First Grade
Today was a huge wrap-up for Alexander’s Amazing Summer as he fluttered out of the nest for his first day of first grade. He picked his (favorite color) yellow shirt, and geared up with his backpack, lunchbox, (Zoobot), and two bags of excitedly purchased school supplies. He was nervous and Continue Reading
Alexander’s Amazing Summer
This has been a huge summer for our little Alexander. He’s lost two bottom teeth, turned into an underwater fish, and learned to ride a two-wheeler! It was a struggle to get him to ride the bike with training wheels– and then to take them off??? What??? Muma couldn’t run with Continue Reading
Seventeen Months
After weeks, months of silence- for our own notes and memories, we wanted to post just a few of our favorite things about our little babe turning boy, Aidan. From One to Two is by far a favorite age (though we don’t have much to compare it to yet!) and Continue Reading
Aidan on Two Feet
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. We’ve got a new little bi-ped in the house! We’re so excited to have Aidan finally toddling about the house. But I don’t think there’s any more pleased than he. He was already trying to keep up with the older boys at Sabbath Continue Reading
(pre)Walking and Talking… (and squalking…) oh my!!!
As Aidan approaches his first birthday (still 3 weeks to go), he’s decided the past couple of weeks that it’s time to unveil some new tricks. Lest you be decieved by the title, he’s is not yet walking but is certainly doing his devoted share of cruising- cruising along furniture, Continue Reading
We’ve got a crawler!
This week, Aidan decided that he’d had enough of this sittin’ stuff and ventured out on hands and knees. Much to his delight, he discovered that he could indeed move forward in the direction of his choice instead of just backwards! David found this neat little program on the computer Continue Reading
Aidan’s First Christmas
Aidan’s first Christmas Season almost 8 mos We’ve had some pretty special Christmases the last couple of years, but this one marks another hallmark year as we celebrate Aidan’s very first Christmas. And with the season, he’s had a few little surprises of his own for us as he’s been Continue Reading
First Christmas Portraits
We did a set of First Christmas pics for Aidan. Though we didn’t do a real order, we wanted to capture they memory, and they turned out pretty cute. We thought we’d share them here… 🙂 click on this link to go to the studio-you can choose your own name/login Continue Reading
First Swing!
We headed down to our playground on a lovely autumn Thursday– Alex on trike, and Aidan in the stroller. Now that Aidan is sitting (woot woot!!!) he got to play a bit, and take his first swing.Aidan just loved it, and ooohh how proud was big brother to push Aidan– Continue Reading
Binky-Free with a ‘Big Boy’ Train
As of Mid-October, we are pleased to announce that Alexander is now a “Binky-Free” boy! We’d been thinking and praying about how to go about it for a couple of weeks, and felt that between his increasingly stubborn demands for it outside of cribtime and the funny shape it’s been Continue Reading