Ava started feeding herself! A couple days ago I started giving her these organic cheerio like puffs that dissolve in her mouth-at first she had no idea how to get them in! She probably drop about 90% of them on the floor. But after about 2 days she's now a pro-so yesterday I gave her some real food, that I tore up into itsy bitsy pieces. It's so nice because she's learning and she's completely entertained now when we're out to eat! Also it gives me a little bit more freedom to prepare meals and stuff.
Today we went down to CT-Ava grew another 3mm!!! It's been 4 weeks and she's grown a total of 7mm which I think is pretty good. I can't really tell yet but Theta said she sees it improving so that's a good sign. She told us that Ava could be in the band for up to 3 more months-for a total of 4. She also said that she doubts that Ava will need another one which is a relief because I've been reading a lot about kids having two or even three sometimes. It feels good to be 25% done :P
Last weekend we went to Kydan's outrageous 1st birthday party. To start with, I looked up the home on zillow because the address wasn't coming up in the navi-it was listed....at 2.2 million dollars! Anyways, we pull up and could hear the live entertainment streaming out of this mansion...as we walked out into the backyard I realized how magnificient it was! Kristen had done a jungle theme- a 3 tiered jungle theme cake, jungle linens on 90" round tables with chiavari chairs, the centerpieces we made up of 4 pinapples stacked with palm leaves coming out the top-surrounded with fruit and birds of paradise at the base. For the older kids, they set up a HUGE bounce house(seriously never seen anything like it!) and they had face painting-so all the kids had their faces painted like lions, tigers, cheetahs, and bears. To top it off the food was delicious! They had it catered with an omlet station, fresh fruit, bagels and lox, cheese ravioli type pasta and slices of filet. They served champagne for a toast and offered wine, coffee and soft drinks as well as juice boxes for the kiddos. All in all-she did a fantastic job! Now I'm super nervous about Ava's birthday...obviously it won't be as fancy! She'll be lucky if her WEDDING is THAT elaborate! Anyways, it definitely got me thinking about it-maybe a winter wonderland theme?
