Swimming Lessons

We finished up swimming lessons last Friday.

It was such a good experience. I was a little worried about how Aedan would do, but he did really well and we loved our instructor!

Aedan can swim pretty well now. He still has trouble when he comes up for a breath. His body goes more vertical in the water and he has a hard time getting back in a horizontal position. But he can get back to the steps or wall on his own.

He also loves to jump off the side.

I’m so proud of him. We don’t even bring his puddle jumper to the pool anymore! Thanks Miss Amy!!

-Lauren-

Fire Station Visit

Last week we got to visit the new fire station in town with my moms group. We got there a little late because of Adelaide’s nap so we missed the tour of the inside, but we got to check out the engines which is what Aedan loved anyway.

He looks so much older than last summer when we visited another fire station.

The firemen even showed off what the new fire truck can do…

The kids loved it!

-Lauren-

Grocery Shopping

When I was little, the grocery story near my parents house had little shopping carts for the kids to push while their parents grocery shopped.

Aedan walks with me now when we run errands or grocery shop. He does pretty good for a 3 year old, but often he is darting in front of carts or trying to walk right in front of my cart and then randomly stopping causing me to run into him.

He goes back to school in 2 weeks (where did summer go?!?!) and I will probably plan most of my grocery shopping/errand running while he is there. Since taking one kid is much easier than two and this one is pretty good at just sitting in the cart.

Anyway, last week I decided to let Aedan take his little grocery cart with us to HEB. He did so good. He stayed right with me (although a couple of times he did tell me he needed to go the opposite way, but when I reminded him to come with me, he did). He helped me pick out the groceries and he put a few things in his cart. When we got to the check out line, he put all of his items up on the belt and then the bagger even put a bag of groceries in his cart to take out the car. It was a pretty fun trip. May just be something we keep up for awhile.

-Lauren-

Cord Obsessed

Adelaide is crawling around everywhere these days. She pretty much explores the whole downstairs, although she prefers to stay in the same room as everyone else.

When I am getting ready, she is almost always either in the bathroom or in our bedroom. If she is in  our bedroom, she is almost always on the hunt for Jon’s phone charger cord. She is obsessed.

I always push it behind the bed in the morning when I make the bed so it is not there to temp her.

As you can see it is not an effective move…

“oh, hey, I’m not getting into anything…”

Back on a mission.

-Lauren-

The Sitter’s House

It’s been awhile since I talked about our childcare situation on my blog.

Aedan started going to his sitter’s (ReAnna) house twice a week when he was about 12 weeks old. We love her! He went right up until I had Adelaide.

Then I took a few months off of work and when it was time for me to go back, we decided it would be nice to have someone come to our house to watch both kids. Adelaide was so young and Jon was traveling a bunch, I needed someone who could watch them while I worked, and  help me out here and there in the evenings when Jon was gone.

Enter ReAnna’s daughter Katelyn. Katelyn has been babysitting for us since Aedan was about a year or so. We love her too! This last spring and summer she was taking some classes at the ACC campus near our house. So she came over and watched the kids while I worked a couple of times a week and she helped me out when Jon was on his international trips. She was great!!

She headed off to Texas State this past week, and since Adelaide is older now, we decided to send the kids back to ReAnna’s house. I think it is so good for Adelaide. Since she has been going, she has been doing much better when I take her to the Y (as in I can actually finish a Zumba class).

We have been so blessed to find such a wonderful family to help watch our kids! I don’t know what we would do without either of them!!

I picked Aedan and Adelaide up from ReAnna’s house on Monday afternoon and then was what the backseat looked like when we got home…

It was a quiet ride home. :)

-Lauren-

Aedan’s First Movie

This weekend we took Aedan to see his first movie in the theater.

We saw Planes at the Alamo Drafthouse.

He did pretty well, although he was more interested in all the steps going up the theater and the lights on the stairs. After we left he kept asking about the characters and this morning he told me he wanted to go back to the movies, so I think he liked it. :)

-Lauren-

Friday

What’s that you say?

It’s Friday?!?

Hurray!!

Have a good weekend, everyone!

-Lauren-