Happy Springtime

This is this year's attempt at Ava's Easter dress. I'm not the master seamstress my dear mother is yet, but I did reach a milestone, I pricked my finger while I was unpicking a stitch (ya I had to do that once or twice) and I didn't think it was that bad until I got a little bit of blood on Ava's dress. I honestly don't think there was a dress my mom made for me (wedding dress included :) that didn't have a little token of her sacrifice somewhere on it :) It just made me laugh, I felt like a real seamstress trying to get it off. Anyway, it's sleeveless but it's still a little chilly so I found a little shrug she could wear with it, but I take no credit for that :)



This is my little superwoman, I think her head grew three sizes that day, cuz suddenly her shirt wasn't coming off as easily as it went on ;)


This is Nanny and Grandpa's Easter Egg hunt in a box, it arrived on the same day that all the grandkids were doing the annual Easter Egg hunt at my mom's house, so we "joined in" with our packaged hunt.
Matt wanted to take Ava and I out on a date the other night, so we took her to a theater for the first time and saw How to Train a Dragon, she did really good for most of the movie, I think she was getting a little bored at the end, but it was really fun to take her! I even splurged and bought her real movie theater popcorn, I don't think I've bought that since I was in jr. high, but i figured it had to be the full experience for her first time.
This is at the Discovery Museum close to us, I found out that you can go to the Library and check out passes to get into all sorts of stuff for free or for discounted prices, so this was our first adventure. It was a little old for her, but there was still plenty of hands on stuff for her to do, I'm just not sure she grasped the concept of centripetal motion.

So, we finally put Ava in her big girl bed. It might seem like she's been old enough for a while, and she has, but she never tried to crawl out of her crib and she slept so good in it, I figured why ruin a good thing. But with another one coming along I thought it was time to make the change so I bought her a Princess bedspread and sheets and stuff to make her excited and she LOVED it. I usually give her a book or two to go to bed but now that she can get what she wants, this is what she actually fell asleep with. Those aren't book-printed sheets, that's just a bed of books she made for herself.
This is her carebear that has to be tucked in with her cuz "it's her friend"
This is just the view of the Housatonic River by our house. We drive over a drawbridge to get to Walmart and this is the view we see as we go, it's kinda fun.