Our final full day with our Fresh Air Fund sister Shea from Bronx, NY.  We do not want to see her go!  The good news?  She will come back next year, for 2 weeks…

Here is day 6 – enjoy!

We love sharing the pictures of our time together!

Day 3 with Shea – oh, how the time is flying by!

Our second day with Shea we spent at music camp and then in Lancaster County….

Shea is our Fresh Air Fund sister from Bronx, NY.  She is here for a whole week!  We ADORE her!!!

Having a sister can be quite fun. 

Daddy helped me out a lot when I had croup – look, here he is coloring with me at the emergency room.  I didn’t even feel sick when we were playing together!

No one – I mean NO one – can stop me from dancing.  Especially when I have a full-length mirror.  I just don’t stop, I practise and practise and practise…

I wanted to share my snack with Madeleine… the other mommy was amazed!

Two of my most beloved people in the world:  my baby brother Ryder and my birth mommy Val

My first day of school, I could not stop JUMPING up and down at home… I had been *begging* mommy to go to school like my neighborhood friends.  I had a very good idea what school was.  Mommy was reluctant because I am not even 3 yet, but she accidentally found a program for me!  There are 10 children in the class, and 3 of the girls are named, Ava, Avery, and Ava – a little bit confusing, and a lot funny.  There are 3 teachers and 4 hermit crabs in my class.  The first day, I cried a lot.  Mommy said that was okay, but I did not cry the 2nd day.  Today (the 29th) I am so excited to go to school, and I adore it.  My personality just needs this social interaction and also the educational challenge.

I was coming down with something and did not feel well, so my gammy held me and held me, and mommy says that I just ATE it UP!  It really did help… I even fell asleep for a minute or two, I was so relaxed.

I just adored these little mice.  I say “squeak, squeak”.

Mommy had packed a big lunch for me, then promptly forgot it.  So we stopped at the convenience store and out of *all* the things I could have picked (ice cream, chips, candy, etc. – not that mommy would have *let* me have these for lunch!) I chose this tropical fruit cup.  Mommy just beamed.

My Gigi is very dear to me.

After gymnastics we go to the library… I have my own card now, with computer priveleges.  I always run to the computers, sit down and put on the headphones, like the bigger kids do, so we thought we would give it a try.  Guess what?  They have Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and I learned to use the mouse to put the frogs on the lily pads!

After the computer we go to Bedtime Storytime, where all the kids come in their pajamas (I leave on my leotard though, as you can see) and we dance and sing and jump around (eh hem, it is called “bedtime” storytime, mommy would like to know who named this class!).

With Judge Snyder and birth mommy Val at Keira’s adoption finalization (an older photo, but we wanted to share it)…

this is from December, but we still wanted to share it!

A sweet moment with grandma…

     height: 33 in (80th percentile)

     weight: 24.5 lbs (55th percentile)

from Ava:  mommy just got back my 33 month EI evaluation, and here are how I rate (this was done 2 months ago, when I was 33 mos):

     fine motors skills: 40 mos  (like the average 40-month-old)

     communication: 50 mos

     problem solving:  50 mos

     gross motor: 60 mos (yes, mommy & daddy knew this, hence the gymnastics, cheer tumbling, and ballet)

     personal-social: 60 mos

from mommy:  I am so proud of my girls, no matter how you do!  

I got a little bored at Office Max and so channeled Houdini, escaped my seat belt and flipped around.  When mommy caught me and gasped, I grinned from ear to ear.

When baby Ryder came to visit, we took off his socks right away to play with his feet.  They are so tiny and he can move them really well, like a monkey.  We think Ryder is da bomb!

I am still only 2 but I was allowed to join a gymnastics class for 3 to 6 year olds.  I do really well, especially on the balance beam, the tumble track, and running (on the white line around the floor – my absolute favorite, I LOVE running on the white line). Every day I ask mommy if today is the day that we go to “nastics”, and on Mondays I am so delighted I squeal, because that is the day I get to go!  That is also the day that Keira sleeps over at grandma’s because mommy and I get home so late.  I am absolutely bonkers over “nastics”, other than ballet it is my current favorite thing to do in my life… I would rather do that than play with toys *or* eat candy, you see… it is *that* important.  

Here I am doing a cartwheel… wheeee!

Here a back flip (is that what it is called?) into a front support.  This is the only apparatus I am not totally keen on.  Miss Micah helps me on this one…