In Case You Didn't Believe Me...

...here is the visualization of Aaron's first word that I was talking about in this post. It's pretty funny!

You Had to Know This Picture was Coming

The two little boys in the bathtub! So cute! (Big sister and cousin Emilie was helping out).

More Missouri Pictures

Today was a very busy day. We had the little boys fitted for their little tuxes for my sister's wedding on Saturday. It was the sweetest thing you have ever seen and it was, of course, the one time I didn't have my camera with me. Trust me, though, I'll have it on Saturday. We also picked up my bridesmaid dress, my niece's junior bridesmaid dress and my sister's wedding dress from the cleaners. That made it all the more real and I think my sister is starting to get butterflies! Here are some more pictures from our day.

The two grandsons sharing some puffies. And when I say "share," I mean Aaron shoving all of them into his mouth in handfuls while Stiehl gets to eat whatever doesn't make it in there.

My niece Emilie working on the bubble favors for the wedding.

Aaron in "No Man's Land" - Papa's chair. You have to be someone pretty special to be able to sit there!

We Made It!

After a very long day of traveling, I am ecstatic to report that we are in Missouri! It doesn't matter where the Air Force moves us; this place always feels like home to me. And about the long day of traveling, THANK GOD for the portable DVD player we decided to buy the boy for an early Christmas present. You just can't underestimate how good the Little Einsteins are to me. As it turns out, seventeen-month-olds really don't like to stay in the same spot for more than 5-10 minutes at a time, unless they happen to be unconscious. Go figure! So, during each leg of our trip, we waited as long as we could (hoping he would allow the plane to lull him to sleep) before we popped in a DVD and finally were able to fly in peace. Anyway, check out a few pictures of our first day in Missouri.

This is Aaron during our layover in Denver. We always fly Frontier so we always layover in Denver and I have posted a few times before with pictures I have taken of him during our stops here. I thought it would be interesting to compare them. You can check out those past pictures in this post.

Here is my gorgeous nephew, Baby Stiehl, even though he isn't quite such a baby anymore. I haven't see him since the end of May and he has changed so much! He is crawling and pulling himself up to a standing position. He is also much more vocal and responsive to those around him.




Here is Aaron with his cool airplane toy that Papa got for him.


Stay tuned! I'm sure I'll have more pictures tomorrow!

And So It Begins...

The craziness that will be our lives for the next few weeks, that is. Tonight is the last night that Bill, Aaron and I will get to sleep in our own beds for a long time (My Reagan is getting to sleep in her own bed, but at Lisa's house!). It is also the last night we will spend in this house. I am deeply saddened by this but am trying not to show it because I'm a good Air Force wife. O.K., maybe not, since the whole world knows that I'm sad. This house was our first new house that we bought together, the house where we had our first child, etc., etc., etc. I picked out the carpet, we painted the walls a color we got to choose, I even picked out the tile backsplashes in the bathrooms. I have become very attached to this house and this state and this assignment and I should not have done that. Hopefully I will learn my lesson during the next assignment. Anyway, California, here we come. Well, via Thanksgiving in Missouri, of course. We can't wait to see you Papa and Aunt Bethanie!

Another New Thing

Another one of Aaron's new quirks is he likes to stick his fingers in his ears and scream as loud as he can. I'm not sure if he likes the way it sounds in his head, or deep down he just likes to torture his Daddy and me. Check it out. It's actually pretty funny.

More Writer's Block

I guess I will write about another thing Aaron did today to impress me since I have come down with another case of writer's block. Over the past few days, I think Aaron has been saying his first word! It isn't "Mama" or "Dada" or anything cute like that. When he puts a phone, or anything really, up to his ear, he says "Ho." I think he's trying to say "hello"! My boy is so smart!

Blah, Blah, Blah...

So sue me that I can't be interesting for thirty days in a row. I can't think of anything to write about tonight, so here's a picture of me and my Reagan 'cause I love her (back when I was super skinny 'cause you know that's the only pictures of me that you're getting).

Is It Wrong to be So in Love with a Household Appliance?

I need this:

The Staples MailMate Junk Mail Shredder. Why do I need it so badly? It shreds everything. Credit cards, papers with staples in them, DVDs (Why would you need to shred a DVD? Who cares? It can do it!), and, most importantly, unopened junk mail, people! I don't even have to open the stupid credit card application, with its stupid fake credit card and the stupid little stickers you use to pick out what lame credit card design you want. SO SWEET!

You wanna know the for-really-real reason why I need it? Here it is:


Did you see it on tonight's episode? SO AWESOME! Yes, I really am that shallow. I am a consumer product company's dream.

Help Me...I'm Stuck!

What's the Most Embarassing Song on Your iPod?

When my in-laws came to visit this summer, we played a game that I stole from a magazine called "What's the Most Embarassing Song on Your iPod?" It was fun; mostly because I think I won. Anyway, P & K's Mommy's post about her rockin' time at an Alison Krauss concert got me thinking about how eclectic our music tastes can be. I never would have dreamed that you liked Alison Krauss, Arlene! That's so awesome! For some reason, I just assumed it was a requirement to live in the Midwest or South before you could enjoy good country music.

