Aidan 1 Year

Aidan's 1 year pictures

He really loved this ball and didn't want to put it down.

 

  

  

  

  

  

What a fun photo shoot!

Teara took these for me this week, she's done such a good job with so many photos of the boys.  

Monster Jam

Are you ready for Monster Jam???!!!     I've heard this a few thousand times it seems like.    Hunter really loves Monster Jam and on Sunday we went to our first show.   

I was really excited to take him because I knew he was going to love it.  It was worth it just to see his eyes when we were going to find our seats and he saw this when he peaked in the stadium.

He knew that he was at real Monster Jam show!

It started with the biggest Flag I've ever seen... it is Monster Jam so everything must be big!

Hunter with his ear plug/headset.... let's just say you needed this!   Everyone did.   It was the craziest, loudest thing I've even heard!   I was laughing when all the trucks came out at the beginning because you can't really be ready for how loud it is and how big the trucks are.

 

All the trucks when they first came out racing around.

That's all the trucks we saw at this show.

 

 Started with a wheelie competition.  Hunter loves Nitro Circus.... he loves many of them.

 

Having fun Hunter?

 

  

In his Grave Digger hat.

Oh yes, and there was a fire breathing, car eating megasaurus too...

 

Candice Jolly in Monster Mutt.. she rolled over.   Hunter loves Candice Jolly.   He knows the names of the drivers of most of the trucks and sometimes just calls the trucks by the drivers names.

 

 Big air!   We got to see several roll overs in the free-style.  It was the last show of the weekend so tend to go all out... makes for a fun show!

George Balhan crashed too.   He's from Chicago so he was big crowd favorite.

Grave Digger went last and won the freestyle, he put on a pretty good show!

End of show... Hunter was getting pretty tired but still having fun.

All decked out in his Grave Digger hat and Monster Mutt t-shirt.  My little Monster Truck fan.

It was a pretty fun show.   I have to say even if you aren't a big fan you would probably still enjoy the show they put on.   Hunter loved it of course and  we go to see lots of his favorites with a lot of the really good drivers.    He also got the program with all the trucks in it which he loves looking at... and pointing out to us all the trucks he doesn't have yet and thinks he needs : )

Thinking about, wishing for...

I've found some garden pics I took this summer.  Have been going thru my June pics and trying to print and scrapbook.... (I'm that far behind, with no hope at this point of catching up!)   But... remembered I took these thinking maybe I'd do a garden post and never got to it.   What better time to think about when we just got 10 inches of snow and it was 1 degree this morning!

In my mind I'm already planning my garden.. what needs to be done, where I'll put everything.   These pics are all from the end of June.  Last year I had Adam build me a 2 small boxes.   I planted herbs in one and lettuce and spinach in the other.   The lettuce box went nuts!   I had tons of lettuce and spinach.  Probably the best luck I've ever had with it.   So I'll do that again this year.

I found out that cilantro comes up very easily from seed and from seeds that are dropped the year before.   The trick is it comes up early and than is done by mid to end summer.  I'd like to try this year and plant some so it's ready along with the tomatoes for salsa.

Ok, so I had a tomato jungle this year!  They did really well and I really think I picked the most tomatoes ever but I planted them way to close together and had a serious jungle to deal with!   Note to self... space a little more this year!   

Onions... those are always easy and I still have some onions in the bottom of the fridge in brown paper bags from the garden.   How nice is that?

Zucchini.... again an easy one.   Always plenty of zucchini..... Adam starts begging me by the end of summer to stop putting zucchini in everything I cook : )

 My peach trees and my garden problem...they've grown up so much that I can't plant anything much on that side of the garden.   I can't expand in the other direction much either because of a row of bushes.   Since I'm seemingly always running out of room I think will have to start a second garden somewhere.   I did that this year for pumpkins but will probably still need/ want yet more room.   You can also see the unmowed grass between the trees and garden since there's not enough room to mow with the rider.... hmnnn something else I should "fix" this year.

First thing on my garden "to do" list this year is to tear up my pitiful strawberries  (they are straight back in the above pic behind the fence.)    It has needed to be restarted for the past few years and I haven't gotten to it.  I really wanted to get it done at the end of summer this year but it didn't happen.   But... since they have sprawled beyond control I want to replant in some boxes, which Adam will have to make me : )   I hope to do this as early as I can this spring!

There!  That's more than anyone wanted to read about my garden, but now my mind is busy planning!!

Aidan at 1 Year

Little Aidey at 1 year.   We call him Aidey... I started it just for fun, Hunter quickly picked it up and now we all call him Aidey.   He was supposed to be AJ and probably still will be, but for now he's still baby Aidey to us.

I snuck back in his room and took some pictures of him sleeping on his birthday.   How sweet is that little face!

Time for presents.   I took Hunter out to get him something and we ended up with a Handy Manny doll and tools.  Hunter insisted that was what Aidan wanted for his birthday... or what Hunter wanted.   Hunter was right there trying to help him open and tell him which present to open.

See Aidey's little tongue?  It is always out!

We did cupcakes the night of his birthday.   He touched the flame... I should have known better because he is always like a moth to the flame with lights, night lites or fires.    Bad mommy moment : (

And this is what he thought of his cupcake... completely unimpressed!   Tongue out again.

"Look Mom, this is as messy as I'm getting!"   He was not into the cupcake at all!   I gave him some tastes of the frosting and he made a face like it was way to sweet for him.  Hunter on the other hand had no trouble inhaling a cupcake and making a complete mess of himself!

Some things about Aidan at 1 year....

Very good at crawling, standing on his own and can take 3-4 steps on his own.   I think right now he prefers to crawl as he has perfected the speed crawl.

Just said "mama" about a week ago!   Saying bye-bye, luv you, oh-oh, kitty, trucks, up, blah.   Funny thing about him is he will repeat a word once when he try to get him to say something but then you can't get him to do it again, he'll just smile like nope, I said it already.   He communicates mostly with a combo ughhhhh-ttthhhhhh noise.   He makes a grunting noise and then points and makes a spitting tttthhhhh noise. 

He's a biter...watch out if he comes at you with those 4 little teeth!  It hurts, trust me!

He throws mini-fits when you take something away from him or he doesn't get what he wants... already!!  I find this funny because Hunter never did that this early on but Aidan sure lets us know what he wants!   I guess a second child has to learn to speak up!

He does have a quiet and soft way about him, but like I said with the fits he can sure let us know what he wants when he wants to!

He's been a bit of a Mama's boy his first year.  Spending a good deal of his 1st year being held by me or crying if mama wasn't holding him.   Learned the word "up" and is constantly pulling on my pant leg saying "pu" for up!

We had a party for him yesterday.  Here's a preview of his party and the monkey birthday cake I made for him....  because he is my little monkey : )

Mr. Hunter

Mr. Hunter is quite the little character.  He has us cracking up constantly with his little phrases and sayings.   He's very literal these days and makes us laugh even more with his reasonings about everything.
 
He has been on a major zoo kick  for awhile... like everyday now for months.    I think about everyday he asks about the zoo and when we can go.   We told him back in November that we couldn't go to the zoo until it gets warm again, then we said we couldn't go til the snow melts, when the grass gets green... ... trying to come up ways to explain spring.
When the snow started to melt and we had a few warmer days he was sure it was time to go the zoo.   Trying to slip it in like "you get dressed, we go to the zoo?"   He kept saying this all day one day until I realized it was because we were commenting it was warmer and he thought for sure it was time to go.   Poor kid,  I keep telling we will take him again, just wait until it gets a little warmer!