Miss Popularity

Some might describe Ava as "colicky" or "fussy" (see March 14). We prefer to think of her as passionate, spunky, and outgoing. She's a real people person. Not content to sit around the house, she has friends all over town and spends most days in some sort of playgroup or mom's group.

There's the Tuesday/Thursday playgroup:


The Wednesday/Friday mom's group:


The every-other Sunday playgroup:

And the impromptu play dates:

Ava and Elliot on a shopping spree.

Ava's first chaperoned slow dance with Alex.

Quite the social butterfly!

Ava's Second Month

After a bout of acid reflux, and the resulting nights of incessant ear-piercing screams and projectile vomit sessions, I think we can safely file Month 2 under "No one said it would be easy."

Lucky for us, our little Ava is the cutest baby ever. Vomit and all.

This week we love...

...earplugs.

Little Feet

And in the pink corner, weighing in at 8 lbs 8 oz

Despite some initial setbacks, Ava has built herself up to a whopping 8 1/2 lbs!! She has made the move from the 5th percentile to the 12th percentile for weight. For those of you who haven't taken a California Achievement Test lately, that means that if we lined up 100 babies of her age, there would be 12 smaller than her. Take that, smaller babies.

This heft has not come without hard work. Here's an idea of her workout routine, which involves a little bit of dancing:



along with a regular regimen of push ups with her workout partners: