Videos of Little Monkey

It was only 4 days that we were gone, but to us it seemed like he had changed so much! For one, and the funniest thing, is he has started some sort of growling noise. And two, he is just in general, so much more vocal and active! He is all over the place. He loves to follow Jeff around the house. And when either of us leaves the room he will crawl over to the door and poke his little head out to see where we went. Jeff and I could not get enough of him last night. He's just so delicious....

(to hear the video click the pause button on the music player towards the bottom of the blog)

Megan and Joe's Wedding

Jeff and I finally made it home around midnight on Sunday after a very FUN-filled 4 days in Cincinnati. I think that Jeff and I can agree on the fact that we really haven't had that much fun in a long time. It was so wonderful and such an honor to be able to take part in Megan's wedding. As we all knew she would be, Megan was a stunning bride. The entire event was so well put together and they both have such wonderful friends and family. Congrats Mr. and Mrs. Russell! We miss you already!





















Photobooth Fun:

Throwing in the Towel

As you all know, I use this blog as somewhat of a virtual scrapbook. That being said, I am happy to announce (yes, happy) that as of last Friday, July 24, 2009, I am no longer nursing OR pumping. Yes, it was time. I never necessarily had a "goal" set for how long I would nurse, but I think 8 1/2 months is pretty good. Aiden is also more than fine with it. He would actually prefer a bottle to be honest. And let me tell you, there will be no love lost between me and my Medela pump. I was spending 45-60 minutes a day with that thing, we needed to take a break.

In other fun news, Aiden started clapping this past weekend. It is the cutest. He claps for food. He claps for cartoons. He claps for toys. He claps when he sees daddy. He claps when I come in his room to come get him after naps. He claps when he crawls all the way across the room. He claps when mommy laughs at him. Basically, we are doing a lot of clapping lately.

In between clapping we just played all weekend. Jeff had a delivery that he had to do on Saturday morning, but other than that and a couple other errands, we just kept it low key. I wanted to spend all the quality time that I could with Aiden before we leave on Thursday for the wedding. Yeah, I know it's only 4 days, BUT STILL.

Before our Sunday morning walk to Starbucks: (still would never think of parting from his bink, it's not even up for discussion)


"I crawled all the way over here, and now daddy won't let me play with the entertainment system"

Cabo San Lucas 2009

Disclaimer: Not that you need to know this or care, but I am disappointed at the quality of these since we didn't use the digital camera. Instead we used the "still image" setting on our video camera. Bummer. We did however get some good video, that I will be posting at a later date. But anyway here is the family vacay 2009. ENJOY ~ we did.

Grandma and Aiden Swimming

Sushi? We LOVE Sushi!



Grandpa sharing his Cheetos



Matchy Matchy (Misfits tattoo, meet Misfits onsie)

Sleepy Monkey

Group Shot

Mowhawk man


Lemon Family

Just the boys


Father and Son



I think I'm funny in my tent




MY GRANDPA not yours







The End