Ava's 4th Birthday!

At this very time 4 years ago I had already been pushing for an hour and had another hour and a half to go!  It's almost hard for me to imagine Ava as a baby.  Last night we made a birthday cake for her and today we celebrated with just the 4 of us with cake, presents and chik fila.  We started out the day with princess pancakes and I packed a princess sandwich in her lunch today.

singing happy birthday to buggie

Enjoying sissy's birthday cake

Ava is such a sweet, intelligent and loving little girl.  She is cuddly, polite, very girly and spirited.  I'm so very proud of her.  She's finally outgrown the tantrum stage for the most part.  She can dress herself, fix her own drinks and get her own food and silverware, put her dishes in the sink when she's finished eating, start the DVD player, buckle herself in her car seat, dress herself and so many other things.

She loves her Lizard and wants to marry her daddy when she grows up.  She says Brynny is the best baby ever and that she'll never move out of our house :)  She still only drinks milk with orange juice in it, loves fruit, crazy for pink donuts and pediasure, won't eat anything with sauce on it but will eat broccoli, green beans and peas like candy.  She loves princesses, playing dress up and getting mani/pedi's. 

Tomorrow she is going to stay with Grandmother and Granddad for the night and she is soooooo excited for her sleepover.  She has been counting the days by school days "mommy only 2 more schools and I can go to granddads house"

The way she pronounces some words still cracks us up, and she still refers to herself in 3rd person.

Something = suffing (mommy Ava needs to tell you suffing)
Shade= shave (Ava's hot I want to sit in the shave)
car seat = cartseat
porch = corch
Brynn = piglet blimey

Happy Birthday to my most beautiful Princess and blessing from God.