Monkey

Aidan's going to be a monkey for Halloween. Here's a picture. Promise to post more pics later!!

Milestones

This past weekend we decided that Aidan was plenty big enough to go ahead and turn his carseat around! Technically babies are suppose to be 22 lbs AND 1 year old. Aidan is already 25.4 lbs and with shoes on he couldn't straighten his legs out any more. So with just over three weeks to go, we decided to break the rules. So we got the carseat all turned around (not an easy task!!) and took Aidan to a wedding. I think he was so surprised to be able to look around and see all the stuff he's been missing. He has yet to fall asleep in the car since!! He loved the lights and disco ball at the wedding reception. He was so good despite the fact he was feeling a little under the weather with his cold and out way past his bed time. Here are some pictures of him in his carseat and us at the wedding.

Cows and Critters

Aidan is eleven months old already! Hard to figure out where the past year has gone! In the past few months we've taking him out to learn about the world around him. We went with the Locke family to tour the Shatto Dairy Farm. Tasted some delicious milk and looked at some stinky cows. I took a picture of "Pat", a fourteen year old dairy cow and Aidan laughs at it every time I show it to him. I wonder what he thinks it is!! We also took the kids to Deanna Rose Children's Farm to check out the animals there. Aidan got to see several different animals...chickens, cows, peacocks, bobcats, goats, pigs, ducks, etc. He seemed pretty interested in all of the animals except for one aggressive goat that really wanted to get at the food we had. It's crazy noise made Aidan cry! =( He did get to pet a Pygmy goat...I kind of think he thought that it was just a really messed up looking version of Sadie.

Riding Bikes

Aidan went for his first bike ride yesterday. He loved it. We bought a seat for the back of the tandem. We took it for a short test drive last night through the neighborhood. He was just looking around and smiling. The helmet seems to be a little bit big...but I have some extra pads to put in it and get it just right. I didn't take any pictures...but did get a little bit of video. I will take a picture next time and get it posted soon.

9 Months Old

Aidan is 9 months old now. We had his check up last week. He weighs 22.8 lbs and is 29 3/4" tall. Still in the 90th percent for height but has dropped to the 70th percent for weight. He's a lot more active then he was a few months ago. Here is a picture of him watching the guys build our new deck....taken on July 8th!

Catching up!

On another note...thought I should catch up. Aidan is almost 9 months old. In the past two months...I've put on a bike-a-thon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital and bought a Ford Explorer. Aidan has had many first. We took a baby sign language class in June and he signed 'dog' for the first time yesterday at the vet's office. We took him to a Japanese Steakhouse...I think he liked the fire.

He can crawl, sit up and pull up on EVERYTHING!! Here are a few pictures of Aidan over the past two months.

Happy 4th of July

Hope everyone has a great 4th!! We went to a parade this morning and are suppose to go watch some fireworks this evening. Hopefully Aidan will LOVE them.