That Funny Honey of Mine

This morning Scott left me this little suprise in the shower...
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We keep these letters and numbers in the shower because Aden and I love to play with them. We take showers together in the evenings...call me crazy but it is the best time we get to spend together all day. Scott keeps Ava and me and my boy play in there for the longest time. It's my favorite thing to do with him :) Does anyone else do this with their toddler?? Maybe I'm just weird!

A Good Morning

Right now it's almost 8:30am and Scott and Ava are sleeping in (why she won't sleep in for me-I"ll never know). Aden is awake and happy so I decided to make my family fresh banana muffins with strussel topping (from scratch OF COURSE!) YUMMY! I love to bake. I can't wait for fall to come around again so that we can go apple picking and then come home and I will turn the apples into delicious apple pie! Seriously, how great are September, October and November?? The weather is perfect and it's APPLE PICKING season!!!!!!!!! I can not tell you all how much I love that. The coffee is hot, the muffins are hot...WAKE UP SCOTT!

Anyway, Ava had her 4 month check up last week and she is getting sooo big! I can't believe that she used to be such a little squirt and now she is in the 70 percentile for weight-holy cow! She is 14 lbs and 10 oz. 24 inches long...that's the 39th percentile-she's catching up. Most of her clothes are still 0-3 months but we are slowly getting into 3-6 months.

My brother Jeffrey and his beautiful fiance Noelle are getting married this coming Saturday! I am the Maid of Honor-I feel special. We'll all be at the Mission Inn in Riverside-the most beautiful place to get married EVER. Scott and I were married there as well. We have a room there for the night of the wedding so it should be great. Aden has this outfit with a vest and tie-he looks incredibly handsome but he HATES it LOL I put it on him and he was throwing the biggest fit :) Ava has am amazing ivory, silk dress to wear-it is tiny up top with little sleeves and itty bitty purple flowers and then it just POOFS out at the bottom-just like a princess dress should be :)



Today Scott and I are going out to lunch-it's been awhile since we've had some time alone so I'm super excited. OOOOHHHHHHH This is random but I must share-I bought Aden the coolest pots and pans set! He loves to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking and I don't want to discourage him but it drives me crazy! I found this great set that is very realistic and comes with lots of cool utensils-he carries around the spoon and big pot everywhere. SOOOOO...now we cook together. He likes it when I put raisins in his pot-he stirs them around and then gobbles them up. Too cute!

So sleepy after a day of playing at home



Can you believe the beautiful lips on this little girl?!

No Fair

WELL...I've lost all of my baby weight (and a pound or two more)...so why don't all of my clothes fit yet? Ugg. Whatever.

A Big Day For Ava

Today AVA discovered that she can hold her head up! She just woke up and realized that it was fun and exciting! Here is the first picture I was able to get of it...

Here she is pushing up on her arms a little bit



"OK Mommy, no more pictures!"



Just when I thought she was done for the day--

SHE ROLLED FROM HER TUMMY TO HER BACK!!!!!!!
Needless to say I am the proudest Mommy around :)
I was getting seriously worried that we might have some sort of developmental delay since she literally WOULD NOT lift her head off of the ground. Thank you AVA, you made Mommy and Daddy sooooooo happy!

SCGA

RIGHT NOW my amazingly talented hubby is WINNING the Southern California Golf Association Mid-Amateur golf championship. He's won this one once before, and has won the SCGA Amateur 3 times. He is sooooo cool! I so wish that I could be walking along the golf course-cheering him on but alas-someone has to watch the children! We have one of Scott's friends staying with us during the tournament and he is tied for 4Th place right now! Golf is seriously boring-UNLESS your love is playing and THEN is is seriously fun :)

SO both of my babies are alseep right now-this is very rare. Of course, I am at my Mom's house and not at my own so I can't get anything done during these quiet moments (well, at least I can blog!)

Yesterday AVA was on her tummy and sort of sat up on her arms a bit to lift her head up and look around-I CRIED when I saw this! I was just so excited that she is finally starting to make some progress in the noggin' department. All of her hair has fallen out on the back of her head and it drives me crazy because I swear all I do is hold her. Oh well, her beautiful face makes up for the lack of hair on the back of her head :O)

ADEN has learned that it is really fun to run up and down the couch. It scares me to death because I just know one of these days he is going to go flying off of the edge and land on the tile or something! We have started giving him TIMEOUTS!!! We put the red "timeout stool" in the corner and when we plop him on it he gets really excited and plays. He plays with his toes and says "stinky" while waving his hand in front of his face...this is NOT how timeouts are supposed to go. He doesn't really get it yet-but we are being consistent and sooner or later, he will understand that he's in trouble--we just hope it's SOONER rather than LATER. This HAS to work because we don't spank!

OK well that was a good update :) Happy Monday to you all!

Birthday Boy

Yesterday was my hubby's 40th birthday! The kids and I brought him lunch at work and then we had a little party with lots of alcohol at night! I didn't know that teachers could drink that much :) It was soooooo beautiful last night-no one wanted to hang out inside our house. Everyone gathered around the firepit for hours-it was great to finally put our beautiful backyard to good use. After most of Scott's people left we went in the hot tub with Emily and Mike and one other couple we are friends with. It was great-very hot! You've gotta love good margaritas and a hot tub! We were up until midnight and I was shocked. I seriously haven't been up that late in soooooo long. Sometimes I feel like I'm the 40 year old. Aden went to bed right at 8pm and Ava was asleep by 9pm--of course we used the trusty video monitor while we were outside :)

My friend's mom came out of surgery well and was discharged today. They will be flying home tomorrow for her to finish her recovery-thanks to all of you who prayed for her!

I feel like I have so much to write about and not enough energy to type it all. I need sleeeeeeep!

Jenn's mom

Right now my best friend's mom is at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota having major brain surgery. I feel so anxious. I've kept my phone next to me all morning, just waiting for a phone call. If you are reading this-please take a moment and pray for Julie. The surgery will take about 4 and a half hours and Jenn will call me when her mom is moved to ICU. This woman is my second mother. A few of my other friend's moms have cancer-it is so strange that things are happening to our moms. I guess that's what happens when you grow up-you realize that life is not always a fairytale.