Awww Summer!!!

Being home this summer is giving me a very good idea of what it will be like to finally stay home with my baby. There are SO many things that happen throughout the day that I miss by working. He is at such a fun age right now. He is imitating everything I do. Everything-big or little-catches his attention. Some of these small things are:

• attempting to put my sock on his foot
• handing me the pillows as I make the bed
• rubbing the refridgerator door with his hand as I rub it with a cloth to clean it
• wiping his own hand over a spot where milk spilt just after I wipe it
• combing his hair with his hairbrush
• moving his lips in the same way that I am moving mine
• closing the drawer after he is done playing in it and after he sees me close it
• Having to put the megablocks away before we walk away

Right now, I can't think of anymore things that he does. I'm sure that even if I listed out every little thing he did, tomorrow he would do something new.

Aiden's first mess in the kitchen

So, today I was making some fudge to give to one of Andy's coworkers. (This coworker has given us a lot of clothes, so I was trying to say thank you). I had to make this fudge in two batches. Well, I knew it was getting close to nap time, but I was being daring anyhow. I successfully made the first batch and was getting started on the second one. I had everything measured out and ready to pour in-the cherries, the cocoa powder the butter, the evaporated milk. Just as I was trying to melt the butter in the microwave and pull it out, here comes Aiden. Now, he hasn't pulled anything off the counters yet, but he has tried to touch everything. So I know to put all the items a bit back from the edge on the counters. Today, I thought I had. But, boy was I wrong! The measuring cup with the cocoa powder was just close enough for Aiden to pull it down on top of him. 1/2 cup of cocoa powder EVERYWHERE! I haven't had much experience with small disasters like this, so I was torn between trying to take a picture for memory sake and helping him and cleaning him up. I decided I had to have at least one picture! Then, I would start cleaning it up. Here is the picture:

Aiden is ONE!!!

These pictures are from Aiden's first birthday party. They are actually posted up in the reverse order. The bottom picture is Aiden playing in the ice bucket. The picture above that is showing just how much Aiden enjoyed his cake! The picture above that is Aiden getting ready for his birthday cake. The first picture is actually Aiden taking a much needed nap after all the birthday festivities.

Cheerios!!!!!

Aiden LOVES to play in our pantry. One day he discovered the cheerios and fruit loop boxes are within his reach. He pulled down the box and went ahead and helped himself to the cheerios! I guess he was hungry...

Sleeping Time

For the past year, our method of putting Aiden to sleep at night has been to nurse him to sleep. Since we have hit the year mark, I decided it was time to break that habit and thought he needed to fall asleep on his own. I was kind of waiting until summer break came though in case this change provided us with a few sleepless nights. Two nights ago, Aiden decided that he didn't want to go to sleep so we decided to let him "cry it out". Keep in mind that we are very much against this idea. Well, Aiden cried for a miserable 5 minutes and was alseep! To top it off, he slept and stayed in his bed until 6 the next morning. So, tonight when he was fighting us to sleep we just put him in his bed after a few struggles nursing and rocking. He was fighting sleep again tonight. Once down in his bed though, he put his head down and was totally ready to sleep. After about 5 minutes of rubbing his back, he was fast asleep. We'll see if he once again stays in there until morning, but at least the bedtime process was much better!

Countdown has begun

There are only 42 more days of school! I am very ready for summer to be hre so I can spend each and every day with my sweet angel. I have big plans of relaxing and going to the pool and the beach. Probably a trip to mia's house in there somewhere too. Bring on the warm summer weather!!!

IPhone

So today we got new phones-iPhones. They are so much neater than I ever imagined! There are so many interesting apps than I ever thought! I can even blog from my phone like I am right now. I certainly hope I continue to get a lot of use out of this phone!