What Happens When You Walk Into A Table...

Our first park injury of the year. He's a trooper though.

A Nice Little Saturday...

At the Home Depot (ever see Old School, then you might get why that's funny). So we head to the Bob the Builder store as Logan calls it, to pick out our new front door and storm door we are having put in, and they are having a big old sale and of course as soon as we walk in they are handing out Tootsie Rolls and some how Logan ends up with three...

Sugared up child at Home Depot...wonderful. We got our doors picked out which Logan thought was a lot of fun. Then headed to the paint center so I could get some touch up paint for our hallway and living room, Logan again had fun looking at the Micky Mouse paint samples and found a little paint booklet with Lighting McQueen in it so that kept him busy for a bit.

We headed over the garden center next and got some mulch and some timber to use as edging and picked out some brick for our back garden. We probably won't get flowers until next month, but we are trying to get some of the landscaping done now at least. We are also working cutting down a tree back where we put the pool so we can get more sun back there. I am also hinting at my wonderful husband to get on the ball and build a deck this year, fingers crossed!

All in all a nice little Saturday with the family.

Back To School!

Logan went back to school today after having two weeks off for spring break and then Good Friday and I don't know who was more excited Logan or me LOL!

After I dropped Logan off at school, Ava and I went to do some errands which ended up taking a lot longer than planned. First I had to go get a license plate sticker...easy right? No never, I swear every year it's something when I try and go get my sticker. Ever since we moved I have not gotten a renewal notice for my plate sticker, so of course I forgot about it and it expired last month, luckily I wasn't too late and didn't have to pay a late fee. So I get Ava out of the car go into to my sticker and nope sorry you have to get an emissions test first. Great. I also haven't gotten emissions notifications since we have moved. Three years ago the same thing happened to me and of course my car failed, and $800 later I finally passed and got my sticker. Well now I am freaking out, I am selling my car next month for crying out loud and will not put anymore money into my car (its 12 years old and we have outgrown it). So I pack Ava back into the car head over the the next town to the place for the emissions test, actually only had one person ahead of me (that was a first) and thank God my stupid car passed this time. Then we hike back over to get the sticker, first stopping and going into the post office to mail some stuff (and of course all the old ladies want to touch my baby ahhhh!) Get back to the sticker place get Ava out again finally get my sticker. I really hate cars sometimes, they always cause me so much annoyance.

Since I had my car I wanted to go get our new chairs for our breakfast bar in the kitchen. I go out to the Target father from where I was because I knew they had them in stock and of course they only had one and the wood was all chipped up. It was getting late and I still needed to get some cleaning done and have some lunch so I head home, stopped at Wendy's because they have this new burger with blue cheese and bacon, so. good.

Got home fed and Ava and then myself, cleaned the floors and then it was time to get Logan already. Loads of fun today let me tell you. TGIF

Happy 6 Months Ava!!!

Wow, I can not believe that she is six months, half a year, half way to 1, already. This time 6 months ago we were in recovery snuggling with our fresh out of the oven baby girl. It really does go so much faster with your second. What an incredible six months we have had with her, she is truly a joy and the perfect addition to our family. I am very excited to see what the next six months brings us, but I know next time I turn around she is going to be a year old.

Here is our BIG 6 month old who is now 18 lbs 4 oz (she was 8 lbs 4.5 oz at birth so she has gained 10 lbs!) and is 28 inches!

(and reason 426 that I love my new sink, we can bathe Ava in it and not mess with that whale tub thing anymore! She LOVED taking a bath in the new sink)

Hungry Hungry Hippos

We ran to Target to night to grab some baby food for Ava while it was on sale and of course since we all went, we had to hit the toy aisle for both my 3 year old and my 27 year old husband. Logan decided to convert his Easter egg hunt winnings (the kid ended up with $15 from Easter egg hunts!) into Hungry Hungry Hippos...

He was very excited about said game, and after he promised me he wouldn't eat the marbles or leave them where Ava could come upon them he happily tossed it into our cart along with a new matchbox car (like we need another one of those). He opened it the second we got home and after Daddy put it together (it looks very different than the version from our day) they were off gobbling up white marbles. Of course there is the cute pink hippo, which is one of Ava's nicknames (hey the kid likes to eat) I can't just see her slapping the pink hippo one day playing with her big brother.

I scored some cute dresses for spring/summer for Ava along with some cute leggings that were on clearance for her to wear with her onesies, and some cute shoes for the summer for her.

Logan protested going to bed because he wanted to play his game, we promised he could play first thing in the morning. Something tells me I am going to hear the slapping of the hippos around 6:30am...

Owww!

Not a great night on the ice for me tonight, very painful. My feet are killing me now that the weather is warming up and my feet swell a bit. My freestyle skates are a size to small from when I had Logan and of course my nice new synchro skates that barely got used are the right size but I can't jump in them (different boot, different blade for synchro) I think I might try and sell them and start a new skates fund, I really need freestyle skates and if I ever get back into synchro I can always just dye my freestyle boot (typically synchro teams use beige boots and freestyle boots are white) So anyway my feet were killing me, I bit it big time on a dumb spin and landed full force on my bad hip, which to that point was doing pretty good. After that my ice time went down hill, it hurt to much to do bigger jumps so I just worked on foot work and moves for the remainder of the time and luckily I didn't have a lesson also tonight that would not have gone good. I have a feeling I am going to be very sore the next couple of days.

Anyway hubby brought home New Moon for me to watch and he also brought me a bottle of my favorite wine so I am going to have a glass so it can be out of my system in time for my bedtime pumping session. Cheers!

Holy Hail!!

Man we just had a really bad thunderstorm that turned into a scary hail storm. I have never seen a hail storm like this before. I thought the roof of the house was going to collapse, or windows were going to start breaking. It was pea to grape size hail and it looks like it snowed out now. The bulk of it came down in about 2 minutes and of course woke Ava up, I don't know how Logan is still sleeping but he is thankfully. That was crazy.