bye bye bottles, hello sippy cup

Ava got a new sippy cup in her Easter basket yesterday and she likes it! I'm kinda going to miss the bottle a little bit I have to say. I love to see her big eyes looking up at me while she's drinking her milk and her chubby little hands trying to pull at my hair. She's just growing up too quickly! Doesn't she look like such a big girl in these pictures?!

She's really getting spunky and silly! She's been trying to walk a lot this weekend. So far she's been able to take 7 steps before falling.

This morning I decided that it's time to pick up a few locks for the kitchen cabinet doors after I found her in the middle of the kitchen floor with coffee grounds everywhere! I'd only left her for a couple of minutes and she wasn't even in the kitchen then. Her mommy's not looking radar must have went off though and she went to the number one no-no, the trash can, and pulled out the coffee filter on top with yesterdays coffee grounds in it that I had just thrown away!

I always wonder how a little person can make such big messes but if you just sit and watch her she's like a little tornado. She loves to empty things out and then move on to the next thing. If she spots a basket of clothes she'll throw out every article of clothing in that basket piece by piece. If the movie drawer gets left open, pretty soon every single dvd is going to be laying in a pile right beside it. The sock drawer, the book shelf, everything! She definately keeps life interesting around here and keeps me on my toes. I've been trying to show her that it's fun to put everything back in the baskets, boxes and drawers but she's not convinced of it yet. :)