Welcome to Aiden's Official Site

This is officially Aiden's new site. Steve has been maintaining it for almost a year, but I haven't been on it until recently. Between the two of us, we should be able to update it more often than the other site.

Something has changed in Aiden during the Christmas season. Our baby is gone. He is now a little boy. He's been talking a lot...babble and real words. Today he was standing on the couch and I pointed down and told him to sit down. For the next 15 minutes, in a very stearn voice, he pointed at the couch cushion and said, "sit down." Steve said now I know what I sound like! He's starting to say "I love you" and "thank you," mixed in with a bunch of other things. He's my shadow and follows me everywhere. He saw my mom clap and call her dog over to her, so now he claps and yells, "Mama" or "Dada" when he wants us to come by him! It's crazy what they understand at this age. Although they can't talk, they understand what you're saying. He signs when he's hungry/wants more and when he's thirsty. It's makes it so much easier!

We put my jukebox from when I was a kid in our basement and made a play area for Aiden down there (complete with a Dora tent and a slide!). We can't say the word 'downstairs' without him dropping what he's doing, running to the basement door and dancing! He LOVES playing the jukebox and dancing down there!

Aiden has all of his teeth, except his 2-year molars. It's been a rough 1+ months. He wouldn't eat for us, except for cookies, crackers, cheerios and mandarin oranges. He ate at daycare Monday - Thursday, so I wasn't too worried about the weekends. But with the 2 holiday weeks, he was only at daycare a total of 4 days. That's a lot of not eating and frustrating meal times. This week got him back into routine (thank goodness for routine) and eating a little better for us. I actually got him to eat a fish stick. You have no idea what an improvement that is. I think he sees the kids at school eat, so that makes him eat.

Christmas was fun. He did a good job handing out the presents...he's an elf! It wasn't until his 4th or 5th christmas that he realized he could open presents. He got so many gifts (thank you!). He's not really into playing with toys too much right now. More than anything, he just wants to play with us - dancing, reading, building forts, chasing, singing, etc. The crazy new thing he does is he puts 2 rings from that fisher price stacking toy (http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-71050-Rock-A-Stack/dp/B00000IZQP) on his feet and he walks around the house like that. I call them his high-heels! It's funny! Strange, but funny.