Dressing up

Since having Ava, Damo and I have only had a couple of nights out with out her - the first one I posted on here back in July (it was messy)! Then last night we had Damos brothers 30th at a place called the Gunshop cafe. I was pretty excited that I got to wear my new heels and do my makeup AND wear my hair out! But the whole night Damo and I kept asking each other "what do you think Ava's doing"? And as much as I love getting dolled up I really missed just sitting on the couch cuddling my little girl, its amazing how much can change in 12 months! Also a big thanks to my mum and dad for looking after Ava (and for sending me numerous photos and videos of her throughout the night)!

From my phone

So I've just downloaded the blog app for my iPhone I can't believe I didn't do this earlier! It's going to be so much easier than uploading all my pics onto the old laptop blah blah blah. So hopefully this works just as well, I'm assuming there maybe some layout differences but just bear with me and hopefully I will be able to blog a lot more and have plenty more pics of our little family to share! Like these ones of Ava at the park this morning - sorry in advance for so many but I think they're all adorable so couldn't leave any out.

Lunch time

This is one little girl who loves her lunch time - her fav at the moment is rockmelon. So glad we don't have to force her to eat her solids.

Us three

Damo and I were looking through photos of Ava when she was little and realised that we don't have any pics of the three of us because it's usually Damo or I behind the camera lens, so we asked my sister if she could take a few pics while we went down to visit her.  We took around 300 shots in the space of about 15 minutes and thought for sure there would be something we could use! After flicking through them, I think we found maybe ten where at least one of us didn't have our eyes closed, or drool running down our chin (Damo I'm looking at you)! If anyone has any tips for getting good snaps please leave me a comment I'd love to hear them! Here's a couple of the good ones we got hope you enjoy and massive thanks to Jacci for taking them. 

Loch Ness

At the moment mum and dad are enjoying a holiday in Thailand (some people have all the luck right)?! so we're looking after their dog Nessie, dad got her when I still lived at home and I love seeing her she gives THE best cuddles and is such a gentle giant.  Ava loves having her here too and has been patting her everyday.  Poor Nessie has also been putting up with having her eyes poked and being crawled over.  I don't know what Avas going to do when Nessie goes home and she has to try catch Jock to give him a pat! ps if anyone knows a good way to teach the word "gentle" to a 10 month old pleeaassee let me know

A day fishing

On Sunday we went to the Ecopark fishing farm for Damos brothers birthday.  It's place in the country where you catch fish with barb less hooks so you don't hurt the fish and of course you have to release them back into the dam.  It was also such a nice surprise when we saw they had some farm animals including baby turkeys which Ava loved to look at.  Damo and I both managed to catch a fish (It doesn't matter whose was bigger, the fact is that we BOTH caught one so we were both winners) ha ha.  And we tried to get Ava to feed the Alpacas even though she seemed more interested in eating the corn and grains herself!

There was also this cute little guy that tried to hide from us (I don't think the poor alpaca realised that even though he was behind a "tree" we could still see him).

 

 

Pancakes

Now that Ava's getting bigger she's starting to eat more and more "solid" foods so usually we give her some of whatever we're eating to get her used to differents textures and tastes.  Last week she got to try a small pancake with some apple and strawberries on the side. 
This was her looking over the menu trying to decide what to have (little did she know mama had already decided for her)
























I did feel bad when we were leaving though and I saw the mixture of mushed up pancake and fruit on the floor directly under the highchair, I guess the resturaunt don't have a little dog called Jock who acts like a hoover whenever Ava drops her food at home!