A week of stuff

What have we been up to? Well, it all started on Thursday morning when Mike went golfing with his boss and some big wigs from his company. Crazy, right? It was supposed to be 112 degrees that day and Mike doesn't do well in the heat, but he managed to survive. He then headed to an appt in Glendale. On his way home, his car died!!!! It was almost rush hour and it was 112 degrees and he was sitting on the side of the freeway. AHHH! I was freaked out. This is my worst nightmare, well not exactly, but close. I had to stop Ava from eating dinner and rush in the car to go and get him. He thought that he ran out of gas, so I had to get him, get gas and bring him back. That didn't work. We had to get it towed. It was a dead battery coupled with being out of gas. Question: for someone who insists on having 4 big bins of emergency food and a 75 gallon thing of water stored away in case of an national disaster, how does he run out of gas being a sales man???? I don't know. I am just as perplexed as you. At least it didn't happen on our way to LA, which we are leaving for on Friday morning, bright and early (3am).

We went to a pool party on Saturday. It was equally as hot on Saturday. I thought the pool felt good, since it was so hot outside. If you weren't in the pool, though, you had to be inside. It was just too hot. I am ready for the summer to be over. I know that I have at least 2 more months of this heat and then at least it won't still be 100 degrees at night or like this morning, it was 95 degrees at 5am with a 35% humidity.
On Sunday, Ava was practicing her yoga. On one of her videos, they do yoga. If you ask her to do yoga, this is what you get.....

It's her downward dog and I can't remember the name of the first one. Daddy was doing it with her.

On Mike's golf outing, one of the bosses gave Mike a golf club (I should know which kind, but I don't) for working so hard. He was stoked and so was Ava to play with it.

I was afraid of her hurting something, but she did fine.

As I said, we are getting ready to go to LA on Friday. I am dreading the drive. It is 6 hours and Ava doesn't like to sit in her car seat. I am hoping she will sleep or at least be quiet for the first 3 hours. About 3 to 3 1/2 hours in there is a rest stop with a restaurant. We plan to stop and have breakfast and let her run around a bit and then get back on the road. That is when the fun will begin. I will probably have to sit in the back and read book after book after book after book. Can you see how enthused I am??? I am going to bring my portable DVD player and play her videos, which aren't long, but I am going to try. I don't know how she will do with them for 2 reasons. 1) she loves to dance to them, so I am afraid that she is going to get fussy to get out of her car seat and dance. 2) she loves to touch electronic devices and I think she is going to spend the time trying to and succeeding to push all the buttons. So we will see. Only time will tell. I have already started packing and was hoping to have most of it done this weekend, but know I will have last minute things to do on Wednesday and Thursday.

I finally had to suck it up and buy some maternity close this weekend. It was a matter of one week and things that used to fit, don't. I want to be comfortable and look presentable in LA, so I went to get some new things. I went through my old maternity clothes, but it was just that, old. I didn't have a lot of summer stuff. I think I wore a lot of dresses last summer. I know I wore a lot of long ones, which just don't seem appealing to me in this heat this year. I didn't want to just get the next size up in clothes, because then it doesn't fit in other areas and maternity pants are just so darn comfortable. I bought a couple of "grow with me/after me" shirts, as I like to call them. They work now, although about a month too big, but will also be nice after I give birth. Last time, I wore a lot of tight shirts to show off my belly, but after the baby is born, not so cute. So this time I am getting more prepared. There are not a lot of places to shop for pregnant woman. There is Motherhood maternity, Gap maternity and Target. Other than that, there is the destination maternity in Scottsdale, which is one big store of 3 stores put together. It has motherhood maternity, pea in a pod and one other. They have good stuff too, but some of it is really expensive. I like Gap the best and Target and Motherhood are good for basic tops.