Teach me how to Jimmer!

This afternoon we watched the BYU v. SDSU men’s basketball game. BYU won.

This is Aiden’s Jimmer Fredette impression.

GO COUGARS!

Two Legs

Sometimes we think Aiden thinks he is a dog. He likes to crawl, he makes barking noises, the chases the dogs and plays fetch for long periods of time, and he likes to carry things in his mouth.

Finally we see some evidence of a two legged being…

He is getting more and more confident every day, and it’s fun to see him do a long string of steps all in a row without sitting down or throwing himself into our arms.

Warning: Nerd Post

Sad News: Our local Borders is one of the locations the company is closing.

Good News: We went to enjoy the sales at Borders today and found three fun books for Aiden!

He likes them already. He pulled them right off his shelf to read with me tonight. This one is a finger puppet snowman book which kept him amused through most of the very long line at Borders today. He loves that the snowman dances around in the middle of the book while we read!

This is a very short book, but it has the awesome feature of asking questions with sliding covers over the answers. You can see on the cover I slightly slid the answer “a cat.”

This last one is my FAVORITE. It will grow with him because it starts off with cute pages saying things like “ONE lamb” and counting up to ten, and then there are pages for you to count items, and it goes on to count by tens up to one hundred; talks about pairs, groups, and halves; telling time and even…

Look at that! It recognizes that you should say “fewer” when something is countable! Yes, that’s my nerdy English teacher moment of the day. Hey, it could be worse.

11 months old, by Aiden

Don’t mind my drool. Daddy and I had little colds this week. We are doing much better today though.

Everyone at church tells Mommy and Daddy how well behaved and cute they think I am. Mommy covers my ears so I won’t get a big head, but I don’t see how that would make my head grow.

Speaking of church, I get very alarmed if I don’t get to have bread and water. I don’t really like the water, but everyone else has some, and I hate to be left out!

I love to look at my books. Mommy loaded up the lowest shelf with board books for me, and I pull them all off multiple times every day. Sometimes I just want to make a mess or try to put them on my head, but lots of times I enjoy trying to open them to touch the pictures and babble.

I got this pint sized chair, and it’s great! I just wish Mommy would let me stand on it.

I found out that Daddy started walking when he was 10 months old, and I didn’t want to be left out, so last night before I was officially 11 months old, I took three steps from one couch to the next. I’m definitely not off and running yet because I can get by just fine crawling! I did take a step or two today just to get to Mommy’s ice cream, but I’m in no hurry to walk around.

I am trying to say “dog” and I say it to the dogs all the time, but it still sounds like “gaw” most of the time. I say “mama” sometimes as I crawl to the door when Mommy comes home from work.

I am working on my animal sounds and giving high fives.

I hate to stay still to be changed or dressed.

I love to splash around in the tub.

I love watching other little kids even when they show no interest in me.

One of my favorite pastimes is climbing all over Mommy or Daddy when they are on the ground. I like to climb over their tummies, head butt them, touch their faces, and today I even bit Mommy’s wrist. She wasn’t very happy that I broke the skin with my teeth, but isn’t it cool that I have four teeth now?!

I’m getting all ready for my first birthday cupcake next month! Good thing February is a short month because I can hardly wait!

Moo Baa La La La

This is Aiden’s favorite book, hands down. He pulls it off the shelf and throws hands it at to me. Thank you, Sandra Boynton, for writing such a fabulous book. Isaac and I have it memorized, in case you ever want a recitation. ;)



Aiden is starting to learn to “read” along… he likes to “oof oof” on the little dog page, “quack” with the duck, and tonight he started “bow wow wow”ing. It was too cute not to try to catch on video… so here’s our best attempt at catching his animal noises!

On my Mind

Aiden is cranky. Maybe his fourth tooth is coming in, and this will quickly pass. Poor baby.

I took my classes to the library for a little while each period today. Sometimes you need a change of scenery.

Dad is going in for another kidney stone blasting on Thursday. :(

I have a lot still to grade by Thursday's grade deadline. Yikes.

I ate too much for dinner. What a pig.

There is STILL a hole in our wall, and we haven't gotten a call from whomever HOA is sending to patch it. It really stinks having a hole in your wall and an active 10 month old.

I miss the Shamrock shakes at McDonalds. Where is March when you need it?

It is almost Groundhog's Day. Why is it that when it is sunny enough to cast a shadow, that means there will be 6 more weeks of winter? and still I want to know what Punxsatawney Phil will do. I must be crazy.

This is from last week. It has been SO SUNNY and not like January at all, hence the shorts. The hat is just for kicks. :) I like to look at this picture while he is sleeping and think of how not cranky he is most of the time.