Mothers

How is it that as mothers we can still remember little details of your children's life. As I was going through Aydan's baby clothes, trying to get them organized for Sam, I could remember almost every outfit, picture Aydan at that age and wearing those clothes. And not all the clothes I have are from Aydan, I have had many donations from neighbors but can pick out the clothes that belonged to Aydan. We are lucky to be mothers, to remember and cherish these little things that are our children's life. It is hard to imagine my life without my boys. How boring it would be without the constant noise, laughter, yelling, chit-chat, whining and even crying. Aydan and Sam I am lucky to have your sweetness in my life!

Idaho Trip

Over the weekend we went to Idaho to watch Aydan's cousin's Dusty and Lindsey play football. Cute little Lindsey plays flag football and is the only girl on the team. She is also the best, and fastest player on the team. Dusty is the quarterback for his team and can really throw the ball around. Aydan had a great time playing with his cousins and sleeping over with them. Aydan and Sam are lucky to have such great cousins. We only wish they lived closer!

Hanging out at the hotel.

Sam getting ready to swim.
Sam's first swimming experience.
The water was super cold, can you tell?
These guys were inseparable during the weekend.
Sam didn't really enjoy the cold weather.
All bundled up.

True Story

On our way home from my brothers house Aydan was telling us which way to go. "Go straight, turn that way etc..." Then out of nowhere he says go that way, Peter says I can't go that way I have to go straight, and Aydan says yea go straight, that's east. Which shocked us both because we were driving east. Then as we were heading west we asked Aydan, is this way east and he says no east is that way, toward the mountains. How smart is Aydan!

Cabin Joys

Dad and Aydan enjoying the 4-wheelers.

Sam enjoying the cool weather. He is too cute!

Our nemesis-tether ball.

How cute is this picture! Aydan loves to pose for pictures.


Mom and Aydan riding the 4-wheeler

Aydan pretending to drive

This weekend we went to our cabin. Its a bit of a dive but still fun to hang out there. We like to take bets on who's chair will fall in the gaps in the deck. And if your chair falls in the gap you go tumbling down. Unfortunately we didn't have any casualties this trip. Finally this cabin trip Aydan got on the 4-wheelers. We have been begging Aydan to take a ride but he refused. You know Aydan, he won't do anything unless he wants to, no matter how much begging we do. We were lucky enough to see some moose and deer. The fall colors were out and gorgeous. Lots of red and orange. It was fun just to relax hang out with the family and play some tether ball. Needless to say we are not every good, we kind of looked like Napolean Dynamite.

4 Months Old

On September 15th, Sam turned 4 months old. Time has gone by so fast, and he looks so much different than he did when he was first born. Sam had his doctors appointment today. He weighs 14 lbs 12 oz (41%) and is 26 3/4 inches long (94%). He is not as skinny as he was just two months ago. But he has a lot less hair than two months ago. When he was born he had such great hair and now it is pretty much all gone, all that is left is some peach fuzz. But he is still so dang cute. Aydan is having a great time with Sam, he loves to play with him and try to make him laugh. I am glad that Aydan loves being a big brother. Sam is still not sleeping through the night, but he is getting a bit better. He can sleep for 6 hours straight, that's a slight improvement. We have started feeding him some cereal, which he seems to enjoy. Sam loves rolling over and now rolls over on his belly to sleep. We all are having a great time with Sam, he is a really happy baby that loves to smile and laugh. He is a welcome addition to our family.

Interesting Tastes

Aydan is a strange little child. Anyone that knows him knows that he is his own man. He does things in his own way, in his own time. Take potty training for instance, we have been trying to potty train Aydan for some time with no success. We would ask him "do you want to wear diapers or underwear" and of course he would say diapers. Why we would ask, just because I want to was his reply. And no matter how much we bribed him, legos, cars, candy, money, a trip to the toy store he would not be convinced. If Aydan does not want to do it, he will not do it. Peer pressure does not work with this child. So finally this past week me and Aydan traded his diapers for a car. We gathered all his diapers together put them in a sack and he threw them in the garbage. And that was that. Aydan has only had 2 accidents and the first of the week and none for 3 days. He now just runs into the bathroom and pees or poos on his own, we don't even have to remind him anymore. Once Aydan decided he wanted to do it, he did, as easy as that. And if you know us you know we have been stressing over potty training for awhile and it turned out if we were just patient, Aydan would tell us when he is ready.

Another thing that is interesting about Aydan is his eating habits. For a 3 year old he is a great eater. He has his moments, but for the most part he eats really well. But he does enjoy interesting things that most children would not eat. His favorite foods are avocados, artichokes (he actually eats the leafs), watermelon, salad with Nony's dressing, pea pods and corn on the cob, mini wheat ceral and Crackin Oat Bran (mom's ceral as he like to call it). The other night he ate a whole artichoke by himself, and two ears of corn. During the summer he picked his own peas and ate a ton everyday. The thing I don't understand is that he does not like strawberries, peaches and most fruit. How could you like vegatables but not fruit? Oh how I love my crazy boy!!

Sams Big Move

Today Sam reached a milestone, he rolled over! He has been really close for a couple of weeks, but today he made it unto his belly. I kept rolling him back over unto his back, but he would instantly roll back unto his belly. Good work Sammy!! Now if you could just learn to sleep.