11-12 weeks

Brynn is really starting to hold her head up and notice her surroundings a little more.  We sit outside in the evenings and she watches Ava and the dogs run around the yard.  A few times she's even let out a little chuckle.  All you have to do is look at this child and she smiles big.  She is a very sweet happy baby. She'll be in her bouncy seat and lift her head like "I want to sit up straight get me outta this thing!"  She kicks her legs constantly, especially in her bouncy when it gets the music and lights going.  She can sit in that thing forever just kicking away and cooing.  She loves it.

Ava is in her princess phase and enjoys dressing up, playing mommy to her babies and playing with Barbies.  I went and found all of my old barbies in the attic and brought them out for her.  It's so funny seeing all of the 80's barbie clothes and hair dos I had for them.  haha!  We are in the process of planning her 3rd birthday party which we are having at her gymnastics academy.  She told Melissa yesterday that she was having a minnie mouse party and all of her cousins were coming.  She is very excited.  She's also in her very whiney temper tantrum stage of life.  She really puts on her best act for daddy when he gets home.

Princess Ava enjoying her crumpet and tea

 

Hey who is that good looking baby!  She makes me so happy!

In other news my sister was offered a nursing job in San Antonio and her hubby interviews with his current employer in San Antonio tomorrow.  We are all praying it works out so that they can move back to Texas!  Steve's mom and sister are coming to visit us in August and we are so excited!  Stacey will finally get to meet Brynn and see Ava again.  yay!!

Ava's 1st haircut

Yesterday after gymnastics Ava had her very first haircut. Erin came over to our house to give her a little trim to even it up.  It was a pretty easy cut as Ava doesn't have much hair.  tee hee

Still in her gymnastics leotard and standing on the table...that's the way we do it

Doesn't she look precious?

9 -10weeks

I don't know what to think of this.  My 10 week old likes to go to bed at 8 pm almost on the nose.  As soon as 7:30 rolls around she starts getting grumpy and we have to go get ready for bed.  Since that is also Ava's bed time we have the bedtime shuffle going on around here and we have to tag team to get them both down.  She is still such an easy going baby!  Her two favorite things in the world are ceiling fans (he's apparently a very friendly funny guy) and the iron work above our bed.  Those two things get the biggest grins and coo's out of her. 

She knows my voice and will turn to find me when she hears me talking.  The other day she was in her co-sleeper and when she saw me walk in she threw her arms up and squealed with a big grin on her face.  Melted my heart.

Chillin with my daddy

Ava is loving her summer camp and now begins all books with "Once Upon a time there was a story about Jesus"  She's already been invited to a birthday party of one of her classmates.  At night time we always say our night night prayer and then when it's over Ava says "thank you Jesus" and "what we thank Jesus for?"  Then we go through a list of what we are thankful for.  Ava always says mommy and daddy, Magnum and Biscuit, goes through the list of grandparents and then will throw in something funny like "for my rug" or "for my toddler bed".  This week she thanked Jesus for her teachers at her old school, Jocelyn and Tameka.  She doesn't forget a thing and asked me if I could invite them to her birthday party.  She really misses them so we are going to stop by and visit soon.

She also enjoys the "who loves Ava" game.  We go through all the grandparents, cousins, and friends.  It's one of her favorite games.  She loves to cuddle and often calls me in to my room to lay down and cuddle with her and watch cartoons.  She'll cuddle up real close and say "mommy I lovin on you"  What mom can resist a request like that?

A couple of weeks ago she had her first sleepover at Nana's house with cousin Trent.  We went over to visit and when it was time to go she asked to stay and spend the night.  She did great, didn't ask about us once, and then came home and all she would tell me about her visit was that she tooted in Nana's face and Nana laughed.  Typical.  I know my dad would have gotten a kick out of that one considering his penchant for "fart" humor.  When we were all little he would give us kids an empty box at Christmas and when we would open it and ask where the present was, he would say in this funny voice "I tooted in your box" and everyone would laugh their fool heads off.  We still talk about that to this day.  So imagine my amusement now that Ava thinks tooting is the funniest thing ever.

So cute I can't look away

I took this picture of Brynn in the bath tub tonight.  Not only is it so cute I can hardly stand it, but the kid is showing some true Mungovan traits I must say (that would be my dad's ear on the left and my mom's dimple on the right). Mungovan's don't you agree?  With Ava I was clearly just the oven, but I think this one might have a little bit of my DNA.  tee hee... (and yes, she really is this happy all of the time)





Look at that little milk belly :)



Riding in the car with boys...

