avablog

I don’t have nearly enough pics of the kids together. I’m doing what I can to resolve that situation, and here’s proof: They’re so cute together. This morning, before we left for work, Ava and Emmett played together on the front walk. Ava did chalk drawings of excavators (for him) and puppies (for her), and […]

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Ah, Arts Festival. What better way to enjoy it than by jumping in a bouncy castle?

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It was a nice weekend to sit by the wading pool and blowing bubbles. Here’s a shot of Ava, doing both.

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It’s too early to tell, but Leah may have pulled off the improbable by getting Ava to agree to going to bed by herself, without one of us lying with her until she falls asleep.

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For the most part, Ava and Emmett get along well. Mostly because Emmett’s good natured enough to let much of Ava’s nastiness roll off his back. He likes to get up on her bed in the morning and jump on her while she hides from him under the covers; he doesn’t yet understand “irritated.” Sharing […]

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We’ve been getting only the spent remnants of the storms that pounded Missouri and Kansas, but we did get a short burst of hail the other day. Ava and Emmett ran around the neighborhood, picking stones out of the grass wherever they could find them. Some of the pieces were pretty big!

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A little vid of AGP from her last riding lesson. The canter is a new thing in the last couple lessons. At first, Ava could barely hang on when Willie took off, but she’s getting better at her control, now. She certainly never hesitates to boss around that poor old horse (I feel his pain). […]

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Our friend Ken was nice enough to invite the kids out to see his beehives last evening. It was just about as perfect a day as you could imagine out at the orchard where Ken has his setup. The bees, as you might guess, were busy flying in and out of the hives, oblivious to […]

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L has it. And bad. The memories of the traumatic births of our two children have, apparently, completely faded from her mind. Tristan Davison is mostly to blame, of course; If he hadn’t come along and been so stinking cute, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

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I suppose if someone as cute and funny and lovable as Emmett had been dropped into my life when I was four, I might’ve had a difficult time adjusting to it, too. So it’s understandable that Ava sometimes feels like we’re spending all our time and attention on Emmett, even if reality doesn’t support that […]

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We all trucked up to Mount Vernon yesterday to have brunch and and see the town’s annual Chalk the Walk event. The chalk was all fine and good, but it was a gorgeous day, and it was just nice to get out with L and the kids to do something fun. I even managed to […]

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Meet Tristan Louis Davison:

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Our friend Liz organized a nice brunch around an Easter egg hunt being thrown by the city of West Branch over the weekend. It was a great time. You may be surprised to learn I had my camera along, which came in handy when AGP, Hilda, and Thisbe got crazy with their baskets before the […]

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Leah put pigtails in Ava’s hair the other day. I’m a sucker for pigtails in Ava’s hair, so I thought I’d share.

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Our neighbor and friend Teja made this super cute bunny doll for Ava. As you can see, it features all of Ava’s favorite colors. Thank you, Teja! We <3 U!

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What better way to celebrate the coming of spring than to visit a farm full of baby animals? Gramary took Ava and her pal Mac to Pavelka’s Point Farm yesterday to see some lambs and the piglets that had been born just that morning. The kids got to sit on a tractor and bottle feed […]

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I like how Ava looks like Cindy Lou Who here.

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Ava woke up in one of her increasingly-rare frights last night and sat clutching her stuffed pink rabbit until I came up to snuggle with her. After a trip to the bathroom, she settled back into bed and began to doze off next to me.

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Completely. Utterly. Irredeemably. Unabashedly! I never did anything in my life to warrant the blessings heaped on me by these two kids. Which makes them even sweeter. Like money for nothing.

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