Ava is doing very well with her walking now and hardly ever crawls.  She likes to walk all over the place.  The little bouncing zebra she received for her birthday is one of her favorite toys right now.  She can't get on all the way by herself, but she gets her leg over and starts bouncing.  Her face lights up when she bounces.  It's very adorable.

This morning, I brought Ava into bed with Paulchen and me.  Paulchen kept giving me kisses.  Then Ava smacked her lips and leaned over me.  She then proceeded to give lots of kisses.  It was so cute.  She now we can add kisses to her repetoire as well as hugs.

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Today was Ava's first birthday.  We had a nice little day.  We went to the circus.  Paulchen really enjoyed it until he grew tired and cranky.  He watched everything intently.  Ava sat on our laps and clapped when everyone else did.  It was really cute.

When we came home, we had a simple meal of chicken and then cake.  Ava didn't like the frosting, but she ate some of the cake.  It was very funny, Paul kept trying to get Ava to blow out the candle, but she just looked at him like he was crazy.  He really tried hard before he finally gave up and blew out the candle.

Then we openhed presents.  Paulchen helped Ava open the gift from him.  It was a small box with shaped holes that she can put shapes through.  She also received clothes and a bouncing zebra from family.  The zebra is really cute.  She needs help getting onto it, but once on it, she bounces around and slightly turns around.  She really likes it, as she bounces and it plays music.

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Updated: Monday, April 9, 2007 8:45 PM MEST

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Well, as if the glitter wasn't enough a few days ago, Paulchen got into some onion dip today.  That was really fun.  It was this time that Paul finally learned it really only takes a minute or two for Paulchen to cause so much trouble. Paul came to hang out with me in our bedroom as I woke up.  While we talked, we heard some squealing and were happy.  Boy were we dense.  Then Paulchen came in with a butter knife covered in white goop.  All I could think was he got into the mayonaise and there was now a broken jar on the kitchen floor.

Paul stepped out of our room and started exclaiming.  I told him I didn't want to see, just tell me.  I eventually looked.  Ava was weraing some of the white goop.  It turns out Paulchen found the French Onion Dip in the fridge and "iced" Ava with it.  The rest of the tub was upside-down on the kitchen floor.

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Well, today was a VERY busy day.  First, this morning Paulchen showed me his new understanding of "left" and "right".  He held out his right hand and said "left", then his left hand and said "right".  Okay, so he had them mixed, but he understood the concept finally.  By the end of the day, he had them correctly labelled.

Paulchen is also very eager top learn German.  He remembered that his favorite "buddy" Turtle, is called Schildkrote in German.  All day long, he would say a word in English and wait.  The wait was for me to teach him the German.  So as we were driving and saw a tree, he would say, "tree..." and I would say "baum".  Then he would say, "tree... baum".  He's so clever.

Yet sometimes he's too clever.  It seems we had some more glitter hiding in the craft store within his reach.  So once again, his sister was doused in green glitter.  Darn it, just as I was getting the last batch out of her hair, we have to go through this all over again.

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This morning while I was playing with Paulchen, he said, "What you doing Cat?"  I looked around me or a book with a picture of a cat and couldn't find anything.  Then I realized he was probably calling me by my nickname.  I asked him what he said and he repeated it.  I had a good laugh and gently changed it to Mummy.  Then he said it properly.

I went to tell Paul what his son said and ask him if he set me up.  Paul was clueless and thought it was funny.  Then Paulchen came in and looked at his father.  I crossed my fingers that he would say "What you doing Paul?"  What he said made me burst out and laugh.  "What you doing Tiger?"  Paul was shocked.  He swore I told our son to say that, but I didn't.  He used his Da's nickname.  It was hilarious.

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