Merry Christmas!

May all your wishes and dreams come true this holiday season.

may your holiday be filled with love,

and laughter...
I made a mistake and didn't order enough Christmas cards. I have a ton of left over birth announcements (anyone want one?), so I thought I'd order less Christmas Cards... then I ran out. oops

Santa came for a visit...

You didn't know that Aiden's Grandpa was really Santa did ya?

My dad has never had facial hair in the 25+ years I've known him... or that I could remember. He doesn't shave while camping and over Labor day weekend he noticed that he might be able to grow a full beard... something that has escaped him in his younger years. Low and behold he could. He hasn't saved since. After it started getting long he said he was going to keep it long until he took a Santa picture with Aiden. We'll see how long it goes before it gets trimmed now that the Santa picture is taken ;-)

Santa Clause is com'n to town

We took Aiden to see Santa today. I wasn't sure how he would handle it. He hadn't napped well and woke up from a quick car snooze a few minutes before we plopped him on Santa's lap. He took one curious look at Santa then saw the camera flash and turned on the charm. You'd think he was trained or something.

If you curious he asked Santa for a few toys like blocks and balls and of course a jogging stroller for Mom... what? he is looking forward to the rides ;-)

Oh a hunting we will go...

Christmas tree hunting that is. Last weekend we ventured out with our friends the Pitmans to get our Christmas trees. Much to our surprise there was barely any snow up Bracket Creek. We brought the sled, but it didn't get much use... there was just too much snow ;-)
Peyton was not a fan of the sled.
After hour 1 I got board and started taking pictures.
Aiden was loving it
We finally found some trees... not great, but good enough. The men (Ryan and Dustin) with their "kill".
The women who just hiked for 2 hours with 20 pounds of kid, clothes and blankets.

remember when...

Babies grow up too fast! Aiden is 30 weeks old today... (yes I had to count I don't really keep track of that) It is hard to remember when he was only 1 week old...

Life is much easier now. I'm not as emotional. I know I cried the day this picture was taken, he wouldn't cooperate. He was and still is a VERY light sleeper. I had such big plans for newborn pictures with my baby, but no one ever tells you how hard it will be with your own. I still mourn the images I never got. I'm hiring someone for the next baby's photo shoot.

I think we might have Christmas Card material....

I've been working my hiney off to get everyone what they desire for Christmas from September till... well I'm still trying to get it all done. I've been so busy I hadn't even started thinking about Christmas cards. Then I realized Christmas is in TWO weeks! YIKES. Luckily yesterday I was able to steal 15 minutes with my small mighty and handsome man, he just happened to be wearing a green shirt and sitting in a red chair. Thank goodness... we might just have something for a Christmas card. I only want to show you something that didn't make the cut so I don't ruin the fun.

ah ha ;-)

Gotcha... we're not going private... probably never will. I just wanted to make you comment so I could see who was out there ;-) We get over 25 visits a day and I just wanted to see who was checking in on us. Feel free to comment in the future ;-)

Now so you're not mad a me here is a video of my little talker.

"talking" 1 from Kelly Kuntz on Vimeo.

Going Private?

We're thinking about going private around here. If you're interested in keeping in the loop just leave a comment with your name and a reason why we should include you in the fun. :-)

We'll leave you with photos of the incredibly flexible boy, who now likes to suck on his toes.

I have a new favorite picture!

Doesn't it just crack you up! Aiden's new trick is screaming/yelling/holler'n/talking, and during Thanksgiving at my Aunt and Uncle's house there was a lot of talking going on because their giant house echos so well.

He lets you talk along with him as long as you aren't louder than him. One day his cousins tried to play along, but Aiden's feelings got hurt and things ended in tears. :-) He's a little sensitive.


I wish I could move in to this photo friendly house!
Aiden didn't appreciate Grammy and Darcie trying to make him smile.

Just teasing ;-) Look at that cute little tongue.

Aiden's baptism

On November 16th we Baptized Aiden at Resurrection Parish. I was so nervous. Mostly because we'd have to stand in front of the church in front of everyone, and we weren't given the best directions so I didn't feel like I knew what was going to happen, and who knows how a 5 month old is going to behave for an hour at church when we couldn't walk around the back of the church. Everything went great though! Aiden was a super star. He was a total ham, and never got cranky. It was great to see how happy Aiden's grandparents were for him. A special thanks to Aunt Darcie for taking pictures.


All the family that came to celebrate Aiden!
Aiden's GodParents Mark and Joslyn. He likes them a lot!
With Mom and Dad.

Life is getting back to normal

We've had a ruff couple of days around here. Aiden has been sick... real sick. It started about 10 days ago with a runny nose. Nothing big, just a little annoying when he tried to sleep. Then Sunday morning it erupted, literally. He coughed so hard that his morning feeding came back up, twice! The first time required a clothing change for mama and baby. The second time required interrupting Dad's shower, dissembling the activity bouncer, and pulling out the carpet cleaner. Luckily it wasn't worse and after he figured out how to cough things were a little cleaner around here. He would cough and then cry a little sad pathetic cry. He was so miserable. Then Sunday night the fever started. It hovered around 101 but would go down with Tylenol. He still wasn't better Monday so we made an appointment with Dr. Pepper (yes that really is the name of our amazing doctor). She was worried it might be pneumonia so Aiden had to have a chest x-ray. That wasn't fun for mama or baby. He had to be in a vertical vice with his hands stuck over his head. Thankfully no pneumonia, but she said it might get worse before it got better. Worse did happen in the form of a temp of 103.3 at 11 o'clock at night. Ryan and I were pretty worried. Ryan and I took turns sleeping on his floor for a little peace of mind. By the morning his fever had broken and it was back down to 98. HURRAY!

