What a Day!

Yea! Today is Bastille Day...um, wait! That's not what I wanted to report.

Today is Ava's 3rd Birthday! YEAAAAAA!

It's been a fun and exciting and laugh-filled three years baby girl. I can't imagine my life without you and don't even want to try. I prayed and longed for a baby girl for so long after having three boys I thought it would never happen. But I must have done something right because my life-long prayer for a daughter happened out of nowhere and I could not have been more happy when I got the news from the sonographer that "it" was a girl. I think I cried. No, literally, I teared up and found myself about to boo hoo over the news. I even remember refusing to allow myself to believe it when I heard it the first time because she was "almost sure". Well, almost isn't 100% so I waited until we had the next sonogram before I confirmed with my family and friends that, YES! We were actually going to get more estrogen in the house!

I cannot tell you how much this little girl is almost to the "T" what I asked God for. She's beautiful (looks like her daddy), she's intelligent, her smile lights up a room, people just seem to LOVE her and love being around her and she is adored by her big brothers. She's fun, funny, a little bit "girlie" and then a little bit "tomboy". She's PERFECT.

I can't believe how much she's grown over this 36 months! (yeah, I took it back to "months"!)

Me a month before Ava was born

Her Birth Day!

He didn't know what to do

 but you couldn't stop him from holding her

The day we brought her home - 3 days old

All my babies - She was 5 weeks

4 months!

Ava 7 months!

Easter '09 - 9 mons - such a HAPPY baby girl! 

Birthday Messy Face! 

Me and My Girl at her
1st Birthday Party!

Ava, 2 yo

Birthday Girl!
Ava and her favorite teacher, Ms. Laura

We had her first celebration with her class this morning and were fortunate enough to come across a Princess Tiana bday cake at Target which we doled out to her friends. She's been BUGGING me about a Princess Tiana cake for a month now since I reminded her that her birthday was approaching. She's never even seen the movie (in a house full of boys, if there's no blowing up Decepticons or Ninja kicks and moves it's usually not on) so I'm not sure what made her gravitate toward this idea so much but I don't care. My baby wanted Tiana...she got Tiana. :)

Princess Cake for my Princess

This is just the first of two cakes until her bday week and a half is over (yes, I said week and a half...the celebration continues through the 24th after her "real" birthday party - it's a long story. Don't judge me).

HAPPY 3rd, Ava Doll! You're the light of our lives and the center of my world. 

My BIG Birthday Girl!!We love you infinitely.