One morning he spotted an old granola bar wrapper on the kitchen table that his Dad-Oh failed to throw away.  He climbed up the chair and on to the table, grabbed the wrapped and chased me down the house screaming at me and thrusting the wrapper my way.  The only problem?  Dad-Oh took the rest of the box of granola bars on the boat with him.  No chewy goodness for Aidan Daidan.  Let me tell you about all the reasons that Nutrigrain Bars ARE.NOT.THE.SAME!!!  Yeah, I was cussing the Dad-Oh for that one!

He loved climbing on the couch arm and hoping on to the glass on the end table in the sun room.  Since the two walls behind him are all windows and since glass probably isn’t the best material to climb on I took the glass top off and hid it under the couch.  Jokes on me, however because this has not stopped the climbing.  Now instead of a glass pedestal to climb on he has a scaffolding of sorts.  He cliff hangs off the side of the couch and uses the end table stand as his ladder up and down.  There is no stopping this kid.  He does relatively good, no major booboos yet, it only takes once I suppose….

PS Deeder’s a big brother!  Baby Carly Annalise is here!

Okay, I suppose I should talk about MY kid, huh? He had a fun day today. We had a morning play date at Isabel’s house. She and Aidan have the exact same hair and eye color. They look like they could be related!  She is getting the hang of walking now and was trying to keep up with Aidan, but every time she finally got to where he was, he had decided he was done being there and off he went! I should have brought my camera!

After I got home from work Aidan and I had some fun outside on the swing set. I swear that kid would be perfectly content if I left him in there all day. I suppose he’d probably like a snack or two every so often and maybe a swing of water, but other than that he’d be pleased as pie to sit on his rump and swing all day. I gotta teach that kid to pump!

One more day of work, then my four day weekend!! I can’t even wait! I so wish I had a summer break!!!

I visited this morning and I had fully intended on taking pictures and video for the site but I had a total blonde moment and forgot my camera.  When I went back this afternoon they were both busy.  So alas pictures will have to wait until tomorrow. 

Mommy and baby are doing well, just in need of some serious rest!  Congrats Shuler family!  We couldn’t be happier!

Yesterday I was battling a 102 fever, but since it was absolutely GORGEOUS out I mustered up every ounce of energy I had to take Aidan to the park.  We took a stroller ride through Totem Park, where he had a blast playing in the grass with sea shells.  Then we went and got an ice cream cone and sat on a bench and gobbled it up.  My throat was burning like a thousand suns!  Then we headed down to Harbor Park for some swing action.  We were out for over three hours!  If that doesn’t get me some kind of award I don’t know what will!

I am still not 100% so since Aidan is napping I am going to take advantage of this time to rest too!

I have one more day of work, then my three day weekend.  Unfortunately we are in session and I have to work Memorial Day!  *Humpt*  But I get the following Monday off as an alternate.  So I have a four day weekend to keeping me trudging along….

I am hoping my new BFF Ty-Lenol will keep my boys in dreamland through out the night!

Granted my little angel was in pain, I didn’t totally blow him off….  He was chalked full of Tylenol, teething tabs, and a quick sweep of orajel.  I would have been happy to hold him and console him if he would have wanted that.  He was in one of those hold me/don’t hold me, feed me/I’m not hungry, I’m tired/I don’t wanna sleep kinda moods.  So alas he pounded his frustration out on the carpet.

Surprisingly, he slept fairly well.  He woke up a bit early for my liking, but beggars can’t be choosers I’m told!  He was in a decent mood all morning and we even managed to get a few errands done and make it to the park before I headed off to work!  He was still a bit out of sorts at the park.  He refused to have his feet touch the ground, but was elated to sit on his rump in the swing for half an hour.

After work I came home to a happy, playful and very happy to see Momma toddler.  A VERY nice treat.  I can see three out of the four eye teeth cut through the gums, so I am very much hoping we are over the teething hump!  I don’t know why getting teeth is so hard for my little doodle!  He’s tough as nails when it comes to just about everything else, so I suppose I can cut the poor little guy some slack!

Instead of joining in the baby party fun, Aidan pooped out about ten minutes after we got to Kai’s.  I don’t know if the thought of finding a color square and another vocab lesson was just too much to handle, or if the kiddo is trying to manage his teething situation by zonking out.  Thankfully, he still went down for his noon nap and slept a little over two hours.

He was a handful when he woke up.  Needy, whiny, and wanting everything or was that nothing?  So I packed him in the car, loaded up the Puppers and headed to the Cross Trails for a walk.  Anything to keep him occupied and the whining at bay!

It worked!  Well, as long as I kept a constant forward motion….this too shall pass!!  If not, there’s always toddler dentures! 

For some reason he has a fascination with shoving all 180 pieces of his play food under the couch. He better not catch you trying to clean up under there, either! There will be hell to pay! If he could talk I’m sure he’d say something along the lines of, “GET AWAY FROM MY STUFFFF!!!” Just a guess.

Tonight I was in the kitchen and I heard him banging around in the dogs dish. Not uncommon. Having known that the food and water bowls had been put up high, I didn’t think much of it. When I did come out of the kitchen I glanced over to find my son doing this:

Of course my camera was upstairs, so I ran up as quick as I could to try to “capture it on film!” Of course when I came down .2 seconds later he was over it. Or so I thought. What you can’t see is underneath him are his misfit binkies. Apparently, he had to get out and collect the rest because after dumping them into the bottom of the bowl he climbed right back in!

If you look really closely you can see the orange handle of a misfit binkie. He and Pablo have become best of buds. I think the bunny ears was the clincher!

I am too delirious to even think of anything coherent to write so I will admit defeat and head off to bed.  Where, HOPEFULLY I will be able to actually sleep!