What Alden is up to...

Computers

Alden loves playing on the computer, and he has gotten quite good at it, he likes to pull up home videos or any video for that matter. This is one of the reasons we don't blog much anymore, because Alden wants to play on the computer any time it is on.

Piles

Alden loves making piles of things, he will find anything and everything he can to make his pile. It is almost like his little nest, because he will then sit in his pile and play with everything around him.

Potty Training

We have kindof started potty training Alden, we aren't pushing it that much, especially since we will be taking a road trip this weekend. He does quite well with it though. We started because he started going potty in the toilet a few weeks back and last week when he ripped off his diaper and then went potty on the floor, I decided I might as well be potty training him.

Alden's song

Alden has had a greater interest in playing his violin. Every time I have a lesson he wants to get his out or if Michael or I are playing he likes to his violin out.

February Pictures! :)

I was finally able to upload a couple of pictures, these are from the last week or two of February. The first was a day that we all went to the park, Alden loved feeding all of the ducks and birds, Michael and I just enjoyed being outside in the nice weather. Lately it has been really nice so we have spent a lot of time outside.
These last two are from my birthday. It was a great day, Michael made some wonderful food and an amazing cake. It couldn't have been any better of a day.
When I went to get Alden up in the morning on the day of my birthday he had this flower ready for me with a note that said, "for mommy". (I took the picture later once he was dressed for church.)

We are all moved in and have internet again!

We love our new apartment, it is much like the old one, but has more room and new carpet. Having it so similar and so close made for an easy move.
Here are some pictures from the new rooms...

Michael's Mom and Dad came to help us with the move, they not only helped us but brought some fun things for Alden's room! They brought the bunch beds and all of the red, white, and blue decorations. Also one of Michael's sisters was changing her boy's bathroom, so she sent us all of her red whit and blue bathroom things!

We were definitely blessed with so many fun things to make our new place look nice!

As you can see we are having problems uploading pictures (that is why the 1st picture only loaded 1/2 of the picture), I am not sure what is wrong, but when I try to upload pictures here or other places, my computer shuts down, we did get these two up. Once we figure out what is wrong we will put up a few more pictures of Alden's new room and bathroom. :)

A Wonderful Week

This week has been great! We have all been healthy and happy. It has been especially nice to see Alden so happy. He has had fun playing with the boys that come over, and he is glad that I have finally stopped taking his temperature every few hours.
Also Michael's test schedule slowed down a little bit this week, and now he is done until after spring break! I am excited to have him home and he is excited for the break.
Another great thing is that we will be moving to a 2 bedroom apt next week. For probably obvious reasons I am really excited about this as well. I am even more excited after taking to Michael's mom who is in full swing thinking of decorating ideas for the kids room!
Another great thing is that we will have visitors this next week. Michael's parents will be coming to spend some of spring break with us.
It has been a great week and we have a very nice week of spring break ahead of us!
This is a picture from a couple weeks back when we had school canceled because of all of the snow.

I think the fire is almost out

This week has been a crazy week here at our home, for a number of reasons... this is why...
1. Michael has had a lot of tests, quizes, and practicals that he has needed to take and study for. (Because of the snow days last week a bunch were moved to this week.)
2. Well this is the main reason why it has been a crazy week, is that Alden has been sick. He got a fever on Tuesday night, but seemed to be okay Wednesday morning, so I went on with the day as normal.
He did good until about 11 when he started having a fever again, Anyways at 1 he went into a seizure that lasted for 1-2 min. I ended up calling 911 because towards the end of the seizure because his lips went blue and then his whole body. While I was talking on the phone with the parametics, he finally snapped out of it and started crying.
They insisted that he should be taken to the hospital because of his temperature and low vital signs, so we went to the hospital. Which ended up being really nice because the doctor on hand was very knowledgeable in fevral seizures. She said we should be okay as long as the seizure does not last 5 min or longer and gave us something just in case it ever does. (I sure I hope I never have to use those things.)
Alden had 2 more seizures later on that day, but was able to sleep well and his fever had gone down in the morning.
All day Thursday he had a fever most afternoon his fever ranged from 103-105 but at least there was no seizures.
Today he seems to be much better which is why I say the fire is almost out, also Michael finishes up his crazy week this week.
All of this sure has made me grateful for a little one that is healthy and happy most of the time, having sick kids is never fun, and can be scary. We are looking forward to a great week next week.

Mud

We have been playing at the playground a lot the last couple days because of the nice weather. Every time we go Alden gets so excited, the first time he ended up face planting it in the mud, he still wanted to play after, but I took it as a good excuse to head home. Every time Alden sees this picture now he always says "uh oh".