The Graduate

Isabella graduated from Pre-K on June 4! (sniff, sniff) My little girl is growing up! Of course my hormones were still all over the charts since it had just been a week since I had Ava and here I was attending Isabella's graduation. I was casting one out to big girl school and starting all over again raising another little one in this world. Wow.


Anyway, the graduation was precious. Isabella is nervous about going to kinder next year. She is going to miss all of friends and teachers, and she says the big girl school "smells." Hmm...I've got the rest of the summer win her over. We'll see how that goes.

Isaabella and her Poppy








The three Danos girls!


The Graduate!

Ava Marie is here!!!

We welcomed Ava Marie into this world on May 28th at 1:41 p.m. I was scheduled to be induced so we knew that the 28th was going to be her day. When I got to hospital and all hooked up my doctor came in and said that she did not want to break my water just then because she did not like Ava's position. She was back up against my bladder when she had been down in the cervix the week before. The doctor wanted to wait and let the contractions (which I could not feel at this point) do their work and push her back down. She was going to come back around 1:00 and see about breaking my water then and that we would probably have a baby by 6:00 p.m.

So it's somewhere around 10:30 in the morning and I decide to send out a mass text that it was going to be awhile. Well wouldn't you know as soon as I hit the send button my water broke on it's own. Soon I was experiencing pain that I had never experienced in my entire life. You have to understand...with Isabella, she was breech. So they gave me the epidural so that they could turn her before they ever induced labor...I never felt a thing. They finally gave me an epidural and guess what...it didn't fully work so they had to do it again! At this point they could of shoved ten thousand needles in my back...I did not care as long as I knew in the end the pain would go away.

So now Ava was ready but since I had 2 epidurals they knew I wouldn't be able to push. I could feel nothing...ahhh. We were waiting until a little bit of the epidural wore off so I would feel when I was able to push...until the nurse said her head was right there and to call my doctor because we needed to get this baby out. I was able to push her out with no problems. She was 7 pounds 7 ounces. My sister in law called her Lucky 7 because 7 lbs 7oz and I pushed her out in 7 minutes. Anyway she is adorable and I love her. Isabella is in love with her too and loves being a big sister. I've said it before and I will say it again...I am truly blessed. :)


Finally...relief! Knocked out after the drugs!



Mom...helping me thru the whole thing.



Like father, like daughter...the look of pure fear.


Ava Marie...only minutes into this world!


Mommy in-law and Ava

I look a hot mess...excuse the hair. ;)

I have a ton more pictures on my camera that I haven't downloaded yet. Most of these were from my Dad's iPhone. I'll try to post more.