More snow today – woohoo! My 3rd ear infection is cleared up, so mommy and I can resume our walks. I weigh a whopping 16 pounds now, can you believe it? I am loving the Advent season – I roll over to the Christmas tree and try to grab it. I can roll both back-to-front and front-to-back now – I did it for the first time 2 days ago, and I am already a pro because I practise it in my bed (mommy and daddy watch me on the video monitor and just laugh, I look like I am doing gymnastics in bed!). If you have a high-speed internet connection, here is a movie of me rolling: http://smithangels.com/movieAvarolling.mov – it takes a while to download (if anyone can help my mommy to make the file smaller, please let her know!)

Lots of love,
Ava

Guess what we got overnight!? Mommy and Jessie dog and I did SO much playing and walking the snow today, I LOVE the snow!!!

Thanks to Honey for letting us know that our newspaper articles moved! My mommy copied them and put them all together for easy reading here:

http://www.smithangels.com/newsstory.html

Enjoy! 🙂

Now you know where I get my cuteness from… look at how beautiful my birth mommy Jenelle is…

My birth mommy loved seeing me – it had been almost 6 months since she last held me. We miss her dearly again!

My parents and I had the BEST time with my birth family for Thanksgiving. We met at my birth nana’s sister’s house; it was a long drive, but very worth it. I got to meet my auntie, my 3 great auntie’s, and my great nana for the first time. We might be going back next year! Here is me with three of my most favorite people in the world 🙂