Father's Day

So I'm a little late getting around to this post... Father's Day was good. The weekend leading up to it was rough thanks to a new tooth Ava is acquiring, but what can you do. She had a high fever all Friday night and Saturday day. She was just miserable! By Sunday most of the pain wore off, so we took the whole family on a hike at Crowder's Mountain after going out to breakfast at Big Dog Cafe.

Jim took a few pictures of me and Ava hiking, but that was the only time the camera came out all weekend, so sorry to disappoint. We hiked for 90 minutes, of which the first 60 she enjoyed.

Afterwards we stopped by Smoothie King for Jim's favorite treat, which has turned out to be Ava's favorite too! We finished off the day with a homemade dinner of ribs, sweet potatoes, green beans, and cornbread. How Southern!

One of Ava's favorite new things to do after dinner is enjoy a popsicle. She dives right in and bites the top off, then gets this look on her face like "OMG it's so cold!" It's really cute. She thinks it's funny when the last chunk falls off the stick and onto the ground at the end.

Our girl is busy growing up these days. She's putting more words together and saying things like "milk please", "bye bye Dada", etc. She is still way into reading books, especially any that have flaps that she can lift up. She is starting to talk a lot about going to the bathroom. We got her a few potty training books and she loves to read them and point out what the characters are "doing". We're hoping it all rubs off sooner than later so we can stop supporting P&G so regularly with $30 boxes of diapers.