Climbing

Ava's new hobby is climbing on or in things apparently. On Saturday I was in the living room and she was wandering the hallway as usual. I had left a closet door open with one of those closet organizer drawers in it open also. Well, as you can see from the picture someone decided it would be fun to get in but of course couldn't get herself out.

First Haircut

Ava had her first haircut last week. We just had her hair trimmed a bit ( I didn't want to get rid of the curl). My stylist also gave me some pointers to control her massive curls. She even got a certificate for bravery and courage :)

Ava's Surgery

As most of you know, Ava had surgery on August 21st to fix her umbilical hernia. She has had this since she was born and we had seen a surgeon when she was 2 months old because we were told by our pediatrician that it was one of the larger ones she had seen. The surgeon wanted to see her back at 9 months, which was when we were getting the ear tubes in and he then decided to not see her until 12 months. So, Ava got her tubes done and then saw the belly surgeon in July. He determined that her hernia was the exact same size as it was at 2 months and asked when we would like to have the surgery. Although no parent ever wants to put their child under for surgery, much less twice in a few months, we wanted her to have it done now so 1) she would not remember the pain and 2) so she would recover faster. The surgery went well and there were no complications other than Ava's reaction to anesthesia (she gets VERY upset) so we are thankful that it is done and we are on the mend. She did catch a bit of a virus a week after but now is back to her old self. Here are the before (she posed like that herself) and after pictures. The surgeon even gave her an inny (Yeah!) Thank you everyone for your thoughts during her surgery, we appreciate you thinking about her!

1 Year Pictures