8 weeks already!

I can't believe it's Thursday, this week is flying by! I haven't been blogging because I've been spending as much time as possible outside enjoying this glorious Fall weather in Vermont with Aidan. I hate Winter, but I love this time of year just before it gets cold when its sunny and beautiful with a slight chill to the air. The leaves are beginning to turn red and gold and finally the mosquito's are mostly GONE! Thank goodness. Anyway, Aidan is now 8 weeks old and doing great. He loves going for walks in his stroller and he's growing so fast, I can't wait for his pediatrician appointment next week to find out just how much!

We are having some issues with sleep though. Aidan sleeps great at night, and he's regularly sleeping 6-7 hours, but sleeping during the day is another story. He loves to be held all day long and will sleep great in our arms but the second we put him down he's wide awake. I'm slowly trying to establish a schedule with him and trying to get him to nap in his crib rather than my arms which are getting increasingly sore each day! I really can't complain though because he is such a great baby. He is so alert now and I can just see his little brain working as he takes in all the new noises and views each day! I have been bad about taking pictures this week but to be honest we haven't done anything exciting to document. Lots of long walks and lots of awake time where I read to Aidan and show him all of his toys and make funny faces and voices to make him laugh. I've been pretty exhausted as well since Aidan is not sleeping that much during the day. I realized when Kevin got home last night that I hadn't showered since Monday. Gross! Other things besides my hygiene are taking a hit as well, I have enough laundry piled up to clothe a small village and my dog hair covered carpets have not seen the underbelly of a vacuum cleaner in way too long, but I'm trying not to go insane. For a serious neat freak such as myself, it is painful to watch my house get messy but I keep thinking I only have 3 weeks left of maternity leave and do I want to do laundry or do I want to lay on the floor with my son and make him laugh? I think you know the answer!

Aidan with daddy this morning, 6 a.m.
He woke up, ate and then passed out on Kevin. I love how he sleeps with his hands over his head, so cute!


I'm sure by now most people have seen Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. Hysterical and spot on!


My mom forwarded me this great e-mail.


Let me see if I have this Straight...


If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're
"exotic, different."
However, grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you’re a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic “Muslim” (who, by the way, is a Christian).
However, name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a “maverick”.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
However, attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law Professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with
over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs Committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

However, if your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the Governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade of life.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

However, if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

However, if, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

However, if your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI
conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until
age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of
Alaska from the USA , your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.