NY GNO & Other Stuff

So, apparently Connecticut hasn't magically made me better at updating my blog, so here's my marathon update :) This first picture is Ava tearing off a paper chain that we made to count down the days until my mom and sisters came to visit us.
I was quietly enjoying the afternoon thinking Ava was in the living room playing in her kitchen, and I was actually getting some stuff done in the office, but lo and behold, when I went to check on her, she was in the bathroom, beautifying herself with my makeup. She was actually putting the makeup in the right places...for the most part,

After getting out every toy she owned, this is her relaxing with daddy. I've loved that the weather has been great lately, my house stays a lot cleaner when we can play outside for most the day.
Here she is reading books at the library.
I put her to bed and then heard her crying a little while later, but she'd been doing that a lot lately and if I go in, she says something like, um, um, um, i need, um, um, etc etc, so I just ignored her and thought she'd go to sleep. After putting it together, I realized that she had taken off her pajamas and couldn't zip them back up, and that's what she wanted help with. oops :)

This is the beach by our house, you can see behind Matt where the water looks funny, I guess there's a little land bridge when the tide is low that you can walk on, out to the island. It's a bird sanctuary or something out there. We're gonna check it out in the summer when we won't freeze if our feet get a little wet, but I thought it was pretty cool!

Just a little path we found by our house, it feels like you're in the middle of a forest, but you're just hidden by the trees, and only a couple hundred feet from houses and streets. It's pretty cool though.
Matt brought Ava and I flowers and movies for Valentines day. He takes care of his girls.
This is Ava attending to her care bear, she puts the stethoscope up to the carebear and says, "boom boom...boom boom"
Sledding at Fairfield University
Ava's princess Bling
Ava's princess hair and dress before church.
And this, was on the ultimate GNO! My mom and sisters came for 5 days and we spent the first two in New York. Matt was able to watch Ava cuz he was off school for spring break, so we went to the Statue of Liberty and got tickets to climb to the top of the crown, which was way cool, and we went to Chinatown, which is a little like Tijuana and bought knock-off purses, and after barely escaping the subways with our lives (and our orientation) we finished off the night by seeing Wicked on Broadway, it was awesome!

Then, my dad hooked us up with an awesome hotel that was pretty much right in Times Square so we got to see Times Square at like midnight, which wasn't a whole lot different than at noon, just a little darker, that whole, city-that -never-sleeps thing is true! The next morning we went for a run in Central Park and looked at a few more things and headed back to my house. Like I said, Ultimate GNO, it was so great!
The stairs back down from the crown.

Pictures from the crown
Top of the crown, those little windows behind us are the little windows you see below the crown, it was really neat!
Stairs going up to the crown, did I mention I'm pregnant?? And we didn't exactly get lunch before attempting this climb...so we were all grateful I just made it to the top without passing out :)


My "special" sisters and my mom on the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty.

Update on us....we found out we are having a little baby boy, or as I told my sisters, for any Juno fans out there, my doodle that can't be undid has a weenie. I'm due August 11. We are really excited!

Matt is doing great in school. I don't envy him at all, it's a pretty intense program but he is just amazing! We had our 5 year anniversary last week and we still love each other :)

Ava is getting bigger by the minute, if you heard some of the things she says sometimes, you'd think she was almost 12, but she makes me laugh and keeps me on my toes. I had to take her out in the hall today at church and I was holding her as a little girl walked by in a cute dress and Ava said, all excited, Look a princess girl, and then a little boy walked by and she said, a little disgusted, Look mama, a boy! I'm teaching her well :) That's us in a nutshell.