Ava's Art

So, about a week ago Ava drew this picture- it's totally a fish- and that was what she was meaning to draw. I seriously thought that Blayne drew it, but Ava did it ALL by herself!! Isn't it AWESOME??!!

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Before Lydia was born we had a tie-dying party and this was one of the results. I think Blayne's mom did this one, I really like it a lot!
Blayne's had the week off (it's been AMAZING!!!) and we've been going on walks sometimes in the morning, the weather has been GREAT!!!

Blayne took Ava to her first movie- Toy Story 3- she loved it!! I'm sad I didn't get to be there, but she's been LOVING her daddy time!

We went to Funderland and Ava was actually pretty brave, she really surprised us.

OK, she LOVED this ride!!! She rode it like 4 times, then the next day she rode it again a couple times, and talked about it nonstop!

Sorry, but crying babies are pretty cute!

We had a little photo shoot. I wanted to do it on a day when I actually did my hair, but since that like NEVER happens, we got ponytail hair, ugh.

Ava got to ride a pony, of course she loved it. His name was Rocky and she kept petting him saying "Hi Rocky", and when we were done "Thank you Rocky!"

Lydia gets in these really smiley moods and we were trying to catch her in a smile. This one's alright, but she has a much prettier smile. Ya get the idea though. I gotta say, I think my girls are pretty cute!!

So we've had a GREAT week, Ava has loved having Blayne home to play with and I have really enjoyed the help, and having another adult around in the evenings, rather than sitting home by myself. We've been watching movies and of course, Big Brother- LOVE IT!! We've been able to get out and do something fun every day, usually kid oriented, so it's been really fun watching Ava. Oh and my brilliant husband is now officially a licensed CPA- YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad Dreams

So, sometimes Ava has bad dreams and wakes up crying, it always makes me SO sad and I always wonder what she is dreaming about that makes her so upset :( Well, the other day she woke up cryng "Mommy, mommy!!", then came into my room and said in a VERY sad little voice "Daddy ate all my mac n cheese!!" Hahahaha!!! It's good to know that that's what her nightmares are about and nothing worse!

Silly Ava

So we've been trying to have Family Home Evening on Sunday nights, since Blayne's schedule has been so crazy and he doesn't usually get home before Ava goes to bed, and last night we talked a little bit about baptizm. We were telling Ava that when she turns 8 she'll be able to be baptized. She got really excited and started saying that she was going to "Splash with Jesus!" Hahahaha!!! She's so funny!!

My Girls, and My Messy Apartment

This was Ava before church a couple weeks ago. I haven't been to church since I had Lydia, so I've had some time to get Ava ready in the mornings, too bad it doesn't always last until church.
Precious, Ava ALWAYS wants to hold Lydia, it's pretty sweet.

Ava constantly wants to go swimming, I'm not quite sure why because she's pretty scared of the water. Sometimes when she's in the right mood she'll be brave, but that's not very often.

I LOVE this little outfit that Auntie Hayley gave her, SO CUTE!!

What a goof.

So, a couple weeks ago, our apartment got pretty out of hand. Blayne decided to take some pictures while me and the girls went grocery shopping. Of course, it doesn't look much better on a daily basis. I straighten when I can, but it pretty much accumulates all week, and I try to get it done on the weekends, and my very helpful husband helps a TON!!

Just looking at this picture, Ava just said, "Ava Belle's mess on the floor." Hahahaha!!!

How much do you LOVE yawning babies, I LOVE them!!! So sweet!

Another outfit that I think is SO cute, from Blayne's Aunt Loretta!

Whenever Ava puts on her sunglasses we call her "Hollywood", she really likes it. I think she looks so adorable in her sunglasses- hahahaha!

Sweetness.

On the weekends Blayne plays video games while Ava takes her nap and sometimes she wakes up before he gets it put away and really wants to play. Check out her concentration face, hilarious!

Looking at these pictures Ava looks SO sweet, and she can be, but sometimes she lets the monster within out. Now is one of those times, she's been testing my patience a lot this week. She was doing so much better, and she's AMAZING on the weekends when Blayne's around. He probably thinks I'm making it up when she's a nightmare. Lydia isn't quite as mellow as we first thought she was going to be. Her cry has DEFINITELY gotten louder!! She's really fun though and she LOVES Ava!! Ava's a great big sister, when Lydia's crying she'll give her her pacifier, or yell that I need to help her or feed her. Whenever she drools or spits up she tells me that I need to get her a birp rag because she's a mess. Can I just tell you that Ava has been put in timeout atleast 3 times in the time that it took me to post this, ridiculous. She's going down for a nap right now- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bunches of Pics

Man, Ava seems SO big now. It's crazy!