He is still coughing but he is feeling much better.

Here are a few shots from last week before he got sick.

Sitting

A little video of Aiden's new trick... sitting.


sitting from Kelly Kuntz on Vimeo.

I'm a big boy...

He still doesn't have teeth (fine by me!) but he is crazy active! At 5 and a half months he can sit alone for extended periods of time. He usually only tips over when he is reaching for toys a little too far out of his reach. If he falls down he just rolls to where he wants to go, as long as it is counter clockwise.


Video coming :-)

an afternoon at Nanna's house

Aiden spends two days a week with Ryan's mom Nanna and his cousins Colter, Cameron and Ethan. Nanna had to get her friend Rosie to help her because four boys and one Nanna is TOO much! Two months ago...
Colter is really into cameras lately.

Last week I had to reschedule a session due to bad weather so I had all my gear with me when I went to pick up Aiden so I had an impromtu photoshoot with the boys. By the time I got there Ethan had already gone so I only got three of the boys. Aiden was all about eye contact and smiling, I guess a little competition brings out the model in him :-)
Aiden 5.5 months, Colter 2.5 years, Cameron 4.5 months
Even the babies thought the two year old was crazy.
Yeah one good one... thanks Nanna for holding the crazy two year old down ;-)

because I can't leave the whiney video at the top

I had to add another with Aiden playing with his rattle. I call this "flapping his wings". If your hand gets in the way watch out because it hurts! He's only nailed himself in the face once, and he wasn't too happy about it.


Untitled from Kelly Kuntz on Vimeo.

oh man

I'm thankful for a healthy baby boy with strong lungs to cry, and a desire to be with us at all hours of the night. But little Aiden Mommy and Daddy will be a lot more fun if you let us sleep at night!

After sleep training Aiden about 6 weeks ago we finally have him sleeping through the night and 3 solid naps a day. That is until last night. Damn. If some gypsies were stroll'n the street last night I would sold him... Aiden woke up at 1:30 am, and he would close his eyes the second either of us picked him up, but when we put him down he screamed. Then if you tried to comfort him he freaked out. At 4 am we were spent! I fed him and he gave us an hour of sleep. AH! Three hours of sleep is crazy.

Just to show you that Aiden isn't all smiles... watch the whiney video ;-)


Whining from Kelly Kuntz on Vimeo.

adventures in rice cereal

I've been holding off on giving Aiden rice cereal because our pediatrition told us to wait until he was 6 months old, and he sleeps through the night just from nursing. Lately he has seemed famished right before his next feeding and can't get the food fast enough, so I gave in and decided to give it a try. Things went great the first few bites were so enjoyable he was begging for more.
Then after about 10 bites, when Dad put down the camera, the gagging began. I would barely get the spoon to his lips and he would gag as if I was the grossest thing in the world. I'll have to admit baby gagging was pretty funny. After 10 minutes of gagging and no food going down I dumped the rest of the cereal in a bottle and he finished it the old fashion way. So it wasn't the cereal that was gross... just the spoon.

After the cereal Aiden thought he'd wash his dinner down with a beer. Notice the death grip (both Aiden's and Daddy's)

His first Halloween...

I'm a lame mom. I'm right in the middle of crazy holiday busy season (excuse number 1), I'm cheap (excuse number 2), and he won't remember (excuse number 3) are a few of the reasons why I didn't plan on a Halloween costume for Aiden. The guilt began to grow the more and more people asked what Aiden was going to be for Halloween. I started thinking about what we currently had that could make a costume... and we found Farmer Aiden. Still lame I know. Aunt Jen invited us downtown for trick-or-treating with the cousins. Craziness! Aiden taking in the scene.Some of the costumes were AMAZING making me feel like an even lamer mom. People would peek in the stroller and you could see the look on their face... "oh... he is not dressed up". We had fun though, Colter was impressed with his loot.

Ryan and I are lame. As a couple we've never dressed up for Halloween, and the last time I donned a costume was in college. We make really good candy givers, but that is about it. Much to our surprise we got invited to three Halloween parties!... what?!? We opted for the low key dinner and Scene it with babies sleeping upstairs with the Pitmans.

How cute is Charlie Brown! (I tried to pull together a Linus costume last minute, but I couldn't do it... because I'm lame)

Farmer Aiden getting so big sitting by himself.
and standing with some help
Next year we'll have a better costume... promise!

A trip to the pumpkin patch...

This weekend we started a new Kuntz family tradition. We headed to Rocky Creek Farm to pick a pumpkin out of the "pumpkin" patch. In reality its a corn field with store bought pumpkins, but Aiden doesn't know that so we'll call it a pumpkin patch.


It was a little chilly so we bundled up and rode the trailer pulled by a tractor out to the field where we unloaded and chose our pumpkins. Thankfully Ryan was up for this family activity, he took pictures! and let me take pictures of him! WHOA :-)

brr...

Aiden was a trooper and didn't whine once, even with his snow suit on. Next year we'll try to go sooner so it isn't so chilly.

We carved the pumpkins last night while Aiden was snoozing and they turned out pretty good. (photos coming soon)