Happy Fall!

A few weekends ago, we went to Holley Farm to let Aaden experience the "country life". Ha! I believe our sweet boy was born to live on a farm. Maybe one day, but for now, trips like this will have to do! This is the wagon ride that took you all around their family's property. It was beautiful! The tour guide made a few stops and would hop off and tell us a little bit about the area and it's history. At the end of the tour, it stopped at the pumpkin patch and you got to pick out a pumpkin! We ended up getting two- one for Tyler & I, and Aaden picked his right off the vine!

This slide is homemade (can you tell?), and SO much fun!!  Aaden and Tyler went down it at least 4 times.

Next, was the corn maze.  Aaden strolled  ran through it.  We could barely keep up!                                       

They also had a corn kernel pit, which Aaden wouldn't have anything to do with.  You know, because it would actually require him to be contained in a small area, and well, he's just too busy for that!

This was a second attempt at a family photo.  I think Aaden was trying to kiss Tyler on the cheek....  sweet, sweet boy.

Our pumpkins have made their home on our door step. I love how Aaden's pumpkin is the smaller one.  Aaden had a great time.  This will definitely have to turn into a tradition.

Happy Fall!

crazy

As I'm writing this, I'm thinking to myself "why in the world are you blogging at 2 am?". I honestly think I may be losing my mind.

It's been a crazy beginning to the week and there are alot of things that I want to post/write about, but just don't have the energy.  So, I will make a list!

• We had a wonderful weekend.  Pictures definitely to come.  We took Aaden to a pumpkin farm in Itawamba County and he had a blast.  Went on a tractor ride, slide down the greatest slide I've ever seen (4 times), picked his own pumpkin, ran through the corn maze.  So, so fun.
• Tyler bought me a camera.  I am utterly excited to learn how to use it and Photoshop Elements.  It is my early birthday present, and I LOVE it. 
• It seems that I am reminded daily that I am a huge sinner, a very flawed human whose only hope is through her Savior.  After some days, I am just so thankful he loved me the same yesterday, and will love me the same tomorrow despite something I say, do, or should have done. 
• I think I have a spider bite on my ankle.  Lovely.  We went to the park Friday evening and I thought I had gotten a mosquito bite.  I usually have very big reactions to mosquitoes so I didn't think much of it.  Except it has been 3 days and it hurts some when I walk, is swollen, and well, doesn't look so much like a mosquito bite anymore.
• Alabama lost to South Carolina.  Oh, glory.  Saturday was a fabulous day!  Our dawgs won and Bama lost! 
• Praying for Bowen, Bennett, and Andi
• Aaden.  Oh, our sweet Aaden.  Just like my Gingaw used to say "if you don't stop growing, I'll put a brick on top of your head!"  He is so big.  I say that every time I post, and I mean it.  It is something new every day.  This morning we pulled into daycare and he said "I wanna go back that way!" (talking about away from daycare).  And talk about melting my heart when he says "I love you, Momma".  Oh, mercy.  To think that Christ loves us unfathomably more than we can ever love our own children.  Wow.  We can't even begin to comprehend it.

Hope your week is wonderful....

Linds

Bulldogs & J-E-L-L-O

This past Saturday all three of us were able to go to the MSU game Vs. Alcorn State.  We had bought 2 tickets to a few of the games, but Tyler called me Friday and said that the Air Force Base was giving out free tickets.  Because children are required to have a ticket, and because we didn't know how well Aaden would do, we just opted to let him stay with his Di Di and Grandpa Roger for the games.  That is, until we got free tickets and thought "Why not?", and BOY did he love it! He especially loved watching the band and ringing the cowbell!  He would get so excited when everyone was clapping and cheering after we made a good play.  He had a blast!

 Sadly, I didn't want to lug around my camera so I didn't even take it.  But this picture was taken earlier in the year when we met our head football coach Dan Mullen.  Oh, how I love Dan.  I have so much respect for him and his family.  Such an awesome guy (and coach!).  Dan came to the base to speak at the Sport's Banquet and Tyler got to introduce him.  He signed a football for Aaden and gave him a high five and fist bump. Ha!

This boy is loving some Jello lately.  He works so hard to get it on his spoon, then finally just reverts to using his fingers.  I don't blame him!

 We had such a fun weekend...  These last few pictures are generally what take place every night.  We turn the movie Cars on, and Aaden stares at the TV until he falls asleep.

I love those pudgy little cheeks.  Can you see the drool on his pillow? Poor baby was so tired after such an eventful day....

Big

I have realized several things over the past month or so...


He is a BIG boy. Aaden is not a baby anymore.  Ouch.  That pretty much hurts this mama's feelings.  He is sleeping in his own bed lately. He began sleeping in bed with us at 4 months old when he began teething.  We started out doing really well after he was born.  We didn't even do the whole 'bassinet' thing.  He slept in his crib from day 1.  Until month 4 when sleep was oh so precious and we had a very irritable baby from teeth coming in.  Hey, whatever works.  Last weekend we bought him a big boy bed.  He's really doing well in it.  Sometimes he will go to sleep, no problems.  A few nights he wanted in bed with us, then once he fell asleep, we would just transfer him over and he'd sleep all night.

