Christmas Eve 2009

Playing with his new baseball set from Johnny....

Aiden, Nana and Auntie at the Christmas Light Spectacular in Anderson

How cute!

After he is snuggled in his bed the real fun begins.....30 steps later


Our finished masterpiece, one Christmas Eve down...many more to go!

Santa...not really for us

So Santa part 1 went like this....meet Nana(mom) at the mall after calling to see when SAnta has lunch (they say no breaks till 3:30) ...when I get there all of a sudden I am the last person in line before he takes a break and they want me to tell every person who comes and tries to get in line after me that I am last and they won't be back for 30 minutes after me...yeah right, like I am going to break that news. Then we get to Santa- he screams, they take a picture, I hate it and ask them to take another they say 3 is what you get...this one isn't so bad, you know one with the arched back, "what the hell" look on his face, sure we'll take it 12.95 later we leave.....

Santa part 2....daycare is having their Santa party where he arrives and each kid gets called up to see Santa and get a book and a stuffed animal (so cute) -what does Aiden do...scream again, cry, flail and doesn't sit with Santa...

Maybe next year is a better bet

mazzi came to play

My oldest and best friend Kyra has a daughter that is 4 days older than Aiden, never in my life did I dream that we would actually have kids that close together (I mean you say it but, does it actually happen) Now Kyra is a mommy of 3 already so she is good at this staying calm mom thing and I love getting to bug her with my over reacting mommyhood. Well she let me have Mazzi for a few hours to play with Aiden and remind me why I don't want twins:) It was so fun....and aren't they sooo cute together?

Aiden is ONE!

The birthday boy
His own bookshelf to destroy!

Loving Jackson in the morning

Baby friends came to play

Happy Birthday Big Boy!

Well its' official my baby turned one yesterday and in a crowded house filled with loving family. We are so lucky to have so much family close by that even though it was a very crowded house yesterday they all love him so much it was worth it! We even had some out of town visitors (Mazzi, Kyra and Matt Thompson) and (Christine and Kathleen), and the Compins from YUba City. It was amazing the people who showed up. The bookcase with Aiden's name on it is from Kell and I (thank you Cheryl DiMatteo for your sewing skills) and all the books and wonderful things are from our friends/family. Aiden held up pretty well, no major melt downs. Opened a few things, ran around and ate his homemade by mommy and daddy healthy baby cake (everyone else enjoyed the beautiful cake that Auntie Em had made for him from the book Happy Birthday Baby by Dr. Seuss). All were gone by 2:30 so naptime came easy and then a mellow day.

I really can't believe he is one, I feel old and I just hope things slow down a bit, maybe not every week will be something so new so it might slow up a bit, but probably not. He is such a joy in our life, I never knew how much I would change having him in our life and each day I thank God he is a part of us now. Well enough of the sappy stuff...we also went to the doctor today and she agrees we are going to start the process of if we can go off the monitor! We have a referral to a sleep specialist in Redding (thank you God) Dr. Trevor, who will do a sleep study and determine that he really isn't having apenic spells and that we can go off and how long to stay on the PRevacid, so wooooo there may be an end in sight! As for check up - he looks great, got shots and was.....

30.5 inches tall (75% percentile) -his cousin Cadence is going to pass him soon...:)

22lbs, 15 oz ( 50% percentile)

48 cm head (96% percentile) Yah , his head is huge- but that we all know:)

So we are good, healthy, hated the shots, and now napping in our crib....love ya Aiden!

Crazy thing...tomorrow at school is our minimum day (1/2 day woohoo) and I was just thinking, this day 1 year ago my water broke when the bell rung....now I know that won't be happening this year (if it does then I am peeing my pants) but boy has my life changed in one year. Most things have been for the better, there have been a lot of ups, a few downs and a lot of unknowns! Just sort of a weird day, at least this year the ending will be a lot less exciting...just sleep not a newborn entering our world. Love him and can't believe Sunday is the day!

Christmas Weekend!

This was a crazy weekend... we had our church Christmas dinner, the Redding Christmas parade, a trip to the snow (very, very cold snow) to get our tree and lights up around the house and on the tree (ornaments to come Tuesday night!)

our driving buddies....

what is this stuff....snow!

what a funny looking family!

Cadence and Halen snuggled in the wagon
What mom?

The snow adventure was a little more than we planned for being that it was only 17 degrees and snowing most of the time, but we lived through it and might plan a bit different next year....still we survived and I'm sure we will all sleep very well tonight!

And not only is the tree up..but the baby super gate too! that's right- Aiden proof

Aidenisms....

Aiden has been cracking up this week (besides being a clingy mommy monster) his new thing is to look at books (by taking ALL of them off the shelf), going over to our big pillows and leaning back on them and also playing withthe exersaucer in a whole new way (after this picture incident we decided it was time for the exersaucer to be retired)....Anyways....this new walking world has created a pretty funny kid....