Woooowwwwwww

Nate and Aidan

Aidan (shirt by Uncle Chris)

Nate...CHEESE!!!

Wheeeeeee!!!

Me and Nate

So yeah. It has been a LONG time huh. Don't know where to begin so I am going to pretend to catch up.

1. We had Thanksgiving...my turkey rocked

2. We moved. (still have boxes in garage)

3. We had Christmas. Yeah for family, friends, and presents!

4. New Year-in bed by 11pm

5. Pneumonia-me (still coughing)
6. Sinus infections-Aidan and Nate (cleared up)
7. Ear infection- Nate (cleared up)

There ya go!

Now that I am caught up, all pics are now uploaded on computer, and we do not have dial up maybe I can keep this thing updated!

2009-10-27

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Pumpkin Picking Day

 

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Our so called life

So my world has just been crazy busy. We switched realtor's, sold our house....YES WE DID IT!
After 6 days of being on the market with the new realtor the house SOLD. Awesome.
Now the fun part of trying to find a new house.

I actually broke our computer trying to update some software, so now I am sitting at the library doing house research. It is so gross here...people coughing and the such.

Any who, I left Eric at home with the boys to make chocolate covered pretzels. I love giving Eric the messy jobs to do. I don't really care what kind of mess they make in the kitchen or outside, but Eric freaks out!

So we have gone pumpkin picking this year and we went on a hayride. It was actually cold out so it felt like fall. Last year we were sweating and eating ice cream while we picked our pumpkins. Didn't really scream autumn.

It is sad. The kids are growing up so fast. Poor Aidan had a nightmare during his nap today and woke up screaming. I went in and asked him what he dreamed about and he said he dreamed that mice were eating him. How horrible of a thought for a sweet 3 year old to have!!!

Nate is FINALLY talking more. When Eric or Aidan isn't around he says "where's daddy?" "where's Aidan?" and throws his hands up like he is confused. I can understand him since I am around him all the time, but I know it is a stretch for other people still. I hope we don't have to do speech for him as well.

Tomorrow is Aidan's first "Fall Festival Parade" at the Y. So excited. I made Eric take the morning off so he could go with me, but he took off the whole day! I really love that man.

Hopefully I'll get more posted the weekend!

Monthly Catch Up

So this whole blog thing has been pushed to the back burner for a while, incase you haven't noticed. Cleaning, cooking, driving, and preschool seem to take up every moment I have.

SO...here goes.

Yes, the rumors are true. Aidan got glasses AND started preschool. He seems to LOVE preschool. He is learning Spanish, sings songs, and is even taking swimming lessons. I got to help with swimming once and had a blast. I will be helping out again in the near future.

He goes to the preschool at the Unviersity YMCA so he is well taken care of. He even tells me he has 2 best friends, Ryan and Anthony. Ryan wears glasses like Aidan, so I think having a friend with glasses has helped Aidan keeps his on.

First day of school pic. (Spiderman backpack of course!)



Aidan's drawing ability has really improved as well. I left him alone with some markers one day and he said he wanted to draw a ghost. Yellow of course because ghosts are yellow...duh. When I came back he had drawn a ghost (with a skirt and everything-creeps me out) AND THIS:

A KITTY. Meow. Crazy good huh?

So. Eric HATES sandboxes. HATES with a passion. So Eric turned the turtle sandbox into a pool. He put the slide from the "club house" into the turtle and VIOLA! instant water slide!

Unfortunately, he did not put on a swim diaper....

2009

Reasons why 2009 sucks.
1. Plantar Fasciitis
2. Poison Ivy
3. Eczema
4. Car break ins
5. Nate chips a tooth
6. Aidan gets glasses
7. Eric's Grandma dies
8. My Uncle Dies
9. My cat goes blind for some unknown reason
10. Housing Market

Did I mention 6-9 all happened in a 6 week period?

I CAN NOT WAIT FOR 2010!!!

August Trips

So we made a super fast trip to Connecticut last weekend. My Uncle Gordon died unexpectedly and we went to pay our respects. It was great seeing everyone, but at the same time it sucked. I did get to see my cousin Derek though which was cool. I haven't seen him in at least 8 years. He lives in California and works for Jay Leno. Neat huh?

This is my cousin Brittany. She was posing for Aidan who was walking around with my camera taking pictures. He is getting really good I think. He is actually starting to use the eye piece to look through.

It was a very long and busy day on Saturday. Poor kid passed out. These are the beds Eric and I sleep on when we go up to visit. There are two beds separated by a side table. I have been sleeping on the beds MY WHOLE LIFE.

Random shot from spaghetti night at our house. If you look close in the background you can see Aidan licking his lips. I love this picture.


And here's Nate and Eric! Photo by Aidan Monroe Dodson. Remember that name. He will be famous one day!