A Day in the Life of Ava Argyro

I am now ten months old and there's so much I can do. I wake up around 7:30 or so. I like to hang out and play for a while, then eat, and do my business and then go back to sleep. In the morning, I hang out with the fam on the back balcony. I wake up from my nap in about an hour. Sometimes I'm antsy and it takes my Mom an hour to put me down for my nap! When I wake up again, I like to play for a while, then eat and then do my business. I'm pretty regular like that.


There's lots of things I do now. I can stand while holding on to something. I can crawl on all fours. And boy, am I fast too! I have a whole bunch of things to say all the time. My mom even understands some of them. She catches words like, "come", "cat", "come here cat"and "ball". I hold my hand out to the kittys and say "ela do gata", "come here cat" and open and close my hand to motion them to come.





Strangers love to come up to me when we go on our daily walks and talk to me. People here have no compunction to touch me and start talking to me. They always ask how old I am. I'm a big girl now. I'm ten!


My older sister loves to get in the play pen and play with me. So much so that she broke one of the boards today. I'm happy about that because I can't stand being closed up. I want to be free to move around. I want to be unfettered. I don't even like being behind the wall of pillows on the bed when I wake up. I yell out real loud and my Mom comes and picks me up right away -- before I even start to cry!

I like to hang out with my Pappou. He lets me roam around on the floor or on the bed behind him as he watches tv. I investigate the window next to his bed or watch the peristeria (doves) from the window.


I love all animals. I watch the peristeria from the balcony and follow the cats on my daily walks. When I roam free, I like to pick up the ants or other small bugs that move near me.


My mom always takes them away from me though.I don't really go to the beach with my Mom and my sister. I find the water is too cold and the sun is too hot. There has to be no wind for me to go and those days are rare. I'm beginning to like the water though and have fun when I take baths. I used to cry when I bathed. I'm a big girl now and I splash the water and mess with the knobs on the faucet....


I go to sleep around 9:30 at night. There's so much to do that I don't want to go to sleep. When my mom thinks I'm asleep and tries to get up, I get up too and start to giggle. She sighs sometimes but always lays back down with me. But after about an hour, I'm tuckered out from my day's adventures and finally go to sleep.