The House of Helrings: Ava at 3yrs 8 mo Old

Ava is 3 years and 8 mo old now. In the last month she has moved on from carrying her Baby Doggy everywhere and sleeping with him every nap time and bedtime. She has moved on to Baby Kitty. They are both small Beanie Baby type stuffed animals. Ava was attached to Baby Doggy for a year. She just suddenly decided to stop carrying him everywhere. And even though we already have three cats she keeps asking to get a real live kitten from the pet store. During the month of July she participated in four dance class sessions. Although she loves dancing and twirling at home and wearing her twirly dresses she was not too enthused about going to dance class. But once she arrived at class she always had fun. For now we are just continuing gymnastics at National Gymnastics Training center once a week. Ava is definitely in the "why" stage. She is asking "why" something is the way it is and asking what more complicated words mean like "what does damage mean?", and "what is a fib?" (although she doesn't quite get what this means yet). She still enjoying eating chicken (some protein, thank goodness) and asparagus is always a winner with her. She doesn't like drinking carbonated drinks because she doesn't like bubbles going in her nose she says. Yay! She loves ice cream. And eggs and orange juice are foods she does not like eating. These are pictures of Ava in the last month.