Valentine Crafts

We love celebrating all the different holidays of the year. Not too surprisingly, then, that we've already begun crafting and decorating for Valentines Day. Typically for the first part of Aaron's afternoon nap I like to do crafts or baking with Nate so we've been busy lately! Thought I'd show off our recent creations.



Our little pink monkey is in the spirit!



Our cool, glowing heart



Kool-Aid frozen hearts



Numbers made with Sweethearts




I can't believe we have a little boy in our midst who is going to turn four years old in a few short weeks! Eeks! We're having Nate's birthday party at the park (our usual, it's so nice outside this time of year!)We got a great deal on a bounce house and invited some of his friends this year, a first. He's at the age now where he appreciates that part especially. Nate is very excited about his birthday and party :)

Nate is back in school and enjoying it. He's been starting to associate it with seeing friends so that's a good thing. I love picking him up-he right away starts to rant off about what he did (we can't even get to the car without him opening his folder to show me his creations of the day) what he had for snack, who he saw, where he went,etc. It's fun to know he's having a good time, playing, learning and seeing friends.

Aaron just graduated from wearing his doc-band this week, yay! However he did discover that he was no longer protected if he rolled into things :( Boo. Now he is crawling pretty fast. He also has his two front, middle teeth! For all we know more could be coming as he's still been off and on with sleeping well. Diet of formula, cereal, baby food and Motrin! Poor guy.

Poor hubby has started traveling frequently now, I'm sorry to say. Good for job security especially but he's gone every other week now, sometimes for the whole week. Yuck. He doesn't particularly enjoy it and neither do we! This past week I have started to meet a friend at the gym at the lovely hour of 5am...the only time I can do it I've found. Too hard to squeeze the time during the day and by the end of the day there's always a thousand excuses. I'm happy to say that I went four straight days! Getting up at 4:30am is difficult...but knowing someone else is relying on me to be there helps greatly. Actually, that is pretty much my biggest motivation! Now that hubby is traveling, that obviously puts a damper in those plans. I think it's going to be hard to go back and forth between getting to sleep in and having to get up. We'll see how it goes, I'm going to try hard to stick with it when Josh IS around. Surprisingly...it's given me some energy once I'm done and it's just nice to have working out done and over with for the day.

Whew. Well there you have it, an update on us all!

Another Comparison Shot

Just thought it'd be fun to post pictures of the boys around the same age (eight months). Whatcha think?

Come and Get Me!

This past week we got Nate's tunnel out to play with-little did we know that Aaron found it to be the greatest toy! Different colors and fun to crawl through. It definately worked out for crawling motivation!









On a side note-I just completed my first half marathon since Aaron was born! My last (and only) one was Fall of 2010. I barely finished in under three hours, but I was happy that I ran until almost mile seven without stopping-a good feat since in training I have only made it up to six miles! I'm registered for another half marathon next month so I hope to improve a little bit more. I'm getting there!

8 Months

And another month passes us by! There's been some changes in the last few weeks...

--The greatest news : when we go back in two weeks to get Aaron's head re-measured, there's a really good chance we will be walking out the door without the doc-band, yay! Poor Aaron will probably enjoy getting to feel his hair and we'll enjoy not having to clean it daily :) Each visit Aaron's head is less flat and more round so there's no reason to think that it will be any different the next time. We should hit the goal we're after soon.

--Totally sitting up on his own. I don't know that I'm super comfortable putting him in a shopping cart yet, but he's definately sitting up for longer periods of time.

--CRAWLING! Ok, not crossing the room in seconds but he's inching his way along. Josh likes to call him "the worm" because he pops his bottom in the air and scoots.

--Loves his nightlight. If he's ever upset, we look at it for a while.

--Likes Elmo. Either the one we got him while in San Diego or the Rockin'/Singing Elmo that the boys got for Christmas.

--Two middle,bottom teeth have popped through the gum now. I think he's done with teething...for the moment!

--Still enjoys anything to do with his big brother. Sitting by him, playing with his toys,hanging in his room....



I'll say it again-he's getting cuter and cuter!