Happy November!! The craziness of October is finally behind us and we can start to get ready for one of my favorite times of the year!!
October has been a busy month in our house! Steve's school is in full force now and he is as busy as ever. With school and a full time job he has also taken on another roll at his school as Dean of Attendance. This will add an additional 20% to his already full time teaching job. This is a great opportunity for him to learn more about the administration side of things firsthand.
Ava and I are keeping busy between school, daycare, running, and still squeezing in some time at the park, play dates, and art class. Lately we've been taking the jogging stroller down to the beach after I pick her up from daycare and going for a run along the beach. Even though the beach is only about 4 miles down the road, life gets busy and I tend to forget it is there. Ava's new love for the beach has helped remind me how much I love it too! For a tactile sensitive kid, she sure does love the sand!
Here are some pictures from this past month..........
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| These three are hilarious! They have known each other since birth and have come to be very close as they get older and start to interact with each other more. They love getting into trouble together! Ava is trying to open up the door (that she is not suppose to open) while Claire and Asher distract the mommies with their cuteness! |
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| Making a masterpiece with Marc during Art class. |
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| Art class (more like an hour of free play with lots of art materials) is Ava's new favorite activity. |
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| Carving and painting pumpkins! |
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| Playing on the sand after our afternoon run. |
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| She couldn't stand up and it was cracking her up. |
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| Sunglasses are a must at the beach. |
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| Just being cute! |
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| Daycare sent me this picture of Ava talking to Mimi. She calls her every day at daycare! Thank goodness for facetime so we can not only call her every day, but also see her! |
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Halloween at daycare. They paraded around to all of the high school classrooms the morning of halloween. I wanted to be there so bad to see it, but we had parent/teacher conferences that day and I was not able to take off.
Maybe next year! |
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| Heading out to go trick-or-treating. Yes, Steve is the man with the yellow hat, Ava is George, and I am myself. Halloween is not my thing so I leave the costume wearing to Steve. |
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| She was so excited to eat a banana in her monkey costume. She wouldn't touch her dinner and only wanted to eat bananas all night. |
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| Trick-or-treating with her friends Marc and Claire. They all caught on quickly that when they look cute, sound cute, and hold our their bags they get candy. |
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| Ava and her best bud Claire. These two are hysterical together! |
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| First time on the Merry-Go-Round at the Santa Monica Pier. She did a lot better than I did. If that thing was going to keep spinning for any longer I was going to lose my mind! |
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| Helping mommy find a new purse at TJ Maxx. She had a blast carrying around every purse she could get her hands on. |
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| Babies are still number one at daycare. |
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| So happy that have Mimi here for the week. |
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| Watching the sharks at the Long Beach Aquarium |
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| Seal and Sea Lion show. Mimi and I really enjoyed it, but I think Ava was more into her snack than the show. I had no idea that seals did tricks and flips in the water! |
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| Hanging with the penguins. She loved watching the penguins and continued to waddle like they do after we got home. |
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| Playing at the park on Mimi's last day. |
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| Thanks for the new baby doll Mimi! |
