ava: six months old

today is ava six months old, half a year already.  it is bittersweet because with each day more and more of ava's personality comes through, but at the same time it seems ages since she was a newborn and i feel like it is all just flying by so fast--oh the joy of motherhood ;)

at six months, ava:

∆ can sit by herself, but needs a cushion or two beside her as she gets tired after a couple of minutes and just falls/flops.

∆ is trying to blow raspberries--so funny seeing her try.

∆ has more hair than ever before, and her little bald patch is slowly but surely disappearing.

∆ is a little wriggle bum, she cannot sit still.  she is always trying to reach for something or see something.

∆ is unbelievably nosey.  she will just stare at strangers eyes and mouth wide open.  it is rather embarrassing sometimes especially as she hardly ever smiles at them, just stares.

∆ is still a chatterbox who loves having a conversation with anyone and anything--spoons are particularly good to talk to at the moment it seems.

∆ loves her food and boy can she eat.  sweet potato, butternut squash and banana porridge are her favourites at the moment but ava will try anything especially if she can feed herself and get it everywhere--and i mean everywhere.

∆ is a big girl as she no longer has her dummy and we are so proud of her for how she has just taken it all in her stride :) and speaking of being a big girl she also loves using her sippy cup especially if she can spray water everywhere when my back is turned.

∆ still can melt our hearts by smiling at us or giggling.  her giggle just melts my heart, it is one of the nicest  sounds ever i tell you.

it takes all my self restraint...

...not to post a million photos of ava every day,

{i know i post quite a lot but hey, sue me}

but today i have no will power.

and i know i am biased as her mother,

but my, isn't she the cutest.

a happy list: family edition

so today is one of those days that is really kicking my butt: where nothing is going right and more often than not things are going wrong.  don't you love those days?  i really really really really don't.  and my, how this crying it out is taking its toll--i was so strong and well now i am not sure there is much strength left especially as ava, not napping, and teething are all ganging up against me.

so it seems pretty ironic that i was planning to post a family happy list today.  oh how i love the irony--or maybe it is the universe telling me to focus on the good things because all this other stuff will pass...teething please pass quickly...

and now to what has making my little family happy lately:

jonny loves his walks around london cards  {i love them too and ava loves getting out and about so really we all love them} // we love this little face even if sometimes she is grumpy {and you can see her two little teeth} // jonny loves a bit of book shopping on a sunday afternoon--shame we can't share books he likes finance ones, snore.

jonny cooking me dinner, no more needs to be said, that man :) // ava loves her bubble baths, she loves to splash // rattles, another happy thing of ava's--i know secretly you were thinking it was mine ;).

i love fresh flowers especially when they are a surprise from my love // someone loves food and her yoghurt // trips to the farmers market as a family--we just love to eat!

here is to a fresh start tomorrow.

saturday is for going to the fair

so this weekend we had no plans and just decided to see what happened, and then we stumbled across a may fair, it was fate i tell you.  sadly the may pole wasn't in use :( but we enjoyed the steel band and some of the other performers we saw: and we can't wait until ava is a little older and we can take her on the carousel and the helter skelter. 

sadly the weather didn't last for the whole the day, but it lasted long enough for jonny to enjoy a hot dog and for me to have candy floss--oh how i love candy floss, i could eat so much of it: what isn't fun about eating a pink cloud?

and when it started to rain we got a few bit and pieces before heading home.  and note to self, food shopping is to be avoided at all costs on a saturday, just in case i ever consider doing it again.