Five Things Friday

• We are going on day 9 without Daddy being home. He is off in Sydney leading a training. Am I jealous? Um yes! We thought about figuring out a way to have me go with him, but I’m thinking my first trip away from Adelaide probably should not be halfway around the world. :) Check out his hotel room view though…

• Aedan only has one more week of school. When I think back about his first day, he seems like such a toddler then (and I was much rounder!). Now he seems like a little preschooler! We have had such a wonderful year and LOVE his teachers so much, it is going to be sad for it to end.

• Yesterday I hosted a play group for the babies in my moms group. It was a little less crazy than Aedan’s play group, ha! It was fun to get together with some moms with little ones Adelaide’s age. I think Adelaide was surprised to see babies at her house since it usually always bigger kids.
• This is one of Aedan’s school pictures. I don’t have a digital copy and our scanner is broken so this is a picture of the picture. But seriously, how cute is he? His teacher said it was all nervous at first and then all of a sudden just started posing for the camera. Ha!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

-Lauren-

So Different

We can already tell that Aedan and Adelaide have pretty different personalities. It’s so fun to see little differences come out.

I shot this little clip of Adelaide’s reaction to the vacuum cleaner.

It makes me laugh because it is a much different reaction from Aedan’s at just a few months older. :)

-Lauren-

Siblings

Now that Adelaide is getting older and more interactive, it is so fun to watch both kids interact.

She loves Aedan. If she is upset and he comes over, she immediately smiles at him. When he is upset, she gets a really worried look on her face. In fact on day last week, Aedan was pretending to be a baby crying and after watching him with a worried look for a bit, she started crying with him. Lovely. Ha!

Aedan is liking her attention too. He loves when I sit with her in my lap and narrate whatever he is doing. He will look over and tell me to make her “wook” at him.

He also likes to tickle her and obviously she likes it too. :)

-Lauren-

The Eye Brow

When I dropped Aedan off at school earlier this week, his teacher showed me a picture she had of Jon and Aedan. She thought it was funny because Jon was doing his eye brow thing. I laughed and told her that Adelaide can do the same thing…

She makes a lot of the same faces Jon does. I think she may look a little more like me when I was a baby, but she definitely takes after Jon a bunch.

-Lauren-

Quick Draw

A few months ago we (read: Jon) thought it would be fun to get Aedan some “lasers” to play with. We bought one Star Wars one and then a set of Toy Story ones. The Star Wars one is a bigger hit and right after we bought it, Jon said he wished he had gotten one too so they could play together.

So over the weekend while I was at Target, I picked up a second one. That night Jon and Aedan stayed up way past Aedan’s bedtime hunting the giant (aka Hiro). It was a huge it!

This is pretty much what goes on around here all the time…

Aedan is so dramatic! This was right before bedtime thus the no pants, but honestly he rarely wears pants around the house regardless of the time. When we get home from being out, he will tell me he needs to take off his shoes, socks and pants. Ha! The other day, I asked him if he just wanted to wear shorts with no shirt. He looked at me like I was crazy and told me that would be silly. :)

-Lauren-

This and That

I had a great Mother’s Day weekend. On Saturday, we met up with Jon’s extended family for brunch and then just came home and relaxed all afternoon. Sunday was more of the same. Hanging out and relaxing at home.

Yesterday it was warm enough for us to go to the pool after nap time. I think Adelaide is about done with her late afternoon catnap, which is perfect because now we can easily go out in the early evening. We met up with some friends at the pool in the neighborhood next to ours. Aedan at a blast and Adelaide was pretty content just sitting in my lap.

I got Aedan and Adelaide’s swim suits at different times and different stores, but they ended up coordinating perfectly. They looked so cute. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures because going to the pool with two little ones keeps you pretty busy. :)

I did get this cute one at bath time. I can’t believe she is already old enough to sit in the bath ring. This morning I took her to the grocery store and let her sit in the cart for the first time. I think time really does go by faster with the second baby!

I am on day 18 of the 30 Day Shred. It has by far the furthest I have gotten in the program since I bought the DVD 3 years ago! I skipped on weekend day in level 1 and I skipped one day in level 2, but other than that I have been doing it every day. So far so good. I measured myself after level 1 and had some good results. Hopefully I will have even better ones to share after levels 2 and 3!

I have also been going to Zumba at the gym. It is super fun, I’m really enjoying it.

I’m thinking about printing out my blog in book form since it is basically our family scrapbook. Anyone have an programs they recommend for doing so? Originally I was going to do it by topic, like have a book with all of Aedan’s monthly updates and one with Adelaide’s. But the more I think about it, I think I want to just do a yearly one. I like going back and reading the random weekend updates or mid week phone picture posts. Hopefully someday Aedan and Adelaide will like to go back and read about them too.

-Lauren-

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s day to our mothers and grandmothers. We love you all very much!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!

-Lauren-