I was riding in the car with the two boys today, and Aidan was kicking the back of my seat. I said, "Aidan, stop it." He kicked a little lighter. I said, "Aidan, stop it." He kicked just the tiniest bit, and I said, "You're pushing it, kid." He said, "No, I'm not. I'm TAPPING it."
We've been traveling a lot lately. Three weekends ago, we all went to Jacksonville, and Jared and I ran in the Gate River Run. After that, we drove to Atlanta and spent a few days there before Jared and I flew up to NYC to visit Lisa and meet her boyfriend, Chris. Jared and I had a great time, and it was a nice treat to get to spend one-on-one time together when we weren't with Lisa and Chris. We went out for her birthday and partied "Gator style." The next weekend, we were back in Jacksonville to do the March birthdays thing with my family. Now, we're back in SC, and we're trying to stay put for the next few weeks!
Jared has accepted a position as a flight instructor, and we are moving back to Meridian, MS at the beginning of 2009. It will mean three years of Jared being home, and four if he decides to get out of the military. I am thrilled at the idea of having him home and what it will mean for the boys to have their Dad around all the time! I think it will be so great for our family! We have one more deployment to get through this Fall, but it looks like it's only going to be a 1/2 deployment.
Austin is having a rough patch right now because he is getting his molars, and it is causing him quite a lot of pain. His normally HUGE appetite has decreased a bit because of the pain he is in. He is really amazing at what he is able to do now. He climbs on EVERYTHING, so I have to be extra diligent about watching him and trying to keep up with him. I have to keep the dining room chairs pushed all the way under the table because he climbs in to them and then climbs on to the table. I have found him on the table several times! Austin is also learning a lot of new words. He can say: Da-Da, Ma-Ma, cat, more, bubbles, uh-oh, no, quack quack, and Moo. He's working on lots of other words, and there are times it sounds just like he is saying, "Aidan" or "Grandma." He has gotten SO MUCH better about riding in the car, and he'll even watch a bit of a dvd with Aidan. He is starting to enjoy coloring and painting, and he loves turning the television on and off! His legs are almost long enough to reach the pedals on the big wheel. He scoots along on it, so it will be great when he's tall enough to really get moving!
Aidan is really excelling in preschool now. He is able to read all of his uppercase letters and nearly all of his lowercase ones. He can write his name, cut out shapes, and he is even reading three letter words! I am shocked daily by the things that he understands, and he does not tolerate us trying to get things by him! He and his brother are a constant source of laughter for us, and they are really starting to play and get along together.
I'm determined to stick with this now! More later...
25 March 2008
10 February 2008
No excuses this time, but here's an update...
Well, we're in the second month of 2008. Jared's return from the deployment was wonderful, but the Marine Corps wasted no time whisking him away again for a month this January. He actually gets back tomorrow, so we are VERY excited!
Aidan dove in to preschool and never looked back. He loves his teacher Ms. Sherry, and I love, love, love hearing about his day when I pick him up. It normally goes like this, "Hi Aidan! How was your day? Were you a good boy?" "Hi Mommy! Not really." :-) His teacher has told me that he is an absolute joy, but he just talks too much. I have no idea where he got that (wink, wink!). I am so excited about this summer. Aidan will be turning four, and so many more doors will be opened for him as far as activities like soccer, karate, and T-ball. I want us all to be super busy so the deployment this Fall goes as quickly as possible! Aidan's adorable personality constantly has me in stitches. He loves to start sentences with, "Actually." He is getting to be quite the converser on the phone as well.
Austin, our sweet, little bully, is just growing so fast! He no longer looks like a little baby, and his face has taken on that "little boy" look. He knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it, so I really have to work to keep up with him! He has learned how to clap and stomp along to, "If you're happy and you know it." He is finally saying, "Ma-ma" consistently, and he follows Aidan around with the adoration that only a little brother can show!
More later... my little climber is standing on the arm of the couch looking like he's going to "fly."
