5 posts tagged “aaron”
Not only is Aaron standing up by himself, he started walking this week! He is such a cutie and so proud of himself when he walks. Of course he should be. We are so proud of him too!
I think I have posted this on The Diary of Sprout already but I want to put it up here too. Had a lot of fun playing with Aaron here ...
I have had this morbid meme floating around in my head for a couple days now. I started to feel a really sharp pain in the right side of my abdomen on Tuesday and I first thought it was my appendix but then the pain started to ease until it was almost gone a day or two later (I barely feel anything there now). At the same time it got me thinking again about something I have been mulling over the last couple years ... my own mortality.
Gina, Aaron, Jared and I had a picnic at the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens today. Sam and Lawrence were supposed to join us but they ditched us in favour of some stuff they had to do so we went ahead, just the 4 of us and had a pretty good time there. The park/gardens is in Emmarentia (I usually refer to them it as the Emmarentia Dam) a nd I usually go to the dam side. Jared took us up to the botanical gardens themselves and I was impressed with them. They are beautiful and there are a number of spots under trees (and in the open) where people can settle down for a nice picnic or just a general social thing with friends and family. We will definitely be going back there for another picnic.
Anyway, we picked a spot under a big tree on the corner of one of the levels (the section of the gardens we were at is made up of a series of gardens on different levels and you climb a couple steps to get to the next one. Each one has a few rose gardens and a water feature of some kind.
No picnic would be a real picnic without some tasty treats from Woolworths so Gina popped out before we headed out to the gardens and bought us some chicken salad sandwiches, koeksisters, chips and some very tasty litchis. Jared brought with him a slab of Lindt dark chocolate with chili (a very interesting combination).
Gina and Jared took out some decks of cards after we had fed and changed Aaron so I put him into the Moby wrap Gina bought a couple weeks ago and went for a walk around with my camera. He fell asleep almost straight away and seemed to be perfectly comfortable in the wrap. It settles him and it has the huge benefit of enabling us to keep our hands free to do what we need to do. I have started using the wrap at home when he doesn't settle so I can work or do what I need to do. I am actually wearing it now, he gets a bit niggly when he is home (not sure why he does that mainly when he is home and not when he is out or at my mother in law). Anyway, I just took a whole lot of photos of the gardens and a couple photos of some weddings that were going on. There must have been 4 separate weddings happening at the same time on the grounds. Jared says this is pretty common there.
My mother in law was kind enough to have Aaron overnight on Saturday night while Gina and I went to see a movie with friends and catch up on some sleep (we had about 8 hours, I felt like a different person when I woke).
