Mommy & Aidan day!

So, John hasn't been working a whole lot at UPS lately which is so not good for our finances. So, he was working at Garlic Jim's last night and the asked him if he would like to open (10:30am) and work through rush (usually about 8-9pm) today. He called me and asked me if I minded. Of course that meant that we didn't get to do fun things as a family today, but seriously do you think we would have done much?? I mean seriously we don't really get out and do things except for playing outside and/or going to the park, that is IF it is nice outside and today was rainy to start.

So, when I talked to him last night I encouraged him to take it!! He did and he has been at work all day now. It hasn't been awful at all. (like it would be...) John was a sweetheart and let me sleep in like he always does. When I got up he had about an hour before he needed to leave. So while he got ready with the help of Aidan, I did dishes and just sort of sat around waking up. Once he left Aidan wanted to watch Over the Hedge so we did and I did laundry and made a tasty lunch of pancakes! Then it was nap time.

So during his nap I decided to take a bath and while I was filling the tub our water was turned off. NOTHING!! Talk about frustrating. Finally it was turned on. I decided to watch ER that I had taped from earlier in the week. So I FINALLY got my bath and when Aid woke up we went to see John but he was headed out on a delivery so we went to Target to buy birthday cards and to get a few things. We headed to Garlic Jim's after Target and ordered a pizza and chicken wings (Aid wanted wings tonight instead of pizza, crazy kiddo). So we got our pizza, discount and all and headed home. We ate and now are waiting either John's arrival or bath time which ever comes first.

Aidan is watching the last part of Over the Hedge from earlier and then we will be playing and having fun. So, overall we have had a fun day and a VERY relaxing laid back day. IT hasn't rained but it has been sprinkling off and on and so it has been an inside day. Well, Aid wants to cuddle and then it is off to his room to play and have fun!! Hope you all had a great day!

Swimming!!

Well, we finally decided to take Aidan swimming. He hadn't been since last summer. Well, it only took him 20 minutes of a death grip on either John or myself to swim on his own with his life jacket of course. He did AWESOME!! He swam all over the pool and wanted to go into the deep end where the lap swimmers were swimming and where he wasn't allowed to go. Oh well. He jumped in a few times and sat on a big floaty thing. Anyhoo, enjoy the photos!!

Before he got into the water.

Aidan and John in the pool!

Playing around

On the little floaty thing. A bit blurry but you get the idea, it was pretty fun!!! I wanted a chance at it even, just didn't want to throw Aid off and take a turn.

Laying on the floaty thing. It was SO fun!

In our rush to leave we forgot Aidan's coat so he wore John's sweatshirt. It was to funny!

Aidan the C-R-A-Z-Y sleeper!

Hello to all!! It has been a bit over a week since my last post and there isn't a whole lot going on lately around here quite literally. John worked one day (Friday) last week and hasn't worked at all this week. This is VERY frustrating for him as well as myself. It's nice to have him around BUT when he is home and watching way to much TV and playing around on his computer game and overall being lazy. I try and "suggest" things that we could do or some cleaning around the apartment because if anyone has seen our place you all know that it is in desperate need of organization lately. (We need to go through boxes and get rid of stuff) I try and be nice and such but before we know it it is dinnertime and then bedtime. Oh well, as long as Aidan has fun....right now they are outside playing. John has taken 2 extra shifts at Garlic Jim's (tonight) and one last week for a little extra cash. He LOVES it thus far as a second job.

Ok, that was a really long paragraph. I am running on little sleep. John and I took Aidan over to his parents house last night because we had no idea John wasn't working and I was taking a close family friend to her first OB appointment in Seattle at Swedish Hospital. John and I are honored to be the baby's God parents!! What an honor. Well we, err she, had an u/s (ultrasound) this morning and WOW, what a show the little one put on. I have to say, the baby is uber cute too!! Her hubby isn't able to take time off they were just married in January and he just started this job wihtin the last month or two I believe. So, I get to be the other person there. I LOVE IT!

