3 Month Update

I Just realized it's been a while. Well here are a few things that have happened.

-Dad took his first set of boards this past month. Not fun! We find out how he did at the end of April. But dad was still able to spend time with Ava...teaching her as well.. We're gonna have one smart baby!

-We've had a few visitors Nana and Grandpa Zendejas (Nana actually visited twice on her layover too Phoenix) then Amy and David! So fun to see everyone!

-Ava loves her play gym and kicking it! I got to practice my "This is why we can't have nice things" speech.

"But mom kicking it is much more fun"

-Ava also has started putting any and everything in her mouth

-She loves her bear! She held onto this thing for a couple hours and wouldn't let it out of her sight!

- Yes she has a Mohawk, no I do not put it that way. Her hair can't be tamed!

-She can hold her own paci

-And bottle for  a few seconds

-She loves laying like this

 -And flying like Superman... But hates tummy time (she also likes being naked)

-We has our 3rd anniversary and ate Mediterranean! 

-She's rolled over (see previous post)

-We just started putting her in her Bumbo and at first she was skeptical but now she loves it!

The end of the month and April will be busy but we're looking forward to it!

-Grandma Zimmerman is going to visit!

-Mom is going to be doing the Color Run with some friends from church (then the Half Marathon in May)

-Dad we be finished with Tri 4 (of 10 so we'll be almost half way done!!)

-Cousin Norah Bell Blood was born on March 18th and we get to see her and play with Cousin RyJ!

-We get to see Nana and Grandpa Zendejas and meet mommy's family!

Rolling over!

Today Ava rolled over for the first time! And I missed it! I put her down for tummy time and then went to grab something to eat for breakfast and I noticed that she wasn't crying like she usually does. So I went to look at her and she's on her back with a smile on her face like she was saying "Haha I totally got out of tummy time!" And me being me got super excited (after coming out of being in shock) and started clapping and smiling at her and after that she had an even bigger smile on her face.

I spent the next 5 minutes trying to get her to roll over again and trying to get it on video. She almost got it again but ended up crying and getting frustrated so we stopped.

It's times like these that I wish I didn't have to work and just got to play with her since she's been SO Happy today. She's also just lately, if she's not hungry, will stay in her crib and talk to herself and entertain herself in the mornings! I may be biased but she is PERFECT!

When I first saw her smiling

When I started clapping and getting excited

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is Spencer's 26th Birthday! We started the morning early with mom going on a run at 8, so Ava got to spend some quality time with dad... they took a nap!

The rest of the day was pretty chill. We went to Sam's Club for samples and hung around the house and watched some movies and took another nap! We love sleeping in this house!

Then we went to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes. It's a soup and salad buffet. Sounds lame but we love the place and we got to determine how much time we spent there since we didn't know how Ava would do in a regular restaurant.

When we got home dad put together his birthday present. Surprise. Dad actually picked it out with us along with some much needed new shirts! He is so hard to shop for and never tells us what he wants!

Dad spending time with Ava... How can you not love that face of hers!

And of course more pics of my little cutie!

This last one she got upset with me for taking too many pictures!

2 1/2 Weeks

My little baby is getting so big! When we left the hospital she weighed 6 lbs 7 oz. When we went to her 1 week dr. appt she gained all her birth weight back and then some. She weighed 7 lbs 4 oz. At her 2 weeks appointment she was 7 lbs 13 oz, that's 2 oz away from gaining a pound from her birth weight!

On the 29th We had her baby blessing at our place. Both Sides were able to be there! And Ava looked so pretty in the dress that Nana made for her, she was swimming in it but she looked so pretty!

Ava with her dress on all she's missing is her bonnet.

Everyone who blessed her!

Family Picture!

With Nana & Grandpa Zendejas!

With Grandma & Grandpa Zimmerman!

She has recently started sleeping in her crib. She likes it more than her bassinet and sleeps longer in it so we moved the crib from her room to right outside our door. Yes I am a paranoid mommy and Spencer keeps reminding me of that and yes I have accepted it.

We also do tummy time for about 5 minutes or for however long she'll let us. It's a hit or miss with that. Some days she loves it and will stay like that for a while and some days she hates it and it looks like she's trying to roll over. I took a video but she's crying in a lot of it, but to prove to my dad that she does like tummy time here is a happy picture of her. 

She's also started to stay up longer and focusing more! The other day Spencer was watching football and I was holding Ava and she just stared at the game for longer than she's stared at anything since she's been born. Then yesterday we had her on the couch with her rubber duck that she got from Santa and she was content just looking at that for a while as well. 

Spencer and I love watching the show "The Voice" we watched it every week and our favorite contestant was Cassadee Pope this season. One episode she sang Blake Shelton's song "Over You" and we loved it and played it a bit while I was pregnant. Well it turns out Ava loves that song as well. Usually it will be able to calm her. Today she was fussy and I knew she was tired but didn't want to sleep so I put her in her bouncer. She was still a little fussy so I played this song and after the second time she was out. And it's not the first time that it has calmed her down.  She has good taste in music! And that song gets played a lot in this house now!

Passed out from her Bouncer and listening to Cassadee Pope!

Ava does not like taking baths. She does this piercing scream and Spencer holds her while I wash her. This means that after her bath Spencer is the good guy and I'm the bad guy until she gets hungry. Then she'll usually like me again. Well yesterdays bath she decided she wanted to stay with daddy and was clinging to him and wouldn't let him go even though she was hungry. What a daddy's girl. And hopefully she's not like this when she gets older otherwise it'll be interesting for me! 

Today was our first day without daddy home during the day. Usually she sleeps for like 3-3 1/2 hours at a time and then wakes up to eat. Sometimes we have to wake her up to feed her. Well today she was up for a lot of the day and has been eating a ton! Like eating every 2 hours from start of one feeding to the start of the other, and thats with me trying to distract her to make it to 2 hours before she starts screaming. After talking with a few other people, we think she might be going through a growth spurt. I guess this just means I get a lot of mommy time with this cutie! But it would be on the day the Spencer goes back to school!

Tomorrow she is having her first adjustment! I am excited because we're all getting adjusted tomorrow and my back has been killing me since she's been born! Although Ava and I will be adjusted by the dr and not an intern! 

And just because I love this pose she did while she was sleeping:

Welcome Ava!

Ava was a champ last night and actually slept at night and in turn I was able to sleep some too. The past couple nights she only slept 2 hours and was up the rest of the night. So I actually feel like I can do more than sit with her and feed her!

At my 38 weeks appt. my dr. said that he didn't want me going past my due date and that he wanted to induce me Christmas night so I would have her on her due date and that if I progressed more he might even want to induce me earlier. Then on Tuesday at my appt. I had progressed enough that he said I could have her on Thursday! I called my mom and told her and luckily she and sister were able to make down here before the blizzard in Nebraska hit.

At 39 weeks before going into the Hospital.

(This might be boring for people but I wanted to write it down so I can remember it) I had to go into the hospital on Wednesday at 2 to do some blood work and then go back in to be induced at 8. Well Wednesday morning I woke up at 4:30 with some pains and I thought it was just nerves so I went back to bed and then woke up again like 20 min later with the same pains. For a while they were semi constant and then stopped after 30 min and then came around randomly throughout the day.

When mom and Jordan arrived at around 6 the pains were getting really close together and hurt a little more. I was convinced that I was making them up in my head and I didn't want to go into the hospital 2 hours early with nothing happening.

We left for the hospital and Spencer decided to take a short cut and it ended up taking us twice as long to get there so we were a little late. Luckily we only live 2 min from the hosptial. Once we got  there, they set me up to monitors. I was having contractions 3-5 min apart and they said that they couldn't induce me because I was already in active labor. Which was something that we both preferred would happen, but we didn't want to spend Christmas in the hospital. It was good that we planned for the inducement though otherwise my  mom wouldn't have been able to be here!

I was debating if I wanted an epidural and after like 4 hours I gave in. Before hand they gave me some pain killers. Let me tell you, I dont remember any of those 4 hours minus the pain from the contractions. According to Spencer here are some of the things I kept saying:

- I want chicken nuggets with buffalo sauce ( Apparently i said this a lot and the nurses were all talking about it. One nurse helping with the epidural was like "oh you're the one they're all talking about!")
-What if I forget to breathe. (at the beginning I had trouble breathing during contractions so I guess this was a big worry for drugged up me)
-How am I suppose to tell you how much pain I'm in when I can't open my eyes.
-I wouldn't be a fun drunk.

I don't think I'll take another pain killer again.

After I had the epidural I was able to sleep off some of the pain killers and went from a 4 to an 8 in like an hour and a half. They called the dr. and he came in (he wasn't going to arrive until about 6 and when they called him it was about 2) and then got the room prepared for Ava to come. I think he jinxed me since I was stuck at 8 from 2ish until almost 5. They decided to give me medicine to make my contractions stronger and at 6:00 I was a 10 and at 6:30 am exactly she was here!

She weighed 6 lbs 15.8 oz and was 19 inches long. I had to ask again how much she weighed since I was a little shocked. I was expecting her to weigh a lot more (not that I am complaining) since at 37 weeks they said she weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and they told me they were expecting her to be an 8-8 1/2 lb baby if she went the full 40 weeks.

It's still a little weird to think that she's my baby and that she's only 3 days old today.

Here are some things that we've learned about her so far:

-She loves to eat! In the hospital it seemed like all she did was eat. Literally. The second day she slept for 2 hours and then the rest of the day was spent with her eating, giving me a break of maybe 30 min between feedings.
-She can get very angry if she doesn't get fed exactly when she wants to be fed. (She might have gotten that from her Mom)
-She is the only one I know who stretches and yawns for 20 min without waking up.
-She makes the most adorable faces when she sleeps and can go from a happy smiling face to a what are you doing face in 1 second. She is also a very active sleeper always kicking her legs or waving her arms.
-She is very jumpy, and gets startled very easily. Something she also gets from her mom.
-She hates being moved when she's up and likes staying in one position.
-Also I swear when she sleeps her dreams are about eating. I have tried to feed her but she refuses and turns her head away from me but keeps acting like she's eating.

Chubby Cheeks!

Mommy's little angel

kisses/ Dreaming of eating

How Ava looks when you try waking her up.

Chillin in her boppy.

A rare moment when she has her eyes open and isn't eating

A happy, tired Daddy!

Daddy trying to calm Ava down

Daddy daughter bonding, watching soccer.

We can go home!

Happy Halloween!

Well this week we are 32 weeks! We're so close, it's so weird. So for Halloween I wanted to dress up in a white shirt and have a baby doll's arms come out of my belly, but my co-workers wanted our department to dress up as the cast of the wizard of oz, and wanted me to be Dorthy. Another person in a different department had a Dorthy costume that she let me borrow. The problem was that it fit 3 weeks before when she gave it to me, but a couple days before I tried it on again and it didn't fit quite so well. So I went to walmart and bought blue fabric and no sew adhesive stuff and made a semi blue apron. It worked, ish. 

AP Dept

I also had another dr. appointment. I was wanting to travel back to Omaha during thanksgiving since most of my siblings were going to be there but I got completely shot down by the dr. Like there's a no and then there's' what happened to me. I swear I have never seen a bigger eye roll then I did then. So needless to say,  I will be staying in Dallas for Thanksgiving. 

I don't really think Ava likes our dr, or at least the little machine(the fetal doppler thing).The last time he used it she kicked it. This time she made the dr. frustrated because he would hear the heart for a second and then she run away from it. He did like five times and the last time she stayed still enough for him to get her heartbeat. And she is still head down and very low and everything is looking good! 

After work we also went to vote! The line was kinda long. We were there for about 45 minutes in line waiting and the line was almost out the doors. If that's what it was like before election day, I'm glad that we went early! I was a little upset though(still am!) that I didn't get a sticker! So I settled on taking a picture. 

Can you guess who I voted for?

The WORST thing about being pregnant this Halloween was not being able to eat all the junk food that was at work! Next year I will make up for this!

I'm really bad at this updating thing...

But we've had quite a bit going on this past month. Mid-September I went to my first soccer game, It was FC Dallas vs. some Canadian team. Obviously we won.  Ava kicked seriously the entire game, from the start when they sang the National Anthem until we left she was kicking non stop it felt like. Spencer thinks that it's because she's going to be a soccer player. I think it was the noise that scared her. But I guess we will see.

