Happy Birthdays!!

Happy birthday to Brent's mom Linda (I won't give away the age!) and Happy birthday to Ava who is 6 months old today. On Friday night we had a surprise dinner for Linda at the Olive Garden. She knew she was going to dinner but she didn't know that her whole family was waiting for her inside. That is, until I opened my mouth and accidentally gave it away in front of the restaraunt. Oh well, it almost worked. Anyway, it was very nice to get out of the house and see everyone, I hadn't seen most of them in quite a while. We had Ava with us and she was very good, only got fussy when she was hungry and then when she was tired, but nothing major. All in all, a good time. It really made me miss going out with people like we used to. Brent and I have to start trying to make more time to have a night off and do something either by ourselves or with family and friends. I think we might try to arrange a "date night" this Friday to go to a movie, if we can get a babysitter that is (ummmm, Grandma Linda?)

Tomorrow is Monday, and I don't like them. I am doing the babysitting room at the Y again on Wednesday and Friday. That means I work 8:30 - 6pm on those days. Not cool. Normally I only work 1:30 - 6pm. I worked in the babysitting room this past Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and I brought Ava with me. She was pretty good the first day, and not so good the other 2 days. She just gets bored, and then she gets fussy, which makes it hard for me to watch the other kids. There are 2 of us working in there so it isn't that big of a deal, but at some points there were 3 other babies in there besides Ava, so I was trying to take care of them plus take care of Ava. One thing I noticed is that the other babies all had older siblings, and they were very content just hanging out, and could sleep through anything. Since Ava is our only baby and is used to being in her crib in a nice dark, quiet room, it was a challenge getting her to nap. She just needs to get used to napping in different places, and with noise. She did okay, napped for about 40 minutes each day. Most of the time she sat in her infant seat or I had her strapped to me in the harness. I hope she is a little better this week. I took off work on Thursday to take her to the doctor with Brent, she is getting her 6 month vaccinations, and I've heard those are some of the worst. I'll just leave Brent in the room with her when they give her those, I'll be out in the waiting room. I think we are also meeting up with my sister that day too. I'm looking forward to that.
Well it's late and I have to get to bed so on with the pictures. Move your mouse over them to see captions.