Aidan dove in to preschool and never looked back. He loves his teacher Ms. Sherry, and I love, love, love hearing about his day when I pick him up. It normally goes like this, "Hi Aidan! How was your day? Were you a good boy?" "Hi Mommy! Not really." :-) His teacher has told me that he is an absolute joy, but he just talks too much. I have no idea where he got that (wink, wink!). I am so excited about this summer. Aidan will be turning four, and so many more doors will be opened for him as far as activities like soccer, karate, and T-ball. I want us all to be super busy so the deployment this Fall goes as quickly as possible! Aidan's adorable personality constantly has me in stitches. He loves to start sentences with, "Actually." He is getting to be quite the converser on the phone as well.
Austin, our sweet, little bully, is just growing so fast! He no longer looks like a little baby, and his face has taken on that "little boy" look. He knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it, so I really have to work to keep up with him! He has learned how to clap and stomp along to, "If you're happy and you know it." He is finally saying, "Ma-ma" consistently, and he follows Aidan around with the adoration that only a little brother can show!
More later... my little climber is standing on the arm of the couch looking like he's going to "fly."
06 August 2007
"Alphabet Soup"
Warning... disgusting information to be passed on...
Yesterday, Aidan called me in to the bathroom to see his masterpiece. He told me that it looked like ABC soup.
Yummy???
Yesterday, Aidan called me in to the bathroom to see his masterpiece. He told me that it looked like ABC soup.
Yummy???
24 July 2007
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!
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!
10 July 2007
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.
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.
17 May 2007
Our new pet
Well, we have a new addition to the family. It's another boy, and his name is Loddy. I asked Aidan what he wanted to name his new fish, and that's what he said. I found it to be pretty funny, and also very close to the word Daddy which he has been saying so much lately. We went to Petsmart today to get food for Tucker and came out with a fish bowl, fish food, rocks for our new fish bowl, fish water purifier, and Loddy, our Betta fish. Aidan fed him for the first time tonight, and he wanted to keep giving him more and more. Luckily he remembers the book that his Dad reads him about the fish that got so big he had to live in a swimming pool. :-)
Today the boys and I ran several errands, and they held up tremendously. I can put them both in the double shopping cart (the one that has the steering wheels for them to "drive"), so it makes things much easier now. When we were at Petsmart, though, Aidan was pushing Austin around in the umbrella stroller. It was so cute, and I wish I had had the camera with me. I actually wish I could find the camera at all right now, but that's no big surprise!
Austin is officially "spoiled" now, and he will cry/squeal when he doesn't get his way or a toy gets taken away from him. It's really so funny; it's the highest pitch sound, and he throws himself backward as he does it. He, unfortunately, does a very similar sound when he gets hurt. He really gets ANGRY when he hurts himself. When he gets put in his crib now when he doesn't want to be there, he will immediately pull himself up and stand there and cry. He's ok to be in the crib as long as I'm in the room with him, but when he sees me heading for the door, it's over. He also stands up in the middle of the night when he wakes up. He's just so strong! I keep repeating it because I am just so shocked at all of the new things that he is doing.
Aidan is getting much better at using the potty now. If we're home all day, he doesn't need a diaper at all. He will go every time to the potty. As soon as I put a diaper on him, though, he forgets all about it. He told me today as we were returning home, "I just peed in my diaper." I asked him why, and he said, "because it's MY diaper!" Good enough reason, I guess! He now knows almost all the words to Route 66 and loves to sing along to it in the car. He also has a new obsession with the phrase "$2000 dollars." I have no idea where he heard it, but the amount has come up several times lately. Kids are so amazing! :-)
I'm off to look for the camera again...
Today the boys and I ran several errands, and they held up tremendously. I can put them both in the double shopping cart (the one that has the steering wheels for them to "drive"), so it makes things much easier now. When we were at Petsmart, though, Aidan was pushing Austin around in the umbrella stroller. It was so cute, and I wish I had had the camera with me. I actually wish I could find the camera at all right now, but that's no big surprise!
Austin is officially "spoiled" now, and he will cry/squeal when he doesn't get his way or a toy gets taken away from him. It's really so funny; it's the highest pitch sound, and he throws himself backward as he does it. He, unfortunately, does a very similar sound when he gets hurt. He really gets ANGRY when he hurts himself. When he gets put in his crib now when he doesn't want to be there, he will immediately pull himself up and stand there and cry. He's ok to be in the crib as long as I'm in the room with him, but when he sees me heading for the door, it's over. He also stands up in the middle of the night when he wakes up. He's just so strong! I keep repeating it because I am just so shocked at all of the new things that he is doing.
Aidan is getting much better at using the potty now. If we're home all day, he doesn't need a diaper at all. He will go every time to the potty. As soon as I put a diaper on him, though, he forgets all about it. He told me today as we were returning home, "I just peed in my diaper." I asked him why, and he said, "because it's MY diaper!" Good enough reason, I guess! He now knows almost all the words to Route 66 and loves to sing along to it in the car. He also has a new obsession with the phrase "$2000 dollars." I have no idea where he heard it, but the amount has come up several times lately. Kids are so amazing! :-)
I'm off to look for the camera again...
15 May 2007
My first compliment???
Well, it's just after 7:00 AM, and both kids are up, so it's not a great start to the day. I'll just keep my fingers crossed that Aidan is going to nap today. He actually woke up before Austin, which hasn't happened in... well, ever. I made the mistake of telling him last night that we were going to the movie theater this morning. I guess it was sort of like Christmas to him because it was the first thing he said to me this morning. Rookie mistake that I won't be making again...
Yesterday I took the boys to get their pictures done. I thought I'd hop in to one with them, so I actually put something nice on and did my hair and makeup. Aidan looked at me and asked, "You're kind of lovely?" I laughed so hard, which he found quite funny. I wasn't sure how to take it; was it a compliment or a reminder that perhaps I should take a little time to make myself look nicer each day? Either way, it's a great memory! While I was getting ready, Aidan was playing in my room. When he brought me something that is normally in my jewelry box, I knew it wasn't going to be a good site awaiting me. I was right... he had the jewelry box tipped over and all of the drawers and their contents all over the floor. Now that may not seem like a big deal because I don't have much jewelry, but I keep all of my spare buttons in my jewelry box, and they were everywhere!
Austin is waving hello now, and Aidan's new phrase is, "Oh my gosh!" Aidan is also very "good" at throwing my words back at me. For example, he is telling me not to talk back to him and not to tell him what to do. It's a great lesson in patience for me, and right now, I'm failing miserably.
The pictures we took turned out ok. I went mainly to get a few of Austin while he's still "little." Aidan didn't deal too well with the attention being on Austin, and he kept setting up his own props and posing just like Austin, saying, "Look at me!" All in all though, both boys did a great job. Austin didn't want to sit still for long, so we had to carefully snap pictures between he crawled away. I got a few cute pictures out of it. It's amazing how the photographer took 30 pictures of my gorgeous children, and only about five or six turned out to be cute. It's a mystery...
Yesterday I took the boys to get their pictures done. I thought I'd hop in to one with them, so I actually put something nice on and did my hair and makeup. Aidan looked at me and asked, "You're kind of lovely?" I laughed so hard, which he found quite funny. I wasn't sure how to take it; was it a compliment or a reminder that perhaps I should take a little time to make myself look nicer each day? Either way, it's a great memory! While I was getting ready, Aidan was playing in my room. When he brought me something that is normally in my jewelry box, I knew it wasn't going to be a good site awaiting me. I was right... he had the jewelry box tipped over and all of the drawers and their contents all over the floor. Now that may not seem like a big deal because I don't have much jewelry, but I keep all of my spare buttons in my jewelry box, and they were everywhere!
Austin is waving hello now, and Aidan's new phrase is, "Oh my gosh!" Aidan is also very "good" at throwing my words back at me. For example, he is telling me not to talk back to him and not to tell him what to do. It's a great lesson in patience for me, and right now, I'm failing miserably.
The pictures we took turned out ok. I went mainly to get a few of Austin while he's still "little." Aidan didn't deal too well with the attention being on Austin, and he kept setting up his own props and posing just like Austin, saying, "Look at me!" All in all though, both boys did a great job. Austin didn't want to sit still for long, so we had to carefully snap pictures between he crawled away. I got a few cute pictures out of it. It's amazing how the photographer took 30 pictures of my gorgeous children, and only about five or six turned out to be cute. It's a mystery...
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