Bubba in the Tubba

As I mentioned before, a Thanksgiving post is pending.  Until then however, here are some pictures of a certain baby I know who loves to get clean.

Turkey Day

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  We did, and we'll post some pictures soon!

Standing Tall

Even though Aiden's prowess in the bouncy-seat has been well documented, I don't think that we'll be able to stop taking pictures of him in it any time soon.  It's just too much fun! When he really gets moving in that thing it is entertaining for him (and us) in a way that is hard to capture in pictures.  We'll keep trying though!  Here are some of the latest...

Building up a head of steam...

... starting to get a little crazy...

... off the charts!

Whew, that was fun!

Aiden doesn't crawl yet (no complaints here) but he does like to stand up if you put him next to the coffee table or something.  He hasn't quite got the whole balancing part mastered, but his legs are nice and strong and he can stay standing for awhile with something to grab onto.  Here he goes...

We've been sleeping...

Sorry for the lack of activity recently.  I think that the cold weather snap brought on a state of temporary blog-hibernation.  

Not to worry though, things are looking warmer this week ( Rain instead of snow?  Yipee! ) So anyway,  hopefully soon we'll be right back to our old picture-snapping, blog-posting ways!

The Aiden Days of Summer

So during this time of year you might be expecting a Thanksgiving, or even a Christmas related post.  Hah!  Not a chance!  Here at the Jones Abode we are throwing out a little summer-post curveball.  Watch out!

Actually, we just got a whole bunch of really great pictures from Aunt Nicole and Uncle Richie.  A lot of them are from this summer, and even though they are seasonally inappropriate they are such good pictures that we can't help but share them here.

Today in Phoenixville the weather calls for snow flurries, but in the world of the blog the sun is shining and the water is warm.  Enjoy the Aiden days of summer...

Cheers!

I've seen this video all over the place recently, and with good reason: it's awesome.  

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I thought I'd post it here to pass the awesomeness along.  The setting is the recent Phillies World Championship parade, and basically this kid is doing everything he can to get the crowd pumped up...

Goofball

It seems that the older Aiden gets, the goofier he becomes.  Here are some pictures to illustrate this point:

A Birthday Weekend

So, Friday was Rob's birthday and I (Jen) thought I would share with you faithful blog readers how we celebrated.

Friday evening, we decided to not spend the money to go out to eat, and instead, I kicked Rob out of the house for a few hours while I made dinner.  Rob and I are always saying how much we enjoy being at home and feel so blessed with such an amazing house.  So, I took advantage of our great home and made it more romantic than any restaurant could have ever been.  We even dressed up!  We enjoyed the evening just being together and having great conversation, reminiscing over memories and looking forward to making more.  We are also very blessed to have a baby that goes to bed at 7pm and sleeps for 12 hours straight!!

trying to capture the ambiance without the flash...

On Saturday afternoon, Rob and I went to the Brandywine River Museum in Chaddsford.  One of Rob's favorite artists, and one whom I have also grown to love, is Andrew Wyeth.  The amazing thing is that Andrew Wyeth grew up in Chester County. This great museum has exhibits of the 3 generations- Andrew Wyeth, his father, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew's son, Jamie Wyeth.  We started off taking a few minutes to walk along the river path and enjoy the beauty of the river in autumn.   Then, we took a tour of the Kuerner farm, which is where Andrew Wyeth found inspiration for nearly 1,000 of his paintings.  It was so neat to see this place that meant so much to the artist and to recognize certain scenes from his paintings.   When we got back to the museum, Andrew's grandaugther was giving tours of both Andrew and Jamie's galleries.  This was also extremely interesting and just so neat to hear about some of the artist's thought process, and how they are just normal people, with families, who have experienced great love and great loss.  

on the farm...

Saturday evening we were able to go to Bethany and Aaron's (Rob's sister and brother in law) to celebrate Rob's, Mom's, and Aaron's birthdays, which are all within a couple weeks of each other.  We had a great time eating yummy dinner, cupcakes, and opening presents.  I don't know why, but we didn't do a great job of documenting with pictures.  I promise we were all there, and Aiden was there as well.  

And lastly, since I know most of you check this blog because of our son, here is a small video of him taken at some point this weekend, being cute, as he usually is.  Enjoy.  But, let me just say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB!  I love you and you are an amazing husband and father.  

Autumn Attacks!

This is the vew out of our kitchen door into the back-yard...

Yep, it's Fall for sure.  

Peanut

Ok, so we caved in and totally dressed up Aiden for halloween.  As mentioned in a previous post, given his perfectly round dome, and still-bald baby head we really couldn't dress him as anything other then Charlie Brown.  Jen whipped up a spiffy costume in no time flat, and we pulled an old Snoopy costume out of the closet for Bailey.

I know that, for Aiden, Halloween will be more exciting once he is old enough to "get it" (and by "it" I mean candy.)  But in all the years to come we may never take more pictures then we did this year.  We took a lot of pictures.  Here is a small sampling: