It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
Well hello again! Another week has come and gone and as of yesterday Aiden is officially 9 months old! As he gets older and older Brandon and I have begun to discuss in more and more depth just exactly when we want to start trying for baby number two. I have mixed feelings about it in a wide variety of subjects but we are bothing feeling sooner versus later. (Still not before Aiden turns 1 though, we aren’t THAT crazy.) I think that if I had found Mr. Right when I was 20 and not 23 then I would be in less of a hurry with growing my family. As it is I want to have 4 kids of my own and adopt two and it would be nice to be 40 and not still have kids under age 5 in the house. Anyway, I don’t even know why I got off on that tangent. This week has been a busy week. What with Election day, our visitors from out of town, grocery shopping, helping grandma, and working on Christmas projects.
Monday and Tuesday were pretty uneventful. For Brandon and I election day was like any other day because we had voted on Halloween and I was careful to avoid the news and things most of the day, only checking the numbers online every once in awhile and overhearing the show my dad was watching when the announced Obama as the president elect. I am still not quite sure that he is the perfect man for the job but I definitely appreciate the history that was made during this election process. First being that 50ish years ago, African Americans could not even vote and now in just those 50 years they earned the right to vote and won the candidacy for president. It is a truly wonderful and remarkable accomplishment for the USA. Second, we had a woman run for president, this too is an amazing event in the history of America. It gives all kids no matter the gender, race, or religious affilation the possibility that one day they could run for president. Four years ago, kids still were under the impression that only caucasion males could run for president. Anyway, enough about that. Good luck to Obama.
Wednesday Brandon picked up his mom from the airport in the morning and she came over here to my dad’s to visit. (The living looks fabulous and can be used for entertaining guests once again. There are still a few dust bunnies here and there but what place of living isn’t a work in progress?) Anyway, we visited with her and she played with Aiden a little bit. It was good to see her.
Around 12:30 we had to take Brandon to work and I took Venetia to pick up her rental car. After that I took Aiden to WIC to get our new checks and then to the pediatrician. This check up was supposed to be vaccine free but mean old mommy :p had them give Aiden a flu shot and he has to get a booster shot in 4 weeks. It went well though and I don’t think the flu shot gave Aiden any problems. On the way home I ran to Walmart to pick up Aiden’s 8 month photos and they turned out SO cute.
In the evening Brandon, Aiden, my dad, and I met up with Brandon’s parents at Fazoli’s for a tasty dinner. Aiden enjoyed sharing my food with me (and it is a good thing he did because I still had leftovers to eat for 2 more meals afterwards. YUM!) and everyone else seemed to enjoy their meals. My favorite are the unlimited breadsticks!
Thursday morning Brandon’s mom visited again for a couple of hours before going to the airport to fly back to AZ with her husband. While she was here we noticed a HUGE spider on the wall (huge to me at least ok) and after telling her that I don’t do spiders she recommend I spray it with spider spray then wack it with the broom. UGH!!!! EEEEWWWWW! No thank you. (Although I don’t know why I am SO scared of spiders, we are bigger then they are for heaven sakes.) Nevertheless the spider had to go so in a state of fear and disgust I sprayed it and wacked it several times before sweeping it out the front door. 😐 That evening we watched Get Smart and I LOVED it! (It helps that Anne Hathaway was in it as she is one of my favorite actresses.)
Yesterday my dad and I went grocery shopping. We first went to Costco because he wanted me to try out the chair that they have and look at the external hard drives. Well once there and realizing that there were no Wii’s left he confessed that on Thursday they had Wii’s and Wii fit games and that the chair thing was a ploy to get me to Costco where upon seeing the Wii he was going to say, let’s buy it right now. Luckily when we checked out the bagger person mentioned that a game place up the road had a few Wii consoles and Wii fit games. I called them and sure enough they did! So, we drove right up there and got them!!! Yes, the Ferguson/Wilhelmsen household are now the proud owners of a Wii. 🙂 YIPPEEE! I have already started working in Wii Fit and Brandon and I have been playing the fun games on the Wii Play game c.d. (My favorite is the cow racing game!) Anyway…
Today is a take it easy kind of day. It is stake conference this weekend and we opted to stay home this one last time because next year we are going to be more diligent. I pondered the decision to go or not all week and friday I finally decided not to (incidentally I would like to point out that I made this decision BEFORE the Wii was mentioned or even purchased and didn’t have any effect on my decision whatsoever!) Also, today Aiden just discovered how to bite mommy (thankfully there are still only two bottom teeth in that mouth of his) and bit my knee and within 10 mins. bit my cheek. Hopefully we can nip this new thing in the bud really quick. Any ideas? Anyway, we hope that everyone has a good week. Until next time, thanks for reading…