I think he said Mama!

Well, Austin has been content to only say the word "Hi" so far, but yesterday, he looked at me while sitting in the high chair and (I think) said, "Mama." I was so excited! I asked Aidan, "Did Austin just say Mama?" Aidan said, "Austin can't talk." Well, there you have it. :-)

Aidan has fallen in love with the school bus floor puzzle that his Nana got for him. It is a 35 piece puzzle, and he can put the entire thing together by himself! This from the child that screams and throws his toys across the room when they don't cooperate with what he is trying to do. Yesterday, in my Harry Potter reading session, I noticed Aidan was playing so quietly by himself. I looked over at him, and he was about two pieces away from being completely done with the puzzle. I was shocked! He put it together probably six more times yesterday! Perhaps this will teach him to be more patient with his toys? Perhaps I should try working it and gaining a little patience as well! :-)

Austin is obsessed with climbing the stairs. I have got to go get a baby gate, which I never had for Aidan, because Austin is just so fast. Two days ago, I was in the kitchen and Austin crawled on to the tile floor of the foyer. I put down what I was doing to go get him, and when I got there, he was already two stairs up! He is just so cute (for now - haha!) when he doesn't get his way. He has quite the temper for such a little baby. He'll scream this staccato like high pitched scream and his face turns so red. He's still eating like a champ, and I am anxious to see how he scores when he returns to the doctor soon. I think even though Jared has seen him so often on Webcam, he will be shocked at just how "grown" his youngest is. Speaking of which, we have about 60 days left on this deployment. Jared told me the date for his next deployment is tentatively set at next September. Guess we'll be having a really late Christmas - or else a really expensive one where we'll buy tickets to Japan!

Another LONG break...

Well, I can blame it a little on our computer breaking (again!) and a lot on the traveling we've been doing lately, but it has been about 6 weeks since I last wrote. I had my 10 year high school reunion last month, and the next day, Austin fell off the bed at the hotel and broke his arm. I spent an extra week in Jacksonville taking care of getting his doctor's appointments and his arm casted, and then we headed back to South Carolina to pack for our planned trip to Nana and Guka's house. We've been here two weeks, and I can proudly say that Aidan is nearly 100% potty trained. He has been consistently waking up dry, but I'm not quite ready to put him in his "big boy pants" for the night. He's doing great with it though. We had a few hiccups with #2, but he's doing much better now. He had a funny trip recently where he told me, "Wow, that's a lot of poo poo!" Jordan thought that was hysterical! :-) He likes his privacy during these trips, and he'll let you know to "Get owwa here!" until he's ready.

Austin is able to get around very well with his cast. He has a new, "gimp" crawl where he sort of hops with his right side. I know that he and I are both VERY ready for that cast to come off. Just two more days, and he'll (hopefully!) be rid of it (dare I say forever?). He is waving at anyone and everyone (including people on television) and saying, "Hi!" He will also say, "Dada" if we're looking at pictures. He is eating like a champ (no baby food, of course!), and is getting closer and closer to walking. He just got over a case of Roseola, and he's feeling much better now.

With a mother's love, I can write that Aidan is going through a "difficult" phase. I am struggling with how to discipline him from this latest phase, but we seem to have made a little progress in the last two days. He's being an "angle" (his word for angel) so far today. :-)

I think that sufficiently catches us up on the general things that have been going on. I will again pledge to do better at writing.