Mother's Day Weekend

38.5 weeks pregnant

Andrew playing golf outside!

Lunch at Porta Terra at the downtown Hilton

5.9.2010
We had a busy, but fun Mother's Day weekend. It started Friday morning when Nate told me that he was going to take the morning off and take us to OMSI. We had never taken Andrew and thought that would be fun to do. I don't have my camera with the pictures from the day, I'm hoping to get that back tomorrow and will post some of the cute pictures we took of Andrew.

Saturday morning we spent running errands and then headed to Woodburn to visit Nate's grandparents. We had a nice lunch with the Bailey family. They live on a golf course and Andrew had tons of fun running around and chasing the squirrels. We headed home for naptime and then spent the evening at Bridgeport-dinner at CPK, shopping, and of course gelato! It was a beautiful sunny evening and we were even able to have dinner outside.

Sunday was a busy day! We had church in the morning and then had lunch with my family downtown. I decided since it was so beautiful outside that I would take the opportunity to run some errands during the afternoon while Andrew napped. I also thought it would be a fun to just spend some time with my mom. So we headed to Bridgeport to make some returns. Bad idea- I was exhausted and could barely handle being out for an hour. We cut our shopping short and I headed home to relax. Andrew was up so there wasn't really anytime for relaxing, but I did enjoy sitting outside watching him and Daddy play soccer and golf. That night we met up with my in-laws and had pizza. Andrew loved playing all the video games at the pizza place. He sat with us for about 10 minutes to eat and then was back at it....he loves video games, just like his Daddy!

All in all it was a fun weekend, but definitely exhausting. Hoping to get a little rest this week before Ava makes her big arrival on Friday! Thanks to the best mom who is willing to come to my house everyday this week to help me clean my house and organize before Ava arrives, oh yeah, and make me dinner :) I am so blessed to have her living so close to me and always willing to help me with anything and check up on me to make sure I'm doing okay. I will say it is a lot harder chasing around an active toddler while being pregnant. Thank you mom for all that you do for me....I love you!

38 weeks

I had my last doctor appointment today. I am still at 3cm dilated, positioning is now at -1 (it was at -3 last week) and I am not effaced which is something the doctor is not worried about. He said that a lot of times with your second pregnancy you don't become effaced until you are 6 or 7 cm dilated. He said my cervix looks great and everything should go smoothly for my induction that is scheduled for next Friday morning at 7am (the 14th). Please make sure and say a prayer for me that day. I seem to be more nervous this time around than I was with Andrew. My doctor said it's because I know what to expect out of delivery. I am very excited to meet Ava, hold her, kiss her, see what she looks like, and become a family of 4, but I am very nervous about the actual delivery and recovery. Andrew's delivery was rough...pushing for almost 3 hours and recovery was even harder. My doctor thinks this time will be better, so I am praying that it is. Can't believe that in 8 days we will be a family of 4!

Dance Party

On our way to Gymboree class last Wednesday the new Justin Timberlake and Timbaland song came on so Andrew and I had a dance party in the car. He cracks me up!

4.28.2010-Andrew 2.5 years old

Itsy bitsy spider

5.1.2010-Andrew 2.5 years old

While waiting for Daddy to return something at Home Depot, Andrew and I had fun singing songs in the car. Here's him singing Itsy Bitsy Spider with help from Mommy.

Photo shoot

Nate took some pregnancy pics of me today with Andrew. 37.5 weeks. Only 1.5 weeks left...or less!

I know this is kind of blurry of Andrew, but I love that he is laughing and touching my belly.

Ava's Nursery

The nursery is finally complete. I still have a little moving around of things on the shelf and of course pictures to add into the frames when Ava arrives. I LOVE it! Thank you to the best husband for hanging all of the artwork and painting the room. Thank you Dad for helping Nathan with the painting and closet. So excited to meet Ava in less than 2 weeks! I also got her bassinet the other day and will take some pictures and post them. I picked out the fabric and then had a family friend make the bedding....it looks adorable and so girly!

My sister made these....aren't they amazing! She is so talented!

Sorry for the weird shadows, I took these pictures at night without good lighting.

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street!

Tonight we took Andrew to Sesame Street Live. He LOVED it! He was so excited to see Elmo and Cookie Monster. The funny thing is, he doesn't even watch Sesame Street at home, but he has lots of Elmo books and loves to read them. Such a fun family activity and Nathan and I both loved watching Andrew's excitement through out the whole night.

So excited!

We bought cotton candy thinking Andrew would like it. He didn't. We tried several times to get him to try it and when he did, he just wanted to spit it out. Funny little guy....he's so picky!

There were tons of kids dancing in the aisle ways during the show. Once Andrew saw this he decided he should go dance too. He did it for about 2 seconds then came back to his seat. Unfortunately this is the only shot I got of him dancing around in circles. The rest of the night he kept looking over at the kids dancing- looking at them as if they were so out of line for being out of their seats....it was pretty funny!

5.1.2010-Andrew 2.5 years old