Dining (and dogs)

Thanks to Tina for great pictures!

 Again!

More kitchen helping.

Snow!

Post-snow.

Helping in the kitchen

Katye and Sarah and Katye's mom came down from Princeton for the inauguration.  We met up with them on Sunday.  We walked around the Mall, already filling with people, and saw the preparation for the inauguration.  We walked to the Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial, which was full of people.  We had lunch and saw dancing at the National Museum of the American Indian.  Ava thoroughly enjoyed watching the dancing and participated.  She also loved walking around outside after lunch.  Katye and Sarah kindly provided plum tickets to the inauguration to Daddy and Tina.  Mommy and Ava stayed home (Mommy's decision).  

Fireplace

Helping Daddy make a fire 

Once the fire is made, one can dance in front of it.

Bad timing for both lunch and nap

Awake!

Dinner prep assistant

 At song hour

Mirror, mirror...

Walking

Ava is walking more and more every day.

Swinging is still awesome.  

First hike involving Ava's walking!  New Year's Day with Grace, Kim, Lucy, Clara and Hero dog.

Excited about Daddy's homemade noodles

 Whisking!

 Salad spinners, two sizes, both fun:

Happy New Year

Ava waved 'bye-bye' to Odie dog, Ima and GrandTod this morning.  Happy New Year!  Thanks to GrandTod for many of the excellent photos below:

Exploring the water feature in the atrium of the National Portrait Gallery:

Blueberries:

Christmas shirt and crinkle sheet from Grandpa Lee and Grandma Joanne:

Helping Odie dog survey the squirrel situation:

Capitol tour:

She really enjoys laying down on different surfaces lately, not correlated with need for nap:

In the stroller:

Napping with Odie:

Maryland blue crab for dinner:

Sharing pomegranate seeds with Mommy:

Chowing down on Romanesco: