Wagon for the beach!

We were concerned with how to keep Aiden occupied at the beach. I think we are on the right track. Plus, it's his birthday gift. Here he is enjoying it!

He loves to push it around the living room!

Aaron and Ali really enjoy it too! They love to pull him in the wagon.


I just don't think he wants to share it with Duke.


Here is our garden now. The tomatoes are getting ready to become my first tomato sandwich of the summer!!! I'm so excited!

Frosty Monster

I didn't realize I had created a frosty monster! One who adores all things frozen and yummy! If he hears the wrapper of a popsicle, he races toward you. Well today, we enjoyed very small frosty's from Wendy's. Here is the frosty monster!



No teeth yet, but he is very cranky and chewing on everything!

Day of Firsts!

My sweet boy had his first haircut Thursday! I missed it because I am on the committee doing our school interviews. He couldn't push his hair out of his eyes and it was beginning to bother him.

Here's a before shot.

Here's an after shot.

Pssst! Grammie...please stop reading now, unless you can stand what he has already done.












Another first for Aiden is . . . he took two steps unaided by me or a piece of furniture!!! We tried to get the video camera out to record it, but he was scared by our squeals!

Feeling great!

Although I haven't been losing the weight like I really wanted to and life is living up to Murphy's Law, I do feel like I'm working toward a goal. I feel good about me.

• Hopefully, the skin cancer is taken care of for at least 3 years (the time I need before my cancer ins. will cover it)!
  
• I just finished my Couch to 5k program!
  
• I get to go back to Kindergarten!
  
• I supported Relay for Life from 12:40 am until 7 am yesterday (It was incredible)!
  
• My wonderful family is always there for me!
  

Even though sometimes life is difficult, I know that this is just a rough patch and the good things above will get me through it. In my head the old Baptist Hymn is playing "Because he lives, I can face tomorrow!" I wish my church would sing this one more! I wish life had background music, because I hear it all of the time:)
Happy Sunday to everyone!

Strawberry Farm

We decided to go to a strawberry farm to get strawberries to make jam. I did this when Ali and Aaron were little. I thought it would be a fun outing for all. It was great!!!! Everyone was happy! We even enjoyed some fresh strawberry ice cream-we shared it!

Daddy and Aiden watched for a few minutes.

Flat Stanley came along on our outing. He's been visiting all the way from CT and will go back to my dear friend's daughter's classroom soon.

Aiden loved walking around and sitting in between the rows.

Daddy and Aiden finally got busy!

Mommy and Aiden rested for a while!


This was so much fun! Aaron and Ali enjoyed picking the strawberries. I really wish you could taste the warm, sweetness!

While we waited for our ice cream, the children played in the corn bin. My class usually takes their fall fieldtrip here and all of the students love this bin! Aiden was absolutely fascinated with the corn!

Busy little baby bumblebee

Aiden is purely about investigating everything. I have enjoyed watching him discover how things work. Every time I pick up his toys, he pulls them back out. It's one of our new games. Another game I started (that I wish I hadn't) is him squealing and me telling him "ohh, you scared me!" Then he giggles heartily and squeals again-waiting on me.


Oh, he has started crawling and now he's trying to walk! He's only been crawling for 2-3 weeks and now taking steps and then falling. He's making me nervous and crazy!!!!

Prison walls for baby Aiden

Aiden now has a few prison walls to keep him out of places of danger. He is fascinated with them! I am happy because they were a great deal!!!!

Warriors...huuh!

Aaron wanted to play football, but didn't tell us right away. Since he never asks for anything...we said that he could. Now, he's #6 for the Skipstone Warriors! I have a vision of him headlocked with an opponent at one end of the field while the game has already gone to the other end.

Here he is entertaining Aiden with "5th position, huuh!" Aiden is laughing and loves watching his brother do this!

Enjoyable outing

We took Ali, Aiden, and Kayla to the BBQ & Blues festival in Barnesville. Aaron went to a youth party at church. It was fun, but I'm just swollen and the heat makes it difficult.

He loved playing with these branches.

Ali helped me get a picture of Flat Stanley for a Kindergarten class in CT. They read the book all about Stanley.These glasses were dark enough to hide my swelling so I could go. I was trying not to laugh because it pulls the stitches, but Aiden was so cute and funny!

Daddy and Aiden had the most fun!

This lovely mark popped up on Aiden's forehead after he fell. I can tell he takes after daddy! He is climbing on everything!

Twilight

I just happened to rent Twilight for my niece when she stayed with us. Well, since watching the movie, I've read the book. I think I'm going to get the next book. Am I hooked? Well, I might just see the movie again.

Sunday moments

We are enjoying this lazy Sunday. We went to church and came home to homemade chili-cheese fries. Now, we're just listening to daddy tinker with the riding lawn mower (Murphy's law), watching Aiden crawl and roll the ball back, and watching Jon & Kate plus 8.

It took an enormous amount of coaxing to get all three together and smiling!

Daddy wanted a picture like mommy's pic.

4-H

I am so proud of Ali! She has done something that most adults would die rather than do! It's the number one fear of adults: Public Speaking. She competed against other 4-H'ers in our district and enjoyed it! She spoke about making her bulletin board and what was involved. A parent of another 4-h'er bragged on her. Anyway, I am very happy for her and glad that she is happy.
She placed 2nd in her category! Yea!

Here she is with a few of her friends.


They are waiting to find out the rest of the winners. I am a very tacky mom! After Ali got her ribbon and I got her friend's ribbon (she had to leave), we left. When we were leaving, I kicked some elderly lady's air cast and almost tripped. She was peeved!


These girls are so interesting to listen to. They are so much more pc at 10-11 than I was at 20. Looking at this picture makes me think the future won't be so terrible! These girls are our future leaders!!!!!!!

Percentile Updates

Grandparents and Great grans....

Aiden's updates are:
Height = 75 %
Weight = 70%
Head Circumference = 80%

The doctor was great. We did wait almost 45 minutes because she had to answer phone calls, but we love her and have seen her since Aaron was born. He weighed 22lbs. which I thought he weighed more.

I would love to post pics of all 3 kids, but they're not cooperating. Aaron is attached to his video games, but wants to try out for his school's football team. Ali is practicing her speech for her 4-H project competition this Saturday. We'll also have my niece and nephew this Friday and Saturday...busy weekend!

Aiden in the grass

Aiden is not fond of grass. I tried to get him to get the eggs, but he almost had an attack because the grass felt funny.


I am in love with this smile!!!!

Storm damage and easter bunnies

Here are pics of our friendly easter bunnies along with some damage to a pecan tree. I wish I could share how the big E got this down, but you'd wet yourself laughing so hard.