Parent's Magazine - Kid of the Year

**This post has been updated - the link has been fixed!!**

Aiden was chosen to be in the running for Parent's Magazine for Kid of the Year!! He's got to win this week in order to move on...

Please go to this link and vote for him!


Thanks a bunch!!

2 more of aiden's firsts

lets see... aiden has his official first word - bye bye - today adam was dropping little man off at day care and he waved and said bye bye to him and aiden waved and said bu-bu! (yes he says mama and dada - but says it all the time - and not only to us)

i had to start with the exciting one... so here is the not so exciting one...
aiden burned his hand on the oven rack on sunday - i was making dinner and putting ham in the oven and as soon as i opened the door i heard him start to run (right towards the oven) i threw the ham in the oven and grabbed his hand fast - but not fast enough - he still touched it - 400 degrees of hot... he cried - i screamed and once i calmed down - i bawled. all he ended up with is a small blister on his right index finger (SO LUCKY!) he was playing 2 minutes later.

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY AIDEN!

we had a great time at aiden's 1st birthday party - we had some friends over - had some pizza and snacks and then it was time for cake... aiden didn't know what to do with the cake...

but after a little bit (and a little bit of help from daddy) really got into his cake....

he wanted to share some with mommy.......

here is aiden's cake after the fact...... he made a good dent in it!

once we got all cleaned up it was time to open presents - aiden got a TON of toys! here he is with his first t-ball set from aunt sandi and uncle david.....

and he got these really cool blocks from aunt jsho! lilly really liked them too - here they are playing with them - lilly kept wanting to put the blocks away and aiden kept taking them out - lilly was getting so mad - it was funny!

his big gift from grammy and poppy was a cool picnic table - the green top comes off and it is a sand/water table. aiden crawled right under.....

and here is aiden outside with his gift from mommy and daddy - his first bike!

look at this happy boy! i think he had a great day!!

decorations for aiden's party

so i did all the decorations for aiden's party - trying not too spend too much - we have a tight budget right now... so i made aiden's birthday cake - i think it turned out pretty good!



and i made the cupcakes - i was a little rushed on the decorating of these - so these didn't turn out as well as i would have liked....



i made a timeline of pictures of aiden.... (i had actually made two but didn't have the time to make the 2nd one - it was 11pm the night before when i finished this one)




and then i made a banner....



I also made place mats that had aiden's pictures on them... but don't have a picture of them.