Can we grow up?
Oct 21Many months have gone by since my last Aidan-related post, and he’s done just a wee bit of growing up! He celebrated 4 and a half years the other day with the semi-annual height check. Turns out he has grown a good inch or two since his birthday! I guess we’re going to have to stop putting the Miracle-Gro in his cereal now. He started school earlier this fall, in Junior...
Back in blogness
Oct 19So it’s been a while since I put anything on the blog. Nearly three years. But I aim to change that! Over the past week, I’ve been hard at work moving everything over to it’s new home and sprucing it up a bit. And now that’s done, it’s time to find something interest and poignant to release my creative writing skills on. Hmmm… ~...
Taking our sentence
Nov 09It’s very interesting to watch the journey of speech… Something we so easily take for granted. However, it’s something that Aidan is still very much working on. But amazingly, his vocabulary grows every day. And now, he’s like a little parrot, repeating what we say. (Gotta make sure we don’t say the wrong things!) Just recently, he uttered what could be...
Shoveling the Driveway
Nov 22It snowed in Ottawa today. For anyone who lives in the area, this isn’t exactly breaking news, but like many other people today, I had the opportunity to participate in the age-old ritual of shoveling my driveway after I got home from work. My driveway is longer this year, so I had more time to think as I enjoyed the fresh air and exercise… nothing around but the distant sound of a...
Bring on the steak!
Nov 16Although they’re still hard to see, Aidan cut his first teeth today. That’s right, my boy’s not content to cut one tooth, he had to do two at a time. Maybe he felt a little pressure when his cousin Ella, who’s a whole 5 weeks younger, cut her first tooth the other day and decided he’d better get with the program? Or maybe not. Whatever the case, it won’t...