Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Make Room for Another Girl!

We are excited to announce the coming arrival of Ava Florence! Her due date is May 31, and everything has been healthy and normal so far. May 31 is the day that my (Andrew) mom died in 1986. My mom went by Florence, her middle name, which is why we wanted Ava's middle name to be Florence.

Tera is excited to be a big sister. Not really, she doesn't know what's going on. But we think that she will be excited to have a sister with which to share clothes, toys, rooms, secrets, and life.

This is a picture of Tera resting on her mommy's pregnant tummy. She never sleeps in our arms, but during Christmas Tera had a bout with pneumonia and all of a sudden she became very cuddly. She also didn't let Pooh out of her sight. Once the doctors figured out what the problem was, they gave her some antibiotics and she was back to her old self within a day.

Tera's favorite activities these days include walking around the house (she's walking really well now!), climbing up the stairs, "helping" mommy do the laundry by removing everything from the basket and then putting it all back in, reading books, cooking on her new kitchen set that she got for Christmas, and biting anything that she can get her mouth on (her molars are coming in).