Two Years Old

Today is Aedan’s second birthday!! We had his birthday party on Sunday and we all had so much fun! I will do a full party post later this week. For now, I thought I would share this little survey.  I have seen this on a few other blogs and I thought it would be fun to fill out for Aedan. Hopefully I can keep it up and fill it out each year as he gets older.

1. What is your favorite color? I’m not too sure, but I think maybe red. He tends to grab red items when given the choice.

2. What is your favorite toy? For sure his hammer and vacuum. *edit: I wrote this last week, and since his party he is now all about his new drill, shopping cart (for carrying his tools of course) and his new shovel and rake. *

3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberries, he would probably eat them 24/7 if I let him.

4. What is your favorite TV show? Bob the Builder, Diego, or Elmo (aka Sesame Street)

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Quesadilla, or cheese and crackers and yogurt

6. What is your favorite outfit? I don’t think he has a favorite outfit, but he loves to be able to run around the house in just a t-shirt and diaper.

7. What is your favorite game? Any kind of wrestling/tickling game with Daddy.

8. What is your favorite snack? Z-bars

9. What is your favorite animal? BaBar the elephant. He found it at my parents house because it used to be mine, and he has slept with it ever since.

10. What is your favorite song? That’s a tough one, but probably Head Shoulders Knees and Toes or the Hot Dog song.

11. What is your favorite book? Richard Scary’s Busy Town Best First Book. He loves looking at all the different pages, especially when he finds a hammer, vacuum or lawnmower in the picture.

12. Who is your best friend? Probably Daddy or Hiro. Although he loves this little baby at his sitter’s house names Ava.

13. What is your favorite cereal? Cheerios

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Kick a soccer ball, move around rocks, and “fix” the fence with his tools.

15. What is your favorite drink? For sure milk, but lemonade would be a close second.

16. What is your favorite holiday? I’m not sure, but he did have a blast at Christmas.

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Babar usually lives in his crib, so that and his “num num” (blanket).

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Eggs and waffles just like his Daddy.

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? He would be in heaven if I just gave him French fries.

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Not sure, but he loves cleaning and fixing things so something along those lines would be my guess if he answered this today.

Happy Birthday sweet boy! We can not believe you are two years old! We love you so so so much!!

-Lauren-

Is it Friday Yet??

This week has been creeping by so slow.

Part of it has to do with the fact that Jon is leading a training all week. He is out the door by 7am and usually not home until 6:30/7pm. Since he usually works from home, we are pretty used to seeing him all the time, so it basically feels like he is out of town for the second week in a row!

The other reason is that we have a big weekend coming up with Aedan's birthday party. We have lots of family coming into town and I can't wait to see everyone! The only problem is Aedan seems to have a cold now. Sigh. Hopefully some rest tomorrow and Saturday will be all he needs to feel better!

I have a long grocery list of things to pick up tomorrow and then lots of cooking/baking to do on Saturday. Luckily I should be able to get most everything done on Saturday so I don't have to worry about much the day of his party (Sunday). Plus my sister and her friend are staying with us and will be here to help out Sunday before everyone comes over which will be perfect!

Now I'm off to cuddle my almost two year old, while we watch Bob the Builder. :)




-Lauren-
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Five Things Friday

This is a little late…so I guess it could be Five things Saturday, but that doesn’t make sense. :)

• Jon was out of town from early Sunday morning until yesterday evening. He got back just in time to go out to dinner at Trudy’s. Yum! We are so glad to have him home! Aedan immediately wanted him to wrestle. Apparently, I am good at taking care of him, but not so good at the rough housing.
• Unfortunately Jon is leading some overnight jobs this weekend so he is going to have to be up all night tonight. I’m thinking that may limit our plans tomorrow. Then next week he is leading a training and will have to be up in Round Rock Monday-Friday. He is busy busy and we are going to miss having him around the house during that day for another week.
• Today was Dr. Seuss’s birthday so there was a special story time at the library. It was crazy! There were even kids with green hair. Aedan and his friends paid attention to the story for about 2.5 seconds and then they all wanted to go play with the train set. I mean come on. Why sit and listen to the librarian who doesn’t even show the pictures and goes on and on about the history of Dr. Seuss, when you could be having fun with trains (especially when you are 2 (or almost 2). The librarian may or may not have been a little annoyed, but such is life.

