One family's musings and quest towards a Fabulous life!

Monday, September 7, 2009

6 month birthday!

We can't believe it, but Aidan is 6 months old! He gets cuter and cuter every day (we may or may not be biased). We've been neglecting our posting responsibilities lately, and we apologize. We hope these new photos will help make up for it!




We've been busy, with Kate traveling for work and spending her first nights away from Aidan since he was born (yes, there were some tears). Brian did a great job of taking care of Aidan and waking up for the middle of the night feedings. They are starting to become less frequent, and we continue to hope that a full nights sleep is not too far away!

Brian and Aidan traveled to meet Kate in Albuquerque while she was out there for a conference, and we all met up with Aunt Karen and Uncle Wayne in Santa Fe and enjoyed a great visit!

Uncle Liam stopped by on his way home from California and spent some time with us as well. Aidan loves playing with his uncle LiLi!

This past weekend, we traveled to Dallas to see Aidan's godfather Jared and his wife Jenn who were in town to visit her brother. We don't get to see them very often, so we were excited to be able to catch them while they were in Texas :)

In developmental news, Aidan is getting closer to sitting up on his own (he currently last for a few seconds before listing to one side or the other) as well as crawling (he is doing a sort of crab-walk type move, and can scoot a couple of feet by inching along like a worm). He is extremely proficient at rolling, and still loves anything Elmo!

Friday, July 31, 2009

Raspberries!



Mom caught me blowing raspberries a few days ago and thought you might enjoy! I'm in a much better mood these days after getting my first two teeth! I don't let mom and dad see in my mouth very much, but when I do, I'm sure you'll all get pictures!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Since we've been home...

Aidan has enjoyed rice cereal and sweet potatoes; learned how to screech and make raspberry noises,played outside in his new pool and is rolling from back to front! We'll post more pictures (and hopefully a movie once we remember to catch him in the act of rolling!) soon!




Sunday, July 19, 2009

Massachusetts & Vermont













New York & Aidan's Christening

Christening photos to be added - if you have any, email them to us! In all the hustle and bustle we forgot to pass off our own camera for pictures!


Aidan with the ladies - a flirt already!


The Godfather and Godson


We made a quick trip to Philly to see our friends Chris and Jen get married - Congrats!!

Early June Update

We know, we know. We're later than late on our Aidan updates. But, because so much has happened in the past month, we are going to need to break this into several blog posts.




We spent early June reintegrating as a family (Everyone is trying to snuggle in with Dad!)




Kate had her promotion ceremony at work (we are now CPTs Murphy - effective 16 May!)

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Aidan took a venture in his new Tummy Tub - Yes, Kate saw it on the Today Show while on maternity leave and got suckered :)



Enjoying a "Welcome Home" visit from Grandpa Murphy and Uncle LiLi.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Welcome Home Brian!!

We are so excited to be able to post that Brian is HOME!!!! We are so glad to have him home safe and sound! He arrived early in the morning on June 1st. We are all doing well and adjusting to life as a family. Brian will write his own message later, but we wanted to share some photos of the homecoming ceremony with you all. Enjoy!





Some of the signs around post directing us to the homecoming ceremony

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A sign we had made for Brian's soldiers to welcome them home (I got Brian his own sign, but I forgot to take a picture so I will do so and post it later)



Aidan anxiously awaiting his Daddy's arrival!



Reunited!

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Our new family photo - approximately 0520 in the morning!




Aidan trying on Daddy's patrol cap - too cute!!