He has BIG personality.  He was coughing this morning on the way to daycare and he told me he needed to go to the doctor.  Pardon?  He also told Tyler and I last night that we needed to be quiet because the babies are sleeping.   There's no telling how many times he hears that a day at school.  He will dance, and sing, and says some things that are so 'big' for a 2 year old.

He pitches BIG fits.  I'm not sure who he inherited this from.  Surely not me....  But he can throw a tantrum like you've never seen.  Or maybe you have, and you can sympathize.  We have been having a problem of getting him in his carseat.  He doesn't want to sit there any more.  He wants to crawl from the backseat into the driver's seat or sit in the seat next to his carseat.  You pretty much have to throw him in his carseat, distract him (somehow), and buckle him in in 0.3 seconds or else it gets ugly.  And well, yesterday, it got ugly.  I was pulling him out of the passenger seat, and he had a toy airplance in his hand.  He pitched a fit and threw his toy airplane at our car. Gasp.  I almost cried.  We have only had our car 2 months and for that half second the plane was in mid air, I had a vision of the biggest scratch going down the side of our brand new to us car.  Thankfully it didnt, but boy was he in big trouble.  Scratch or no scratch.

He loves BIG.  I've always said that if Aaden loves something, he loves it alot.  He loves us.  Loves climbing in our laps and watching Cars.  Another something he loves.  Poor Tyler has to watch it every night with him.  He'll keep repeating "Wanna watch Cars" until he finally turns it on.  We could probably leave him and go eat and come back and he'd still be in the same spot.  Not that we'd do that....ha!  Aaden also loves babies.  When they cry, he'll just squeeze them harder.  He loves Maddie, his Di Di and Grandpa Roger's dog.  Thank goodness she loves him back or we'd be in trouble.  We are trying to teach him how to love her the right way.  As in, NOT choking her.

We are so thankful for our boy.  He can pitch a good fit, but makes up for it times 1000 by his willingness to always love.  We know and pray one day his stubborness and passion for things will turn into a stubborness and passion for his Savior.  We are savoring every minute with him, because it really seems like yesterday he looked like this. 

Always On The Go

Saturday we decided to pull out Aaden's new tricycle he got for his birthday and his 4 wheeler that he got for Christmas (the Lightning McQueen car he got for his birthday is going to stay at his PeePaw's house in Tupelo for a while since we don't have the space to store it).  He liked his tricycle, but his new love is his 4 wheeler.  You should have seen the fit that was thrown trying to get him off of it!  The weather was gorgeous.  It is finally starting to feel like fall, or as we call it in the Marsh household, football season!

Trying to get the hang of it....

A little supervision from daddy

....and he's off.  Now if we can only get him to watch where he's going!

Aaden's Barnyard Bash

Our sweetie had a blast at his birthday party.  The theme was barnyard- cows, barns, roosters, pigs, chickens...

We had originally planned on having it outside, but it is just miserable outside right now and there was a chance of rain, so we had it at Tyler's parent's church.  MUCH COOLER! 

This is Aaden playing with my mom (Di Di).  They have alot of fun together!

He is a MESS!  He got several outfits for his birthday and wanted to put them on.  The boy loves clothes!

Aunt Janet & Uncle Chris picked out a Mickey Mouse card that sings the "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" theme when you open it. He loved it and would sing and dance to it!

Mommy & Daddy got him a tricycle and some DVD's for his birthday.  He's into anything that he can push/pedal/drive. 

His Peepaw got him a Lightning McQueen racecar.  He LOVES it!  Definitely doesn't watch where he's going, though!  Almost ran over his Di Di and several others....not sure where he gets his driving from?!

This is Aaden and his friend Lucy.  Lucy's dad was Tyler's best friend growing up, and now they get to see Lucy & Aaden play together. 

Our sweet boy is a ham.  He was cracking us up with his facial expressions and watching him open all of his presents.  We are so thankful for him and the time we get to spend together.  Now that I work at night, I don't get to see him or Tyler very much during the week, so the time we spend together on the weekend is precious.  I try to hug him a little longer, steal a few more kisses, and make sure he knows his Mama loves him so, so much.  Happy Birthday, Aaden!

Our "baby" boy is two!

On Saturday, our handsome little man turned two!

 We celebrated by a quick trip to Tupelo to eat at Danver's, play in the fountain at Fairpark, Toys 'R Us, and ate supper at Mt. Fuji, a new Japanese steakhouse. 

Aaden had a blast.  He's been singing "Happy dirf-day" for a few weeks now, and it is precious.  We are so thankful for him.  Tyler and I love him so much.  His actual party isn't until this Sunday, the 15th, so there will be more pictures to come!