• The weather has been pretty warm lately (today it was 80) so Aedan and I have been spending a lot of time outside. I love love love that we have a variety of parks we can visit without having to worry about traffic. It is amazing!
• The Kite Festival is this Sunday. I am hoping we make it out for a little while because I think Aedan would love it! Here is Jon and I the weekend we met at the Kite Festival 7 years ago!

 

-Lauren-

All Better

I am happy to say that Aedan is completely back to normal. His RSV ended up turning into bronchitis, but we got him on some antibiotics on Friday and by yesterday he was doing MUCH better.

We had some errands to run this morning and Aedan feel asleep in the car. Usually if he falls asleep for a few minutes he is still fine going down for a nap later, but this time it was a little too close to nap time. He was out. I even heard him snore a little. Needless to say when we got home, he thought nap time was done for the day. Sigh.

Since he really didn’t nap and I didn’t want to hang around the house all afternoon with a cranky toddler, we loaded up and headed across the street for a walk. I took the long path and we walk (well I walked and Aedan rode in the stroller) for 30 minutes to a park, played for a good 45 minutes and then walked the 30 minutes back to the car. It was perfect. I got some good walking in and Aedan got to rest in the stroller. Then at the park, we ran into another mom I know from story time and her daughter, so Aedan had a blast playing.

The other nice thing about no nap days, is Aedan will go to bed super early. I put him down around 6:45 and haven’t heard a peep from him since.

So with that, I am off to enjoy a relaxing evening. :) But first here is a cute picture I found on my camera. I think I probably took it sometime in December.

-Lauren-

Five Things Friday

1. I am so glad it's Friday!!

2. Usually I try to only go to the grocery store once a week, but I always forget one thing. Seriously, it never fails, I will forget one item. The worst part is, I will remember the item when I get in the car to go home (you know, after I have loaded all my groceries in the car, buckled Aedan in his carseat and started backing it of the parking spot). It's annoying. I think it used to annoy Jon too, but now he just laughs at me when I get home and tell him what I forgot to get.

SO, this week I am trying something new out. We (Aedan and I) are going to the grocery store twice. Once at the beginning of the week and then again today. I like the idea of going twice because it means less meals I have to plan for at one and less to buy at once. We'll see how it goes...

3. I was sick all weekend with some kind of virus. My only real symptom was a fever with body aches and chills. No fun. A least it only lasted 3 days! I was bummed that it fell on the weekend because no one likes to be sick on Saturday and Sunday. But I am so glad Jon was able to entertain Aedan because I definitely did not feel up to it!

4. Speaking of sick, Aedan came down with something Monday night. He didn't have a fever until yesterday, just lots of congestion and a couch. His cough seemed to get a lot worse yesterday so I took him to the doctor. He tested positive for RSV. Poor guy. Hopefully he will start to feel better soon! Until then, he is basically on a milk diet because he refuses to eat anything else and neither of us is sleep well because he is up coughing and I am up worrying about him.

5. I'm sending out invites for Aedan's birthday party this weekend. We are just going to do a low key thing at home with friends and family. I'm so excited we have enough space to have everyone over! Now I just have to figure it what kind of food to serve...

-Lauren-

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Aedan–23 Months

I cannot believe in less than one month, my baby is going to be two!!

I haven’t done an update in forever. I was going to wait until his birthday, but I thought I would do a quick update now incase I forget then.

