Busy, Busy, Oh So Busy !

I feel like Lilas due date is fast approaching and Avas "ONLY CHILD" lifestyle is going to be gone before we know it. Ive been making up for it in taking her places almost EVERY day.
Last week consisted of a Pull Up Party Dance at the Mall Of America where she dressed up with Boas, bibbity boppity booed Addison with a star wand, and of course Shook her GROOVE thing to the band that was playing.  This will FOREVER be known as Ava's first concert. Apparently the guy that sings the potty dance song is a real touring artist.. who would have thunk it?!?!  She was so funny doing her dancing and clapping.  It took her a bit to get in to it but once she was going she was hard core ;)

We hit up the Childrens Museum.. which is ALWAYS a hit. Im SO happy that I purchased the yearly pass. I found a great steal on it on savvy source I believe last September?  I think it was 50 bucks.. well when you pay almost 10 bucks a person per time it QUICKLY paid off.. I am SO purchasing another one regular full price or my favorite more then half off when I need to renew it.

Aves played in the Lego room with the big blocks and found a new friend that was her same age. It was sooo cute to see her play with someone her exact age.  We went to the "craft" room not sure if that's what its really called but they always have crafts going on.. it was cut and paste this week.. she didn't cut anything but I did load up her paper with a bunch of glue and they had tons of stuff pre cut of different textures that she made a collage with.  She also did her favorite, easel painting.

Cut and Paste

Then we ventured to the gears and water table, ALWAYS a hit. Followed by a quick stop on the "city bus" and the grocery store. And we even sat through storytime until I couldn't sit on the floor anymore, and she made a mad dash to the fire pit room, not sure what room this is but that's what I am calling it this month because the fake fire smells like a real fire!

 I think this was decorating a corn stalk?!?!

Tony finished up a really awesome shelf in the garage to hold all of our garage items. It was supposed to be warmer then what it was this last weekend so we were a bit disappointed when it really didn't get above 20. Which made the project that longer then expected.

23 feet of already used up AMAZING storage!

Ava and I did some returning of items and scoped out some fish and pets and a pet store near Rosedale, and used our GREAT 25 dollar of 50 dollar coupon text code from the gap.  I love their toddler jeans and when you are paying 10 dollars for a pair AND you get to use them through 2 kids you feel better about it! HAHAHAH

Today we had Avas "little" girlfriends over , the ones that are younger then her, for lunch.  Ava plays REALLY well with most age groups and its interesting to see how giving she is to others.  She seems to adapt really well to older and younger kids, at this point.
She shared her baby snow white then quickly realized later she didn't want to share it any more. She liked giving the girls Mister Potato heads to play with and they all did really well giving and taking.
Ava was chasing Greta and vice versa around the kitchen island it was SO cute. Greta would crawl away and Ava would crawl after her or she would run depending which mode of transportation she chose at that time.  We made a light lunch of salad and lasagna :D mmmmmmm Lasagna! And just had playdate/mom talk.

Oooh I also forgot we did some threading of breakfast cereal and finger painting with shaving cream.  The cereal didn't last long, she figured out she could eat it. We only got 4 circles in :D

Snack time?!?!?

29 weeks and my birthday!

WOWZERS! Some how I got behind. Between work and then my husbands unplanned WHOLE birthday WEEK I just got swamped.
Last Friday Lila turned 29 weeks in my belly ;)
Shes pretty crazy in there... Much more then I remember Ava being
::Im scared already::  Ha! But in a good way. Promise.
Of course I got stuck in Las Vegas for an extra day, and DIDN'T get any In N Out. How horrible is THAT?!?!
Tony cleaned the house from top to bottom, which is nice to come home to since I did the same before I left. However it just gets trashed the next day with toys, sippy cups and snacks. Ehh whatever.
So Monday was shot.
The week consisted of a pedicure and a gyro, my Clarisonic facial brush landing on my door step, daily family outings, My mom and sister in town and getting to do baby shopping with them, not for me, for her, and my friend Cyndi surprising me with some flowers, yaaaaa flowers since my other ones were slowly dying anyways, some homemade maple syrup (I think her dad? made it), the clarisonic facial wash ANNNNNNND a Blizzard... what?!?!? THANKS SO MUCH. It was crazy I totally wasn't expecting it. The whole week was great!

Saturday after the girls afternoon out, Tony and Ava purchased some crafting supplies and we made family bracelets or necklaces.
Ava made her own necklace.. she got to choose her beads in any order, I put them on the string since it was kind of tedious and her chubber little fingers probably couldn't get in there anyways HA!

