Easter

We had a great Easter this year. I would say one of my favorites even!

We took Ava to the mall to meet the Easter bunny

Below is Ava at our neighborhood egg hunt.mshe had so much fun with her little friends.

Here is the new easel I nought her. She is obsessed with it. One side is a white board and the other is a blackboard. She loves to write her name all over and practice all her alphabet.

Another one at the egg hunt.

Here us Miss A and her friend Lily right before the Cedar Hills egg hunt. It was pure craziness and she was so overwhelmed by all the crazy parents that she didn't even grab any eggs, so I grabbed her a couple.

Below is her in her cute new Easter dress from her Grandma Wadley.

And this is her before the city hunt. All these pics are out of order for some reason.

This was on Easter Sunday after church we gave he all her Easter goodies. She got lots of toys and candy.

Her are our adventures at the city hunt.

Her and her BFF Emery.

Enjoying all her candy from the hunt.

Me and my fav girl at the mall on the merry go round the week before eastermwhen we met the bunny.

So we had so much fun this year. Lots of fun stuff. We hadn't yummy Easter dinner at my parents house on Easter Sunday will my brother And his fam and my sis and her fam. Ava's cousins even hid eggs for her to find. It's so crazy to think that next Easter I will have 2 kids..... Wow

Bye Bye Bunny

So we have had our little bunny for a bit over a month. And it was fun while it lasted but it was only meant to be temporary. So we finally said goodbye to bunny FooFoo on Monday night. It was last minute I found out the lady was stopping by to pick it up. Ava was taking a nap and she didn't want to wake up when the lady got here. So when Ava woke up later on and realized the bunny was gone she was really upset.... And asked me with tears streaming down hr face, "oh no bunny gone... Where did bunny go?" so I told her......

"the bunny went to go live with Snow White in the enchanted forest..."
Then we watched The part of the movie where Snow White is singing with the white bunnies. I told her, " see there that's our happy bunny with her friends." Ava seemed to accept this. It made total since I mean who wouldn't want to live with Snow white? Right??
Ava would want to that's for sure.
When daddy got home from work she had to explain to daddy where bunny went and told him not to be sad since the bunny loves Snow White.

Now I just need to come up with a good story to get rid of her binkys..... any thoughts???

Ultrasound pics

These are the pics they sent home with us after the Ultrasound on Thursday. Since the tech was having issues with their new equipment he gave us free 3D images of our baby. It was amazing. I have only had the 2D ones before with Ava and so I was seriously blown away with how detailed the 3D/4D images of our baby. I mean look how cute she is. It shows her features, her little nose (just like Ava's) her lips... everything. It makes me even more anxious for her to get here and meet her face to face. I love you baby Londyn!

We are having a.......

GIRL!!! I am beyond excited. I think everyone expected me to want a boy this time since I already have a girl but I honestly wanted a girl. I mean don't misunderstand I would have been happy to have one of each but I prefer to have to little girls. Having Ava has been a dream come true for me she is my living doll. I love everything about having a little girl and so I just wanted another one. I guess cuz I am a girl I just understand them better I would be so lost with a boy. On a side note I think this will be our last baby. Yes, yes I only want 2 kids. I realize I live in Utah and am somehow expected to want 5 kids at least but thats just not me. We will more than have out hands full with 2 little girls running around.... Ooooo I love the sound of that

Twoooo little girls!

Anyway the ultrasound was yesterday and Russell and Ava came with me so we would all find out the gender as a
Family. We were in there for over a hour... It was only suppose to be 30 minutes but they had this new equipment and the tech guy didn't know how to use it.

Ya the tech stressed me out. He kept thinking something was wrong or whatever but the other tech would be like no its just the angle. So i am so happy we have a perfectly heathy little baby girl brewing in my belly. Even tho the guy tech told us it was a boy at first. In his defense baby was in a weird position and he was just guessing based on that.

Our baby was so active the whole time flipping and moving the tech had the hardest time getting all the measurements. And the baby did not want us to she what she was. She had her foot between her legs and was hugging my placenta. The tech kept shaking my belly to get her to move. She hated that. Finally a different tech came in and baby must have known cuz she was so cooperative with the lady tech. She knew what she was doing and told us it was a girl and was 100% sure.

So it's a girl and..... We picked a name


Londyn (London)
We are still deciding on a middle name
But right now I love Juliet for a middle name so...

Londyn Juliet Child

But it's not for sure or the spelling of the first name we may spell it London. Who knows?? I still have 5 months to figure it out. Little baby kicks ALL the time! And likes American Idol haha. Ya whenever Russ and I are watching it baby kicks up a storm. Funny baby.

Can't wait to meet our new little munchkin!

Pregnant brain

There is something about being pregnant that makes me so forgetful. There is real science behind this widely accepted idea.. Not that I know anything more than that about it. I

Don't know if it was the same with my first pregnancy.. Haha I can't remember. But this time it is pretty bad. I forget everything... I couldn't remember my age when a girl at work asked me, I always forget what I a, looking for when I walk into a room and today I was getting gas and started to drive off while it was still hooked to my car pumping gas! Seriously?! Yes I am losing it.

