Spring Is That You?

We had weather in the low 60's today, felt like a heat wave! Of course I had to take the kiddo's outside to enjoy what I am sure is just a big spring tease. We played outside and went to the park, Logan was very excited to see the park again and Ava enjoyed her first stroller ride out of her infant seat. Hope we get some more days like this soon!

As Promised...

Finally got a picture of Ava's pearly whites, it's way blurry but there is no mistaken those little white teeth. I am sure more are on the way, she is a drooly, chewing mess!

She thought this was hilarious by the way.

Happy 5 Months Ava!

Yep my baby girl is five months old today, it hardly sees possible. She is getting so big and really starting show us her personality, which is full of sass by the way. If she gets mad, like say you walk away from her god forbid she will let out this scream that could be mistaken for a 13 year old girl throwing a hissy fit...ah girls I have a feeling we are in for a whole new ball game with this one. She also has the prettiest smile you ever seen and loves loves her brother, she watches him like a hawk and just sequels in delight when Logan "plays" with her. People are starting to tell me that she looks like me, which I love. I figured I was doomed not to have any of my kids looked like me, but she seems to be changing and looking more like her mama. I just love her to pieces, I don't know what I did to deserve my two beautiful healthy children, but I thank God for them everyday. We Wii weighed Ava tonight (unfortunately this is all the Wii Fit has been getting used for as of late) and she came in at 18lbs and we measured her as well and she is 26 1/2 inches, so she has grown a little length wise since her four month check up. Here is my big beautiful 5 month old!

I Heart My Crock Pot...

While pregnant with Ava I began my love affair with my crock pot, trying recipe's her and there and then after having Ava and wanting to make it up to hubby for all the cooking he did while I was preggo I started making yummy dinners more often in the crock pot (I am not a big cooking person, but I am getting better in my old age) I so love putting all this stuff in, in the morning and then having a yummy dinner waiting at the end of the day. Today we tried a new recipe I found on Food networks site, it actually calls to marinade the pork and cook in the oven, but I wanted to use the crock pot, so I ended up doubling the marinade recipe so there would be more for the pork to cook in all day and cooked in on low for 8 hours. Matt didn't think it would turn out right, but man he was wrong, it was soooooooooo good. A perfect Sunday meal. Here is the link to the original recipe, but I recommend the crock pot it was de-lish!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/barbecue-pork-roast-recipe2/index.html

Here are some pics of my yummy dinner!

Here it is just starting out

And all done!

Crap-tacular Saturday

Ugg today sucked. Matt had to go into work again this Saturday so he could lead stupid tours of the library which means I get to get the kids ready to go by myself yet again. Ava was high maintenance all morning I had to let her cry it out eventually so I could get stuff ready to go. Matt gets home we get the car packed up to head out to my Mom's for bowling and dinner get all the way out to flippin Dundee and Logan pukes up apple in the car just as we get off the express way. Great. So we drop off my Mom's birthday presents and head home because we don't know if he is sick or if he got car sick because he was playing with the Ipod touch all the way out in the car and we don't want to get them sick because they are leaving on vacation next week. He sleeps all the way home, but Ava is upset because now she is hungry. Eventually she falls asleep to and so does Matt, this will be my only peace and quite all day I am sure. We wasted so much gas today it isn't funny by the way. So we get home and other than being crabby (we didn't' get home until 11 last night from Elgin so he was going to be crabby either way I am sure) and having really smelly toots, Logan is fine. Great. So now Matt and I are in bad moods, Logan wants to eat Cheetos and every other crappy food we have in the house, but doesn't understand we need to take it easy on his tummy and Ava little Miss Sassy pants wants constant attention which at this point I have no energy to give. I locked myself up in our room to pump some milk since she still only nurses when she wants to which means I have to pump the rest and make up what I am down in formula...good times. AHHHHH Mommy needs a drink and make it a double!

Another Busy Weekend

The birthday celebrations continue as I mentioned before this time a year is crazy with family birthdays. Tonight we are headed out to Matt's older brother's birthday get together. Logan is excited to see his cousin Justin and play with their doggies. Tomorrow we are going out bowling and then out to pizza for my Mom's birthday. Logan is very excited to get to go bowling, he thinks he is a pro since he can get a Turkey no problem on Wii bowling. So a lot of running around this weekend next weekend Matt has to work so we will be able to hang around which will be nice!

My hip is killing me today, I am now only doing PT once a week so we can spread out my visits since insurance will only pay for a $1,000 a year. She my pt added to my home program and then she will kind of evaluate and change things as needed when I see her once a week. She did heat and ice therapy on it on Wednesday which felt great, but man I was hurting once I was home. I really hope this pt helps me some, otherwise I am going to have to go to the doctor and have an MRI or something done, but living in pain is getting old.

Ava Vs. Solids

We gave Ava her first solids tonight, she looks so pitiful every time she sees us eat and given her fast growth rate her ped said we could start her earlier if she needed it. We gave her oatmeal with some breast milk mixed in and she seemed to enjoy the whole process, although she pushed a lot of it out with her tough, but she will get the hang of it fast I am sure, she loves to eat this one! Here are some pics (I totally forgot to put a bib on her, you would think I've never done this before)