busy fun girls

I can not believe how big these two girls are getting. Madison is almost 3 months old. She can sit up for a little while(once you get her sitting up)... she has discovered she has feet and legs and uses them to roll her self over and off anything you put her on if she doesn't think she should be there. She smiles all the time and is cooing a ton too. I love to watch her grow and change, but she looks like her daddy. She still has a ton of hair and we found you can do some cute little pony tails with it. she love to see her daddy and sister and aunt gina, and grandparents. She is helping uncle cameron realize babies aren't that scary and loves to be held by anyone who will hold her and loves to be talked too.
Ava is 2 1/2 going on 18. She loves to pick out her own clothes and will let you know she does not want what you have picked out by telling you it is either too big or it is too small even if it really fits. She was doing so great at using the potty... she would go in and use it wipe, flush wash her hands all on her own and then tell you. she started be fore Madison was born, by her own choice, we had tried a couple of times in the previous months but she wouldn't even try so we decided that we would wait til after the baby was born and then go from there. about 2 weeks before she went in and went potty all on her own. she was so proud of herself and we were too, then we figured after madison was born she would stop, but she kept on going, she had her days when she wouldn't but for the most part she would, then she was going on the potty almost all the time, she would have an accident in the morning and one or two every couple of days. She was so excited to go potty, then all the sudden she won't. We are just going with the flow and waiting til she decides she is ready again. We know she know how and when to go , she just her stubbornness from mommy, and wants to do it her way and when she says, we are just praying it will be soon.
I was prompted to write this all down after what happened this morning, i had madison laid down to change her diaper and was getting ready to put a fresh one on when ava came over and picked up the old one and went and threw it away all on her own. I was so excited, she is such a good helper and loves to hug, kiss and talk to her baby sister, she gives her her binky and makes sure we know madison is sad. We also found out recently she can tell you numbers by looking at them. We discovered this when the girls and i went to my cousins wedding. I was in the pool and ava was jumping to me. she said i stand on 3, and she was. then i showed her the 9 and 4 and she could identify them too. She know so much at such i young age it impresses me every time she opens her mouth. We have a small papillon (a small dog from the toy group with really big ears) named Loki. he will do just about anything for food, and ava has turned into quite the little dog trainer, she tells him to sit, dance down, jump, dance, and just about anything she can get him to do, she praises him and it is so cute to watch them together, they chase each other everywhere and he watches over both his girls, if either cries he is there and then off to get seth or i.
I can't believe how lucky i am to have such a wonderful family, both intimidate and extended. I will post about the fun this weekend hopefully with pictures.