Let's Do the Time Warp

(Again)

So, I stopped by Ava & Mama's today to drop off a Valentine's Day card. And it got me thinkin - you haven't seen Christmas pics! So here ya go... Christmas morning I hit the house bright and early(ish) to open Santa's gifts. Before that, we had our celebration with the G-Rents at my place. Sonya & Zo came over. Uncle Doug stopped by too. Here's the photographic evidence!

Cheers.



Christmas morning at Ava's :)

Christmas breakfast!

Mimosa's! (of course, Ava's is with sparkling grape juice, but she LOVED having the fancy glass!)

STOKED about having her ears pierced. It's the beginning of the end for Daddy's jewelry budget.

Ay yi yi -- this game is complicated! What was Santa thinking?!

Opening "knee highs" with Mama.

"Dad! Look! Uno Attack!! You're going down punk!" (And yes, she's good!)

Yep - music and books. Nice!

Sonya, OG & Uncle Doug at the table for Christmas at Daddy's.

Sharing Grandma's lap with Zoey and ripping through gifts!

Uncle Doug tattling?

I get a chance too!

Daddy: "Here, look at this cool..."
Ava: "I've moved on. Keep up."

PS - I'm moonlighting on another blog.

http://www.biggbybob.com/2010/02/guest-blog-from-twitter-handle-danmoyle.html

Guess who's back...

Oy! It's been a long time. But I'm told (thanks Sonya, Steph, OG) I need to get back at it. So, altho it's Ava's Blog - here's what's new. All around.

Ava's getting close to 5 years old. She's doing well with Bread & Roses - her school/daycare. It's great. Mama and I love it. We're so glad we found it. She's writing her name, first and last. Backward sometimes, but doing well. And she asks "what does this spell" constantly! I love it. Mostly. Ha!

So as most you probably know - Mama and I split. We share Ava time well. (Except for my work schedule wreaking havoc) and work on our parenting quite a bit. We try to make it all about keeping Ava on the right track in life. I found a great church - Valley Family Church - and Ava loves the "Kidamazoo" kid's church. A lot of friends actually go there, and I'm making friends within in the congregation too.

I'm with someone, her name's Sonya & she's an amazing person. She has a daughter almost exactly a year younger than Ava. They get along great. 2 very independent, intelligent and creative only children - so while they have their moments, they're great together. Sonya & Zoey are terrific additions to our lives. They've been around since last May or so. But we just recently (well, it was me 'waiting') decided to call it more than "hanging out." (Sonya still teases me about that haha!)

Ava's very active and doing well with so much. She's into art at school; loves to read; loves music and singing; plays Uno all the time (real cards & my ipod); ice skates pretty darn well; and just brings joy to my life everyday.

So that's what I got for ya! I'll post a few pics of all of us. I'm going to try and blog, whether it's pictures or thoughts on/from Ava. Comments help encourage me to do so - if you leave it anonymously (with no email) go ahead and leave you name. I love to know who's keeping up.

So on this Valentine's weekend - Love to you all. Cheers.

Out one evening after a play date.

Matching glasses? Haha! Her's are "fashion specs" -- fake. Mine: not so fake.
Sonya & I in Vegas - at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Look at those beautiful girls!
The 4 of us last fall at Turkeyville USA! We were on a train. It was small. I felt like a giant. (Also why I love small bottles of booze!)
So there's a quick snapshot. Hope you're doing well. Stay in touch, and I'll work on staying current with the blog.

PS - if you are on Twitter follow me - I'm @danmoyle -- or if you aren't, get on it keep up with instant pics of Ava all the time. I also post on Facebook.