Spring Break

DJ was able to take a few days off last week due to Spring Break. We love having him around more and Jayden really did, I could tell. Ever since he got to spend a whole day with DJ, he has been asking for daddy a lot more. 


One special thing that Jayden and DJ did together on their "Day of Fun" was walk to Walmart and buy Jayden his own set of golf clubs! I kid you not, DJ has been waiting for that day FOREVER; I think he wanted to buy Jayden clubs before he was even born actually. So both of them had a pretty special day that day. Here's a video of Jayden learning to use his clubs.

Over the weekend, we had some really great weather and since we knew it wasn't supposed to last much longer, we spent as much time outside as possible. While DJ was grilling our dinner one night, Jayden and I hung out on the prickly dry lawn hitting some more golf balls.

A Reading of Curious George by Jayden Martinez

We're driving down to Denver today to go to the zoo; I can't wait to see what Jayden does when he sees a real monkey!

March Madness Baby!

Last year DJ and I started a new tradition. (Enjoy the reminder about how the tradition started at that link but mostly I think you will love the adorable pictures from a year ago. Ahhh...) We fill out brackets together for the NCAA basketball tournament and after each round we get a pre-determined award, something small but yet enjoyable for the winner. Maybe not so enjoyable for the loser. This year, because we realized we had some faults in our contest last year with the scoring system, each round will be scored as such: Round 1 - 10 points for each winning team, Round 2 - 20 points per winner, Round 3 - 30 points, etc... This is a lot of points to receive for each round but it was the only way to keep things fair with only two people in the contest. So even if I do horribly on the first round but have a few teams continue through to the second, third, fourth and so on rounds, I still have a chance to win the whole thing. THEN, DJ and I have both chosen a big award for the winner of the whole thing. My award?


Help with painting my oh-so-drab home office! I really hope I win!!


This year's tournament should be really fun to watch because there are several teams that have made it to the tournament that make it more personal for DJ and I. First South Dakota State is in it to win it! Ok, maybe that's going too far but they're in it anyway and it'll be fun to see how they do playing against Baylor in, where else, but Albuquerque!


Also New Mexico, our alma mater, is in it and is a 5 seed nonetheless! Go Lobos! Also New Mexico State, Colorado and Colorado State are vying for the enviable champion title this year. So needless to say I think I might be watching some basketball games in the upcoming days and hopefully watching "my teams" win!!

Park break

Jayden and I took a break from the normal routine earlier this week because how could we not when it was a glorious 60 degrees outside???


I picked my boy up from school early and we headed to the park. I knew Jayden was going to love it because a couple days prior to that as I let him out of the car to go into the house, he kept pulling me outside to "ahk" (walk). And that's pretty much all he wanted to do when we went to the park. I put him in the swing first thinking that he was going to love that the whole time but he literally lasted all of 2 minutes before he wanted "up". And that was that. We spent the rest of the time walking all around the park.

Notice how his pants are wet? He fell on the wet grass and this bothered him so much; he kept saying "oh no, oh no" even though I kept reassuring him that we could change his pants as soon as we got home. It was so cute.

We're starting him early in the modeling business. He's totally got the look down, don't you think?

All you need is a little time

45 Minutes Later...

Ahhhhh...

29 Weeks

Technically I am a few days shy of 29 weeks in this picture but I'm pretty sure I haven't changed much. I'm feeling good overall and I feel great about the fact that I found out that I am 10 pounds lighter than I was at this point in my last pregnancy. Woo hoo!! I guess the exercising is working. That, and having a toddler to run around after has certainly been a factor. 


DJ and I got a huge wake-up call at my last doctor's appointment when we found out that I will now start going to my appointments every 2 weeks, as opposed to every 4 weeks. Yikes! How did that creep up so fast??


Jayden has learned that pointing at my belly when we ask where baby sister is, is the right thing to do. Whether he actually knows what the heck we are talking about is another question. I have no doubt that he has no clue. But we are working on saying Ava and it is seriously the most adorable thing ever.


I am definitely feeling overwhelmed when I think of having two kids and I'm hoping it's just because we are having such sleep issues with Jayden right now and that it will end up being no big deal. But EVERYONE says that the biggest adjustment is from 1 to 2 kids and I am the kind of person that takes to heart what people say and that they know what they are talking about. So I'm not ignoring this apparently well-known fact. 


So I know it's going to be a big adjustment but I'm also just a little worried about HOW BIG. Like manageable, just more tired at night big? Crying lots of stressed tears every night big? OR like PPD big...?? (PPD = Post partum depression) I'll admit that the fact has crossed my mind that I was "slightly" overwhelmed when I had JUST a newborn to take care of (in addition to myself) but having a newborn AND a toddler...I'm just hoping that, by that time, 21 months of motherhood will have taught me a thing or two and it will be manageable. So before I go off on a big ol' tangent (I just started doing that and deleted a whole bunch of stuff), I will just say that I have 76 days (according to my phone app) to get my head in the right place for baby #2. 


Pray for me.

Bedtime Stories with Jayden

Every night for the past 5 weeks or so we've followed the same bedtime routine in an attempt to get Jayden to quickly and easily fall asleep. Part of the routine is reading the same books every night. The routine doesn't appear to be working but he sure is cute to watch as he reads his books. DJ and Jayden are reading one of his favorite books in this video.