Creepy Crawlers

I hate spiders.

I truly hate spiders.

I just wanted to set you up for our live horror show last night, dealing with...you guessed it, SPIDERS! I walked to the back door to let the dogs in from being outside when I felt something crawling on my legs. I had a mini freak out and brushed off a bunch of little spiders, then I saw them in a web in the bottom of my ponytail. Now, I had more of a major freak out, practically ripping the hair out of my head. When I turned to look where the little creepers had come from, I saw hundreds of tiny spiders spinning webs across my dining room chairs. After I made sure all of the spiders were off me, I grabbed Aiden and ran to the back of the house. To make matters worse, Dave was not picking up the phone which almost had me to the point of tears. Thankfully, Dave got home a few minutes later and to make a long story short. We (mostly Dave) spent the next two hours, killing and cleaning up black widow spider babies. Dave found out it was a black widow when he came across the mama spider with it's egg sac in one of our newly acquired dining room chairs. Needless to say, it was a long night and now today I am still constantly looking around for any spiders that may have gotten away. I still feel like they are crawling all over me, I can't stand that feeling. Keep us in your prayers that our spider encounters are now over, and that this crawling sensation passes soon before it drives me completely insane!

To help ease the horror of this story, I thought that I would end the post with my little bundle of cuteness. We took him to the county fair yesterday, we had a blast! 

Home Sweet Home

Once again I have fallen behind on my Weigh-In Wednesday duties, the past two weeks have been a little crazy though. The first week I was in Orange County preparing for my cousin's wedding, which left little time to blog and measure my little man. However, we had a blast at the wedding and Aiden was a perfect little angel, the most behaved little kid in attendance, in my opinion. Plus, I was a bridesmaid in the wedding, so I get to check something off my bucket list! Hooray! The second week, I was working on unpacking my new home in Arizona and I had not gotten to unpacking the Wii and Wii fit to enable me to weigh my little one. Now, I have made a huge dent in putting the house together, including setting up the Wii! Hip-hip hooray, weigh-ins are back today!  Aiden seems to really be enjoying life in our new house. His new bedroom is coming along nicely, and I think he enjoys having his own space. Despite it being a lot of work, I am loving putting our new house together. It is so spacious and quaint, I hope that many of you get to see it eventually. When I am finished unpacking, I will post pictures of our new home. Aiden is enjoying some new solid foods, he prefers whatever we are eating though. I pureed some cilantro-lime chicken that I prepared, and he loved it! I guess he has a more sophisticated palate than other babies. ;) Aiden is starting to teethe pretty badly, I am expecting the appearance of a tooth any day now. He is drooling like a faucet and is more fussy than he had been in the past. I'm hoping the tooth breaks through soon to give him a little relief. If you are not my friend on facebook, you may not know that voting has started for the next Gerber baby. Aiden has the chance to win anywhere from $10-50,000 in scholarship money for college. We would really appreciate your vote, you can vote once-a-day every day until the 24th of this month.
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Have a wonderful wednesday!!!!!

Date: September 12, 2012

Weight: 20.5 pounds

Height: 31 inches

Aiden in His Walker :)

Birthday Week

Date: August 22, 2012
Weight: 20.3 pounds
Height: 30.5 inches

Everyone in my family is growing up way too fast! This week is birthday week, both of my brothers became a year older. Matthew is now 21, and spending this momentous occasion without us. I cannot wait till he gets leave and we can celebrate his birthday in Vegas! Adam just turned 15, my mom's youngest will soon find himself behind the wheel of a car. 

Where did that time go? When did my brothers go and grow up on me? If it happens that fast with my siblings, I know that it will be even worse when it comes to my son.
Aiden has hit another growth spurt and has been putting on about a pound a week for the past three weeks. Everyday I see his giggly personality developing and it seems to always bring my life into perspective. When everything else is trying to bring me down, he can turn it all around with his big, toothless grin. The sound of the rain used to be my favorite thing to hear but it has been replaced by the magical laugh that my little boy emits. I find it impossible not to smile when that pure expression of joy is shown, it truly warms my heart. 

 Aiden Enjoying His Water :)