Ava Rolls Over

On Thursday July 16th Ava rolled from her belly to her back for the first time. It was exciting, but we missed the actual moment. Rich and I were in the kitchen taking care of a refrigerator emergency and Ava was quietly laying on her back. She was sucking her thumb and we thought she was on her way to falling asleep so we weren't watching her too closely. I opened the fridge and noticed the canned whipped cream had been pushed by some hamburger meat and sprayed all over the bottom shelf. Rich and I were pretty distracted trying to take care of the situation when I looked over and noticed Ava was on her back. I had to do a double take and ask Rich if what I thought happened really happened. When we realized Ava had turned over we were excited, but a little sad we missed the moment.

We then got out the camera and camcorder to hopefully reenact the roll over, but Ava was not cooperative. This time she did just lay on her belly, suck her thumb and go to sleep. Fortunately the next morning we were able to watch her roll over. We still don't have it on video and she hasn't done it since...Ava does things on her own time and when she wants too (kind of reminds me of me).

This is what we saw when we looked up from the fridge. Ava was on her back and looking at us.

When we put Ava on her belly in hopes should would roll over again, she just put her thumb in her mouth...isn't it cute!

This is the mess in the fridge that distracted us and caused us to miss the special moment. It was pretty gross!