Happy 10th Birthday, Ava

How in the world is Ava 10 years old already??? I truly do not know where the past 10 years have gone. It blows my mind that it has been 10 years since we met that tiny baby in the hospital. This feels like such a huge milestone birthday for her. Every year she seems so grown up but hitting double digits truly feels huge. We had a fun day celebrating the double-digit girl! We started the day with presents. Zoe was so excited to give Ava the Isabella doll she picked out. We thought that was such a good gift idea, we decided to give Ava a Mirabel doll as well. Ava loved her koala shoes (see getting so big she gets excited about shoes for a gift) because koalas are her favorite animals. We also gave Ava a special necklace that came with 2 parts, one of which we will send to her birth mom. As Ava gets older she is really processing her adoption and missing her birth mom a lot. We wanted to honor that connection and give her something to share with her birth mama who we all love very much. Zoe had dance camp on Ava’s birthday, so while she was at camp DJ and Ava took a bike ride on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. I met up with them at Swamp Rabbit Cafe after I dropped Zoe off at camp and we celebrated with birthday popsicles. After we picked Zoe up from camp, we took the girls to Barnes and Noble so Ava could do what she loves most, shop for books. Then we had supper at Tipsy Taco. It was a special day celebrating our big girl.