Well....things here have been pretty slow and relatively boring. We have been spending our time doing the mundane things of day to day life. Aiden is growing by leaps and bounds, and as always is highly entertaining at every turn. We have had lots of appointments with his wonderful team of therapists through the early childhood intervention team. We will actually be going to the speech therapist more often each month, because he isn't talking much at all. He babbles, but there are no words other than Mama and Daddy coming out of him. Other than that, and his physical therapist, the other appointments are only every now and then to track his progress. It just seems his speech is delayed by a lot. We are all looking forward to Halloween on Friday night. Aiden has his costume, that he helped pick out. He is going to be a pug dog, and we are going to take Max and Grinch with us. I will be posting pictures of that on Friday night when we get back. Right now there are pictures of his costume up on the Picasa site from the day we tried the costume on him to see if it fits. More Friday...

Another Stripe

Well, it took long enough, but the Air Force finally saw fit to grant Jeremy his next stripe. He can actually sew on his Senior Airman stripe, because as of Oct. 10, 2008 they gave him the promotion. Along with that, we got the information that he will finally be getting a job with a class date. Which means that he will be leaving for tech school for that new job soon. The approximate time frame of the tech school is looking to start in January or February of 2009. And the job is supposed to be Aerospace Maintenance. Which is basically maintenance on the various different parts of planes. We aren't sure what type of plane and what the maintenance involves, but supposedly it will be the reallllly big planes, the C5s according to what is 1st shirt says. So, yay for us, things are looking up for the time being. It's nice for a change. We'll keep you all posted!

We're Home!

Ok, so it's a little bit late in coming, but we are home from South Carolina. Aiden and I have been sick for the past week since we got home, and are just now doing better. We had a wonderfully fun and relaxing 2 weeks there with Jeremy's parents and brother. We saw some things, did somethings, and we were completely lazy while Aiden was TOTALLY spoiled ROTTEN. The first thing we did was go to the Greenville Zoo. Where Aiden got to see lots of monkeys, and pet some goats, which he really enjoyed.

We also got to spend some time down in Charleston at Chris's house.



While we were there, we went to the South Carolina Aquarium, which Aiden LOVED. He really liked all of the "ishes". He spent most of his time climbing up on the ledges in front of the tanks and pointing at the fish saying "ish", then he would stare at the tank for minutes at a time watching them go by. We may have a future oceanographer on our hands. While we were there, he also played in the children's area, which was made to look like a fishing boat, and a shark cage. He really liked both of those areas.
After all of that and getting a nice driving tour of downtown Charleston, and the base where Chris is stationed we went back up to Greenville. Sue, Jeremy, Aiden and I also drove up to Asheville, NC one day to tour the Biltmore Estate. Which I will say is unequivocally the most beautiful, and largest house I have ever seen. We have a few illicit photographs that Jeremy got by sneaking his phone around the cameras they had stationed everywhere. We should have them posted up on the Picasa site soon. Other wise we are picture free from there, because they don't allow cameras, phones with cameras, or video cameras in. But trust me when I say incredible and totally worth the visit. While we were there we also visited the winery, which is very nice. They have a very nice selection of wines, which for anyone who is a wine head, it is pretty good. Aiden did wonderfully through the whole day, even with 5 hours of it being restricted to his stroller or someones arms/lap. He got a little stir crazy, but otherwise held up very well. Other than those outings, we spent most of the trip at Sue and Russ's house either playing computer games, watching tv, reading, talking, or as seen here, playing Rock Band. Which Aiden came to love...
That was our whole trip in a nutshell...well a rather large nutshell, but a nutshell none the less. I'll get more pictures up on the Picasa site soon!