Okay, no excuses from me for not keeping everyone updated…I’ll just get right into it, at least a few recent happenings in the Aiken household.
First, E had his 6 month appointment tonight – yes, he really IS 6 months already as of last week. He has gone down to about the 80th percentile for weight and about 75th for length; which means he’s not as chubby as William was at his age, his weight percentile actually went down. I can explain the reason for this. William was such a laid back baby, and not that E isn’t, he’s just a mover. He can’t stand still for more than a few minutes. He will purposely fall over to his side (when he is sitting ALL by himself) just so he can roll ALL around the living room. Seriously. That’s how he gets around, no interest in crawling, but he rolls ALL over the place. William never did that, he was content sitting there all by himself for months, as long as he had a toy near him, he was happy. Not this guy.
As far as William goes, he is learning his alphabet very well, he is about halfway through and knows all the letters (capital and lowercase) and the sounds and although he is shy about it, he will sing the whole ABC song for Mommy and Daddy once in a while. He’s my little sponge with a 2-year-old attitude. I can’t say the terrible 2′s are hitting us very hard, sure he gives us “No’s” on occasion (daily), but it really hasn’t been that bad – YET. I am waiting for the day when E gets to this point, he is already seriously on the move, I can see him being my little defiant child. He is going to get into everything, not matter what we say.
Last weekend Daddy took Will to LEGO Kidsfest at the Mpls Convention Center and from the sounds of it they both had a great time and are already looking forward to next year.
A little about me – I am excited to be the one and only favorite Auntie for my brother’s first child due in early July! Otherwise I would like to get my PC (Pampered Chef) business back on the board so I am trying to look hard at my calendar and see how to schedule time to work on my business…family/boys (check), gym (check), full-time job (check), PC (nadda, nothing, zilch). Need to find space for it somewhere…along with my neglected blog!
Other WONDERFUL news is that Andrew was able to fill his time off from Cargill with another part-time job as an electrician. It is actually working out really great, 3 1/2 days as an electrician and 2 1/2 days in the Feed Mill at Cargill. He really likes working for Cargill, the people there are great and treat everyone well. He also seems to like being an electrician again so apart from the odd pick up/drop off day care schedule everything is starting to come back together for our finances, kind of anyways. Not sure you can fully recover from being laid off for nearly 2 years!
Can’t make any promises, but I will certainly try again from this point forward to update at least 1x/week, which was my intent all along. Even if its brief.
Also, it takes time to upload pics to multiple locations so to see some of the most recent pics of us go to my Facebook page. I will try to get some on here eventually too.
