Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Paddy's day! We are all wearing our green today and Ava is decked out for her first St. Paddy's day! I've got our corned beef and cabbage, potatoes and carrots cooking away (this is my first year cooking it, hubby usually cooks it) and it smells so yummy, I just want to go eat all of it right now. Hope the luck of the Irish is with you today!

I Love Me Some Etsy!

I found the cutest hat for Ava on Etsy.com last week while looking for a flower headband for her Easter dress. It came in the mail the other day and she has gotten so many compliments on it and everyone asks where I found it, so if you are looking for unique handmade finds, check out Etsy, they have everything!

Got To Love 3 Year Olds

Today Matt informed me that during Logan's last bath he told Matt that his butt has a hole in it...
My guess is he got that tid bit of information from Once Upon A Potty which it does state that your bottom has a hole on it. I just had to laugh when I heard that.

Another 3 year old ism
When I am in the bathroom putting on my make up, Logan likes to stand on the toilet and watch me "cut my eyes" (curl my eye lashes) and "paint my eyes" (put on eye shadow) and then of course he asks for me to do the same to him, Matt should really have a talk with that boy... I pretend to "paint his eyes" for him and he always wants deodorant on, he is so funny.

Fun Sunday, Well Except For The Time Change...

We had a busy day today, and the time change kicked all of our butts this morning. Matt stayed up late to work on the counter tops, which by the way look awesome I'll get pictures up when they are finished. I was up late getting us packed for the day and the Easter outfits ready for pictures this morning, I can't wait to see them, our friend Lance always does amazing work. We then dropped Logan off at Matt's parents and went out to lunch after pictures with two other couples and finally got to meet Ava's belly buddy, such a cute little boy! We had some yummy Chinese food and some good times with friends. Home now and Matt is finishing up the counter, so one side of the kitchen got done this weekend, pretty good considering Matt had to work this Saturday and we were gone all day today. I am off to bed now, so tired, I want my hour back.

What Should Have Been...

Today (or there about, but today was my due date) would have been Peanuts first birthday. Such a weird feeling, I don't know how to even explain it. I am so sad that we lost Peanut, but if we had not lost Peanut we wouldn't have Ava, how do you reconcile that? I thought about Peanut a lot right after we had Ava, just wishing he or she had a chance to experience life. My loss was so hard, but I found peace and meaning in it and helped me come to the decision to go back to school and go into nursing, God had a plan for that short life. Our little Peanut always close to my heart.

Just Those Few Weeks
For just those few weeks
I had you to myself.
And that seems too short a time
to be changed so profoundly.
In those few weeks,
I came to know you...
and to love you.
You came to trust me with your life.
Oh what a life I had planned for you!
Just those few weeks...
when I lost you,
i lost a lifetime of hopes,
plans, dreams and aspirations.
A slice of my future simply vanished overnight.
Just those few weeks...
It wasn't enough time to convince others
how special and important you were.
How odd, a truly unique person has recently died
and no one is mourning the passing.
Just a mere few weeks..
And no "normal" person would cry all night
Over a tiny unfinished baby,
or get depressed and withdraw day after endless day.
No one would, so why am I??
You were just those few weeks, my little one.
You darted in and out of my life too quickly.
But it seems that's all the time you needed
to make my life richer
and to give me a small glimpse of eternity.
~S. Erling

TGIF!

Logan is off at school, Matt is off today so he is out taking care of some errands and I have some piece and quite while Ava naps right now! We have another busy weekend, we are having the kids pictures taken for Easter on Sunday and then Logan is going over to Matt's parents and we are going out to lunch with some friends of ours, one of the couple's has a little boy about a month older than Ava (They were both suppose to be September babies, but he was due early September but came at the end of August and of course Miss Ava didn't come until October) and we haven't gotten to meet him yet and they haven't met Ava yet so that should be fun. We get together with these two other couple's for SSAC (Super Supper Adventure Crew) where we try out different restaurants each time. The rules for our dinner's are one, it must not be a chain restaurant of any sort, and two we must not have gone there before. So we have been to some yummy interesting places and each couple takes a turn planning the dinner...fun stuff!

I have to run around this weekend getting the rest of the their Easter assembles ready for this weekend, Ava 's dress is so beautiful and I found a sweater vest set that matches for Logan so excited to get a good picture of them together, the Christmas one was hard because she was so little still, so this one should come out cute!

In other fun news our counter top cover things came in so Matt has a new project to do and he promises it's not going to take a month like when he put the dinning room floors in last year. Good bye gross powder blue early 90's crappy counter tops...I hate you so.

We are also starting the cart buying process...oh joy. I really want and need a new car, we have really out grown both of our cars, but I hate the buying process. We are getting a used car, well mini van to be exact, looking at few different kinds. I really wanted to get the Toyota but I am a little scared about that now even though the mini van hasn't been apart of the recall...yet. We have to get my car sold first which means I need to find the title which I haven't seen since we moved in...lot's to do but it will be nice to have a car with four freakin doors for the first time in my life!

Mom, I Am A Big Girl Now...

As much as I hate to admit it, Ava is really getting big. She can pretty much sit unassisted now, I keep her Boppy around her and make sure there is nothing she can fall onto in case she teeters over, but she sits up really well and she started doing in last month, she is at where Logan was closer to six months. She loves being able to sit up on her own and play with her toys and pick which ones she wants to play with out, just so awesome to watch her play her little personality just shinning through. I took a bunch of pictures today while she was sitting up playing, I'll get to those in a minute. In other big news, she FINALLY rolled over from her tummy to her back (she has been doing back to tummy for awhile now) so I feel better that when her ped asks me next month at her check-up I can say yes this time. Admittedly she didn't get a lot of tummy time at first, one because she hates it and two because if she is on floor Logan is always around and I don't trust him not to fall on her or some toy to land on her. Now that she is stronger she tolerates it a smidgen longer but still hates it, but she is rolling now so we can check that off in the baby book now!