We have great neighbors, part of the reason we moved to the burbs.  Ava's best friend is Emma who lives across the street.  Will, her little brother gets so excited when Ava comes over and they all scream really loud that they get to play.  The neighbors now have a fleet of power wheels so we had to pull out Ava's Barbie VW beetle, although she prefers to drive Emma's offroading jeep and not her pint sized economy car. They have so much fun and Will loves being in the passenger seat while Ava or Emma drive.

 Fast forward 13 years and this could be trouble!

Happy, Smiley Girl

1st Day of Summer Camp

Ava was very excited to start Summer Camp!  She was most excited about the playground of course.  On her first day they attended chapel, heard the story of Noah's Ark and said their prayers.  The teachers said she was a total chatterbox at the lunch table.  I wish I could have heard what she was telling her little friends.  When I asked Ava what she did at camp she said "we say our prayers and I go to sleep and I wake up and my mommy come to get me"  I guess all she remembered was nap time.  Oh well...Thursday is petting zoo day so I'm sure she'll really enjoy that!

Sisterly Love

I love this because they are both smiling!

2 Months Old

Can't believe my sweet baby is already 2 months old!

chunka monk's 2 month stats

Weight:  12.5 lbs  90%

Height: 24 inches   95%

Head Circ:  16.3 inch   95%

Everything looks and sounds great!  Doctor said that her skin rash is common in small infants and that it's just seborrhea and will go away soon.  Already on it's way out thank goodness.  Everything else looks and sounds great!  Yay for my wittle chunka monk!!!  When she got the shots she cried so hard she went silent and turned purple for a second.  It was very short lived though and she was back to normal soon after.  Not so happy tonight though, one fussy baby.  She needs lots of loves and cuddles.

My big girl buggy boo

We MUST do puzzles every day over and over again

Yes that would be my picky eater eating her BROCCOLI!

8 weeks

Brynn was going through a growth spurt last week so she spent the first half of the week super fussy and fighting sleep. She would not let me sit her down and would not sleep! I was at my wits end!!! Then almost like clock work the day she turned 7 weeks old, the fussiness disappeared, she was all smiles and started putting herself to sleep at night in her nap nanny every evening. She instantly goes to sleep in the Baby Bjorn too. Everyone else is really starting to see the resemeblance between Ava and Brynn now. I sware it's like dejavu looking at her. It's like I'm doing the baby stage with Ava all over again. Brynn is definitely a little more relaxed than Ava was. She sleeps in the car as long as it's moving, she naps really good and has more of an eating schedule than Ava did. She doesn't have reflux as bad as Ava did so we've been able to stop her medicine and she doesn't spit up as much. I guess because of the eating schedule and less spit up she is also chunkier! I call her my little chunka monk. Steve has named her his little twiddlebug so he now has a doodlebug and a twiddlebug.





Already a fashionista



a pretty girl and her paci





A preview of the Horrible Three's...

I've heard from many moms that the terrible twos aint got nothin on the antics of a three year old.  Well this lucky lady experienced it first hand last week at wal-mart!  Ava is usually a doll in the store and very rarely misbehaves in any way.  Well this day I think I may have accidentally put someone elses child in my cart before entering the store because this one was clearly channeling the devil.  Everything was going nicely, I stopped at McDonald's and got her a drink and treated myself to Dr. Pepper (I LOVE fountain drinks).  We were shopping along nicely until she set her sights on a toy that she had to have.  When I didn't pick it up for her she started whining and whining and when she realized she still wasn't getting her way she started letting out blood curdling screams (I think I actually felt blood dripping from my ears).  Any attempts at quieting her resulted in even louder screaming, So I had my first leave the full grocery cart in the middle of the aisle and walk out of the store experiences.  I got many looks as I made the trek out to the car with my infant strapped to my chest in the baby bjorn and some other lady's screaming banshee toddler hanging from my hip.  Mom's gave me the sympathetic "oh I remember those days" and "hang in there sister" looks and older folks and a few others gave me the "I would beat that child within an inch of her life" or "you must be a really bad parent" look. 

Poor Brynn was so upset that we had lost her sister and this other lady's child screamed all the way home.  Brynn's little lip was quivering in fear and she too joined in on the screaming. As soon as we got home I put  the eldest screaming child in her thinking time chair. When I returned, there sat my sweet little Ava telling me she felt "better now" and down for a nap she went.  I hope that we can nip this behavior in the bud real quick because I am going to be PISSED if I have to leave my full Dr. Pepper (fountain from McDonalds thank you!) that I was so excited to treat myself to, in my cart again.

So note to self:  wear ear plugs next time I go shopping, suck down my dr. pepper before going by the toy aisle.