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Aj's Eight Month B-day

So today is and exciting day! Aj is Eight months old today! i just cant believe how big he is getting. i was talking to aaron last night about how fast he has grown already! it kinda makes me so sad cuz i want him to be my little baby forever (i even made him promise when he was like a month old). I cant believe in four months he is going to be one...it just makes me want to cry.

aaron on the other had is way excited about it. he cant wait for the walking and talking toddler years. he is so excited to take him fishing and hiking and camping and all other boyish stuff.

I also got a first glimpse of what i have to look forward to when raising a boy. Today while i was changing aj's diaper and clothes he decided to try the baby powder. i was getting an outfit out of the closet. usually i leave the babypowder out of reach but i had just used it to change him and in a split second he rolled over grabbed it and rolled onto his back with the open end facing him. it was a new bottle so it poured out very fast. his whole face and mouth were completely covered. in the shock of things he breathed in (which is like breathing in powder sugar in your mouth and up your nose at the same time) so of course i went into crazy panic mode. i picked him up and flipped him over in and instant and started giving him the Heimlich and trying to sweep stuff out of his mouth with my finger. (i figured chocking-thats what you do) but its powder you cant just sweep it out. so i ran him over to the sink to wash his mouth out. I'm pretty sure at this point he was fine (other than a ghost white face) but i was still in panic mode! so now he's crying cuz i'm trying to wash his mouth out while i am trying to sooth him with the not so soothing "ITS OK, DONT CRY, DONT SWALLOW,  JUST BREATH!"  and im sure all he is thinking is "why did Heavenly Father stick me with the Crazy mommy?" Well i called the dr who had me call poison control who told me he would be fine since powder is really just cornstarch. but of course they had to get all my information 'just in case i called back with more questions' which really means 'just in case i'm a crazy who makes their kid sick for attention'. which i'm not if your wondering. oh my gosh and what kills me: after all this the first thing aj's does as im talking to the poison control lady, reading all the ingredients, he reaches out and tries to get the powder again! you think he would learn.

I'm just kinda bummed cuz i was hoping to get to at least a year before he started his mischievous ways. I know aaron was a little hellion so i know i have so many more broken bones and fractured whatnots to look forward to. in fact the whole time i was thinking "if i had a little girl she would have never done this! oh im so glad i'm stuck with the harpel curse!" 

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so our fun month in Maui is over...it was so great to spend the time with my parents, brother, and Aunt cynthia. i was really bummed to leave...but i was excited to see aaron again (he only stayed for the first week). the trip home with just me and aj was just about the worst ever and i dont think ill do that again. my first flight was delayed two hours, then i had to get my two 5o lb bags, a baby, a car seat, and a 30 lb diperbag to the sea/tac garage to get a ride to a hotel for and over night lay over. i was told we could catch and earily flight home so i got me and aj and all of our stuff to the airport 9 hours before our acctual flight. but of couse the eariler flight was cancled becasue of weather. so we hung at the airport all day. we finally got home at like 11 at night. never again NEVER AGAIN!
since we got back life has gotten back to same old same old. aj has been practicing feeding himself and as actually gotten really good a picking stuff up with his pointer and thumb. he has also started to say mama mostly when he is crying which just pulls at the heart strings. he is pretty much a spoiled little prince. Aaron has just been working away and i have been working hard to get our house all back in order. i feel like i have so much extra time now that aj can roll and army crawl around i can get stuff done now while he entertaines himself. well thats our life so far!

I am a mastermind!

so some of you might have seen the trouble i was having with the side bar of my blog spot and i am happy to say that i used my wicked awesome skills and figured out all the high tec crap and fixed the problem. thats right! so enjoy my blog spot cuz it is all better now!
That made me feel good...
oh and as an update we will be going to Maui in 9 days!

on christmas eve we had a cookie swap party which i must tell you was wicked fun. and this wednsday we will be having a nice big new years eve dinner and party with the cheneys. aaron has convinced his parents to come down eairly. he pulled the grandchild card. so i think they are coming on thursday.
i am way bummed cuz aaron just found out he has to work on new years day! unheard of. what is the world coming to? whats next stores open on christmas and easter!
it was a big bummer

Aj had an awesome first christmas. mostly he tried eating the wrapping paper instead of opening the presents. he got some really great stuff. santa brought him a baby ensitine sign language video that we watch every morning. i know it will take a while for him to make the signs but i think he is starting to understand them when he sees them, well mostly just milk cuz i means he is going to get his bottle. weird huh the first one he reconizes has to do with food. what can i say he is an emotional eatter like his father.

your baby can read!

so i saw this infomercial (you know how i love them) about these videos, kinda like baby ensitnen, that teaches your baby how to read. you can start them as soon as three months. what it is is a video that shows a picture of a card that says SNOW and then a picture of snow or it will say ARMS UP and then shows a baby that puts his arms up. so after a while when you kid sees the words arms up he reconizes it and will put his arms up in the air. and as each video is mastered you move on to the next one. the point is so that your child can read fluently by the time they are five. i really want it cuz it not only teaches them to read but it will encourage reading (so aj wont hate it like someone else i know...i bet you can guess who) as well as makes learning fun for him.

so when i have mentioned it to other people everyone this it is the dumbest idea ever and a total waste of money. it really discourages me that no one else thinks its a good idea. i'm sad