3 of my favorite people

Tony looooves family crafts!  He smiled the WHOLE time
there was a ton of laughter by all!!

Everyone crafting and laughing at me...  Im glad Tony loves my family
as much as I do

Ava took a quick color break

More bead picking

Putting on her necklace for the first time Hahahah

LOOK MOM!

Showing dad

Mine is the TCAL one hahah Avas is well the ava necklace..
and Tonys is the one with all our names. He wears it daily ;)

So needless to say it was a fun time! Lots of laughter, mostly them laughing at me ;) but it was all in good times!

Tomorrow I have my 3 ( really its 4-5 hour) hour glucose test, where I will sit in a chair as they pretty much give me syrup to drink hourly with a blood draw hourly. So I have to fast tonight ::BAH HUMBUG: I hope I don't get the fat girl no food shakes tomorrow after all the sugar drink like I did last time. HA! I almost passed out in the cafeteria.

I guess I will work on recurrent and some magazines I have piling up.

Weekend Recap. (I guess thats what we will call this)

I went to work on Thursday with little to no drama getting to New York, I LOOOOOVE little to no drama commuting!
2 PHX and a fake 3 day with a layover in Boston!  Almost NO drama.
Of course it HAD to be drama filled on MY last leg. I say my last leg because I was getting off in Las Vegas as the 2 guys I was working with continued back to JFK. That morning BOS got some snow. My favorite pilot EVER (I say ever because I have known him for about 13 years now I worked with him at RIA before B6) reassured me everything would be cleared up that evening AND IT WAS (again he IS my favorite) of course the flight was a titch late probably due to routing or something, I have no idea I was eating a burrito. The winds were bad, as they had been all week going west bound, and our Capt for the night told us to prepare for a possible landing in DEN. Ummm really?!?!  If you cant make it from BOS to LAS without a stop (stopping for extra gas) then you probably shouldnt be a captain... just sayin'  However we ended up making it without an extra stop! YAH!!!!
But the push back was far from eventless... apparently there were some words exchanged in the middle of the safety demo with a co-worker/friend and these two DBs NEEDED to get off.. and after I heard what was said and what he was called... there was NO doubt these two got off.. Of course you never know how that will go so when in the middle of the demo he called to prepare for arrival I was kinda annoyed (I was trying to catch a flight and all) but it went off without a hitch and like I said after I found out what happend I was happy they got off.
Of course I missed the 1155pm from LAS to MSP on Suncountry and got bumped from the 1am from LAS to MSP on Delta. Only to be sad and tired in the airport and be picked up by a family friend who brought me to my moms house for a quick nap and refresh and she also dropped me off at the airport in the morning to try and catch other flights (THANKS BONNIE! ) I ended up catching a 10 am but by the time you get home and settled its way passed 4 pm due to the time change and Ive lost the whole day.
- So that was my uneventful, for the most, part weekend-

Friday, Tony was incharge of bringing Ava to her 18 month check up.. She's still a nugget for height at 30.5 inches and 25 lbs for weight. Dr Mark is not concerned with her ANYTHINGs because she follows her "line" as she should. Her vocabulary is good and right at par with her age group as well as skills. If shes not at par shes above in skills, either way she is a healthy toddler :D

Smiley Ava at 18 months

My mom came over today for a hair cut and to visit Ava, and to see me :)  She agreed I finally looked pregnant which Tony summed up with its only just come to finally looking pregnant about 3 weeks ago... I agreed.  Tony went back to bed after Ava had an early awakening 5:15am :/ and I resentfully stayed up.. Honestly after only 8 hours of sleep in 2 nights I think I deserved to be a bit annoyed. (He did say he would stay up but I figured he needed a break after his weekend "alone")
So I was so happy that grandma wanted to visit. We went to walmart, to get a potty teaching chair for Ava and look for a baby doll for the bath. Well between Grams and Ava... they had about 25 MINI babies in the cart and all these random balls. Ava made out like a bandit, I wont lie, and I said NO, to tons of other stuff she wanted to spoil her with, but it was SO much fun.

Packing the cart with babies. There was about 25 mini babies in the cart prior to this picture

Balls Balls Balls... we got the Green ball for St Patricks day

Bathtime Baby

Other things on our agenda this week range from amazing things like sewing new velcro on our diapers, to Auntie Kate coming to visit and a possible Home and Garden show outting ( I decided I wanted to go) and hopefully SUSHI  in Minneapolis, kid free ::crosses fingers::

Oooh and I got the cutest flowers from Tony for birthday week!

Yep I still havent decorated my shelves... UGH!