Happy Valentines Day!

Hope your Valentines Day is filled with lot's of love!

Another Birthday!

Man we have a lot of family birthday's this time of year, starting in September and going through May it's just one after another. It slows down after May and I am the only one with a summer birthday (July). This weekend we are going out to Matt's parents for his Mom's birthday, we are having dinner and then the rest of the family is coming over for cake and presents. We have to pick up Logan at my Mom's first (good thing they only live 5 minutes away from each other) and then we will head over. Ava is wearing a cute new sweater dress and sparkly pink leggings (Matt says they look like hooker pants but I digress) I think she looks cute as can be all ready for Grandma's birthday party!

One Child Feels Like A Vacation...

Logan is having a sleepover at my Mom's tonight so that leaves us with only little Ms. Ava to deal with for the night. Logan was very excited to get to Grandma's after school today so I dropped him off then headed home. Matt and I decided to go out for our Valentines dinner tonight since we only have Ava tonight. Dinner was nice and Ava got a lot of attention from everyone at the restaurant of course. So we had a nice dinner and then headed home and just vegged out for the rest of the night. I played some Super Mario Brothers for the Wii (I love me some Mario) and Matt played with Ava. Ava is sleeping now and I am ready to head upstairs and have a nice uninterrupted nights sleep since Logan isn't home (although for the past week he has been sleeping through the night...knock on wood that he keeps doing that so we can get Ava sleeping in her crib soon) and hopefully we will get to sleep in tomorrow as well! Hopefully Logan is sleeping good for my Mom tonight! Nighty night!

Another Busy Day...

Today was another busy day for us over here, Matt went into work early to get some work done then he came home picked us all up and we headed to the Social security office. We got there right when they opened and there wasn't a parking spot to be had. So Matt dropped me at the door and drove around and around until he found a parking spot. I walked in maybe five minutes after they opened and it was PACKED already. Like at the good old DMV you get your number and wait to be called...an hour later it's finally my turn. So I found out that Ava was never assigned a social security number (way to go LGH *eye roll*)and it could take up to 8 weeks to get her a number...errr! The lady said hopefully only a couple of weeks, but to call back if it's not here in 4 weeks. I am so peeved at the hospital for dropping the ball on this, but at least it's done and we can file our taxes soon, worst comes to worst we file without Ava and then do an amendment (which it will then take forever to get the remaining money back).

So my life lesson for the day: The Social Security office is worse than the DMV

For Being So Short, I Sure Make Tall Babies!

I took Ava to her 4 month check up today and yes I breed giants apparently. She is 26 1/4 inches (95th percentile) our pediatrician walked in and and asked where the heck she is getting this height from while looking at me... Well Matt is quite tall 6 foot something and there is some tall people on my Mom's side so it must be from there, her doctor said she will be taller than me in the near future...yes I know my kids will tower over me since they take after my Matt way more than they take after me. Our chunky money is still quite chunky at 16 lbs and 3 oz.! Her doctor said she sounded better and we could drop down to twice a day for breathing treatments until the cough is gone. Ava had to get one shot today, and she didn't even cry this time, she is such a trooper!

After Matt got off work we ran out to the court house in Rolling Meadows to get a copy of Ava's birth certificate so we can figure out what is going on with her social security number.

It was a busy day and I am exhausted!

Holy Snow Batman!

We got hit with a big winter snow storm today, so I didn't make it out to skating in fear of my life and Matt skipped his lodge meeting as well. We hung out at home and after dinner Logan headed out into the winter wonderland with Daddy to play while Daddy snowplowed and shoveled. Logan wanted to play baseball, but he couldn't find his little tee-ball set in the backyard as it is now buried in snow, so he made some snow angels instead. Here are some pictures from our winter wonderland

Happy 4 Months Ava!!

Wow! I can't believe she is four months today! I wish she could stay this age for a couple of months, she is so fun right now and easy to please and it is so fun to watch her interact with Logan now, it just melts my heart. I feel so incredibly blessed to have both a son and daughter, I get the best of both worlds for sure. I still feel my eyes well up when I look at her sometimes, she is so beautiful, an answered prayer for sure. Watching Matt with her is just as heart melting, she is Daddy's little girl and Daddy is wrapped around her little pinkie for sure. I have to wait until Wednesday to get her stats, she has to get shots again which is a bummer, but if the doctor doesn't think she is well enough we will have to postpone them until she is better.




Here is my big 4 month old! (Logan popped his first two bottom teeth and 4 months, nothing yet on Ava but she is teething for sure, only a matter of time)





I was rocking her this afternoon and she fell asleep in my arms and I looked up at the clock and it was 3:04pm the exact time she came into our world...