Aiden's Growing Up!!

Well our little man is no longer a newborn! He's just coming alive smiling all the time and talking. The other day (Oct. 17 => ) he laughed!! I don't know if I just never noticed it before, but he just cracked up! I love it!!!! He's getting really good with his hands reaching, grabbing, and spinning his little toys. The other evening I placed a little musical light-up toy on the stroller tray and he figured out how to push the buttons and move the little rubber squirrels to make it sing!! He was entertained so long I made dinner and ate it before he'd had enough. What a boy genius =>

Movin on up!!

Well, this past weekend we put an offer on our first house!! eeek! I can't believe it! We've been looking for ages and ages with no luck. Every house we could find in our price range would be snatched up so quickly. This house is even better than all the others we looked at. It's brand new in a new development in Mt. Angel (just 8 miles east of Woodburn). Mt Angel is a charming little town known for its annual Oktoberfest celebration. I'm so excited. The only bittersweet aspect is that I'm still too far away from my mom (portland) and my dad (Gladstone). Boy did we look everywhere north! Wilsonville, Tualatin, Canby, even Donald!! They are just asking toooooooo much for even a fixer upper! So unless we wanted to live in townhouse (or build, which would take to long for us in our current living situation. We've outgrown it), we had to look south. So looks like Mt. Angel's the winner. Desi will till be commuting to Lake O, but hopefully we can gain enough equity in the next two years or so we can build our own. I'll post pictures as soon as we take some! => (PS our offer was negotiated and ACCEPTED yesterday!!!)

The little slugger

Here's the 3 month old little man in his baseball jams. What a sweet little guy. And my favorite of the two babes snoozin on the couch together. =>





Well, my days on maternity leave are numbered. ~sigh~ I begin work again this Saturday. Truth be told, it will kind of be a break to have my hands free to accomplish something from start to finish once again. It' kind of tricky buisness to do so at home. For example, I was attempting to make dinner and talk on the phone at the same time. Not a wise decision, as I had Aiden posted, pleasantly, in the stroller. Jillian of course decides to climb in with him onto the fabric behind the seat, not very safe to begin with, and then proceeds to pull on the bonnet in an attempt to close it I suppose. I could just imagine her, clutz of the century next to me =>, falling backwards and taking poor Aiden out. So I snatched Aiden out of the stroller, only to discover a blackberry I had picked for Jillian on our walk this afternoon, was smashed into his onsie. So, while clutching the phone between ear and shoulder, I stripped off his onsie, wrapped him in a blanket and strapped him into the swing. So Jillian, who I also removed from the stroller, decides to bug him once again...arggg. I feel so bad because I know she's just trying to play with him, but she is a bit rough sometimes and I feel like I'm always telling her to let him be. Anyhow, I'm sill attempting a conversation on the phone, chop onion, fry beef, and keep Jilly from smashing her broth... To say the least I was a bit relieved when I was off the phone again...Well I'd better go as Grey's Anatomy is on now and I'm addicted...'Till next time =>