Tired Boy

Even Aiden gets tired of the daily grind. He fell asleep while eating today's lunch. His lively music couldn't keep him awake! It must have been the brisk Fall air that did it to him. We spent the morning walking around the yard and down to the LWA garage to see the trucks.

All in a day's play

I am not certain who looks forward to the morning orange juice ritual more, Aiden or Daddy. Aiden does brighten up our day, especially with his contagious laughter and hilarious antics.

Perfect Fall Day

With the weather in the 60's, we took advantage of a beautiful Fall day this past Sunday by going to the playground in our community. Aiden enjoyed playing with Daddy, but most of all, he got to play with some bigger kids. He is looking up the slide at one of them.

Favorite Book and Chair

Aiden loves his truck book and enjoys reading it in his new rocking chair.

Halloween

On Friday Aiden went to his first Halloween party this year at Daddy's work place. He got to tour through the offices at LDH Energy while enchanting all of the ladies there with his good looks and cool Ninja outfit. On Thursday he went to music class dressed as a little cow. Here is a video and some pictures.

Aiden's First Haircut

Here is a video of Aiden's first haircut. We don't mind all the curls in the back but the hair in the front was getting in his eyes so we decided to just trim the bangs. That should be easy enough, right? As it turned out, not really. But in the end he looks fine and his hair is out of his eyes. Please excuse our appearance, we weren't considering that this would be posted at the time.

October 2009

Here is a video of Aiden and one of his favorite pasttimes: moving the vacuum around. Every chance he gets he will push it or his bicycle around the house or the yard. Some of his other new skills are hopping like a frog and walking on his toes.

Aiden 15 Months 1

Here is a video of Aiden as he practices sitting down. It also shows him with one of his favorite toys, his vacuum. He pushes his vacuum around the house for hours on end!

Aiden 15 Months

Here is a video of Aiden as he shows his mom some new tricks. We're introducing a new character in this video: Buddy. Aiden's favorite stuffed animal. We're going to try to post a few more videos and maybe some pictures very soon. Enjoy!

August 2009

Well, we are finally posting another blog. Time seems to go by so quickly now and it is hard to keep up with the website. But we promise to try to be better. Included today are a few pictures and two videos. The pictures are of Aiden enjoying one of his favorite pastimes: fingerpainting! He would do that every day if he could. The picture on the stair is of the first time he backed up to it and sat down. He is now doing that in his potty training chair so I guess we have a jump on that. The last picture is of him and his broom. He loves that thing and we have spent many hours sweeping the driveway together! The first video is of Aiden and his contagious laughter (thanks Aunt Jen!!!) and the second video is a display of many of Aiden's new tricks. In addition to the ones you'll see he's also added spinning around, dancing (which looks quite similar to his bowing in this video) and walking around in all different funny ways.

He is also very close to speaking. In fact there are a few things that he says that we just can't understand what it is yet (it sounds almost like "I did it!")
We will try to post more pictures and videos of the rest of his newly acquired skills as soon as possible. Enjoy!

June 24

We can't believe the month of June is almost over. Time goes by so quickly once you have a child! Aiden is amazing. He is healthy, happy (apparently) and such a joy to be around. Some of his favorite activities are playing in the lake or his pool, walking around outside, using the slide and swings at the playground, watching our neighbor Jen play with her dogs, playing hide and seek and chasing mom and dad around the house. He has such a great laugh and his mom gets him laughing so hard sometimes that he can't stand up! Here are a bunch of recent pictures of him. We'll try to post some new videos of him soon.

May 31, 2009

Aiden just turned one a little over a week ago. It's amazing how fast it has gone and how much he has grown! He is such a wonderful little boy and he brings his mother and father great joy every day (along with a little exasperation!) Thanks to everyone for their generosity to Aiden as well as to his parents. Here are some pictures and maybe a video or two from the last couple weeks.

May 8 Videos

May 8 More Pictures!

May 8, 2009

Well, it has been over a month since our last post. We have been so busy chasing Aiden around that it's hard to find time anymore! He is doing great though. He will be a one year old in a few weeks and it's amazing how quickly it has gone. Somehow, somewhere recently we went from having a baby to having another person in the house. Aiden is mobile, he has his likes and dislikes (and he's not shy about letting us know what they are!), and he is just fun to hang out with. One of our favorite pastimes is chasing each other around the house. Aiden will chase mommy, then mommy will chase Aiden. Then daddy will chase Aiden then he'll chase daddy. With all of us laughing hysterically the whole time! Aiden also likes opening and closing the door with mommy or daddy on the other side. He laughs every time he opens it!
We have been incredibly lucky that Aiden has been so healthy for his first year and we are truly thankful for that. We are also thankful to all of his friends and family who are so caring, generous and loving to him. Here are some recent pictures of Aiden (some from his recent trip to Florida to visit some of his family members). We will post some recent videos of him in the next few days. Enjoy!

April 1 No April Fool's Day

Unfortunately, there won't be any pictures with this post but we wanted to relay a little story to everyone. Yesterday, Robin put Aiden down in the living room to play and she went into the kitchen to do some cleaning, etc. We do this quite often because Aiden has many of his toys there and Robin can check on him easily. So, Robin is emptying the dishwasher when she turned around and Aiden is standing there helping her unload it! Up until yesterday, Aiden did a lot of walking but he had never gotten up on his own. We're not sure how he did it, but he somehow stood up (or pulled himself up) and walked from the living room into the kitchen. It appears that our little guy is now fully mobile and we'll have to be even more diligent in watching him. He's certainly growing up fast! Hopefully, we'll have more pictures and videos soon.

March 22

Aiden turned 10 months yesterday. He is doing wonderfully and bringing us joy every day. We recently brought him to the playground in our little community. He tried many of the apparatus but seemed to enjoy the swing the most. Here are videos of his swinging adventure and a few pictures. Two of the pictures are from his first spaghetti dinner that he ate at the dining room table with his mom and dad!

March 2 2009

Here is a video for only the most hard core Aiden fans (mostly grandparents). It is 8 1/2 minutes of all Aiden, all the time. Robin taped this while he was eating blueberries for the first time. It includes most of his current skills; waving, clapping his hands, eating an apple, laughing and rocking back and forth. For those of you brave enough (and with enough time), enjoy!!

More Pictures!

9 Months

Aiden had his nine month checkup today. His height is in the 90th percentile, his head size is in the 95th percentile and his weight is in the 80th percentile. He is a perfectly healthy "little" baby. Things at home are starting to change very quickly for us. Yesterday he took his first steps without any help. Apparently he wanted his mother to walk him around like we always do and she didn't want to so he just took off on his own. What a strong willed child! Since then he has been practicing walking from mommy to daddy and back again without any help. He's also doing a bunch of other new things. He has learned to open cabinet doors and look inside. He plays soccer by kicking things around the house when he's walking with us. He's got a basketball game that he picks up the ball and puts it in the basket. He also claps his hands without any help now. It seems like all of a sudden he can do so many things! We feel so lucky to have such a wonderful, healthy little boy. Here are some recent pictures of him.