Aedan, here is what you are up  to these days…

• I am guessing you weigh between 25-28 lbs., but I have no idea. You have definitely gotten taller in the last few weeks because all of a sudden your 18 month pants are way too short. You officially wear 2T in everything.
• I just bought you a new pair of shoes in size 7. They are a little big, but they work. It’s the last baby/toddler size. Next time we will be looking at big boy shoes!
• You still sleep from 7:30/8 pm-7:30/8 am. You take an afternoon nap from about 12:30-3:30 everyday. Some days you sleep longer and some days you wake up after 2.5 hours, but 3 hours is your typical nap.
• You still love milk and probably drink way too much of it on a daily basis.
• You have some days were you eat great and then a lot of days were you eat like a bird. On the days you eat well some of your favorite foods are eggs, waffles, oatmeal, quesadillas, soup (Daddy gave you split pea soup last week and you loved it, you must not be my child after all) :), rice, chicken, spinach, peas, cucumber, black beans, strawberries, chips, string cheese, peanut butter, apples and yogurt.
• You talk all the time! I have completely lost count of the number of words you use everyday and you seem to be picking more up daily. I hear “what this?” a lot during the day. You want me to label everything you don’t know. You are starting to use a lot of 2-4 word statements and questions which is really fun to hear.
• You have way too many toys, but your favorites would have to be you toy vacuum and your tool set. You love to play with blocks, legos and cars inside and your golf clubs and soccer ball outside.
• You love to be around people (which is so different from how you were as a newborn, then you hated to be around anyone but us). You get super excited when people come over, especially when they play with you. You always want them to go to you “room” aka your playroom.
• You are pretty easy to take places. You do well riding in the cart and love to say hi and bye to everyone. If we have a quick errand to run, I let you walk with me and for the most part you do well. You don’t love holding my hand when we walk through the parking lot, but when I tell you its that or be held, you are okay with it.
• You love to have a job to do. At home if daddy is working on something, you want to be right in the middle of it. You will run and get your tools as soon as you see daddy get his tool bag out. You will help me carry things in from the car and put away some of the dishes. I have to be careful because sometimes you get a little carried away with your dishes and start pulling the glass stuff out of the dishwasher.
• You are in charge of letting Hiro in every morning and feeding him breakfast. You only need a little help feeding him because depending on the day, you want to give him way to much or not enough. :)
• We took the baby gate off the stairs this weekend and haven’t had to put it back up. You go up and down really well now, and you always come tell me if you are going to go up “dairs”.
• You don’t like being told no and definitely have a stubborn streak in you. Most of the time when we tell you no after you have asked for something you will try again with a “please” and then when you hear no again, you will say “ahhh” and walk or run away.

Aedan, you are so much fun! I could go on and on about all the things you do everyday. You can be a handful sometimes but mostly you are just plane fun to be with. We love you so much!! Love, Mommy

-Lauren-

Happy Birthday Jon

My mom wrote this letter for Jon on his birthday.

To Jon:

Today is my son-in-law’s birthday and for me, that makes it a day to celebrate the special person that he is. Although Dan and I can’t be there to celebrate with him, Lauren and Aedan, I wanted to send this little birthday greeting to him today.

I distinctly remember when Dan and I first heard of this certain someone that Lauren had met that weekend about 7 years ago. When she spoke about this guy, there was excitement in her voice and she told me that she had a “feeling” that something might develop between them. When the time was right and we finally got to meet him, I could tell just how much Jon cared for Lauren and how happy she was when she was with him. Of course, I admit, we were not 100% sure about Jon being Mr. Right, because as parents, you always have that feeling that no guy is ever going to be good enough for your daughter! After seeing them so happy together, those fears soon melted away. I know Lauren and Jon’s wedding day was such a happy one for us all---they truly just seemed meant for each other. When I think back to those times, I realize that while I was happy that Lauren was so in love, I also realized that our family now had a new member to embrace and love.

Through the first three years of their marriage, we all enjoyed getting together and getting to really know each other. I was delighted in the fact that Jon was so devoted to Lauren and I came to really appreciate his many talents in the kitchen. He would whisk dishes away to be rinsed and put in the dishwasher faster than you could say “jackrabbit” and he was ready to help with any food prep that needed to be done. What mother-in-law is ever going to not love that kind of help! I also knew he wasn’t doing these things to impress anyone but because he truly wanted to help.

However, one of the most special times that I watched Jon, was when they brought Aedan home from the hospital. Jon was more than ready to jump in to the diaper changing or do whatever needed to be done to help Lauren. Through Lauren’s blogs (which I am so thankful for), I am able to witness such special times that Lauren, Jon and Aedan share. I see what a wonderful daddy Jon is to Aedan---one who spends time playing, rough-housing, chasing, and teaching. I know that Aedan is so blessed to have a father like Jon for I know that Jon will always do his very best to be there in every way for his little family. To see Lauren so happy and content in her marriage and to know how much Jon loves and cares for her and Aedan means the world to me and Dan.

So on this day, I wanted to share just how important this young man is to our family. Jon has become someone who’s opinion I value, whose computer knowledge has no rival, and is someone whom I can always count on to give a helping hand (literally--as he appears from nowhere to give me a hand to help me get up from the floor after playing with Aedan!). Most of all, Jon is now the son that Dan and I never had and we are so thankful and blessed to have him in our lives.

Happy Birthday Jon! We love you very much!

-Lauren-