My favorite part of the game was at the beginning when number 6 slapped the Canadian player in the face when the refs weren't looking. And that was about it. But we did have really nice seats. We were midfield front row... and it only cost us $5 per ticket. Spencer got tickets from school. We might have to go after Ava's born see if she really likes soccer or not. 

Spencer has also decided that he's going to be doing a diplomate in neurology. It'll take 300 hours but hopefully it will help him in getting a better job. And it was something that he really wanted to do. 

More good news: I get to work from home after Ava's born! It's probably going to be really hard, but It's going to be such a huge blessing for us! I was so excited and relieved when I found out. Now we won't be AS poor as I thought we would be (so basically we won't have to take as much out for loans). But it'll be a big help.

We also experienced our first earthquake(s) the last Saturday of September. We were both almost asleep when I felt this shaking. My first thought was that it was Ava. In my defense she's kicked me so hard sometimes that I have woken up, but it didn't feel like those other times and ruled that out and I was like okay did I dream that? So I asked Spencer if he felt that, he had but he just told me to go back to bed. Then not even 5 minutes later we felt another big shake and there was a booming noise. It sounded like something that weighed a couple tons fell off our roof or like a plane had crashed and we live semi close to the DFW airport so I was freaked out and we went out to check and see what happened. Spencer was like it was probably an earthquake let's just go back to bed. So we did but not before I put my shoes and purse by my bed with a snack(a single fruit snack) and went to bed completely dressed. I was a little paranoid. But there was no damage and no other quake. Spencer made fun of me, but if there had been I would have been prepared and I wouldn't have shared my fruit snack!

I also helped with a friends baby shower, Just wanted to show off my oreo ball making skills:

They looked pretty good and I was told they tasted really good. Too bad I couldn't eat one. It kinda made me sad. 

And while we are on the food subject, we have gotten over our carrots phase and are now into apples. More specifically the Gala or Honey Crisp apples. I don't know what is up with this little girl. I thought all girls were suppose to like Chocolate. There are little candies that I have found that I can eat like jolly ranchers, or sweet tarts. Oh well, If I've made it this long I guess I can make it another 10 weeks.

Hmm, what else. I also went to the Hospital. One Saturday we went to the Temple and I was in pain the entire time, and had been for like 6 hours. So we finally called my dr. and he said to come in and check just as a precautionary since I had had some trouble previously. I had an infection, and it turns out I need to be drinking more water(apparently me drinking a lot of water at work during the week doesn't transfer to the weekends when I drink none) and I am a baby when it comes to pain. I hate water. I prefer my water flavored. 

I am also torn between wanting to have an epidural and not being in pain, or being in pain and not having a huge needle being stuck in my spine. 

So this week I got to see my little miss Ava. I'm starting to go every 2 weeks now! And we only have 10 weeks left! Hopefully less, but we're 30 Weeks! 

I've been measuring big at every appointment and my dr wouldn't say anything about her being late or early really, but he said that I am measuring like 5 days bigger than noraml. So fingers crossed to coming early. I kinda want her to come on Dec. 12th so she'll be 12-12-12. But that would also be during Spencer's finals. But she's head down so lets hope she stays that way. 

So at church someone in the bishopric had a baby a couple weeks back, they thought it was going to be a girl, and turned out to be a boy. Since hearing this I have been paranoid so during the ultra sound I had the lady double check. She's still a girl!

I guess Ava likes to be in a curled up ball position, because the last 2 ultra sounds she has had her feet in front of her face. . Either she's really shy, or she's really stubborn and doesn't want to take pictures. Spencer thinks its the last one, and if it is this little girl is gonna have to get used to Mommy taking lots of pictures of her!

This last one is my favorite. Near the end she finally moved her feet enough that we could see her face. It's kinda hard to notice and the nurse had to point it out to me then I had to point it out to Spencer when he saw the picture. But I love it! She was super squirmy, but at least she didn't try to kick the ultra sound machine like she did at the last appointment when the dr. was trying to take her heartbeat. 

Sorry it was so long. I'm gonna have to get better at remembering to update this thing.