"LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress." Isaiah 33:2



Monday, November 10, 2014

A little Ava Oakley...

This post is just a little ode to Ava. My mom reminds me that she will wonder why there was sooooo much written and pictured from Leah's life and not from hers... And though it's way more than 50% because of her that I am too busy to blog, I'm trying to do just a little bit better....

Little Ava Oakley is a natural with a firearm! She just goes up to the hunting game at Rudy's BBQ and grabs the gun... And it's heavy!









She's a girl with many diverse interests...

Like aviation....



And construction... (And fashion, as you can see)



She's the goofball champion, which is a tough competition in our house...






The girl has many faces... As you can see. The next two pics are the faces we see most often.... They are quite different ends of the emotional spectrum.






Bucket seats...


She would rather sit in a non-seat than in an actual seat any day of the week. She's definitely an outside-of-the-box-and-inside-the-bucket kind of girl.



This baby is OBSESSED with babies! She loves every baby we see and is (surprisingly) very gentle, even with real live babies. She's a good little mommy.



Ava loves dirt!!! I mean really loves it. She digs in it and plays with it... She even knows what it tastes like. 😉



She is definitely full of smiles much of the time.



She's a pretty cool chick who loves her daddy and loves to ride in his big truck. Leah was having some grandma time so we took Ava on a special trip all by herself... To the local dump.



Even though there have been many smiling pictures taken of Ava in a bathtub, she really doesn't dig baths the way her big sister does. Leah would still stay in the bathtub all day if I let her. She loved it from day 1 and to this day she begs for more time when I say let the water out. Ava needed to be convinced it was fun, and after a few minutes of fun, she is "all done" and climbing out of the tub. Here she is washing our muddy rocks from the backyard.






Little Ava Oakley has made our lives much, MUCH more exciting. And we love her like crazy!

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

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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Sunday, October 5, 2014

A little tree hugger...




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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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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Friday, August 22, 2014

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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