Ah-CHOO!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Things have been pretty crazy around here with Doni getting her new job. We went to Michigan to visit my family on Saturday because we had originally planned on going to Michigan for a wedding shower the weekend before, but we couldn't go then because we needed to finish setting up Doni's classroom. I think things are starting to slow down now though. You might say we've gone from a high heat to a slow simmer.

Ava has been doing several new things lately. First of all, she has started making noises like she's talking in some foreign dialect derived from Swahili. She does this pretty loudly, so I think it's a pretty good thing we had started putting her in the nursery at church from early on. We take advantage of these talkative times by putting words into her mouth. We'll say "I love you!" and she'll respond by saying "Ayeaeeiaoooiieeeeoaaooe Yaya" which, for you non-parents out there, is translated as "I love you".

Ava is continuing to sleep through the night, although she relapsed into her old routine for a few days because she got sick. She had a bit of a catch 22.... Her nose was stuffed up, so she had to breathe through her mouth. Of course she wanted her pacifier in her mouth, which, until they invent a better pacifier, blocks oral breathing. Should she breathe and be lonesome for her pacifier or get the pacifier at the expense of her life functions? She kept going back and forth on this one. Thankfully, she is feeling much better lately. She unselfishly gave me a bit of her cold so that we could have a little more father-daughter bonding. How sweet of her.....