Look at her grow - Ava's 18 month check up

It was check-up day and flu shot day! Ava has been more sickly in her first 1.5 years of life than Leah was... Therefore she has developed an even stronger aversion to the pediatrician's office. She got mad the moment we walked through the door so I didn't have a chance to take photos until the drama had ceased. :)

Stats are as follows...
Height: 31 inches (50th %ile)
Weight: 24 lbs 2 oz (50th %ile)
Teeth: yes, she knows how to use them...
Attitude: seriously sweet & sassy

Ava has been slightly bigger than Leah was ever since her 1/2-lb-bigger birth weight. However, I just looked back at Leah's 18 month check-up and they were the exact same height! (Ava weight 4 lbs more which is ALOT according to my back.) This was so interesting to me because I have had to skip a whole box of Leah's fall/winter clothes and shoes which I had saved. All Leah's old tops and dresses at this age looked like crop tops and mini dresses on Ava. So big sister has her daddy's long legs and lil sis seems to have my Susie-short-legs. (Or if your glass is half full... She just has a longer torso...)

Ava Curley is ahead of the curve with all her developmental milestones. (Thanks to watching big sis and having very little fear and absolutely NO impulse control!) As happy as I am to have a healthy, fast growing toddler... I just wanted a BABY for a little while!!!! Ava is grew up too fast. And I was robbed!

After she was all checked-up (and boy was she mad about it!) it was time for a finger-stick and some immunizations.






She looks like her daddy sometimes...






Leah was worried about her sister...







And then it was big sister's turn... Leah opted for the flu-mist, as expected....






So then we rewarded ourselves with ice cream and playing. There is a chick-fil-a near our pediatrician's office with an outdoor playground! On a nice weather day, it's the best place to be in our whole world. :)






























The littlest Curley is the curliest of all!!





























Thank you, Lord, for healthy babes.

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A little tree hugger...

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A little peek

I like sneaking a peek at the girls when they don't notice. In this case you get a funny peek at Leah's OCD about reading this book oh.so.perfectly. And you get a funny peek at Ava's riding style. :)

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A little duet

My girls like doing things together... See?






























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A little flexibility...

The beauty of a homeschool day...

Rushing home from Bible study, we stopped at the grocery store then home to finish school work, lunch, cooking for friends who had a baby and tumbling class before we have to deliver dinner, have our own dinner and get ready for bed... Busy day! So Leah was practicing skip counting while I made her lunch and she said "This time, can I do it standing on my head?"

Yes... Yes you can...

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A little homework

This was a hundred times more fun than I thought it would be! So far home school days have been a success...

A little desk...


Welcome to kindergarten!


Writing practice...





Some art...


Computer time...


Little sister wants to climb all over Leah and her desk so we have to distract with cooking and cleaning the kitchen...


Leah has a stack of sight words we practice... And she makes up sentences... :)


Spelling practice...


Writing numbers...


Coloring and games...


Field trip!!


And our second day, we are getting in the groove...


And poor Ava is so sad that she isn't in kindergarten too!!











Really, really, really good times!

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A little warrior

It happened! My teeny tiny baby girl grew up and started kindergarten... She's an LCA warrior!














She is now a school kid... With homework! And not just any homework.... school work at home aka homeschool aka Leah's-not-the-only-one-who-started-kindergarten! This week I make my debut as a kindergarten teacher! Yes... two of Leah's school days will be "satellite days" at home where I will be her teacher. What!?!?!? I signed up for this... I remember doing it... With a smile on my face... But am I really doing this???

So after two full days of kindergarten at a big kid school, the most important thing on Leah's mind was "Why are uniforms so hot? All I do is sweat!" :-)






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