Sunday, September 26, 2010

More Great-Grandma Posting

Aiden is lucky to have a bunch of great grandmas who love him. Today we visited with his Great-Grandma Chase. He has been taking a little time to warm up to people lately, but he hung out on her lap for a long time once he been able to sit in my lap and check her out for awhile.

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I am trying to learn to shoot manually on my camera, so excuse my imperfect exposures; I’m trying to get the hang of figuring out how to do all three pieces myself and still focus…

I love this one. Grandma was asking for his sandal, which he had kicked off, and he was waving it around like crazy. He has been pretty fascinated by his ability to hold onto things well enough to shake them all around. He shakes everything. I like to think he is learning laws of physics or something by doing this. It makes it funny when he smacks me in the face with something instead of just being painful.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Thank you, Grandma Hanson!

Last night we got a package from the Hansons with this cute sweater Grandma made for Aiden! He was all smiles after we put it on him!

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Thanks Grammie & Grandpa!

R.I.P. Little Seventies Pot

Yesterday was exciting at our home. I was thinking about the enormous list of things I had planned to do (cleaning, lots of planning and grading and seating-chart-making, finishing a Relief Society lesson for today, doing assignments for the classes I’m taking, etc.), and I was feeling pretty overwhelmed. Isaac was gone at work all day, and my parents were gone helping at Youth Conference all day. I knew I had to buckle down and get everything done on my own, so I made a plan. I read my assignment, wrote a test, put some plastic things on the stove to sterilize by boiling for a few minutes, changed Aiden’s diapers, did some research for my RS lesson, and then…

I smelled hot plastic.

I had forgotten about the sterilizing plastic pieces for half an hour! I ran to the kitchen to find the front of our condo filling with smoke, and it smelled awful. I took the pot off the stove and shut it off, discovering that I had totally melted all four parts. UGH. I turned on fans and opened all the windows and the sliding door, and then I thought I remembered hearing that fumes from melting plastic were toxic, so I packed up Aiden and the dog and left. I ran a few errands (picking up a book on hold at the library, replacing the plastic pieces I melted, etc.) and then I hung out at my parents’ house for a few hours by myself just to keep us out of our place while the fumes dissipated.

I am such a moron.

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Poor pot. I inherited this one from my mom when I moved into my first apartment. I’m pretty sure it’s dead now. I feel so blessed that things weren’t any worse, that nothing caught fire, and no one seems to be suffering as a result of my stupidity. Our condo smells mostly normal now, and besides the pot there seems to be no harm done,

but I’m still mad at myself.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Half a Year!

Aiden is six months old! We celebrated by…

getting size TWO diapers!

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taking the infant pads out of his car seat.

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eating dinner with the missionaries and enjoying Grandpa Anderson’s cookies (okay, Aiden just enjoyed the smell… sorry kid, too soon for cookies).

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having a dance party, practicing touching Mommy’s face without scratching it or trying to pull chunks out, and being so glad when Daddy came home!

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Today we went to the doctor for shots, and we found out that he is somewhere just above the 10th percentile. Little guy. He was a big trooper for his shots, though!

Monday, September 6, 2010

To the zoo

Today was Aiden’s first trip to the zoo. It’s a good thing all the adults with him got some good exercise because otherwise the trip would have been a bust; Aiden slept through most of it.

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On the way home, we ate at the Ice Creamery in Castro Valley, which is SO good, and then we got to swing by Grandma Anderson’s house for a visit. Aiden is sure a loved little boy!

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All in all, it was a wonderful day. Hope everyone else had a great Labor Day! I wish I didn’t have to get up early for work tomorrow…