Wow.
Life.
Yeah.
Aiden. Twenty pounds, 24 inches tall, 7.5 months old. Rotten. Cotton. Tail. Rottencottontail. Every time.
Quinn. I dunno how much he weighs or how tall he is, but I do know that for now he's still taller and heavier than Aiden. And he'll always be 20 months and 6 days older. But it's a toss-up as to who is the bigger rottencottontail. They're both fairly rotten.
They come by it honestly.
Picky food ways happens to be something else they come by honestly. Aiden will not eat packaged baby food. BUT, he will eat smushed up banana, cooked apples, bread, goldfish crackers he finds on the floor, grapes he finds on the floor, and those little puffy things that become a gooey, disgusting mess when dampened and a ridiculously powerful adhesive when re-dried.
*sigh*
I've stepped out of my cooking comfort zone. Thank you, Pepcid AC. By the way, real garlic doesn't cause heartburn and/or indigestion like dried, powdered garlic does. And it doesn't stink as bad, either. Just so you know.
Incidentally, the lovely yellow and orange peppers, garlic, and red onion featured in the above photo were diced up and stuck for 27 hours in a pyrex baking dish with beef gravy mix and beef broth and a BEAUTIFUL beef roast, then stuck in the crock pot for 6 hours cooking and making The(whole)Barn smell delightful, then turned off and forgotten about and left on the counter for 10 hours.
I fail at life lately. It just escapes me.
Aiden loves his jumparoo. So does everybody else at TheBarn. And it doesn't have batteries in it yet. Just because MomMom had the bright idea to wait until he starts to kind of get bored with it to put batteries in. You know. To save what might remain of her sanity.
Quinn built an owl for himself and a puppy for Brother during a recent excursion to the Galleria. It was apparent from the get go that our Helper was used to working with children. She took everything Quinn did in stride and was really good about working WITH him to get him to do what he needed to do to piece together the animals, AND she just let him do his own thing when he just couldn't make himself listen to her. Like when he kept stomping the fluffer peddle when she had turned off the machine. Or when he grabbed Heart#3 to stuff in Brother's puppy. It was a great experience.
Remind you of anybody? It's Aiden, but it's remarkably similar to some photos taken of a certain QuinnDoug that I can't get to right now and that I thought were up somewhere else on the internet but I can't find them... oh well.
Here is another picture of Aiden. He started crawling today.
This was taken yesterday, while he was making me nervous because he was RIGHT UNDER the end table and if it didn't do that curvy thing it does he would TOTALLY have hit his head about eight different times. Luckily the table DOES do that curvy thing... a couple of the pictures I got would let you see what the heck I'm going on about, but i couldn't post any of those. Know why? Because THAT would have made sense.
Yeah.
Wanna read something TRULY SHOCKING? There are many more pictures of Aiden than of Quinn on my computer from the past few weeks because Quinn knows what the camera does and is contrary.
CONTRARY.
My son! Contrary!
Who would've thunk it? (That's a rhetorical device. Don't answer.)
I found a self-portrait of me sitting with Quinn in my lap from when Quinn was about this age. I just want to say that the biggest difference between being the stay-at-home mother of one children and being the stay-at-home mother of two children is that when you just have one child, you can find time to do crazy things like get your hair cut by a professional, take a nap, and/or get your glasses fixed if somebody stepped on them ten months ago.
When you have two children, you just don't care anymore.
You WANT to care, but you don't think about it during business hours, so it doesn't count as caring.
To keep it balanced and change the subject, here's a shot of DadDad and QD in the car yesterday, about 15 minutes after the MomMom/Aiden shot was taken.
And here's a fun one from the same car ride... yay mirror shots!
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