I thought I would give some insight into myself by letting you in on some of my song picks on my iPod. A few of my recent downloads are:

• "Remember When" Alan Jackson
• "When You Were Young" The Killers
• "London Bridge" Fergie
• "Remember the Name" Fort Minor featuring Styles of Beyond
• "Jesus Walks" Kanye West
• "Proof" Coldplay
• "I'm a Slave 4 U" Britney Spears
• "Grillz (Dirty)" Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
• "Testarossa" Sir Mix-A-Lot
• "I'd Die Without You" P.M. Dawn
• "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" U2
• "Bulls on Parade" Rage Against the Machine
• "Crazy Bitch" Buckcherry
• "A Thousand Miles" Vanessa Carlton
• 8 Aerosmith songs
• 4 Christina Aguilera songs
• 5 Evanescence songs plus "Broken" Seether & Amy Lee (Can you tell I love Amy Lee?)
• 5 George Strait songs
• 18 Kid Rock songs, people (I would divorce Bill in a second for my Kid Rock)
  
• 9 Limp Bizkit songs (I LOVED the entire Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water album)
• 5 Prince songs
• 6 Stone Temple Pilots songs

My taste in music is almost schizophrenic in how eclectic it is, isn't it? I mean, why must we be pigeon-holed into liking only one or two genres? Yes, I enjoy Rage Against The Machine as well as George Strait. So sue me!

By the way, to answer my own question - "Good Vibrations" Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch. Stop laughing! It's a good song to dance to. What's your most embarassing song? Be sure and leave me a comment and let me know so I can hopefully feel a little bit better about myself.

Future Computer Geek...Just Like His Mommy

At Least He's Pretty...

...'cause from the looks of this video, it doesn't seem like he's got a whole lot going on in the brain cell department:

Of course, this was right before we put him down for his afternoon nap, so maybe it was delirium due to sleep deprivation? I can hope, right?

Crazy Glowstick Guy!!!

Without the camera flash...


With the camera flash...

My Stomach Hurts

All I needed was a little perspective...or not. 'Cause I am officially freaking out now. Today we are at exactly T minus three weeks before Bill, Aaron, Reagan and I will be piling into our cars and moving to California. So Cal to be exact. The DESERT to be even more exact.

One of those three weeks will be spent in Missouri for the Thanksgiving holiday. My sister Bethanie is also getting married the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We get back from Missouri on November 28th, the movers are coming November 29th, 30th, and December 1st, then we will be heading to California on December 2nd. Have I done anything to prepare this house for a move? Heck no. It's already sold, so that's a good thing. And the government is moving us, so basically we just sit back and watch the movers pack our stuff and haul it away (Sweet!). I still feel like I should be doing something, though. It's kind of like the calm before the storm and the storm isn't going to end until we finally make it to California and get settled into our house, around mid-December.

Auugghhhhh! O.K., breathe...

How Can I Get Him in Trouble When He Looks So Cute?

My Heart Melted Tonight...Again

Tonight Daddy returned home from San Antonio where he has been for the past four weeks or so. I was very concerned about how Aaron would react to him. I even gave Bill the "don't get your feelings hurt" speech because I was worried that Aaron would be indifferent to him like he is to every stranger on the street. Maybe even a little scared or, at the very least, stand-offish. As it turns out, I didn't give my son nearly enough credit. From the moment Bill got in the car when we picked him up at the airport, he had Aaron giggling and talking (well, Aaron talk, that is.) When we got home, Bill chased Aaron around the house and played with him like they were old pals. Aaron reached his arms up for Bill to pick him up, which he usually doesn't do for anyone except me. I absolutely loved every minute of it.

My poor heart isn't going to be able to take this child-raising thing for very much longer.

From the Third Whitest Chick in America...

...here is my most favorite Scrubs clip ever. Tonight one of the reruns of Scrubs that I was so fortunate to watch on the TiVo was entitled "Her Story." This particular episode has the funniest bit in it and I have it memorized because I have watched it so many times. It doesn't even have my Dr. Cox in it! Go figure! Anyway, I thought I would share it with you.

Writer's Block

Well, I've got some pretty good writer's block going on but I'm determined to keep up with NaBloPoMo, so I've decided when this happens that I'm going to write about one of the several things that Aaron does each day that impresses me. Today, I noticed that Aaron has gotten in the habit of sticking his fingers in his ears when I am rinsing his hair during his bath. He doesn't like water in his ears, so he plugs them up! My boy is a genius!

Now if I can just keep him from drinking the bath water, we might be on to something here.

Baby's First Black Eye

I promise I wasn't the one who gave it to him! See, the thing about toddlers, sometimes they are so preoccupied with what they're doing with their hands, that they aren't paying attention to where they're walking. Or, more specifically, what they're walking into. Aaron was in his bathroom last night chewing on the snot-sucking aspirator thingy (I only let him do this after his bath so he'll stand relatively still and let me comb his hair) and he started walking away and tripped over the rug, falling face-first into the side of the bathtub.

I look at it as a learning experience.