she is seriously such an easy, fun baby. we just had her first easter camping trip, and she did great! she loves being outside and loves the water. she also had her first ever boat ride on her bop-bops boat and she did so well with that too. she enjoyed all the attention from friends and family.
ava is 19.5 lbs and i don't know how many inches. she's wearing size 3 diapers, and she is in 9M clothes still. i could probably move her to 12M clothes, but i am not quite ready to give up all her cute 9M stuff! old navy 6-12M size fits her well right now.
she's eating solids now, 3x a day. we are doing a fruit at breakfast, a veggie at lunch, and a fruit and a veggie at dinner, all purees. i started with making my own baby food, but that got hard to keep up with after awhile with working full time and our busy social commitments, so i have been buying organic purees for her. she's also gotten some baby puffs and yogurt melts for practice using her hands to feed herself, and she does pretty well!
she's still breastfed and taking about 16-20 oz of pumped bottles and nursing at home. i literally have no freezer stash at all anymore...so i just take it a day at a time and hope for the best. i am trying to not let it stress me out. only a few more months and i can ease some of the burden with whole milk, although i think we will continue to nurse at night for as long as she wants.
sleep is....all over the place as usual. i feel like right when we get into a rhythm of good sleep, something happens to mess it up. she was doing GREAT for awhile there, only waking up once a night if at all, and then she got another dreaded ear infection. we are on day 5 of antibiotics for this one, and it seems to be helping, but bad sleep habits have already been reestablished while she was sick. the past few nights she's been waking up 3+ times a night and wants to nurse to get back to sleep each time. needless to say, i am exhausted pretty much all the time. i am hoping once this ear infection passes her sleep will regulate out again.
speaking of ear infections, this one makes 4 in 4 months. the doctors are now trying to discuss tubes with us. we have managed to put them off to this point, but if she gets another one, we will have to go see an ENT. poor baby. i feel so bad for her when she has them, but i also don't love the idea of pumping her full of antibiotics all the time. my friend actually got an ear infection this past weekend and said the pain was INTENSE. so i feel awful that my little baby is going through that same pain and can't express it.
she is rolling all over the place and starting to scoot to get to things she wants on the floor. you can't leave her alone anywhere unattended without her getting into something she's not supposed to. she's just starting to push to all fours once she's on her belly, so i am sure crawling will be soon, but i am so not ready for that.
ava babbles sounds (mama, baba) and can repeat after me when i say mama. i still don't think she knows that mama means me, so i am not counting that as her first word. she also can mimic pretty well--she likes to fake cough, laugh, and now she does this thing where she growls at you like a monster.
she is still doing great at daycare and we love her teachers. she likes to hang out and take it all in while she's there, and she definitely likes to watch other babies. she got to play with baby henry a ton in the past few weeks, and those two can keep each other entertained for a long time! she also likes to watch/laugh at harley and LOVES to see her daddy walk in a room. her whole face lights up for him. she loves baths, sweet peas, and getting out and about. she is still not a fan of anyone cleaning her face or nose, me setting her down and walking away, and she doesn't really seem to like carrots too much (although she will still eat them).
this girl is so sweet and such a great baby. we love our ava mae!
