Is this…
A. exhausted father and son after a night of son refusing to sleep?
B. snoozing father and son after a “man campout” in the front room?
C. a pleasant afternoon nap, where the floor seemed as good as bed?
What do you think? A, B or C?
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I’ll never tell.
I have enjoyed my Spring Break immensely. We had so much fun that I am semi-dreading going back to work on Monday. I’m trying to be positive.
One final fun outing we had was to the Oakland Zoo. It’s a pretty small zoo, but it was a few hours of fun. Aiden enjoyed it much more this time than the last time we took him. He particularly liked the zebras. He seemed to think they were dogs and started saying “bow wow” to them, but I guess all four-legged animals could hypothetically say “bow-wow” to a one-year old, right? He also had no fear in the petting zoo, not even around the biggest goat I’ve ever seen in my life.
After the zoo, we went to the Ice Creamery for lunch. Aiden had more fun waving to the other patrons and walking around than sitting in his high chair and licking my ice cream.
We dyed Easter eggs at Matthew & Stephani’s place.
Aiden hunted for Easter eggs in the park by our hotel.
I enjoyed the many ice cream locales I miss from Utah.
Aiden took a swim, and he loved every minute of it!
After graduation, we were all over the place… in Highland for Brooke & Jon’s luncheon, in American Fork for their wedding, in Provo to check into our hotel and unload our car, and in Salt Lake for the reception. It was crazy, but of course crazy good!
Aiden and his girl friend, Naomi. She is five weeks younger, but clearly taller!
Learning to run… yikes!
Matching ties from Tie One On… such a fun store.
Did I mention Brooke’s mom knows Moses from BYU? He was my FAVORITE this season! I’m sorry for bothering you and your lovely family, Moses, but you are just as nice as you seem on the show!
It was so good to see Val and Charles again! If only they’d move to the Bay Area once he graduates from law school. (wink, wink)
We had a busy weekend! Isaac, Aiden and I made a trip out to Utah with my mom at the start of my Spring Break to see Matthew and Stephani graduate from BYU, attend Brooke’s wedding, and help my sister move into her first apartment. It was quite the busy trip.
We drove all night in the hopes that Aiden would just sleep most of the trip, but that was just wishful thinking. He was a little tough, but after about fourteen and a half hours in the car, we finally rolled into Provo. Thursday was mostly a blur after that, but I know I helped Mandy pack and took a nap, visited with family, and I think I ate somewhere in there.
Friday morning we started off at Matthew and Stephani’s graduation. Matthew walked with Stephani and the McKay School of Education, where he got his BS in Construction Management, and Stephani graduated in El Ed.
Yippee!
He spent time today reading the Almanac and reciting facts to me.
It’s not something I would opt to do… so thank goodness one of us likes this kind of thing! I’d hate to end up with a child who was interested in the size of San Bernadino County (did you know it’s three times bigger than the state of Hawaii!?), and not have a husband who could share in his/her enthusiasm.
At thirteen months old, Aiden is turning into quite the little man instead of Mommy’s baby.
He is climbing on EVERYTHING.
He still loves the dog, and he gets a kick out of chasing the dogs around a room.
He is developing quite the feisty personality. He throws little tantrums when he can’t have what he wants, but we are sitting them out and praying he figures out quickly that his cries do not change our minds.
He sort of blows kisses (he has a hard time with the throwing part, lol), signs milk, waves bye bye (he does this when he’s ready for bed at night in addition to when we say “bye bye”), high fives, claps, and points.
He says “mama,” “dada,” “Hay-ee” (the dog, Haylie), “hi",” and “ball.” I can hardly wait for him to learn more words because it will be so much easier, right?
He is walking everywhere and is hard to shop with now unless I have something to strap him into because he squirms around in my arms because he’d rather walk on his own. and of course, pick up everything that looks cool. Today he picked up a Cutie someone had dropped in the parking lot. Ew.
He is smarter than I am. Yesterday I was trying to show Mandy via webcam how he says Haylie, and while I was asking him about the dog, he was waving around my mouse pad and hugging it. It wasn’t until he pointed at it and finally said “Hay-ee” that I realized her picture is on our mouse pad. Oops.
and since this is mostly an Aiden blog now, I’ll just throw in one photo of Isaac for your viewing pleasure.
He may kill me for this.
lol
for my very own snow cave!
building with Daddy
checking it out
enjoying :)