So, her appointment was at 8am and check-in was at 7:45am. With traffic around here in the morning I left our house at 6:30am and usually wake up around 8am or so, so for the last two mornings I have been up early (yesterday & Friday I nanny at 6am, but usually get to snooze for a bit when I am there). So the coffee is out of my system and I am POOPED!!

Anyhoo, this post was about Aidan and how crazy of a sleeper he is. He will be all over the place with his head and feet at the wrong ends. Here are some pictures to show!! They are from various days and such!! Enjoy our wild sleeper!!

Fell asleep reading.

Ok, I know this is when he was sick, but it was still kind of funny with him with his "blah" or throwup pail.
Covering up

Peek-a-boo

This was more recent and really silly!! He must have needed more cushion than his bed already has!!

Yet another....

Last but not least. Look for more to come!!

Snow??

So.....since Friday we have been having snow showers and Friday was definatley the worst. Can you believe that it is April and it is snowing?? Seattle's record currently was April 17th for the latest snowfall, but alas we have set the latest snowfall in Seattle history!! I didn't get any good pictures or rather any at all, but hopefully if it continues to snow which they are saying is a possibility through tomorrow (who knows how long at this point) I will try and get pictures.

We have had hail, snow, sleet, rain, sun, clouds, thunderstorms, rain, snow, you get the story. I heard that one area around here got like 10 inches!!! Crazy huh!! So, I hope that our three readers out there (if even that many) are having better than us. Until it get's warmer....

Another success!!

So, I'm sure this is probably only a thing another mother or father would understand but yesterday, John forgot to put a diaper on Aidan at naptime. When Aidan woke up he was still in his big boy underroos's and dry!!! Yes you heard it correctly he is not wearing diapers at naptime for the last two days!!! I hope I am not to premature and that the success continues but I was so proud of him that I had to share!! I am amazed at my little boy and how well he is doing at this whole potty training thing!! We are such proud parents!!!

Wowzerz it was HOT!!!

Ok, so its only the middle of April and I was seriously complaining about the weather. CRAZY!! I just got onto KomoTV.com and checked what the high temperature for Seattle was today. 78 degrees!!!! Insane!! Our apartment reached 85 by 6:15pm when I left to go babysit and I was happy to be leaving for a few hours. Although the house where I was at tonight was also quite warm, it wasn't as hot as our house.

Aidan only wanted to go to the park and do nothing else. He even "packed" his bucket with all sorts of cars/trucks and whatever he could get his hands on to play in the sand. That's better than the toys to climb on. I have decided that we have a sand fanatic as well as bubble fanatic. Our friend Alexa, has said that Aidan is a bubble man. Tomorrow is suppose to be icky again but we are hoping for nice weather so we can go to the park to play in the sand. Keep your fingers crossed!!

New word of the day...

Ok, so Aidan is exploring his vocabulary lately. I was listening to John read him a book last night and I kept hearing "Why" coming from his room. He has asked me the very question a few times and follows it up with "oh" but it was fun being the audience for a change. He is learning SO much these days!!

Sample conversation between Aidan and I today while making his favorite Mac 'n Cheese for lunch.

Mommy: "Aidan can you please get off your stool and move it?"
Aidan: "Uh...........why?"
M: "So that I can put Daddy's breakfast dishes into the dishwasher and start it."
A: "Oh, okay."
A: "Why?"
M: "Because I said so." (we are using this and because I'm your mommy/daddy a lot more these days too)
A: "Oh, why?"
M: "Because I'm your mommy and I asked you to."
A: "Yea."

So every once in awhile we will get asked why after we respond that we are his mommy/daddy. Trying to answer all of a toddlers endless questions makes a person smile and occasionally pull their hair out if the questions go on long enough. Aid has been asking why more in the last 2-3 days or so and it is fun to see what his next "new word" might be!! OH MY!!!