HAPPY :)

We caught up with the Alva's and the Pinkowski's this weekend. 

Winter is Coming!

We switched to daylight savings time, boo! It get's dark so early and our sunny days have quickly faded away. Now it's mostly gray and cold. Aiden had croup this past week so between Andrew and I we missed 3.5 days of work. He got steroids for his breathing Wednesday night. The cough that came with it sounded like it couldn't have been coming out this little person, so raspy and painful sounding. He slept horribly and you could just tell he was miserable. He wanted to be carried everywhere and whimpered a lot. He is mostly recovered this weekend but just extremely tired all the time. 

I put door flaps on the tent which make it so much more fun for hiding. 

Aiden figured out how to climb up and down the step stool. 

He's getting better at walking around while holding our hand. 

We visited Nina in her painting studio this weekend.

 I started to paint our stair banister. It's a good house project to spend small amounts of time on here and there. I thing it looks so much more updated. The right is almost finished and on the left I just started priming. I've also been doing a lot of cleaning out to reclaim some of the space and storage in our house.

Birthday Week!

Here's one whole year of Aiden in 52 seconds!

I made Aiden a tent for his birthday. I still need to add the front and back flaps but I'm figuring out how I want to do that.  It can be disassembled and folded in half and I want to keep that option when I add the doors.

 He knows where the bubbles are and won't let a sticky drawer stop him from getting them. 

 Aiden in his Halloween costume.

This is where our inspiration came from...

He was sick this day and couldn't go to daycare but we did swing by Andrew's office for a visit. 

 Playing in the fall leaves...

 Aiden, Andrew and I all got some gross stomach bug this past week. Aiden's seemed mild and didn't last long, but he did throw up 3 times which was a first for us. He can't give you any warning, ICK! Then Friday night Andrew and I both had it at the same time. It was very miserable and we were up about half the night and wiped out the rest of the weekend. We sent Aiden to the gym daycare on Saturday and Sunday so we could have some time to rest and recover.

I'm so glad I have kept up with the blog. I've enjoyed being able to do it for our families far away, but Andrew and I have also really come to enjoy being able to look back so easily. Now, when people say "What?! 1 year already?! Where has the time gone?! Can you believe it!?" W can look back and know exactly where the time went because otherwise it really is a blur. And yes, it went fast, but other parts seemed to drag on like teething and sleep deprivation. Having all our memories recorded helps me keep it in perspective and I have less of the nostalgic "they grow up too fast feelings." We are able to just enjoy the present :)