Ayden's Big Boy Car Bed

Jimmy's boss gave us this cool car bed for Ayden's new room. He won't sleep in it for a while, but he loves playing in his new room and on his new bed!

Catalogue Shopping with Dad

I don't know how Jimmy got Ayden to lay here with him--whenever I try to lay with him he just crawls all over me! They looked through this Baby-R-Us flyer checking out all the new baby gear for about 10 minutes. It's finally hitting all of us that very soon, there will be a new baby in the house!

Snacktime with Audry

Audry is Ayden's friend who lives in the neighborhood down the street. She spent the afternoon with us while her mom went to the dentist. She's three, so Ayden was enamored with her as a "big girl." These pictures may not mean anything to someone who's not the parent of a toddler, but this is Ayden's first snack time NOT in the high chair. Since she was on the bench (where Daddy usually sits) he wanted to be on the bench too! Also, he's getting very good at drinking out of a sippy cup with no lid. Huge accomplishments if you ask me!

More Pictures from the River

It let me post the two pictures below, let's see if it will post some more!


Ayden is all BOY!
He loves to get dirty,
to get wet,
run,
climb,
jump
and wrestle!

If we'd have let him he would have gotten all the way in. But with the current, we thought he'd bust his head open on the rocks! Dadddy stayed close by the whole time.

Adventure with Dad

Jimmy recently attended a life-changing John Eldridge Boot Camp in Colorado. In the spirit of outdoor adventure we went on a little day hike at Covered Bridge State Park. Ayden "hiked" in the pack, but cooled off afterwards in the water of the river shoals there. I've tried posting these several times, but for some reason the blog isn't unloading them. Hopefully they'll make it this time!

Filling Daddy's shoes

One of Ayden's favorite things to do while he's waiting for me to get ready in the morning is to pull all of Jimmy's shoes off the shelf in the closet. Recently he's figured out how to put them on and actually walk around in them! He puts my shoes on sometimes too, but he definately likes Jimmy's better. He thinks he's so big!

Weekend at Nana's

This weekend Ayden got to play at his Granny, Nana & Uncle John's house. He also got to see his Nana Jack and Papa Dan, Aunt Kaitlin, and Aunt Jessica & Uncle Charles. He said everyone's names and could identify who everyone was. In fact, we quizzed him this morning (Monday) using a family picture on our mantle and he remembered everyone!

Wildcat in Dawg country

When Ayden was just a little baby, Jimmy's mom found this UGA basball hat for him. It finally fits him! Doesn't he look cute! Thanks, Patrisia!

PLAY DAY AT HOME

I've gone back to work (The picture of me is when I was dressed up for orientation.) so Ayden has been spending every morning with his friend Griffin. Today (Saturday) was our first lazy day at home for two weeks!

Ayden had a ball doing all his favorite things:

playing with his trucks,

running around outside with no shoes on,

using the couch as a jungle gym,

playing with his puzzles,

and helping me clean the deck & pool.

How much better could a Saturday get? He is taking a nap now...that's how I'm able to be actually sitting at the computer!

From Baby to Little Boy

These pictures aren't anything exciting, but I'm trying to keep up my end of this deal. I do think it's cute though how much he's looking less like a baby and more like a toddler/little boy.

New Mile Stones? He's eating with a plate, bowl, spoon & fork and yesturday he drank an entire smoothie by himself out of a cup with no lid!

New words? People's names, most all of the Sesame Street characters, boo-boo (for a cut or bandaid), truck, more, puzzle (pupa).

Staying cool in the HEAT!

Today was 98 degrees outside. Because Mama has a furnance in her belly, Ayden is forced to hangout either inside or in the pool! I thought you'd enjoy these pictures of him in his shades. He thinks he's such hot stuff!

Camera Chrissy is BACK!

I don't know if anyone has noticed, (ha-ha...I've heard the complaints loud and clear) but the blogger posts have recently been few and far between. Anything that's been posted since Feb was posted by Jimmy, not Christen. Two reasons: First: Blogger changed their set-up and Christen couldn't ever re-learn how to use it easily. Second: Christen no longer had access to the mac-daddy yearbook camera she'd gotten used to. Well, a new era has dawned! Thanks to "Papa" (which Ayden can now say) Christen got a great camera for her birthday! But the gift came with strings--pictures must be posted no less than every two weeks. Here's the first installment. Pictures of Ayden during snack time...enjoy everyone...and check back in soon for more!