Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day started out with the card that Ava and Lauren picked out in San Diego, as you can see Ava was terribly pleased with the great job she had done.

Then we had a picnic at the Children's Park in Golden Gate. Daddy wanted us to sit on the ground, while he had a large lounger throne (as pictured to the right of us).

But of course, Ava, ultimately prefers sitting in the sand.

Then we saw the ice cream man and could not resist a push-up treat, but poor Ava tripped on a dirt pile a few minutes later and added some undesirable ingredients to her sherbert...so we had to throw it away -- it was a sad sight,

but nothing better to cheer her up than playing frisbee, or what looks to be more like "fetch"

Ava has picked up some signs from her other baby friends in her play group....it has motivated me to learn some of the basics to teach her some other essential words. She has picked it up surprisingly fast and it has also helped her to develop/use her words better. So for those of you who are unfamiliar with sign language, she wants "more" frisbee tossing. On a side note: she also wants "more" juice, "more" snacks, "more" play time, "more" of whatever it is you're having......She definitely enjoys being able to express her "needs" to us, but it's just so cute that you can't help but to give in....

Here we are asking her what she wants "more" of? And this is answer to everything, "Yo no se"/"I don't know"

This is Ava's new thing, it is what Daddy calls "loving him more" and what I call "distancing" (it's almost like she can sense the impeding new arrival)

Joila!

Then we ended our outings with a trip to the store to make daddy some of his favorite dishes

They both know that mommy will not be able to make a meal out of vanilla wafers and cheese, so they better start doing some real shopping.

I think Daddy enjoyed his Father's Day -- everyone called who was supposed to and the day was relaxing and beautiful, we could not be more blessed.

Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there!