Ava wearing grandpa's hat.

Ava and grandma making popsicles.

Ava's very proud of her work- they were delicious!

Lydia, just chillin'- she does a LOT of this. Until about 8:30 at night when she starts having a bit of a meltdown for a while, it's seriously been like every night, but I'll take it because she's SO good the rest of the day.

Lydia right after taking a bath- she doesn't hate baths nearly as much as Ava did, it makes it a lot easier.

Ava comes and lies next to her whenever I change her diaper and plays with her, it's pretty precious.

This is what happened when I brought out the play mat, Ava likes to play on it. Little goof ball.

Some more chillin'.

We tried to have a little photo shoot of our own, doesn't Lydia look comfy? Hahaha.

I just thought Ava looked really cute that day, plus she was in a really good mood, which made her that much cuter.

Ava's been really liking to test my patience, but she's getting a little better and learning that she's not going to get away with stuff. Lydia's been great- she slept for 2- 4hour spurts last night, it was great- although I think I was almost more tired from getting more sleep. She usually wakes up about every 2 hours at night to eat.

Oh, I got a lot of questions on what drugs I got that wore off- I had an epidural, they aren't sure why it stopped working, but it did and it sucked. I'd still get it again though- before it wore off it was a DREAM!!! I was SO happy not to feel those awful contractions!

I also feel the need to give my take on the Bachlorette- Ali LOVES Frank the most, I feel like she's practically said it several times and he's such an idiot that he's going to ruin it! I actually like all the guys that are left, I'd be pretty happy with any of them, but I gotta say her and Chris were REALLY cute last night.

Oh, and Big Brother- my favorite is Lane, I'm not sure why, I don't know if he's even said 2 words, but I like him. Most of the people kind of bug me, I hope they get better!

She's Here!!!!!

LYDIA KATE LOWARY!!

This is the onesie that Blayne tie-died for her- I think it's super cute, and who cares if it makes her look like a boy- hahaha! Can ya tell Blayne's a duck fan?

There we go, some pink socks to show she's a girl!

I'm lookin pretty hot- hahaha, yeah right!

Ava LOVES giving her kisses! She also says "Hey little guy" whenever we're holding her- it doesn't matter how many times we try to tell her she's a girl, she just says "no, it's a boy".

This is what it was like both times Ava came to the hospital, she just climbed all over me the whole time, I'll bet you can imagine how comfortable that was. It's ok though, that was the longest I had ever been away from her and I missed her like crazy!!! I almost cried the last day we were at the hospital waiting to be discharged because I missed her so much.

Ok, so here's the story. I was scheduled to be induced Friday morning (not because there was anything wrong, I just wanted to be). Blayne's parents got here Wednesday afternoon- thank goodness! That evening I started having regular contractions, they weren't horrible, but they were consistantly coming every 2 minutes, so I went to the hospital at about 7:30. Blayne left work and met us there. Well, on the way the contractions pretty much stopped, but we were already on the way so we went ahead and went. Needless to say, they sent me home at about 10:30, I was only dilated to about a 3 and after walking around the hospital for 45 minutes there was no change. I was SO embarassed I told Blayne that I was NOT going back until my induction. Well, I woke up at about 1:45 in the morning having REALLY bad contractions. I was trying SO hard to be silent since I wasn't sure it was the real thing and I didn't want to wake up Blayne since he had to work in the morning. After about 2 hours Blayne was awake (I wasn't totally successful at being silent- but considering the pain, I was still pretty quiet), so we went ahead and went. We were both worried that they were just going to send me home again, but when they checked at about 4ish- I was at a 6. So they moved me to my room and gave me the drugs- YAY!!!!! Man, I was HAPPY to have those!!! Well, until they wore off at the end, a little before it was time to start pushing- awesome- oh wait, that SUCKED!!!! I could feel EVERYTHING!!! After a couple pushes she was out at 8:53 Thursday morning- 7lbs. 4oz- 20 in. long. She is such an amazing baby!!! She just wants to sleep all the time- except for like an hour and a half at night when she gets a little fussy because all we want is for her to sleep, and she's not really interested. I thought it would be a LOT harder than this, I know I'm only a couple days in, but she's just great!!! Ava's been really good too, she loves her SO much!