Ski Bums

Sean loves to ski. He tells me about how he started at 22 months old, and was better than his parents in just a few years, and how he can't wait to get Aiden on skis. Well, this winter he's finally big enough, and last week we went out and got him itty bitty baby skis.

Even though it was super cold this weekend Sean and his dad got out there with him. From the story I heard, they got him strapped onto his skis and then let him go down the small hill in Sean's dad's yard all by himself. It didn't occur to them that perhaps a two year old who has never been on skis before might not appreciate being sent down a hill alone as his first experience of the sport.


However, they must know what they're doing because apparently once he calmed down he couldn't wait to go again, and he had a great time. Sean is thrilled that Aiden is willing to try skiing and now it seems it's up to me to learn!

Kiss and make up

Gulliver and a Lilliputian

Hiatus

So, I didn't post much (okay, anything) this fall. I was working my way through my last difficult semester ( I just finished the requirements for my business minor) and it was a little too much. However, now that my best friend/Aiden's godmom is about to move all the way across the country to lovely San Fransisco, and Sean will be out of state for training, I figured I'd better start it up again.

This is the perfect time to get going again I'm out of school until the 20th, when I start my last semester (you have no idea how thrilling that is) and Seany won't be starting his BIG! NEW! JOB! until mid February. We've basically been taking these past three weeks as our honeymoon, and we tend to not get out of our pajamas until four p.m. and we eat cookies for breakfast and watch Disney movies until the wee hours of the night. IT'S BEEN AWESOME.

I definitely think Aiden has been loving having both parents home, and this has been our first really long break together. Usually Sean starts a co-op right after New Years, but now we've had some time to just do a whole lot of nothing and it's been bliss. I guess it's getting to Sean since he decided to apply for a temp job working on the 2010 census. He was all "honey, we don't get dressed until 4p.m. and we watch movies all day, I have to have something to do with myself" and I'm all "honey, how are you going to take a temp job when we are so busy not getting dressed until 4p.m.??? And what about all of the movies? They're not going to watch themselves!".

Yep, married life has been a whole lot of fun.

Back To School

School started this week for June and Aiden. Our little baby has graduated to the toddler room. No more cribs, nap time's now on cots. Sitting at the lunch table with the other chatty kids. Taking recess. It's hard to believe he was ever a baby.

For June this is the home stretch, which means commuting, and long days of back to back classes. She also gets to be the bad guy who drops Aiden off at daycare, while I, who am done with work mid-afternoon, gets to be the savior who picks him up. But no matter how mad he is in the morning, his face still lights up at the sight of her arriving home.

I think they both deserve a pat on the back and a job well done for growing up, sticking together, and achieving their goals (even Aiden doesn't completely understand them) Aiden for instance, will I'm sure, being saying "Laura" so much I'll get sick of hearing it... any day now.

Thanks for allowing the invasion.

Laura

Eating Yogurt!

I have a friend who is really against parents taking pictures of kids with food on their faces. So Tom, if you're reading this, don't watch these videos.

Aiden has the fork thing mastered, now we're working on the spoon.

And one more for good measure:

Lake George

The Lake formerly known as Lac Du St. Sacrement

Laura, my mom and I took Aiden to Lake George for a few days. He had a little cold while we were there, but it was still a lot of fun. We spent our time wandering around the village and we even took him on one of the steamboats and into Fort William Henry. By the time we left he'd learned a new word: boat. He repeated it over and over as we walked along the docks, pointing to every single boat he saw.

Scenic Views

Ice Cream Face

Hanging out on the hotel balcony

Red Coats!

In the stocks....

Cannon Fire

Stocks again

The hotel pool

Silliness

Our house is full of silly lately.

Silly things like Aiden wearing Mr. Potato Head's glasses...

...around his neck.

He will wear the plastic yellow glasses like this for an hour, carefully reaching up to adjust them just so. I don't know why.


So sometimes you've got to be silly right back.


When Aiden won't sit still in the bath I like to do an operatic rendition of Queen of Memphis, and the combination of my horrible off-key voice and the fact that his mother is acting so strange usually gets him to sit still for a couple minutes.

A little bit of acting out does seem to help everything run more smoothly, because it keeps me from taking things too seriously and it keeps Aiden on his toes. (Until someone walks in and wonders what this escaped mental patient is doing with a toddler, that is).