First Bath and Working

These pictures are pretty self-explanatory so I'm just putting captions and not a lot of commentary. 

Ava's first real bath. She loved it, she loved it so much she pooped!

These pictures are after we put in new water after her "accident". 

"Dad you are making me cross eyed - you're too close!"

The boys working in the yard

Patting the dirt down

Saying "cheese"

While the boys were working, the girls were relaxing. Ava giving a tiny smile.

Bo giving sister a "hug". Sister trying to push him away. 

Bo loves his baby

Introducing Ava Alane Bass!

She took her sweet time, but she's finally here! Ava Alane made her debut Monday night at 10:25pm. She weighed 6lbs. 14oz. and is 20 inches long. 

For comparison - here is Bo

Here is Ava

Again - Bo

Ava - do you think they're related???

They say the second labor/delivery takes about half as long as the first and that was right on the money for me. Monday I had a doctors appointment at 2:20. I got a sonogram done to check my fluid levels, which were good, and then I traveled to a second doctors office to have the appointment with my doctor. She did a quick procedure that she did when I was almost done with Bo (it worked that time too) and as soon as I left the doctors office I just knew it had worked. 

By the time I drove the five mins. home at 4:00pm I was having contractions. By 5:00pm they were 5 mins. apart. By 6:30pm they were 3 mins. apart and we were headed to the hospital. 

Just as we were about to drive over the highway towards the hospital we got pulled over! David loves telling this story - you should ask him for his side of it. Anyway the officer comes up to the window and David says, "If you're going to give me a ticket, can you do it quick? My wife is in labor." The office looks in the window while I'm in the middle of a contraction and quickly asks, "Do you need an ambulance?" Which doesn't make sense since we can see the hospital from where we were. He tells David to go ahead and go but to use his blinker next time. 

When we got to the hospital and into a room the nurse checked and said I was only 2 or 3 cm dilated even though my contractions were 2 and 3 mins. apart and she was going to ask the doctor on call if she wanted me to walk the halls, break my water, or GO HOME! I didn't say it, but in my head I was thinking there was no way I was leaving the hospital room, let along the hospital. Thankfully the doctor said to go ahead with an epidural. 

From the time I got the epidural until I delivered was just over an hour. This happened with Bo also, but not so fast. I went from a 2 to a 10 that quick! Two pushes later and Ava was here! I had no idea it would go that fast but I'm really glad it did! 

Ava and Nana Bass

Ava and Papa Bass

"Hey! What's up?"

She has crazy long toes - she gets those from mommy

Ava and Grandma Cherie 

The big brother meeting his "baby".

Grandma and Grandpa

All ready to go home

Things I've noticed about Ava:

1) She is a really good eater and picked up nursing really fast. 

2) She smiles a lot after eating. Don't we all. :)

3) She is a thumb/finger sucker. 

4) So far she likes to sleep - hopefully this continues! 

Bo so far really likes his baby and says "baby" about every 2 seconds. He has been helpful and will bring me things for her and loves to give her hugs and kisses. So far he has been gentle but we are always reminding him just in case. 

A Fun Saturday

David has this weekend off so we decided to take Bo somewhere fun. After asking around, KidScape at the Johnson County Museum seemed like the best bet. Also, it was free so it was a win-win! It was awesome and Bo loved it! 

Getting ready to milk a cow.

Playing with trucks at the factory. 

 

Making a new friend. 

Driving the tractor.

Dr. Bo during surgery.  

Paging Dr. Bo! 

Bo and Daddy doing a radio show.  

Singing into the mic. 

The museum had a really neat pioneer kitchen. Bo is a natural pioneer. 

Loading wood into the stove. 

Churning butter. 

Making a pie. Doesn't everyone use a log to pat the filling?

Long Time No See!

Sorry it's been so long, but between moving and being so pregnant I have not been very good at taking pictures or blogging. We did the initial move in and have been slowly (very slowly since I can hardly move) decorating and hanging pictures, ect. It's going to take a while but it will be fun collecting and crafting. 

The first few pictures are from when we were still staying with David's parents. We are so thankful that they had the space and were willing to let us stay while we found and closed on our house. 

Riding on the four wheeler

Big boy!

"Let me take a picture!"

I heard Bo giggling and found him giggling and kissing himself in the mirror. 

Giving himself a kiss

I've been getting Ava's room together lately (since she'll be here in  26 days or less).  We found a great deal on a crib, which has the parts to be converted into a toddler bed, and mattress at a garage sale and I've been having fun crafting things to decorate the walls. Originally I was going to repaint the walls white and gray, but when I got some of Bo's old decorations out that I was going to reuse, the paint colors worked so well I'm keeping it the same. It's hard to tell in the pictures, but it's a very pale pink on top and brown on bottom.

My first craft for her room was repurposing an old mirror that I found in the leftover stuff from our church's garage sale. I took the mirror out and spray painted it a berry pink. I then found a wooden letter A and mod podged some scrapbook paper on it. Here are the before and afters. 

Here is the frame before, minus the mirror. 

All painted and hung above the crib. 

Up close

While mod podging the letter A, I also mod podged some small letter o's with scrapbook paper to create some closet organizers. They hang on the clothing bar and separate the clothes into sizes. I wish I would have used larger stickers for the size numbers, but oh well. I made them up to 18 months.

 I have a frame that I was going to turn into a bow holder but I would need to spray paint it, cover the back, put ribbon on it, ect. I'm running out of time so I'm keeping the frame for a jewelry holder for me later. I found some black metal letters at Hobby Lobby and just attached some ribbon onto them to clip all of Ava's bows and flowers. I also found some cast iron bird hangers at Hobby Lobby for 50% off to hang headbands. I love the way it turned out and I still have more space for more bows! 

Just with a few clips and headbands. 

Full - still have some space left though! I need some bows!

Close up of the letters and ribbon.

Close up of the bird hangers - love them!

Here are some other pics of her room decorations. It's coming together! Now we just need a dresser!

Bo "helping"

Sitting in the frog bouncy seat wearing sister's headband. 

I was able to reuse the tree wall decal from Bo's room. The dresser will go here.  

Ava's closet - notice how Bo "helped" in the lower right corner. 

More decorations I was able to reuse. 

Crib and chair corner.

Bo's cowboy room is coming along but that'll be for another post!