Ava's new favorite toy

Today school was out because of flooding, and I had to take all 5 kids to therapy. Not so fun. Hope had brought a little baby doll with us and offered it to Ava's OT Rachel, saying, "Ava can play with this if she wants." Well, I thought the last thing she would want to play with was a baby doll. After all, isn't she supposed to be stimulated with lights and sounds and buttons and spinning things? But just to appease Hope we offered the baby doll. Wouldn't you know...She LOVED the baby doll. She started rubbing its head, licking its face (kissing it?), holding it to her chest. She was even making sounds that I rarely hear, "Mmmmm, Bbbbbb". She was so excited about this little doll! So Rachel used it for a motivator for rolling over, reaching, and even "fed" the doll pudding and let Ava lick the pudding off. It was Oh-so-cute. Of course I forgot my camera, again, but Rachel let me use hers so hopefully I'll have some to post soon. Meanwhile, here we are at home later playing with the same little doll. She is sleeping with it now as I type up this post.




A friend listened to me describe a mat that I was looking for for Ava to lay on. Something textured, easy to clean, colorful, something like an alphabet puzzle I said. A week or so later, look what showed up on my front porch. :) (Thanks Cherish if you are reading this). One of the letters is missing, can you tell which it is? I'm sure it will turn up, but it reminded me of the joke about the little boy who had to use the bathroom but his teacher made him recite the alphabet first. When he skipped the "P", she asked, "Johnny, where is your P?" And Johnny said, "Running down my leg". I think my dad told me that joke.