very best to imitate the hand signals. It was so cute!

I have to say that it feels really good knowing that Ava loves school so much. The fact that she gets excited to go and runs to her teachers makes me very happy. I always LOVED school when I was younger, so maybe she will be the same.

She is also trying to dress and undress herself. She has learned how to take her shoes and socks off and really wants to put them on but hasn't mastered that yet. Last weekend she left the room and came back in just her diaper and handed me her PJ's that she'd just removed all by herself!

As for us, we finally negotiated the offer on our house and now we are just waiting to sign the contract! Our only reservation is that they want a 60 day escrow, which is really long! If we go through the next two months thinking we've sold the house and then they back out I'm going to be so P.O.'d!!!! Praying they don't do that and we can move on with all of this. Still wondering where exactly we are going to go. Commute, schools etc...tough tough decisions!!!