A face only a (grand)mother could love..

Or a (grand)father. And that is really who this post is for. But for some of those close friends that follow, too!

The picture below is our sonographer's 'signature' photo. We have one of Ayden's foot, too, but his looked much skinner.

That's right, boys and squirrels, it's a girl!

The rest of these are just profile shots, which is why only Kendall and I with the inclusion of the grandparents will really enjoy these.

22 Weeks Tomorrow -

But who's counting? Other than me, that is...

It's not February, really...

During Christmas vacation Ayden and I ventured to the Gaylord with Grampa and Grammy to see the light display they have set up inside, as well as the motorized train sets they have on display. These photos uploaded in reverse order, but I suppose it is all the same.

I had never been to the Gaylord - ever. Ayden loved all of the trains. This is the first year he understood who Santa was, so he enjoyed seeing the various Santa's displayed around the hotel.

This was our last stop before we ate lunch and headed home. He is sitting on a wall outside of a hotel room, but a huge train display is right next to it.
This is the same train display from above. It is in the Gingerbread corner, or something to that effect. The actual gingerbread house/general store was closed, so we were unable to venture in. Ayden really enjoyed this section because very few people were here.

There was a waterfall on the other side of the track, and Ayden is infatuated with anything having to do with water. This was the last shot I got of him after saying his name about a million times! I believe he is saying, "Why I oughtta!"

See the smirk? He was refusing to turn!

This was Frank. Or Hank. Or George. I think we reverted to just calling him Bevo.

This is as close as we got to the geysers, but Ayden enjoyed it anyway.

The koi pond was a huge hit. We had to be careful to not venture to close if we were on a mission to a certain section or it would suck us back in!

Thanks, Grampa and Grammy for a fun filled day!

Our First Family "Punkin" Patch

On Friday, we took Ayden to the pumpkin patch in Aubrey with the daycare. Not a whole lot of people showed up, but we still enjoyed ourselves. I have a few more pictures I tried to upload, but I couldn't get them rotated.

Ayden has an aversion to strangers. Most parents would say that is a good thing; but not so much when you are trying to get a family photo and a stranger named 'Pa' is taking your photo. And seriously, the old lady driving the golf cart called the tractor driver Pa.

This was the closest we got to a smile.

So I thought, "Maybe he will smile with Mommy trying to take a picture." However, I forgot about my other child. He seemed to miss the hint.

As we were on our hayride, Ayden was pointing to the little things they had set up. They had hay bales spray painted to look like different things.

Kendall was giving him the option of which pumpkin he wanted. The pickins' were slim, but we managed to get a few good ones.

I will try to post some more pictures later (I am at school sans camera). There are some cute ones of Ayden with a pumpkin. We have put our pumpkins on the porch, and Ayden asks to see them. He points out his 'punkin', daddy's 'punkin' and mommy's 'punkin'.

I'll fly away..

For $250 a person! Needless to say, I didn't fly away to anywhere but other people did. Last Saturday Ayden and I went to the Plano Balloon Festival with Grammy. The temperatures were straight out of Hades, but we managed to find some shade while Ayden got a kick out of some remote control cars. This post is a lot of pictures, but I'm sure most of you won't mind.

Some of the balloons were dull, but the majority were really bright and eye-catching. I have included just a few that I enjoyed.

Love him!

Ayden was fascinated with the balloons. He of course didn't pay attention to them while they were laying them on the ground, but once they began to air them up, he was hooked!

So excited when a balloon was launched.

He managed to find a sucker I had stashed for emergencies in my purse.

He's trying to convince me the sucker was a good idea.

I don't remember what he was trying to tell us, but I love the face I captured.

This is the race track for the remote cars. He is literally bent over laughing! The kids driving the cars were running into each other and the cars would flip and launch over the barriers.

He's a cool cat with his shades.

Whoo-hoo! Maybe...

So I was able to upload this picture! Yay! We had a storm about 3 weeks ago and we lost our Internet connection. I call AT&T and they tried everything on their end, so they sent a technician out to check the wires outside. He leaves me a voicemail saying the exterior wires are good, and it must be a bad modem. So... we buy a modem/router combo (which I was glad to do since our old router was the reason I couldn't blog!) and think it will fix our problem. Guess what? It doesn't. So once again we are on the phone with customer service (Kendall was smart enough to not have me do it this time). They AGAIN make him run tests to make sure it isn't the, oh, I don't even know what they were doing. So they AGAIN send someone out to check the outside lines. He decides he needs to come inside. Fortunately for us, this was a Tuesday. Kramer happens to have a key to our house and is off on Tuesdays. So last Tuesday we regained Internet and got a new -unneeded- modem. But hey, I can blog again! Now I just need pictures...

Balloon Festival in Plano on Saturday, so lets hope I get some great shots!

(as an aside, the picture I posted was the front of Kendall's Father's Day card. I decided to personalize all of the cards this year and they all had some sort of picture of Ayden with a quote I picked that I thought fit the person. I hope they all enjoyed - and yes, I do understand Father's Day was 3 months ago...)

Well crap-ola. Now I notice the blog design needs a little update. That may have to wait until tomorrow...

A quarter of a year ain't bad...

Unless that is how long it has been since your last blog! In all honesty, I don't have a whole lot to blog about. We haven't done much this summer. We have only been to the lake a handful of times and I only took pictures once. We did make a weekend trip to Houston for a visit with friends. Oh, then there was the family reunion - of which I took NO pictures. See a trend? I think I have the same amount of pictures for the first few months of Ayden's life as I do of the remainder. It is my goal to improve on that, however :).

Additionally, I hate my router. I may have mentioned this to some of you before, and this could also be a post in and of itself. For some idiotic reason it will no allow me to upload anything, and it even has fits when I am trying to download at times. Anyhow, here are some pictures from Father's Day for now.

(Notice the date on this post, yet also notice the day it posted. Hehe)

Three generations of Bass men... that may not be a good combination!

Grammy and Ayden

Daddy was teaching him how to kick and make splashes. He thought it was hysterical.