1st Haircut!

We got Aiden his first haircut today. He made the funniest faces but did extremely well! After he was done, Mommy got a trim as well. We went to a place called "Pigtails and Crewcuts" and they gave us an envelope with a picture of him before the cut and put some trims of his hair in a little baggie and attached it inside the envelope. What a cute keepsake! But these pics are precious...

Pumpkin Patch!

We took Aiden to the pumpkin patch here in Columbus today!

Baseball Balloon

We kept the hose extensions from our old vacuum and Aiden has taken to using them as swords and baseball bats. This morning he got a balloon that had somewhat deflated and started trying to play baseball by himself. I took over pitching and found Aiden quite competent at hitting the "ball"!

Birthday/Anniversary bash in ATL

I'm so late on posting these! But here's some pics from our awesome birthday/anniversary celebration weekend in ATL 14-16 Aug.

First: You can't be cooler than four popped collars cool.

Bowling queen.

Da boys.

Sisters!

Creating the ultimate mexican appetizer.

Happy birfday!

Cookie cake for Koob; ice cream cake for Matt. But the top of the cake got kinda smushed, so it looked like "Happy Birthday Malt"

My boys

Birthday boys with Aiden

Playing pin the tail on the donkey - Koob's nice and dizzy!

Here's the outcome:

And of course, nothing is funnier than taping a blown-up balloon to the back of a toddler.

8 years ago...

We got dressed up...


Hitched a ride in a '32 Ford truck...



And danced together for the first time as husband and wife.

Here's to many more years of dancing...

Poor sick baby

Aiden has come down with a summertime cold. Poor thing is stopped up and coughing, eyes watering and everything. And his little nose is sore from rubbing it every time it runs, which makes him cry because it hurts to wipe, which in turn makes his nose run more. Vicious cycle! It's been a long time since Aiden's been sick, and him being miserable makes me appreciate how healthy and exuberant he is the rest of the time.

I sometimes find myself getting frustrated at little things with him, and at the end of the day I look back and realize how silly it is to be upset with him at all. Aiden is the best little boy we could have ever asked for and every now and again I need to put things into perspective to realize how lucky we truly are to have him in our lives. I take him for granted too much, and of course I hate him being sick, but I do appreciate how it makes me realize how wonderful he is when he's healthy and noisy and independent and picky and altogether exasperating. I mean really, who couldn't love a perfect little angel like our Aiden?? That's right: NOBODY. I dare you not to ooh and ahh over the cuteness:

ALERT!

beep...beep....THIS JUST IN....


AIDEN POOPED IN THE POTTY TONIGHT

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