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

37 week update

I had my 37 week doctor appointment today. My doctor said that everything looks great! Ava's heartbeat is strong and I'm already dilated to 3cm! Last week I was at 1cm. Her positioning is at -3....still needs to get to 0 and my cervix is thinning. It seems like I'm progressing a lot quicker with Ava than I did with Andrew. We scheduled an induction for May 14th. Hoping that's her birth date but she might come sooner, you never know! My doctor thinks she is probably around 6 lbs now and will probably gain about another pound, but they thought Andrew was around 7lbs and he was born 8.6lbs! So I'm hoping she is not that big, that is why I'm being induced. Hoping to take some cute prego pics with Andrew this weekend and I will try to post those. I am definitely getting bigger and I have dropped!

Attempts at being crafty

I've been making attempts to be more crafty these days. I have a sister who is extremely crafty and several friends who are too. So here is my attempt....

I made clocks for the kid's rooms.

And fabric headbands for Ava. The pink and white to the left is for Ava, the other 2 I made for a friend who is having a baby girl 2 weeks after me.

I still have my eyes on making this for Ava's room, but I will need some help from Nate to make the actual box.

36 weeks

Today we had my 36 week appointment. Andrew went with us this time because both sets of parents are out of town so we didn't have a babysitter. He did pretty good. He really enjoyed sitting on the doctor's chair that swiveled. Of course we put "Cars" on for him to watch and keep him distracted. He kept asking what we were doing there and we told him we were there to check on baby Ava. When he heard the heartbeat he wanted to know what it was and he had a huge smile on his face....it was pretty cute. He was very excited about it! No new news. I'm still 1cm dilated and my cervix looks favorable. Hoping that I can keep her in there for at least another week until all of my family returns home from their vacations. My doctor doesn't think she'll be here this week, so that's good. But by next week, I'm hoping I make a little more progress!

Nap time conversations

Andrew is having a hard time with his nap today. Not sure why that is. He started crying an hour after I laid him down and he's been up every since. He kept telling me that he had to go to the bathroom, so we'd go and then nothing. I'd lay him back down and about 20 minutes later we'd start the process again. About the 3rd time going into his room, this was our conversation:

Me: Andrew, what's wrong?

Andrew: I want rock (his rocking chair this is now in his sister's room)

Me: Rock is in sister's room, mommy can rock you on your bed

Andrew: I want it (points to his chair in his room) downstairs

Me: That's your big boy chair and it stays in your room. We can go rock in sister's room for a minute and then come back to bed.

After rocking for a few minutes....

Andrew: I want big bed.

Me: Okay (we head into his room)

Andrew: I want Ava to be here.

Me: Ava will be here in a few weeks.

Andrew: Okay

L.O.V.E. him and his sweet conversations.

A day at the beach....

Checking out the sea lions.

Riding the turtle. He kept saying that he was scared and that it was too big!

What he did most of the time at the beach, drag his bucket of sand toys everywhere!

Andrew and Daddy flying the kite.

Building sand castles.

4.18.10-Andrew 2.5 years old

Today was beautiful so we headed to Newport to check out the aquarium. This was on my to do list with the family before Ava arrives so I was so excited that we had a chance to go today. The aquarium was fun, but a little less than what I expected. We were only there for about an hour because it was pretty small, but Andrew still had a blast. All day yesterday he kept telling everyone that he was going to go see sea lions, so he was pretty excited when he actually got to see them. He also really liked the sharks which I have to say was probably the highlight of the aquarium. He did keep asking to see Nemo and I felt so bad because there was no Nemo exhibit...oh well, we still got to see huge crabs, otters, starfish, and lots of other fish. After the aquarium we headed to Nye beach to eat at the Chowder Bowl. Growing up my family went to Newport every year and we always ate at the Chowder Bowl. I kept telling Nate that it is way better than Mo's and once he tasted the chowder, he completely agreed! We had a great lunch and then headed down to the beach. Andrew had so much fun playing in the sand and pulling his bucket and sand toys all over the place. Nate bought a Buzz Lightyear kite for Andrew but I think he enjoyed it more than Andrew did. Andrew wanted to fly it for a few minutes and then he wanted to go back to playing in the sand. We had such a fun family day together.

35 weeks and counting!

Last Thursday I had my 35 week doctor appointment. He says everything looks great. Her heartbeat is strong, her head is down, I'm already dilated to 1cm and my cervix looks favorable. There is a very good chance that I will be induced at week 39 or that she might come earlier. We'll see. If you are easily grossed out, you might not want to read this.....but my doctor swept my membranes at this appointment and I'm guessing he will continue to do this until she is born. This will help make my cervix more favorable for labor and in some cases can cause people to go into labor. I'm starting to have a lot of cramping/contractions because of it and I'm starting to feel very uncomfortable. My doctor says that the contractions/cramping is normal and nothing to be concerned about. I am really hoping that she waits a bit longer to arrive though. Both my parents and in-laws are going out of town this week....so Ava needs to wait at least a week and a half to arrive. Plus, I still haven't finished her nursery! We hung a few things on the walls this weekend, but I am being very indecisive. I'm hoping to have her room completed by next weekend though!

4.18.2010- 35.5 weeks pregnant with Ava