Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Check out our two little leprechauns. It was impossible to get a good picture of them together, but you can see they were decked out in their festive Irish attire. Take a look at our St. Patty's photo"outtakes" in the March 2009 album, too.

Aidan is 6 months old

Our big boy keeps getting bigger! At his 6-month check up today, AJ tipped the scales at nearly 18 lbs, and is 27" long. He grew almost 3 inches in the past 2 months. He's also very brave! He barely cried as he got 2 big shots in his legs. Now we get to start having fun, feeding him oatmeal, veggies, fruits and drinking water from a cup. We should have some good pictures from these early meals, so we'll keep you posted. For now, just check out this handsome guy :-)

An early glimpse of spring!

Well, less than a week after our big snowfall we had a weekend of 70-degree weather! We tried to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible and tire Ellie out in the process. On Sunday afternoon we played in the backyard and cooked out on the grill. Check out Ellie's t-ball skills in this video and be cure to see the newest photos added to our March 2009 album.

Aidan's first "meal"

Aidan had his first taste of "food," and now that he's 6 months old, his palate will be expanding quickly! He got started with very watery rice cereal today. As unappetizing as it looked to us, he seemed to like it. I guess when you've been on a liquid diet your entire life anything with a different texture than milk is exciting!
I doubt that much got swallowed, and at the time he seemed more interested in his fingers than food, but it was still a successful first attempt. We'll try the cereal for a while and slowly delve into the fruits and veggies over the next few months.
Ellie was very interested in AJ's cereal and asked for a taste. She said it was good, but that's hard to believe! Ellie would never eat baby food at his age, so I expect she will digress and want mashed-up foods as Aidan explores them all for the first time. You can see more photos from AJ's first meal in our March 2009 album.

Aidan the pterodactyl

Aidan is a very chatty baby these days. While he tends to clam up when I pull out the camera, you can still hear some of his pterodactyl-like sounds on this video clip.

Snow Day on March 2nd!

The first accumulation of snow we've had in years waited until March to arrive this season. It snowed heavily overnight and by morning we had about 8 inches of beautiful white powder. Jim stayed home from work and took Ellie sledding at the neighborhood elementary school that morning. Unfortunately once the snow stopped, strong winds came and the temperatures were close to single digits with the wind chill. So they didn't have too many runs down the hill before Ellie was ready to come home for hot cocoa. After nap time, Ellie was ready to brave the cold again, but this time just to play in the backyard. We got Aidan all bundled up too and had a family play-date. But again, the cold temperatures had Ellie ready to come inside (for MORE hot cocoa) after making just a few snow angels. You can see more photos from our snow day (and other recent pics) in our March 2009 album.