My First Blog!

Aaron with his new "smile"

This is my first ever blog post, and I must admit it's a little weird to be able to say so much and think that people may actually read it. For everyone who will see my blog, you already know us so I guess I'll just start with the updates.

Aaron is 15 months now and nearly uncontrollable! His whole life he's been content to just sit and watch the world happen around him, which was WONDERFUL! But now... he's very confident in running and walking. So the new game is "run away from mom when we're in public to see how long it takes her to catch me" and it gets frustrating. I try to laugh with everyone else that sees it happen, but now will just always get a cart even if I am only getting milk. It is way fun to see him grow and become more independent each day.

We've weened him from the bottle... something that needed to be done a while ago, but its hard for me! He's starting to wake up earlier than I can function and giving him a bottle meant I could relax just a little longer. But Derrick has put his foot down and so no more bottles... which means a more exhausted me and a more grumpy boy in the mornings. But in the end, it will be better. Just gotta push through it!

I absolutely LOVE Aaron's age right now. He sleeps through the night, usually is happy (has started throwing tantrums, but those are already diminishing as we ignore them completely), can communicate what he wants through pointing and grunting (it's so cute!), and still loves to give hugs to his mom. He gets so excited to receive any praise from his parents, and loves to learn something new that we encourage (as in putting his toys away).

We have also established a time-out corner as Aaron has started to hit (usually in the face) when he's frustrated, angry, or anything not happy. He now has learned to stay in the corner until we go get him, and I feel the hitting has already gone down. For two days, he experimented with biting instead of hitting, but it didn't last long as he still just went into the corner. When I come get him out, he always has the saddest look on his face, puts his arms in the air for me to pick him up, and gives me the biggest hug! It's so cute! It's as if he really is sorry! (Or maybe he just knows that's what melts my heart and hopes he'll get out of the corner for doing so.) Another funny thing he does is he checks to see if I am nearby while he is in the corner. He'll slowly crawl away looking for me... all I have to do is look at him, and he hurries back to the corner and waits. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh when you are suppose to be "upset" and showing them what they did was wrong. One day I should just video it. It's pretty funny.

Not much to catch up on with Derrick and I. Derrick works a lot, usually getting overtime. I stay with Aaron with no car (as mine was wrecked on the 4th of July, and car shopping is slow when you are making sure you get the right car). I baby-sit 3 extra kids for 10 hours on Thursdays and Fridays which keeps those days very busy for me. Thank goodness they are good kids, but still hard to entertain a 4 and 6 year old with Aaron's toys. Thank goodness we have an xbox, netflix, a kinect, and a swing set. I would die without these items. School is coming up soon, which Derrick and I are both dreading and looking forward to. Dreading, as I will not have a husband again for 4 months. Looking forward to as it is our LAST SEMESTER OF SCHOOL!!! YEAH!! It's a bitter-sweet thing for sure. Definitely excited to be done with the school phase of life. And that pretty much sums it up!