avablog

When I look at this picture, something inside me clicks, as if to indicate some checkbox on a mental list has been marked: “Encourage Ava to love books.” I knew things were getting serious a couple weeks ago, when Ava caught a word I’d missed as I was reading her a bedtime story. I think […]

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I suppose my choice speaks more to my blindness to any flaws of Ava’s or Emmett’s than it does to the technical merits of this photo, but gosh, my heart just swells when I look at this. The crystal clear aquamarine waves and powdered sugar beaches have nothing on these two.

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Boys! Sheesh. Go figure. For every emotional challenge we had with Ava when she was younger, Emmett presents a physical equivalent. Over the weekend I watched him scramble up the *raised* side of his crib — from the floor — and flip himself over the top rail and onto his mattress, where he looked up […]

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Our awesome sitter Lindsay took on the challenge of looking after Ava and her two friends Mac and Aaron all morning yesterday. Somewhere along the way, they all sat down to work on some art, and Ava produced a self portrait. It looks a little something like this: Having sat with her enough times during […]

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