Ava & Mila

Our little cookie monster is now 109 weeks old. Yum yum yum yum.

Friday was Valentine’s Day at school. And someone was very excited to show off her Dora and Diego lollipop cards.

At pick-up time, it was party time. We caught Ava in the middle of the party, enjoying her Cheetos and Juicy Juice.

Ava was very proud of all of the loot she received… and I obviously had problems keeping the camera steady. Doh.

Over the weekend, we went down south to get Nona’s house messy with paint supplies.

And to spend time with her cousin Nathan. Here they are blowing bubbles on the porch…

…and coloring fire trucks together.

Back at her grandparent’s house, Ava got the chance to make cookies in her baker’s outfit.

And yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. Ava baked cookies with her DIDA!?!

Ava was more than excited as you can see.

We also got a chance to visit with all of her great grandparents… and play cars.

The reason for the visit down south was to celebrate my aunt and uncle’s 40th wedding anniversary.

Ava and Nathan had a blast putting on more than enough chapstick.

Nathan introduced Ava to the art of smelling a wine cork.

She thought he was silly.

The dinner went a little past their bedtime so Deets tried to help them stay awake with an Elmo story.

But as soon as the story ended, they started melting away.

And becoming more and more delirious.

They were so delirious that Ava didn’t even mind all of Nathan’s hugs.

Ava spent the remainder of the week feeling a little sick. She puked a little here… a little there…  and a lot all over me… out in public at lunch. Thank goodness she had a belly full of lemonade only. So that’s all of this post. Ava is tired. And I am too. So have a nice weekend. Bye!

Labor was intense. It lasted about 18 hours. The hardest part were the contractions that were 2 minutes apart, lasting 45 seconds in duration each, for over 5 hours. I lost my mind during those 5 hours but got it back when this sweet drug, called an epidural, flew down from heaven and into my spine. Dan was pretty happy about it too.

Today I went to my first advanced volleyball class and played until 7 pm. When I got home Marlene started to have mild contractions every 10 minutes or so for about 4 hours. We managed to watch My Name is Earl, The Office and The O.C. before the contractions picked up at 11 pm to about 5 minutes apart. At which point she became clearly discomforted and we began packing for the hospital.

She have been having stomache cramps too but we are not sure if thet are related to the burrito from Corrales for dinner or the contractions. She actually vomitted a couple of times before we left for the hospital at just about 1 am.

It’s now just past 2 and we are hooked up to the monitors to see how things progress for an hour or so to see if we stay or go home for the night.

Well, this mornings contractions seemed to be just a little false alarm. So we took a little stroll with Rudy around the neighborhood to relax just a little. We’ll see what happens in the next day or so.

She thinks she is starting to have contractions. It’s 11AM on a Saturday morning Jan 6th 2007.