Ayden's New Jumperoo...

Sunday morning Tim put Ayden's Jumperoo together...I think he likes this new toy!!!

X-Mas in Cape Girardeau!

Here are some of pictures from our Christmas in Missouri...

Ayden opening his presents...




Who need presents...we have RIBBON!!

One of his MANY new toys...

Too much excitement...

Grandpa being silly!!

X-Mas in Tell City...

Here are some of the highlights from our Christmas in Tell City. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!

Ayden met Santa Clause...




And his good friend Caleb...




Daddy was being silly...




While Ayden waited to open his presents!!




Later, Mamaw played with all the kids...or the kids played with Mamaw!!

What a ham!!

Our little guy is now on the first page of his photographers website...

www.tysonzahnerphotography.com

New Puppy...

Tim, Ayden and I went to pick up a new puppy today. My sister, Jennifer, and soon to be brother in law, Carl, are giving it to Eryn for Christmas. She is a very tiny and quite timid yorkie. She really reminds me of when Payton was a puppy. He was so little and shy when we first brought him home. Here is a video of the new puppy (as of now she is nameless, we just call her cutie, sweetie, and princess) trying to play with payton.

Here are a few pictures from Ayden's 6 month photo shoot. He did such a great job...

My First Christmas Present...

Ayden got to open his first Christmas present the other day...A Curious George Monkey and the matching Christmas Book!! I posted a movie of him opening the book or shall I say eating the paper!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I finally found some free time to post some pictures from Thanksgiving. We left for Tell City Wednesday around 3 pm. Celebrated Thanksgiving at my Aunt Mary and Uncle Raymond's house. Went shopping with Mom and Jen on Friday and then left Tell City to return to Cape Girardeau Friday night. We then got up early to spend the day with the McGuire crew and totally vegged out and recuperated on Sunday!! What a long weekend!!

Ayden is doing well and growing like a weed. Just tonight while holding him I realized my baby is getting so big and before you know it he is going to be walking. We have discovered a new tooth beginning to work its way through (that makes 3) and Ayden has now become an independent sitter. No help needed. He can sit on his own for a while and then he just gets tired or bored and tips himself over so he can scoot his way across the room. What a big boy!! I am so proud!!

Getting Ready for the Holidays!

Sorry I have not posted anything in a while. The last time we went to Tell City I left the video camera and we just found the charger for the digital camera. Since the last posting Ayden had his 6 month appointment. He is now 17.15 pounds and 26.75 inches long. Just perfect they said!! We also had his 6 month pictures taken. I am getting ready to order them so you should see them soon.

Today we decided that since we are going to be out of town and busy this next weekend, we would go ahead a set up the Christmas Tree. A little early for me but thats what you have to do when you travel so much. I hope that next weekend we will try to find time to get lights on the outside of our house. Here are a couple of pictures of Ayden and I putting ornaments on the tree and him smiling for the camera in his new Santa hat. Have a great Thanksgiving!!

Family Photos...

Last weekend when my family came up we scheduled a photo shoot. Tyson Zahner is now my FAVORITE photographer (he also took Ayden's newborn pictures)!! I think I will always have our pictures with him as long as we are living in the Southeast Missouri area!! Here are a couple I was able to copy over from his blog...

Halloween

Here are all of Ayden's Halloween outfits...we managed to make it through all of them!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here is Ayden in his Halloween Costumes...I will post more pictures of tomorrow. He has lots of halloween outfits to wear for daytime and sleepytime (Thanks Aunt Lisa and Aunt Jen!).

What a Big Boy!!

My little baby keeps growing up...and way too fast!! We put together his high chair last night and decided to try it tonight for the first time. He did great! I thought he would have some trouble sitting up since he cant completely sit up on his own yet but he proved me wrong. He just sat there like a little man and ate all of his dinner. We also tried out his new sippy cup for the first time tonight. He still needs some time to figure that he needs to tilt his head back and then suck. We'll keep working on that one. Finally to top off our night of "firsts"...his first tooth broke through yesterday!! He is doing pretty well since his is teething...just a little bit of fussiness but nothing to bad (I hope it continues that way)!!

Daddy's Chili...

Sunday, Tim made chili. It is so good! Here is a picture of Daddy trying to eat chili with Ayden and Payton just hoping for a small bite.

Look who's talking!! Our little guy just loves hearing his voice and Daddy can't pass up the moment to teach him how to say "Dada". This video was taken this past Sunday...he was talking like this all day long!!

Tell City!

Ayden and I went to Tell City this weekend to help Aunt Jen find a wedding dress. We think she may have it narrowed down to three dress...that is until we visit the next store!! We were only in town for a short time and since we were gone shopping all day Saturday there wasn't much time to visit with anyone. We stayed at Aunt Jen since Mamaw and Papaw are in the middle of remodeling the kitchen. We had lots of fun and I am so glad I had Monday off to recoup from the weekend. Enjoys some pics from this weekend!!

First arriving at Aunt Jens!!

Ayden & Eryn

Ayden hanging out with Papaw

Eryn helping out!

First Laughs...

This is an older video but I just figured out how to add videos to the blog (Thanks Amanda, it worked)!! It is a video of Aydens first real laughs with Daddy!

Monkey's new hat!!

Just wanted to share a picture of Monkey's new hat. It is starting to get a little chilly here in the evenings so we got a new hat to wear to the football games!! I just had to get a cute one...when he gets older he will never let me do this to him!!

Terre Haute, Indiana

We are finally back from our trip to Terre Haute, Indiana! We had so much fun catching up with friends and watching Grandpa help coach the Redhawks to another victory over the Sycamores!! We left about 5:30a.m. Saturday morning and got to Terre Haute about 9:30a.m. Tim went to visit some former players and coaches he worked with while Ayden and I had breakfast with Mamaw and her friend Susan and her daughter Ally. After breakfast Ayden and I joined Daddy at the football game...

Ayden got to meet a friend of Mommy's from First Financial Bank, Michelle...

After the game we all went out to dinner at Los Tres Caminos...yumm!!

And then after dinner Mamaw got to babysit Ayden while Mommy and Daddy went out on the town with Kim, Kevin and Freddy.

The next morning, Ayden go to catch up on his cartoons...

While Mamaw tried to figure out how to get him back to Tell City without Mommy & Daddy knowing??

Ahh, Finally home and competly wiped out from the long (but really fun) trip to Terre Haute!!