Trayton's First Birthday

Saturday was spent in KY celebrating Trayton's 1st birthday. Ava had such a ball playing with her cousin and trying to bully him around. It was nice to see family and get to spend some time hanging out with them. Trayton did much better than Ava did as far as the cake goes. He just dug right in and enjoyed it! He was so cute opening his presents and making a mess with the cake!

Bradley and I also went to the hospital to see my Poppy who is recovering from a collapsed lung. {You better be getting better, Poppy, because we will be visiting again in 2 weeks and you had better be home!}

Thanks to all of you who have commented on my pictures. I had so much fun taking them and look forward to practicing on more people when the weather gets better! I have a few more ready and I will post them in the next day or two. {Nick, I am glad you like the ones so far!}

Ava trying to bully Trayton into giving her The Backyardigans card.

Ava and Aunt Bo sharing.

Presenting Gabriel

On Saturday, I had the priviledge of taking my nephew's photos. This is the first time that I have taken anyone's pictures besides Ava. I have just started editing them and thought I would give a sneak peek. Let me know what you think!

A Tale of Embarrassment

Saturday morning started out really well with Ava just playing in her bed and being so sweet. We were headed up to Kentucky for Trayton's birthday and to meet Gabriel. On the road between here and Union City, Ava was just fussy and yelling. Bradley even told her if she didn't stop we were heading back home. She eventually fell asleep and was in a better mood when we got there. That was until Trayton opened his birthday card from us that played The Backyardigans theme song. Ava just thought that was hers and had a fit for it. She stole it several times and threw a squealing fit when we took it away. When she is made she squeals a high-pitched squeal, cries, and beats her head on things. She was just fussy and a mess.

Fast forward to our trip home where we stopped at a Cracker Barrel to eat supper. It seemed to be taking forever for our food, Ava was beyond hungry, and coloring with crayons when the trouble began. Before long, everyone in the restaurant was looking at us as Ava squealed, cried, and then slammed her head down into the table. I was beyond mortified. Her food finally arrived and after a few minutes, she was finished and trouble began again. She wanted out of her highchair and proceeded to stick her hands in her food and wipe them on me while squealing. People were staring and I went to grab her face and get her attention so I could tell her to stop. Only later did I find out that Bradley said it looked like I was trying to choke her!






Back in the car there was no sleep for the rest of the way home. She cried and fussed and carried on while beating her head on her car seat and trying to rock her body out of it. The last 10 miles or so were the worse because when she would squeal, I would swat her leg. She got so worked up that she started trying to make herself gag and throw up! Absolutely miserable. We finally got home and her tail went straight to bed. Never have I been so embarrassed by her in all these 17 and a half months!







Anyway, I will be posting pics of Trayton's birthday and working on editing pictures from my first photo shoot of Gabriel. So be on the lookout. You can also check my other blog for some Photos of the Day at www. tiffanyfreemanrogers.blogspot.com . Have a great week and here are a couple of photos from Ava that show her wonderful squealing!

Trip to the Dentist

Ava's first trip to the dentist was at 3:oo this afternoon and at 2:00 we had a bit of an accident. Ava and I were playing with her rocking horse and she was dancing when all of a sudden she slipped and fell. She had her paci in her mouth and I saw it hit the floor. This is not an unusual event, but this time the paci hit the skin between her lip and nose and cut it in three small places. It bled and bled and the poor little thing cried and cried. At first I had thought it was her nose and we could just wipe the blood off but I was so sad that she was hurt and it was so visible right before her first trip to the dentist. By the time we got there, the blood had dried up and she looked like a dirty little kid with the blood caked up around her nose. But every time I wiped at it, it started bleeding again so I decided to just leave well enough alone.

The dentist was very busy, but he has an awesome waiting room. It is a pediatric dentist so all clients are children and the waiting rooms are like Disneyland. Toys, games, and fun galore. Ava just played and played and enjoyed the other kids (all were older) and time flew by. When we got to the back they checked Ava out and gave her a toothbrush with the Little Mermaid on it, which she immediately kissed and then started brushing with. The hygienist complimented on her teeth and how nicely they were coming in and commented on her complexion. She cried a little, but not too bad. The dentist was the same, he was super good to Ava, and just went on and on about how beautiful she was and kept saying, "I really mean it, she's gorgeous! Her complexion is fantastic!" How I love hearing that!

