Skool Daze

So many kids are off to school this week, ours included... well sort of.   Aiden moved to the Early Pre-School room with the 2 year olds.  He is one of the youngest in the room at 21 months, and is finally one of the smaller kids... for now!  He seems to be enjoying it, and Dad and I are excited because he starts potty training.  For now he just sits on the toilet to get used to it, but they take him regularly so we are starting the process at home too.  We got him his own potty chair to start training with us.  He was a little apprehensive at first, but now he thinks its a chair and drags it from the bathroom to the family room just to sit on it.  We have our work cut out for us to teach him the potty stays in the bathroom.


Ryeligh also started school.  She is visiting the baby room at daycare for a few hours today and tomorrow so I can get used to getting both kids ready for school before heading back to work next week.  The teachers enjoyed visiting with her and she surprised them with her lovely reflux moments!  Poor girl!


Ultimately it was a wonderful morning for me, because both kids were at school and both dogs got dropped off at the vet for their wellness exams.  It was so quiet just for a couple hours... ahhhhhhh.


  

Pictures of Ryleigh

We are very lucky and have two friends that take wonderful pictures. Our neighbor Katie is starting a new photography business and will be putting Ryleigh on her website. Go to this link to see the wonderful pictures she took of her at 1 month. http://www.photobiz.com/slideshowbiz/slideshow.cfm?slideshowID=75884&photographerID=14293

Our friend Stacie was sweet enough to drive up from Austin and take her pictures as well when she was 3 weeks old. Here are a few of those to enjoy.

Aiden's 1st Birthday (November 16, 2008)

Aiden’s 1^st Birthday was so much fun. Mom and Dad got him a tricycle with a handle we can push until he is big enough to reach the pedals. He loves to ride that thing all the time…and still can’t reach the pedals. We got up and went to breakfast as a family and then came back to the house to get ready for the party.

Both of Aiden’s great-gramma’s (Carolyn and Ludell) and his GiGi (Audrey) were there to celebrate along with his Great Aunts and Uncles Betty, JD, and Shirley. His Aunt Jodelle and Grandpa Bobby made special trips to be at his party. Lots of his other friends (mostly our friends) were there to celebrate as well. We had a great time visiting with everyone and especially opening presents!

Then it was time for the cake! He was a little slow going at first, but once I showed him how to dig in he went after it. It was too funny and all over him!

We can’t wait for Birthday #2, which is just around the corner!

Time to catch up

Our little Rock Star!

Since it has been ages since I updated everyone I Aiden I figured I would just do a brief summary of the last 10 months!

Took his 1st step on September 29, 2008. He was 10 months old.

Started walking on October 8, 2008...still 10 months old.

His 5th and 6th teeth came in on October 11, 2008.

On October 17 (11he went to his first Fall Festival at school and played in a petting zoo and rode on a train! He loved petting the animals and almost ripped the fur off a poor bunny.

He had his 1st Birthday Party on his actual birthday, but we'll share more in another post.

Since he turned one his vocabulary has grown so much. He talks so much, some of it you can understand and some of it you can't. We worked with him a lot to be able to say his new little sister's name, which sounds so sweet when he says it. We tried to get him to say "sister" but he didn't seem to grasp the concept.

Well I am sure a lot more happened but mom forgot to blog about it. She will try to do better so everyone can keep up! Here are some pictures from the last few months:

This was Aiden's Christmas Present, a new table to sit at like a big boy!

This is Aiden reading books with his Grandpa Bobby the weekend of his 1st Birthday.

Aiden was getting kisses from Emma and Payton at his Aunt Jodelle's baby shower, he wasn't too thrilled about it. I guess he'll like them better when he's older.

Our little monkey was a monkey for Halloween! He actually wore the costume to school and stayed in it to go trick 'r treating. Too cute!

We tried to carve pumpkins, he just played with all the pumpkin guts!

Just like his Dad, he loves to save his pennies for retirement!

He had a Spring Parade at school and made all of the little bugs and flowers hanging around his neck. It was so cute to see him marching around waving his clover.

The first haircut. We are not professionals, but we got the job done. More thanks to Dad than Mom, who chopped off a little too much in front.

He loves to eat animal cookies with his Dad!

He got this Charlie Brown shirt from Marisa and Jason on his birthday and we just had to take a picture because he looked so cute. It doesn't fit him any more, but thats the way kids clothes are :(

This was Aiden in July swimming in the pool with his Dad. he loves to float in the rafts.

Just being goofy!

This is his new smile when we take pictures. He keeps closing his eyes.

We went to a carnival at school and they spray painted his hair green.