Its Christmas Time!

We took Ava to see Santa tonight. I know she can't talk and doesn't have a clue whats going on but I love pictures with Santa. They are so cute. Anyway, the photographers are smart and told us to take her in with her back towards Santa so she couldn't see him till after they got her picture. This was great since once she saw him all she wanted to do was stare at him and grab his beard :)
Oh and we have a tiny Christmas tree this year. Its our first time putting up a tree and we got a little one up high so that to avoid any issues with Ava pulling on the tree. We'll deal with that another time :)

Snow Day

I'd say this is the first real snow of the season :(

Thanksgiving Pictures

So thankful!

Last Thanksgiving Dan and I were barely getting by. SO thankful for Dan and the hard work he put forth into getting a new job so that we could make ends meet again. Thankful for our own home and space. I loved living with my mom but it was so hard near the end.

I'm so thankful for my mom. There is no way I could make it through these first 8 months with Ava without her. She has been more helpful than anyone else. She is the only person that could help me get Ava eating solid foods and sleep trained.

And I am more thankful than anything for Ava. She is the best thing that ever happened to us and I cannot even remember what I did before her. I pray that someday we are able to have another baby, I worry often that it won't happen but I need to have faith and let it be. I just love being a mom so much.

Anyway Happy Thanksgiving!

Ahh its love

Dan and I talked about getting this around Mothers Day but we hadn't gotten a new job yet. We didn't do gifts last year at all when we were having a hard time so it feels so wrong to even get something like this. It took me 6 months to agree to let Dan spend the money on it. So this is my Mothers Day, Anniversary, Birthday, Graduation and Christmas present for last year, this year and probably next year :)

I need to read the manual and get started on taking new AWESOME photos of Ava. Man this makes my powershot look like a piece of junk (which it is lol) Oh man and I'm already loving the fact that I got the extra lens!!! :) Its awesome!

The Weather

When I live in Utah I check the weather EVERY day (multiple times a day) in the winter. In hopes to see none of those snowy symbols. Its going to be 17 degree's on Wednesday with a low of -2 and snowing. I'm not leaving the house on Wednesday. I just keep praying that Thursday doesn't turn out bad because I would like to go do Thanksgiving dinner at Dan's family without having an anxiety attack.

8 months

I keep thinking about how I felt when I was 8 months pregnant... thats about how it feels to now carry Ava around :) This girl is finally slowing down in the growth department. Only gained 6 ounces this month and half an inch. But she is till 22lbs6oz and 29 3/4 inches. Huge, I know.

Love her and everything about her. Love that she has started sleeping all night after help from my mom and her magic in helping me night wean her. She also is eating solids now and there's no baby food she doesn't like. We've got a bedtime routine down now and Ava goes to sleep at 7pm.

Can't believe in just 4 months this girl will be a crazy little 1 year old. Love it.

Ava's laugh

Nebulizer

Well we took Ava back to the doctor on Thursday. Her cough is basically all gone! Thank goodness! Poor girl has been coughing (mostly in her sleep) for 3+ weeks. The doctor told us that this is bronciolitis most likely caused by RSV which also caused the croupy cough.

She told us Ava isn't actively contagious so as long as Ava doesn't go around licking people we should be okay :) She does have some wheezing left over and so the doctor is having us do breathing treatments 4x a day with her to help with that.

We had to wait all afternoon yesterday for Intermountain Health Care to come deliver her nebulizer. The guy went through how to use it and everything and my last question was, "so when do we return it" ummm "nope this is yours, its a purchase" OH okay... I guess our insurance won't pay for us to rent one but they will pay for us to own one.

Anyway we'll get a picture of Ava using it once we pick up the medicine that goes in it. I hope she cooperates. She gets to wear this cute little fish mask :) Cuteness aside, I just want her breathing better and feeling better. I hope when we go in next the wheezes are gone and we don't have to do a chest x-ray :(

Sick Ava

I hate hate hate when Ava is sick. She was sick for a month straight from 5-6 months. 6-7 were great and now 7-8 has been really rough. She has had a night cough for over 2 weeks now and a cold that started last week. Now her cough has changed into a really nasty barky cough and she is wheezing.

Once I heard her coughing during her nap the barky cough and the wheezing today I took her into the doctor. We didn't see our usual doctor and it was a rather confusing appointment. We discussed RSV, Pertussis, and Croup. She is being treated for all 3. She did say she has Bronciolitis.

She got a steroid shot, a breathing treatment and antibiotics. Seriously, I feel so confused right now. If she is worse tomorrow then we have to take her to the hospital for a chest x-ray. If she stays the same or starts getting better then we just go back to the doctor on Thursday. I hate having a sick baby. Its so frusterating and sad not to be able to fix it.

She's everywhere

I kept thinking to myself... "when is Ava really going to crawl" I didn't realize she has really been crawling for 2 months. I didn't realize that belly crawling is considered a type of crawling and not all kids crawl on their hands and knees.. oh.



She is really fast at crawling on her belly now and I guess she sees no need to do it on her knees. She crawled out of our living room and into the office today then just sat there. I followed her in, it was as if she had gotten lost and didn't know where to go. She will do just about anything now to get to a book, so I very quickly need to reorganized my bookcase. Anyway its an adventure.

Her version of crawling

She's been army crawling for a month and a half now but she is finally getting a bit faster. I can't imagine her crawling on her hands and knees, that seems a bit too foreign.