Diagnosis - Her teeth are all coming in great. Great space between them and lots of room. They are clean and he can tell they are taken care of. Eye teeth will be dropping down at any time they are just under the gum right now and they usually cause the most trouble. He said that by age 5 she will have a beautiful smile once they are all in. He is concerned because the muscle that connects the lip to the gum at the top of the mouth is too thick. He thinks it will thin up on its own later, but she may have to have some work done on it to prevent a huge gap from being between her too front teeth. He assured me that it would not be a huge deal to fix. He also assured me that the paci is not a big deal right now and all he cares about is that she is not going to sleep with a bottle or sippy cup.

Anyway, it was fantastic. The workers were great and it was just a great experience. Next appointment is in July! So, here are pics of Ava's soon to be Hitler-scabby mustache and passed out in the car on the way home. I'm off to do a SNOW DANCE and you should too!

P.S. Ava has another playdate on Wednesday so I guess she wasn't too scary on Saturday!

My Big Girl

Ava has decided that she is indeed a big girl. For the last 2 days when it is time to eat, instead of going to her highchair, she comes running to the table and climbs up in a big person chair. She will sit in the high chair, but she prefers the regular chairs and does fine eating in them.

Yesterday was Ava's first play date. She played with a little girl who is a couple of months older than Ava and who lives close by. I didn't think it went horribly bad, but according to Bradley it was a disaster. Poor Jenna did not know what to think if Ava and since Ava is so used to being around boys, she was a little rough. She also wanted to share only the toys that she had given to Jenna and all others were apparently off limits. They were cute together and I hope Ava did not scare them off!

We also started potty training yesterday. So far we have done nothing in the toilet except stand in it and put our hands in it to play. It sings all these cute songs and had a sensor that tells you when you have made pee-pee or poo-poo in the potty. However, every time Ava would stick her hands in it, it would say, "Yay! You did it! Now use your toilet paper!" and she hadn't even done anything. We turned the sound off to make it more calm for now. I think we have quite a long road ahead of us!

So that's where we stand for now, first dentist appointment tomorrow! We'll let you know how it goes!

Nicholas Gabriel

My new nephew, Nicholas Gabriel, was born on Friday the 18th. Gabriel weighed 8 pounds and 5 ounces and has a head full of hair. Leah is recovering and doing well and my brother has been staying with her at the hospital until they come home (which will probably be tomorrow). We are taking a trip up to KY next weekend to meet him and I can't wait! I know that Ava will enjoy seeing a new baby because she loves them so much.

Congrats to Nick and Leah on your beautiful baby boy and welcome to our family Gabe!

*These photos come courtesy of my Mom. I will be updating the blogs hopefully later today. I am planning on catching up with this blog and with my 365 blog (link to it is on the right hand side of this page!).

Ava pics

I know I have been a bad blogger lately. I just haven't been in the mood this week. It's Homecoming week at school and it is so exhausting. Not that I really have anything to be exhausted about, but the kids are in an unusual state, I have had a TON of paperwork, a kid has been causing some trouble, and I have been taking care if the penny wars for National Honor Society. Headache, but so much fun! I also have to work the ballgame tomorrow and chaperon a dance.

There is not much news on the Ava front. She does have her first dentist appointment on Monday so that should be fun!

In less than 24 hours, Bradley and I will have a new nephew and Ava will have a new cousin.

I guess that is about all the news here from the Rogers' house. Maybe I will have time this weekend to get the camera out and get some new pictures! Until then... See ya!

17 months, how fast they go!

It is hard to believe that Ava was 17 months old yesterday. It just doesn't seem possible that this little baby is now a little girl. She is doing so many things that are just so toddler now. Anyway, here are some pictures of my little 17 month old toddler girl.

This kid cracks me up...

Ava is such a funny little kid. She is such a ball of personality and energy. Here is what she is doing lately that is entertaining.

• The other night as I was changing her diaper, she was just a singing away. Now, that's not unusual, because she loves to sing. I had no clue what she was singing, it was just a mish-mash of words until she got to the part that went - E,I,E,I,O. And then the duck was going, "wack, wack, ear." She had been watching Blues Clues and sure enough, they were singing Old MacDonald. I tried to get it on tape and I got the E,I,E,I,O, but then she saw the camera and it was over!


• Today while Bradley was napping and I was watching TV, she was playing in her playroom. I heard things scooting, but just thought she was pushing around cars and Little People. Nope, she had rearranged all the stuff in her playroom and it looked like a tornado had passed though!


• Last night we went for dinner at the Chinese restaurant and she had a whole plate of food (she is wonderful eater who comes by it naturally!) and all of a sudden a hand snakes into my food (and I have basically the same stuff she does), into my fried rice, because she had located...a green pea!

So those are just some recent funnies from Ava. Here are some recent pictures of her. Check out her attitude in the first one! The last 2 are of her sleeping this afternoon in her jumper.