Arizona Trip

ITS HOT HERE! Ok now that I stated the obvious, lets move on to fun stuff!

We got here a week ago Saturday. We decided to split up the trip into 2 days and stop in Saint George over night and see Dan's Grandma! Ava got to see all her animals and loved them! It was fun to stop to see her!
We stayed in a motel but since it was pioneer day weekend motel prices were nearly double (75$) for 1 night!!! NOT FUN! And Ava decided to only sleep for 2 hours. She started getting a cold right when we were heading out on Friday and I didn't want to cancel because of it so it made the trip a bit more interesting. I ended up staying up with her the whole night that night and by 5 am we just gave up and got on the road. We ended up getting into Tempe just after noon. We were exhausted.

Grandma bought Ava this little slide and at first she loved it... not so much after the first fall, but it will be fun to have a grandma's house our next visit!!

Kate and Kirk came over the first day right after we got in and we immediately started in on projects! Kate and I did this crayon melting project that took 2 days... this was the first half
We decided Ava needed her own week long project :) She did 7 paintings while we were here! She loved playing in the paint!
Sunday we got to go to my moms ward which I always love doing! Ava dressed up in "corona colors" and looked adorable. She spent the whole time walking around or coloring. Her 2 favorite things!
We sat our crayons outside all day Sunday
Ava made more art
Monday we hung out and I ran errands :) and we went to my Dad's for dinner. Ava also enjoyed playing Grandma's piano while we were down
Tuesday we took Ava to the splash pad, which she loved!!! This girl is a busy little bee!
Tuesday night we went to a BBQ at Lonna's mom's house and got to see a lot of our friends.

On Wednesday we went to lunch with my friend Tera and took Chloe and Ava to play at the mall playground. I was chasing Ava the entire time because she thought it was so much fun to run out of the play center so I had to catch her! Still cute but exhausting!
Thursday I woke up with horrible back pain, probably from Wednesday. We took it easy that day, not to mention Ava's lungs were sounding really bad. Either from the cold or from asthma. It was NOT fun! I hate when she gets wheezy and I don't have all her medicine with us. We still went and had dinner with my dad that night and after getting Ava to bed finally went and saw Harry Potter.
On Friday I met up with my cousin Melissa and helped her find some hair flowers for her wedding (11/11/11) It was fun catching up with her.
On Saturday I worked on projects most of the day... etsy onesies and headbands and bows. Dan and my mom watched Ava most of the day. It was Kates birthday so we went to an aquarium to celebrate with her.

Update

I don't feel like I've written in a while! We've had a few things going on!

First we've been talking about doing tubes in Ava's ears for months now! We almost did them in March but because of a bad cough we kept postponing till we finally cancelled all together.

After our last trip to AZ Ava got another ear infection and her ear drum burst. We realized we had to move forward with tubes. We were trying to get Ava into a doctor in Salt Lake when we found out our health insurance was going from pretty good to very bad, all starting August 1st. The doctors in Salt Lake couldn't get us in for surgery before the 1st but thankfully a doctor closer to home could get her in!

We took her in on Tuesday this week. Thankfully she was 2nd for the day and from the time we walked in till we left was 2 hours exactly. There was a little boy that was a little older than Ava that was going before us. They took both of us back at the same time to wait in a little hospital room with a curtain dividing us. He screamed and fussed the whole time before he went back. Ava just hung out with us and we watched "Wonder Pets" They took the little boy back first and he was back there for a long time compared to what they told us.

They finally came out and told his parents he was done and they took Ava back. Then the screamer came back, but this time he was screaming like someone was murdering him and did so for the entire hour till we left! It was probably the worst part of the whole experience, so thats pretty good.

Ava was only back for 15 minutes before they came back and told us she did great, passed her hearing tests and would be coming to us in a few minutes. This was the part I wasn't prepared for. I had no idea how sad it would be for her to come out of anesthesia. When the nurse handed her to me she was crying so hard and had her eyes shut. She was totally out of it. We gave her a bottle of formula and she chugged it since she hadn't had anything to eat since midnight.

Unfortunately the nurses or doctors didn't tell us that we shouldn't bring her milk. We should have brought her juice...... She then threw up on Dan :( We took her home and she threw up 1 more time and then started going back to normal.

We can already tell a difference the tubes are making just in her hearing alone! She's said more words since Tuesday than she has in any other week. She also is responding to us a lot faster than normal when we speak to her. She is up to 15-20 words! Its crazy!

I need a baby boy!

Happy 4th of July

Question Time with Ava