Back again

Well I haven't written for quite some time now. Nor I have updated the photo album lately. Well I have done both now. Having a little kid sometimes allows for interesting and tense situations. Much like the time Asher saw a black person when he was a little boy visiting in Texas. He loudly said, pointing to the black man, "look a brown person". Then even more recently then that, I had the privilege of taking Ayden out to the hall because she was being loud in Stake Conference. We went over to a quite area over by some of the bishops office to sit down. There were two chairs, one was being occupied by a gentleman who was sitting there with his eyes closed appearing to be in heavy meditation. The other was available, so Ayden and I sat there. It was nice and quite, we were all just sitting there relaxed when Ayden suddenly let one rip. She followed that one promptly with another one. I was unsure what to say or do. I didn't look at the man on my right to see his reaction, I just hoped he didn't think it was me. Good times. Other than that things are going alright. We have a good deal of our Christmas shopping done so we are happy about that. We went to the Frisco Mall today and oddly enough the power was out in every single store except for the department stores. All the stores were closed, no one could buy anything because the credit card machines were all down.

I started running this week. I started the first time on Tuesday trying to run a 5k on the treadmill. But only made it about 3.5k. Today I ran the whole 5k and did alright all things considered. I ran it in 34 minutes and 30 seconds which is not real fast but not to bad for me at this time. It is about a 11 minute and 30 second pace per mile. I continue to do push-ups 3 days a week, 3 sets of 40 per day. So I am doing 360 push-ups a week and over 1200 per month. I know I am going to be eating more than I usually would during the holidays so hopefully the exercise will help eat up some of the additional calories. Ayden is rolling over all over the place now. She wants to crawl but hasn't figured it out yet. She can scoot herself a foot or two here and there but nothing with proper form yet. She talks constantly (she gets that from Tina :)) and she screams a very high pitch squeal quite often. We think we saw the first sign of teeth today in Ayden. Ayden is eating quite a bit of physical food now. She eats a lot of rice cereal, sweet potatoes, green beens, carrots and has just recently started eating fruit.

Asher seems to be doing alright. He is doing well in school. I recently got his report card from his teacher in Oregon and he is doing well, especially in Math and Science. When he visited for Thanksgiving, I asked him what he would like to be when he grew up. He told me he wants to be a Scientist. I was surprised and happy about that desire. He is a smart little boy, who is fascinated about ocean life and the titanic. It is one of his favorite things. He can tell you a lot of information about it. He has about 5 books on the subject and is looking for more. He learned to play chess while he was in the hospital in about a day and was playing me and others for about 20 minutes at a time before we beat him. He is competitive like me, he doesn't like to lose, but no one should.

Tina is enjoying being a mother. She is so good at it. She has a routine with Ayden that makes things so easy for everyone. Ayden eats at certain times and sleeps at certain times. Tina has one more day of work at the dental office she is working at. After that she will only have her Saturday morning job to do. She is the best mother and wife any child or man could ever hope for. Ayden and I are so lucky to have her.