What's New?!

Hayden and Ava's new ride. We really debated which double stroller to get. We love the versatility of our single stroller since it's good for any type of terrain so we wanted something similar in a double. It came down to the Bumbleride Twin Indie or the Valco and we ultimately decided on the Valco. Now the color decision was a little more difficult. We didn't want red since our single was red and we wanted something different. I really liked the Sunrise Navy/Orange combo, but that was last year's model going for the same price as this year's model, but the new models have some upgrades such as the shade being bigger. Finally it came to pistacchio or the Boy Meets girl, but I was leaning away from the boy meets girl. Josh talked me into it. What's nice about the boy meets girl color is that it came fully accessorized with foot muffs, a rain cover, a sunshade, and cupholder. What made up my mind on the Valco was that when you close it there's a lock and the Bumbleride didn't have that and people found that it would open up as it was put into the trunk. The valco has a nice basket underneath like most strollers, but also has saddle bag pouches on both sides of the basket as well as pouches behind each hood. It's a great place to put sunscreen, extra pacifiers for Ava (when she'll take one), or snacks.

Ava is now 5 months old as of yesterday and not much is new with her. She's very expressive and is such a happy go lucky baby. I came down with the stomach flu on Wednesday night and Josh took Hayden to work with him at the new office where the playroom is huge and has a giant pirate ship for him to climb all over. It's like a continuation of his bedroom! But, Ava was a dream baby. She slept a lot and let mommy rest or she was just happy playing. Then last night Josh came home from work not feeling well and he was up late being sick into the night too. Today we are just getting rested up and rehydrated. So far the kids are showing no signs of getting sick and we hope it stays that way. Josh has to get better because Hayden's Christmas present from Bibi is coming via UPS today(his play kitchen). He had gotten one play kitchen that we brought home with us from Colorado and when I went to set it up half of it was missing (only one box of two was shipped). I called Amazon and they told me a replacement was being sent and should arrive Monday or Tuesday of the following week. By Friday we had no kitchen so Josh called back and I guess the other customer service rep was wrong and they weren't sending a replacement and the kitchen we got was no longer in stock! Ugh. So they issued a refund and we picked out a different one. No big deal.

"I love my big brother," Ava says.

Hayden giving some attention to Ava

Hayden loved playing with Josh's wallet so we got him a cheap one for him to play with and I put some old cards in it for him.

Hayden and his bed head after waking up from his nap