Mamma Chewy

A couple of weeks after my mom left Jared's mom came out for a week to see the baby. The day after she arrived we went up to Boston. Jared had tickets to a Red Sox game so we decided to head up there for the day.
Last time we went to Boston we didn't make it to the end of the freedom trail and Bunker Hill because it was too far for pregnant mommy to walk so we decided to go there. It is almost 300 stairs to the top of the monument and only worth it if you are in good shape. My legs were jello after 225 stairs and it hurt to walk up and down stairs for the rest of the week.
We went to the public gardens and road on the swan boats. It was a fun little ride and Addi always enjoys different modes of transportation.
Of course we had to visit the duckies Addi's favorite thing to do in Boston.
While Jared was at the baseball game we played at the frog pond. We have never been when the frog pond was open. Addi didn't have a swimsuit, but I did have an extra pair of clothes.
We showed grandma some of the Freedom Trail and spent some time at the cemetery. I like the wording on the old grave and thinkit is kind of weird that they all have skulls with angel wings on them.
On Sunday we blessed Aidan at church. Jared's aunt and uncle came and some of his co-residents. After the blessings we had a nice little brunch with our family and friends.
Jared had to workmost of the week, but one day we met him at a park by his work for some lunch.
Don't worry Aidan was with us on all these adventures usually asleep in his car seat blowing bubbles.
One of the days Jared was working we met Jared's sister and her little boy at the Bronx Zoo. Addi was so excited and kept saying she was going to the zoo to see giraffes, elephants and teddy bears.
Addi loves the zoo and it was even better with her cousin.
Aidan and grandma enjoyed the zoo as well.
I love this picture. Addi loves her baby brother.
We spent time playing with this cute little guy. Well not so little but cute none the less.
Jared took friday off work so we could go to the beach. We set up camp a little too close to the water and dispite moving backtwice as the tide came in and digging a trench in front ofus a giant wave came and tried to take all of our stuff. Luckily the baby was not still asleep in the tent, because the water picked up the tent and everything in it. We saved everything, but a few sand toys. My clothes were wet and a full of sand so we had to go to walmart to get me new clothes before dinner.
We stopped in Mystic for dinner.
The day before grandma left we found this fun pick your own flowers garden. We had fun picking flowers and taking pictures.

Adjustments

Having a baby is an adjustment, having another baby is a major adjustment for everyone. As the mom you now have to adjust to having 2 children. How do I make sure I have enough time for both my children? and make both children feel loved? How do I make it down the stairs to the car with a baby, 2 yo, dog, diaper bag, and library bag full of books? (The answer is you don't, you take 2 trips). I have to adjust to less sleep because I can't always sleep when the baby sleeps. I definitely need to adjust to more patience, but I haven't decided if thats from having 2 kids or just having a 2yo. Everyone asks how Addi is adjusting and I must say she is doing quite well. She loves her bother, sometimes a little too much, but she lets us know when he has had a liitle to much of our attention, "daddy wants the baby" or "I need my mommy". She tried to un-potty train herself that first week, but we weren't having any of that and may have used a little chocolate as a brib for sitting on the potty. She doesn't like to go to bed and she always gets up and turns her light on and I have to go back in and put her back to bed. Most of the time she gets up and is reading her books, but every once in awhile she finds something else to do like this
That is diaper rash cream all over her face. One night when Jared was on call at the hospital I attempted to bath both children and get them to bed by myself. Well it took until 10 pm but I did it or so I thought. Not long after I put Addi to bed I heard her knocking on her door. I went to go put her back to bed and found that she had completely covered her face in diaper rash cream. I don't know why she thought to put it on her face, but it was funny. The next day she fell at playgroup and and started crying causing her nose to run white goopy stuff all over her face. Apparently she had got the cream all up her nose.
Even daddy has to adjust a little bit by filling in for mommy doing things for his daughter he normally wouldn't do.

5 years!!!!

We have survived
5 years of marriage
4 years of dental school
3 moves
2 kids
1 year of residency
together and still just as much in love!!!!

Mamma Was Here

Grandma (Jessica's mom) came to visit and help out with the baby, but mostly Addi occupied her time.
We went swimming.
Went to a 4th of July BBQ.
Aidan sporting his 4th of July attire. Addi wore this same shirt on her first 4th of July (but she was 3 months old).
Watched some fireworks.
Addi's first sparklers.
Daddy had one more day off work and we spent it at the beach. I spent much of it sitting with the baby under a Dora umbrella, because no one had beach umbrellas left.
See such Dora umbrella.
Addi enjoyed building sand castles and burring her legs in the sand.
Addi didn't like getting in the ocean (I think she is still traumatized from getting knocked over by a wave when we were in cali) so we cooled off at the splash pad instead.
I thought it was fun to have a splash pad at the beach. It was a great way to wash off the sand.
We ended our day at the beach with ice cream.
Another day that mamma was here we went to the Trolley Museum.
There have old trolleys to ride and they even have old fashion tickets you get punch when you ride.



We also went to the fire museum that is behind the trolley museum.
We live in Bloomfield, CT
Grandma gave Addi her first haircut.
We loved having grandma here and miss her very much.

Aidan Michael Sorensen

How did we come up with his name? Aidan was not a name we discussed before our baby was born. We went to the hospital with a couple of boy names and a couple of girl names. After our baby boy was born and people asked what is name was I said we hadn't decided yet. Jared then said that for some reason the whole time during his birth he kept thinking of the name Aidan. When we looked and my long list of names I had made on Jared's ipod Aidan was on there. We still hadn't decided for sure and Jared was looking up names he looked up sibling names for Addilyn and Aidan the the first one on the list. I think he was meant to be named Aidan. Aidan means "strong, masculine" or "little firey one" considering he also has red hair we may have cursed ourselves, but we think it fits him perfectly and so far he is a very good baby. Michael is Jared's middle name and comes from his uncle on his dad's side who died at a young age. So after a couple of days of debating what to name him and then how to spell it we named him Aidan Michael Sorensen. Enjoy the picture over load! (yes I took these pictures except for the ones I am in which either Jared or my mom took. If you would like high quality copy of any of them send me an email.)