Hips Don't Lie

Our little cupcake was born with hip dysplasia due to being breech the whole time in the womb. Now that she is more mobile she loves to go into the splits and swing her legs behind her in order to get onto her tummy and then swings them forward to sit up again. She likes to do it over and over again and even does it in her crib when going down for a nap. I usually go up 10 minutes after she's gone down to put a blankie on her as she likes to kick it off. This is how I found her today......

I see gymnastics/dance in her future.

Summer 2011

I'm pretty sure it's time to update the blog when the template background has a spring theme. My bad. Here's a little update on what we have been up to this summer so far:

• I rear-ended someone downtown and caused some (a ton) of damage. All I can say is thank goodness for insurance! Let's just say Ben wasn't too pleased.
• My Mom came down to surprise me for my birthday and it was fantastic! (Mostly because she took me shopping.)
• We met John's fiance Stephanie and spent a few days stuffing our faces with the always delicious food at the Hitchin's.
• Ava had an x-ray on her hips. There is still a bit of a difference between the two hips but the orthopedist said it should sort itself out when she starts walking. She goes back for another x-ray in October to make sure everything is all good in the hood. Fingers crossed.
• Ben had the opportunity to go to the MoTab sound check where he got to meet some of the choir.
• We celebrated Nate's birthday and Emily's grad.
• Ava and I spent some time up north at Nona's where Ava finally started crawling. She does the army crawl and scoots her little bum up. I need to get video of her doing it. It's so stinkin' cute!
• Ava's favourite things to do are play peek-a-boo, clap her hands and cuddle with her fluffy.
• We went up to the cottage where we celebrated our niece Olivia's 1st birthday.
• Nate, Em, Ben and I went boat flying. (I just made that term up. It's when you lay on the front of the boat and pretend you are flying at top speed. Kind of stupid, seriously fun!)
• We celebrated Ben's birthday by going to see Transformer's 3, ate delicious ribs and of course finished off by eating ice-cream cake. I got him a sweet electric toothbrush that he had asked for.
• We've gone swimming here at our place (soo cold) and at Grandma's (sooo warm) and have had some yummy BBQ's. (Who knew Ben was such a grill master?)

Anyway, there has been a lot more stuff that we've done but that's just a snapshot. I'll be posting pics soon of our downstairs bathroom reno we started on Saturday. Stay tuned....
Now for your entertainment:
Ava and Uncle John having a nap.

Celebrating Auntie Emily graduating from Sheridan

 Chillin in the Backyard

 Celebrating Uncle Nathan's 23rd Birthday