The days go by super fast and it surprises me at times that I have 2 toddlers. It seems just like yesterday when Andrew was crawling around and Aidan was in the beginning stages of his speaking journey. But nope, we have a 5 yr old, a nearly 3 yr old, and a nearly 2 yr old! And here is a few recent pictures to show just how cute(and grown up) they are getting!
Andrew likes to eat things, as well as sticking them up his nose and in his ears. Here he is eating a penny:
Alex in the tree in our front yard:
Aidan playing:
Andrew:
And a picture that I couldn't decide whether I should share or not. Obviously I chose to, but I may remove it later on, we will see:
Today finished up week 2 of potty training for Aidan. He has done awesome with it and I think has hada total of 1-2 accidents, all of the other pees have been in the toilet. He is not yet pooping in the toilet so he is in pullups b/c I don't want to have to clean nasty underwear. In the last several weeks he has been going and then wanting me to change him immediately but I don't think he knows beforehand that he needs to poop, otherwise maybe he is too afraid to sit on the potty and go, who knows. I'm hoping by the end of the summer, when he goes to preschool, that he will be both pee and poop trained.
I have to say, it was so much easier than I expected! I thought it would be a lot tougher since his language is delayed and didn't know if he would understand what I wanted him to do. What do you know that all it took was seeing Alex go pee before bath and Aidan started doing it. So thanks Alex for showing your little brother what to do!
Not really sure what got into me but I decided we would do a garden this year. I sure hope it is successful! We have planted bell peppers, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, and a blackberry and raspberry bush. We also planted some flowers---Alex picked out a petunia, then we got a couple of calla lily's(my favorite!) another type of lily that I can't remember the name of, and then some other flowers that I can't remember.
Kids had a wonderful Easter. We went to my dad's house for Easter dinner and an egg hunt, which was a lot of fun. Especially since we got to check out my dad's new house, which is awesome!
Pictures:
My twin sister, Katie, and my newest neice Mallory.
Finally having a chance to sit down and share some pictures of Alex's birthday. He had a very good one--we got them a trampoline to share between the 3 of them and they are loving it. Us too since if we take them outside to jump in the afternoon, they are worn out and go to bed easily! He got a Superman cake for his party and had our neices and nephews(and their moms!) come over and had a good time!
I haven't scheduled his 5 yr checkup yet, but I did measure/weigh him and he is 42.2" tall and 42.2 lbs--61% for weight, 39% for height.
A few days ago, I decided to shave Aidan's hair. Mainly b/c the time before when I cut it with the clippers, I couldn't get it all one length b/c he was having a fit. It started growing back in kind of funky, so I decided I would shave it fairly close and then it would grow back in evenly, at least I hope it will!
Picture of it before I shaved it:
And yesteday at the park-about 4 days after I shaved it:
I think it is super cute shaved, but I really like it longer as well, so as long as it doesn't bug me while it is growing in, I won't cut it, just trim as needed. The only problem with it being this short is that you can easily see his two scars from his surgeries and there is a smallbald spot on the left side from where his incision on that side took a while to heal. Not much of a big deal, but it sure is strange seeing those scars there.
Andrew had his checkup a few days ago. He is 23 lbs 8oz, and 33" tall. On the skinny side, but is consistent at 15% on his growth curve, so no big deal. Had to get his glucose levels checked b/c he had been drinking upwards of 70oz of fluids a day-50 of that water. But all is well.
He is talking so much, guess that is the advantage of sitting in on all of Aidan's speech therapy sessions. He is incredibly active-very physical---running, climbing, jumping down the stairs, any daredevil stunt he can imagine, he will attempt it.
He had his first eye exam a few days ago, Alex also had one. They both have perfect vision, but we were also told that they are both farsighted. Not really sure how those 2 can go together-perfect vision and being farsighted, but OK. No need for glasses for any of them yet, but if we notice any of the kids squinting or having problems readin(mainly Alex right now) then we will go that route. I'm guessing that at minimum that will all have at least reading glasses as almost everyone in my family has glasses/contacts. I think kids in glasses are cute, so no big deal :)
He is also fully off the bottle now, thank goodness! It's been about a week now. We had held onto it since he is still in our bedroom since we have no where else to put him, and with Edward sleeping during the day, it was hard to put him down and make him cry while Edward is trying to sleep. But we've settled into another nap and bedtime routine that seems to be working.
A quick video of Aidan and Andrew a few weeks back:
