N-i-e-c-e spells "fun"!!!

Last month (which isn't too long ago!) Ava came to spend a week with us while Ashley went to a friend's wedding in Missouri. As you can see in the first picture below, Kent drove to meet her there. 

We had such a fun time with our "baby".... of course, she tells us all the time that she's a big girl now!!!!

Ava and Paizley played well together. Paizley called Ava "Au-va" and Ava called Paizley "Plaizley"!! One day  we realized that Ava and Paizley were matching, so we tried to get some pictures of them; Ava is pretty photogenic, Plaizey... not so much :)

One would smile and then the other, but hardly ever both at the same time!

These are Paizley and Ava's happy faces!!!

Have I already said that Ava's photogenic?? Well, she's just plain cute on top of that!!

 

The one thing about having 2 little girls is that there is only one Karissa! Ava's 'Issa only has 1 lap, too, which didn't work well during story time!!! Both girls love reading and books!! The book that Karissa is reading in this picture is Paizley's. Ava called it the "Cat-in-the-Hat" book... actually at first she called it the Dog-in-the-Hat book. Karissa said, "No, it's Cat-in-the-Hat". Ava said, "But I can't say that"!!!! But she could by the end of the week. There's about 6 stories in that 1 book. But the funny thing is that none of the stories were about The Cat-in-the-Hat! It didn't even have a picture of The Cat-in-the-Hat on it! 

One thing that both girls loved to do was play in the pool..... the "water pool" to Ava. It was freezing cold to fill it up with the hose, so we carried buckets of semi-warm water from inside! Ava is a really good little helper!!

Paizley's quite a fish :)

Both Ava and Paizley liked the little slide in the pool. 

Can you see what Paizley's doing here?!? She pulled her foot up and dumped that little bottle of water on her toes!! It was so cute :)

Karissa had the smart idea to let them play with the bathtub toys in the pool!!

"It's a shower!!" Ava said!!

How do you like that hairdo?! It's actually just a big ponytail, but it was a tad high! I think Karissa had fun dressing and fixing the little girls' hair every morning!!!!

It was so nice having the little pool on the deck where there wasn't grass or dirt getting all over them. See 'Issa sitting back there in the shade!! It was so warm that week, it was amazing! 

I took a few pictures from Karissa's bedroom window over the deck. 

Ava waving...

...Paizley pointing :-)

  

Oh, and Ava waving again!!

Paizley on the slide. 

Kaitlyn watching...

"Comfy" "chairs"?! Ava in a bucket and Paizley in the basket!!

Karissa, Paizley and Ava on the trampoline. These pictures are from my bedroom window :)

I think Paizley has a thing for feet. I know this isn't very close, but if you click on the picture you can see that Paizley's holding onto Karissa's foot!!

Sunday morning!!! Ava had talked and talked and talked about going to church! So this was her beautiful Sunday outfit....Her Princess dress is what she called it! (I love it when she wears those headbands with the flowers on the side!!) And she needed a necklace to complete the look :) 

She said "look at it on my nose"!!!

Somebody asked her if she could see it on her nose, so this is Ava trying to see her necklace on her nose!!!
Doesn't she have the most gorgeous hair?!?!

 Ava and her Aunt 'Issa :)

Ava and Aunt 'Trina. 

  

Paizley and Ava playing Play Doh with Kaitlyn and Karissa. Actually, it looks like Kaitlyn was probably making cookies... :-)

 Ava was good little helper all week. She especially liked helping to cook. Here she's making chicken nuggets with Karissa. At first, she was dipping the chicken in the egg, but that was too messy so she switched to dipping them in the bread crumbs!! She also helped put the pepperoni on the pizza on Saturday. 

Ava's pretty good with a ball and bat. She would just hold them out like this... and she actually hit it about every 1 out of 2 or 3 times. 

 This was one of the "miss" times :)

Sticking her tongue out helps I'm sure!!!

  

Ava face #1

Ava face #2

Ava face #3!!!!

Talking to her mommy and daddy!!! Does she look a little tired to you? 

Looking at pictures with Nana. Ava talked all week about her trip to Disney a couple weeks before. So Mom pulled out the pictures of when her and Dad took Khara and Kent to Disney. The funny thing is, Ava went when she was 3 and Kent went when he was 3!! 

"That's my daddy!!!!!!"

... And that's Minni Mouse!

She still loves pup-pup!

Sleeping beauty. 

I painted Ava's nails Saturday night... strawberry nails, she called them!! (since they were pink)

Just to say: I don't wear my hair that way for looks! But if I twist is up while it's wet, it's curly when it's dry. 

She's a little girl so I didn't figure she would sit still long enough for them to dry, so I told her to blow on them.  

Then, Ava said, "you painted my nails, so I'll paint yours"!!! 

Ava painting my nails.

She did pretty good for a 3-year-old. 

And the bubbles!!! Ava loves bubbles. 

Nana got her a "bubble-gun" from Cracker Barrel. 

It worked really well...

...and Ava loved it!!!

I like this picture! I thought it was cute :)

Mom and I took Ava to meet Ashley at "Hamburger" (translation: Burger King). "To the blue slide and the red slide!"
Can you tell she loves her pup-pup. I showed her this picture and she said "that's me squeezing my pup-pup"!! 

She was here the whole time we were doing our yard sale... which wasn't really successful - at all. So we'd be  putting the stuff out and Ava would be like, "I want to help!". Karissa sat with the yard sale most of the time, so the rest of the kids played with Ava and Paizley. Ava liked jumping with Kaleb on the trampoline. He was really good with her. 

We had such a good time with her! She is so cute and so much fun!!!!