Q is for Quickly Growing Up; Q is for Quick trip to the mainland

Q is for Quickly Growing:

Ava will be 2.5 this month. Hard to believe how fast the time has gone since she was born. In the just the past 2 months alone, she has quickly gone from barely saying a word, to pretty much saying everything she can. I'll say something to her and she'll repeat it or point things out to me. We figure she was biding her time and just absorbing all the information she could take until one day she was ready to speak on her own. She is great in places full of people, but when there are only a few people in the room, especially ones she doesn't know very well she gets very shy. When we are out in public and she can people watch without worrying about people watching her she really comes out of her shell.

I am really looking forward to the next couple of months with her. Thanksgiving this weekend, trips to the Pumpkin Patch and Halloween this month, then a trip to Victoria and Seattle next month and of course Christmas in December we will get to see a whole new world through her eyes and her voice. It's really very exciting.

Q is for Quick Trip to the Mainland:

This past weekend we took a quick trip to Horseshoe Bay to finally celebrate my parent's 40th Anniversary all together. The whole family was there, and it was a wonderful day. Ava was a bit surprised to see Grandma when they arrived, but then was super happy to finally have her "Gamma and Ganddad" back :)

It was nice to get off the Island and the weather was a beautiful day for a ferry ride. We had a nice short visit with my brother and his little family. I brought my camera along and was sad that we suddenly ran out of time and I didn't even get any photos at lunch. Ava had a great time on the ferry on the way over and especially on the way back dragging us all over the ship.