David Judah

We finally got to meet baby David on Saturday night! He was born on April 8th to our associate pastors Damon and Tieshia. He is absolutely adorable and so tiny! I honestly can't remember Ava being that little and it has only been 3 months! Ava and David are new buddies!

A Few Firsts

Ava has experienced a few firsts this week in her little life.

On Tuesday night I was trying to get ready for church and Ava started getting fussy. I tried all the usual soothers like her passy, the swing, etc. and just had no luck. So I tried to find something on tv that may get her attention. I flipped past the Disney channel and "Finding Nemo" was on. We have played the "Finding Nemo the Musical" soundtrack for her since she was in my belly (we even made a last minute trip last July just to see this show!) Amazingly, she sat right there in her little seat and watched about an hour of the movie! Her first Disney movie...a big first!!

Then on Wednesday I was off and we tried out Ava's big girl stroller. I have to admit that I was being a little nosy...we have a neighbor who had a baby about the same time we had Ava. I saw her out in her driveway with her baby in a "big girl stroller". So Ava and I decided to experiment. I put her in the stroller and she just grinned! She loves it because she can actually see the world around her.

On Friday Ava's Gigi bought her a new toy. Ava loves her "excersaucer" even though she can't quite sit up yet. Here she is in it for the first time...she is thrilled about it... :)

Today the weather was so nice so we decided to take Ava to the park and ride the "choo-choo train". It was so much fun watching her! She loved everything about the ride except for the sun being in her eyes. She has hated the sun being in her eyes since she was born and is very dramatic about it. Luckily, we thought ahead and brought her big sunhat. What a fun day!

Saturday Adventure

We woke up Saturday morning to find Ava sleeping in her bassinet like this...

She had somehow managed to scoot all the way off of her baby positioner and down to the bottom of her bassinet. She did the same thing last night! I am sure that most babies at this age have already moved to their own rooms and into their cribs...but not Ava! We love having her in our room, but I think she is outgrowing her bassinet! :( Time is going by too fast!

I had to work for a few hours Saturday morning, but when I got home the weather was beautiful! We decided to take Ava on a little adventure. I thought it would be fun to take her to feed some ducks, so we set out to find some. We ended up in Little Washington at the Pamilco River! (When I am on call I am not supposed to be more than 30 minutes from the hospital...luckily I didn't get called in!) Ava slept through most of the adventure but we had fun showing her the boats!

Special Day!

Yesterday was Ava's baby dedication at our church. It was such a special day for little Ava. We were asked to pick a life verse for Ava and we chose Psalms 139:13-16 ...

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

We are so excited to see what God has in store for Ava. She is such a special baby and we know that God has a plan and destiny for her far beyond anything we could ever imagine! We are so thankful to have such an awesome church for Ava to grow up in.

We had a lot of our family there with us to celebrate this exciting day! (The Bolin's are with Mickey this week so they weren't there....Disney is in our DNA, I think)

Ava's 1st Photo Shoot

My mom and I took Ava to Portrait Innovations today in Greenville to have her pictures made. She did so good!!

Happy Birthday, Aunt Shannon!

Yesterday was Shannon's birthday! I was scheduled to work and didn't have a baby-sitter for Ava (my Nana was at the beach) so Shannon volunteered. What a great aunt!! She spent her birthday with Ava. They had a great time together! Happy Birthday Aunt Shannon! :)

Little Delay

We have had a little blog delay because we have switched internet providers. We are now with Embarq and are praying this service is better...

I don't have any new pictures to post. :( Our memory card is full and I can't bring myself to delete any pictures. Hopefully I can talk David into going to Walmart to get a new one this weekend. (Going to Walmart is another thing I can't bring myself to do!)

Last Friday, Ava had an appointment with a dermatologist at Duke. She has an hemanigioma (spelling??) on her eyelid that has been there since she was about 3 weeks old. Our pediatrician just wanted us to get a second opinion, so he referred us to Duke. It was an experience to say the least! In a "round about way" the doctor told us that it would eventually stop growing and just fade away. The dermatologist refered us to an opthamoligist who basically said the same thing. Praise God!
The "5 minute walk" from one doctor to the next ended up taking us about an hour. We had to ride a "train" to get there. I told Ava that it was a lot like the monorail at Disney World just without the castle and all. I think her first word may be Disney. :)

Little side story about the hemangioma....When Jay and Caroline (her cousins) came to meet Ava for the first time they were both curious about her eye. Jay asked me, "What happened to her eye?" I told him that she had a boo-boo. He just looked up at me and said, "God will save her." He's exactly right! ;)