it sleeps...

This is a rare moment. Ava sleeping and I caught it on camera.
It is nearly impossible to catch her sleeping. She is such a light sleeper that she wakes up even before I have her door opened a crack!
Well, this evening I got lucky as Miss "I-No-Need-No-Nap" Ava tuckered herself out and passed out in the living room!
So I immediately run for my camera and managed to capture a moment of quiet and peaceful Ava. (you may not be able to recognize her from her spirited awake self).

Little Sleeping Beauty

nubbins

Just some nubbins...I am all over the map today. Probably from lack of sleep.
I can not sleep while Tom is away.
I hear every noise. Every sound. Every non-noise.
Needless to say, Mama is tired.
Anyway...while doing my best to lay around and do nothing...Bryn was doing her best at nothing too.
No good story here, she is just lovely. I adore this incredibly sweet and silly little girl.



I also had an interesting conversation with Ava.
Ava exclaims- "Mom! Come see! There's something in the frig!"
Half terrified that it was a dead lizard or worse, I reluctantly follow Ava to the frig.
Upon opening the door, I find this-

With this explanation- "Mom, Lila (the penguin) likes to sleep in the cold. She needs a cold bed."
She even managed to rearrange the milk and heavier door items to make room for Lila.
I spent the rest of the day fishing various animals out of my frig. A tiger, a sea turtle and a dinosaur...

I can not wait to see what's in the freezer tomorrow.

duck, duck, duck, girls!

Another weekend has come and gone. We have been enjoying lazier weekends. A nice break from the daily hustle and bustle of our lives.
This weekend was particularily nice as Tom was home with us all weekend and even chose to hang with us...even without his Crackberry. (which is nice as that mofo is always going off).

We hung out the the playground.




And did some bike riding...
(this picture is note worthy as Ava just could not get a handle on how to pedal a bike. But she woke up Saturday and decided that "today was the day"...and now she manages pedal and actually move forward).


Can you see the utter concentration?



We noticed some ducks were looking for lunch...so we helped them out.
We shared some bread (Ava...notsomuch...as she just ate her bread).







Yeah, they run like girls...


Yep...just another chronicle in the story that is my life...its not a big page turner, but it may give you a few laughs and put you sleep.

Denial - it ain't just a river in Egypt

I have been meaning to post this for awhile to setttle an on-going debate betwix Tom and myself (the latter being right of course). It goes like this:

Ava looks like Tom.
There is no way she will ever be mistaken for anyone other than her father's daughter.
I think we could even argue whether or not I am her mother as she definately has strong Bennett traits.
Tom really truly thinks she does not look like him.
No really.
Maybe it's because she's so cute? Whatever the reason, he refuses to acknowledge that he got his good looks from Ava.

So, while looking at some older pictures, I came across this photo of Ava at 9 weeks that I affectionately refer to as- "Mini Tom".



And just to be fair, here is a recent picture of Mini Tom Ava.


And for reference- Big Tom


I think we can all agree that if we stuck a bow on Tom's head, we'd all have to start calling him "Big Ava".

Can you see the resemblence?
Yeah, I thought so.
Point for Jill.

january blah blah blah

Still here!
I have been busy with nothing in particular, but it seems to be taking up all of my time!
Mostly, I have been just trying to get through the day with Ava. Ava is almost 3 turning 16.
An eeeeevil 16.
Ava has hit a *phase*.
A phase of constant screaming, crying and kicking about everything. I know its going to be a particularily bad day when she tells me her toothpaste is too toothpastey for her. Crap. It's like a Friday the 13th, on a Monday. Yeah. Ava can be *that* difficult.
Now, I see how one could be driven to drink before 10 a.m. Maybe I should start filling my water bottles with something other than water.
For me, I seek solace in my beloved Cola or chocolate. Needless to say, I have been enjoyed quite a bit of both these days...and my butt is not thankful for that.

So, since I can not take Ava anywhere in public for too long nowadays, we enjoyed a quieter weekend close to home...you know, where we can do lots of tutu wearing activities.





Bryn has also mastered the art of the two wheeler bike sans training wheels! Weee! (of course she's a speed demon- which just adds to my anxiety as I watch her wobble by on her bike at even faster speeds than she normally moves. Speeds that would require a trip to the emergency room of she decides to fall off her bike).
I am still proud of her bike riding abilities. Just another milestone closer to leaving the nest.




I really shouldn't be allowed to blog when I have nothing of interest to say, so my apologies.
It's January. Blah.

muffin top

Yeah, after the holidays, I am in great need of hitting the gym to shed some of the cookie weight I have been carrying around (which oddly is a workout in itself).
Ironically, it seems the Gods are against me as I have buggered up "that" knee once more and can not run or workout like a normal person (well, normal for me anyway).

Grrrr to my freakin' knee.
Thank heaven for ice and anti-inflammatories!




The pictures are from one of my all-time favorite sites-
I Can Has Cheezburger
Be careful! I have spent many countless hours touring the pictures!

ava mava bo bava