I start pumping gas, get back in the car, sit there for a few minutes wonder why I am still sitting there, turn on my car and start pulling out of the stall...... Then I here a POP. And I realized oh wait I wasn't done.... So I back up to assess the damage. At first i thought my car was gonna blow up or the pump. I had no idea. But when I picked up the hose it was still at attached to the pump and the screen was reading"thank you for your purchase" so it obviously figured out I was done. I was so embarrassed hope no one noticed and drove off. At least nothing broke. I think I am gonna have my husband fill the car with gas from now on.... Or at least until I make it to the Land of Oz to get me a brain from the wizard...

Happy birthday Ava

I can't believe I now have a 3 yr old! She is growing up so fast and she is so smart and funny. She goes to preschool and can write her name and count to 10 and knows her alphabet! I am so proud of her.
For her 3rd birthday party I had a million ideas but being pregnant I didn't have the energy or motivation to carry out any of them. So we decided to do a little friend party at Kangaroo Zoo, agin indoor bounce house place. It turned out perfect and Ava had the time of hr life. And I didn't have to stress myself over the party this year and that was pretty good too.

The bunny...

We have a new little friend at our house... A little white fluffy bunny rabbit! His name is foo foo. We inherited this guy from my sis-in-law and her fan who just moved out of state. Ava is loving her new friend!

Baby blog

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Baby #2

So i am officially announcing that we are expecting baby #2 on July 26!!!

Today I am 14 weeks along. This pregnancy has been so much different than the first time. I basically knew I was pregnant from the first day.. I have just been so in tune with everything this time around I took the preg test when I was a out 2 weeks along which was mid November and have been so so sick for the past 12 weeks. I am just starting to feel better over the past couple days. It has been so hard to keep this big news to myself. Hah I just wanted to shout it from the rooftops. I have started a another blog to track this pregnancy and I will link it up to here if anyone wants to see it. I want to remember how I feel and all the little details and pics of the growing belly along the way so I will document all that stuff on my other blog, oh and we find out in 5 weeks what we are having.

We are so thrilled to be having another little baby.

Croup

It has been a rough week at our house. Poor little Ava has been so sick. Sunday night it started with a fever which continued most of the week. Monday she threw up 4x. I would ask her where she hurt and she would point in her mouth, so as I assumed she had a sore throat and maybe strep I took her to the dr. They tested and she didn't have strep or an ear infection. So I took her home and kept treating her fever with Ibuprofen. Tuesday night it hit. She lost her voice completely, she couldn't talk or cry, she just lay on the couch miserable. She wouldn't eat anything and would only drink apple juice. She had this horrible cough that sounded like a baby seal barking. I figured she just had bad cold and the sound was normal since she had lost her voice.
Wednesday it took a turn much worse. She was not herself her temp stayed around 101 to 104 depending on time of day and even meds only took in down a couple of degrees. She could say one minute she was really cold and the next pull at her clothes and tell me she was "so Hot". Wednesday night her breathing was so raspy and shallow. Between the barking coughs and raspy breathing it sounded horrible. She would wake up every little while trying to cry but couldn't since she had no voice. It was so bad around 1am we almost took her to the ER. Russell was afraid she was dying from lack of oxygen. I didn't understand why her cold was so bad and I frantically searched the Internet looking for answers. And I found exactly what I was looking for.

Little Miss Ava had Croup Cough. Every symptom plus the stridor breathing which is the risky part. We found some home remedies to help and we able to rock her back to sleep. The next morning I called her dr. They were very worried based on what I had told them. So I took her in to see them and they recommended Steroid injections to take the swelling and inflammation down in her throat. There are different ways to administer the steroids and I heard lots of horror stories about the pros and cons of each. Her pediatrician recommend the oral method. Which is medicine I give her in a dropper 2x a day for 4 days. They said she would be feeling much better after the first dose and even better after the 2nd.

So last night we gave her the first dose and hoped for the best. At this point she still had a fever which she had had for 5 days straight, she had eaten nothing and only drank apple juice during that time. I was told the 3rd night of croup was the most dangerous. And last night was the 3rd night. She went to sleep very sick and coughing but I noticed around midnight that her fever finally broke and her breathing steadied, she didn't cough or cry and slept very peacefully. This morning when she woke up her voice had mostly returned, she no longer has a fever and even ate a little breakfast, not much but more than she had. She was playing with her toys and being herself again. She is still sick but she is a thousand time better than she was. That medicine is a miracle in a bottle.

It was so hard to see my sweet little girl so sick all week. She was so so sweet, soo sick but still so calm and would say please and try to smile at me as I would pull her blanket over her. I would look at her and just cry.. cry because I couldn't fix her.. I couldn't help her, it broke my heart. The worst pain a parent feels it the pain they feel for their children. Ava would give me a weak smile not understanding why I was upset. I love her so much more than I can explain or describe. She has become the world to Russell and I and there is nothing we wouldn't do for her. Russell has been amazing this week. He would rock her to sleep every night, just like he did when she was a baby. Ava loves to be comforted by her daddy and that was very calming for her while she was at her worst this week. She is such a sweet little angel and we are so blessed to have her in our lives. She shows us everyday what this life is truely all about and that family and love is above all what really matters. During this Christmas season I have so much to be grateful for and the greatest gift that we were given is our sweet baby girl. I can't wait to have more little babies and for our little family to grow in size and love :)