Gallons of water, liters of sweat, eight hours and two exhausted guys later a swing set emerges in Aiden's back yard for him to play on. Saturday was rough as the temperature topped 95 degrees. Humidity was stupid. I started inventorying parts at about 7am, and just taking the parts out of the boxes and checking them off on the parts list I was sweating. At 3pm when the swing set was finally finished, Aiden was ready to have a blast, daddy and papaw Danny were ready for some Air Condition... Read Full Story

So A couple of funny (in hindsight anyway) things Aiden did today.This morning when mommy was getting ready to make her breakfast, she got the eggs out and set them on the counter. Aiden wanted the egg carton, so he reached up on tip toes and was able to just get a finger on the carton. This was enough encouragement for him to start pulling. I saw this from across the room and took off running to stop him. But too late.... I ALMOST caught the carton on it's tumble down, but almost doesn't... Read Full Story

Yes, I know they are a long time in coming, but we finally have some new pictures for you.And A video of Aiden on the drum. He's getting really good at drumming.Mommy and Daddy did a lot of housework today, so we're pretty tired, and I am going to just let the pictures and video speak for themselves. The "Parents" musical set we got for Aiden's 1st Birthday really has been a huge hit, along with many of the other gifts from his first birthday. That was 11 months ago already. Our little ma... Read Full Story

Trying to keep up with Aiden becomes more challenging as each day progresses. He's mastered terms like "Come" "Go" "outside" etc. So he is becoming more adept at letting us know what he wants, and less willing to take No for an answer.One of his new tricks is to come up and literally try to force us off the couch if we do not immediately get up to follow him when he asks us to "come". Typically this either means he wants us to go outside, or run in circles around the kitchen in a "race". T... Read Full Story

Every once in awhile I will get an email from someone representing a company, charity, or what have you wanting me to post a blurb in the blog about their product or service. For the most part these are things I have never heard of or used, and I pass on giving a mention of something I really can't vouch for. But I do want to take a moment to mention one product that I can vouch for, because my brother created it.Aiden's Uncle works with Apps for the iphone/Ipod Touch. Mostly he is... Read Full Story

So things have been quiet here at the Newbie Daddy sight. I've been fighting a non-stop drag out fight with my computer for the past week. I've had a Compaq desktop for a couple of years now, and last week it started to get some Stop Errors (the Blue Screen of Death). For a couple of days it was an annoyance but once the computer restarted I was okay. But over the course of the week things got progressively worse, and the errors were always different. I used to Supervise a computer Up... Read Full Story

So it has been a rough week around the household. First Aiden, then Daddy and finally Mommy all came down with a bit of a spring cold. We're actually going on two weeks since the symptoms started for Aiden and myself. Mommy has been sick for about a week. It hasn't been much fun, although none of us has been well and truly put out of commission.Aiden being an active 22 month old shook it off during the day for the most part, playing and running around like his normal self, occasio... Read Full Story

Okay. Another week, another ouchie. Aiden is a little Boy after all.Aiden had been feeling under the weather over the weekend, and daddy was feeling a little poorly himself, so we did not attend our zoo class this week, not wanting to pass germs on to the other kids in the group. So when we should have been in class, instead we had another accident.A couple of weeks ago Daddy got a Wii and Wii Fit to try to use it to lose some weight (2 weeks and 4 pounds gone so far, but that is another bl... Read Full Story

Well. We have a Big ol Boo-Boo to display tonight. Last night while playing around in the living room, Aiden managed to trip and bonked his head on the tv. IMMEDIATELY his little forehead swelled up with a big old goose egg. Amazingly, this was the first time he got a bump like that. Our injuries tend more the the scratch and bruise variety. So we were a little concerned at first. But he was acting normal and after having a good cry and playing with the ice cubes, he went back to his n... Read Full Story

Mommy's work had a spring outing tonight and the venue was a putt-putt golf course. Talk about a perfect setting for our new little Golfer. We got out to the course at about 6:30, Aiden had a golf club and ball in hand by about 6:45, and aside from a mandatory food break of about 20 minutes, he was hitting a golf ball from before 7pm until 9pm this evening. He would probably still be golfing now if we hadn't tricked him into sending his ball down the chute on the 18th hole that mad... Read Full Story