5 Month Pictures!

I love the smile behind the binky!

Mommy can we call Daddy?

Teething Bites
Big boy holding Dylan the Duck and feeding himself
A fun day at the park with great friends
All tuckered out after a busy day
Having fun in the jumperoo

We're excited for dinner time

Race car driver at Peter Piper Pizza!

Riding the Carousel

Riding the train with Daddy

Riding the train with his buddy Jake

We like it when Daddy is home for dinner

I want a hug!

My foot tastes good!

Everything goes in our mouth these days!

I love dressing just like my Daddy!
All tuckered out!

Sitting up in the bath!

Our new hat is sooo cute!

Sitting in the high chair out at dinner!

"Look Daddy, I can do a push up!"

I like my toys!

Happy Halloween!!!

I want to be just like my Daddy when I grow up!

An Update... Finally!

Where do I even begin?? It seems like so much time has passed since my last blog update and I don't even know where to start! Life is just chugging away here in our household! Well overall things are going well. Ian is staying busy with work and military, especially since the Marines Corps Ball is next weekend and he is the Ball Coordinator this year. He has done uch a tremendous job planning everything. I have been staying busy with work. At the beginning of this year I was chosen by my school district as one of eight teachers who had students with very high achievement. I was featured on the website and here is the article if you'd like to check it out! It has been hard this year keeping up with everything, but we are doing the best we can. I also celebrated my 30th brithday... still can't believe that I'm 30! Where has all this time gone?

And now an update on the lil guy I know you are all here to read about! Well we've still been struggling with a a few issues. He still has a flat head! So we'll most likely be doing the DOC Band (otherwise known as the helmet). It will mostly depend on cost. Treatment is $3600 but we've been told that our insurance is pretty good about covering it, so we'll know more on Monday. He's still struggling with tummy time and we've been battling all kinds of issues with his nose. He's had non stop colds and sinus infections. Breathing treatments have not helped, so they did a UGI about a week ago to see if he was refluxing into his lungs. The UGI came back normal... so we'll find out the next step at his next appt on Monday which is his 6 month check up.

We've also had some eating/stomach issues. We started rice cereal a little while back and that just really upset Aidan's stomach, so we switched to oatmeal and he has just been eating that like a champ. Despite his eating issues, he was a hefty 18 1/2 pounds a few weeks ago at the Dr's office and has been wearing 9 mon clothes for a few weeks now. We had a few hairy weeks with him not sleeping through the night and waking up 6-10 times a night because of his congestion and tummy issues. We adjusted his schedule this week and have seen some great improvements since. He's still not eating much, but that could be due to his congestion or teething. Other than all of that he is doing great. He's started going in the jumperoo and loves it. He can sit up for short periods without any support, and he's slowly getting better at tummy time. He can stand with support and is getting really good at grabbing and manipulating things with his hands. On his progress report from day care he had mastered almost everything and the very few things he hadn't mastered were mostly due to him not tolerating tummy time. He loves talking and playing and he has admirers everywhere he goes! Ian and I are so blessed and cannot believe almost six months have passed since our little guy entered our lives!

4th Month Photos

Here's Aidan's more recent pictures! By the way, videos take too long to upload on Blogspot, so those will be posted on Facebook only!

Holding his bottle for the first time!

I'm a big boy, I get to eat rice cereal now! This was my very first taste!

It makes quite the mess!

Trying to either wipe his mouth or lick the bib clean!

Playing with my new kick toy!

Wathcing TV in mom and dad's room after Direct TV got installed!

Going for my first walk around my new neighborhood

Happy baby!

Tummy time is getting a little better!

Mommy and I got up early to beat the heat, but it was still a little bit warm!

Sticking my tongue out at my toys!

I like sticking my tongue out!

I'm a big boy! I can feed myself!

Tummy time with my sea horse

Sea horse kisses!

3rd Month Photos

Here's the pictures from 3-4 months old!

There's a giraffe on my foot!!!

We like just chillin in the Bumbo!

Bathtime is the best!!

I like sleeping flat on my back... which is why I'm getting a flat head! Hopefully this head support will help!

Someone was playing so hard he just passed right out on his playmat!

MeeMaw Sr reading me a story when she, Bob, Grandpa Ralph, and MeeMaw Jr came to visit

This is Tom my chicken (Daddy named him). I like to chew on his beak!

This is Dylan my Duck! He's my favorite toy!

Piggy kisses!

I rolled form my back onto my side all by myself!

Today was a rough day!

Practicing more rolling!

Sitting in my Bumbo, watching my shows and playing with toys!

Lifting weights!

Playtime!

Tummy time is better when I can stare at myself!

Up Up and Away!

I like playing in my exersaucer!

Can you tell who dressed me today?

More play time!

"Kicking" Beardsley out of his crib!

4 months!

I have been a bad blogger! Me?? Can you believe it? A whole month with no posts! Well Aidan turned 4 months old today! We had his 4 month doctor's appt and it went great. We just love Dr McCleland and are going to miss her when she goes on maternity leave!! Aidan weighed in at 15 lbs 6 1/2oz and 26 1/2 in long! He is in the 92nd percentile for his height and about 50th for his weight! He is growing like a weed and his weight is finally catching up to his height. At four months old, he is almost ready to start growing out of some of his 3-6 months clothes! Can you believe it? Dr McCleland confirmed that he is teething! He is healthy and making a ton of progress. We have one area of concern and that is his flat head! We've been working on some things to help it naturally round out, but if we don't see improvement in the next 1-2 months, then at 6 months, we'll have to consider going the helmet route. If only he didn't hate being on his tummy so much!

So what have we been up to the last month??? Well right after he turned three months Aidan started the early stages of teething and I went back to work!!! No fun for those two things to coincide since it meant Aidan stopped sleeping through the night! He has had a lot of congestion since, but we seem to be working our way through it. He also rolled onto his side from his back for the very first time! Yea! When he lays on his stomach he can hold his head up off the ground, and he loves going in his exersaucer!

Grandma Rissa (Meemaw Jr), Grandpa Ralph, Great Grandma Phyllis (Meemaw Sr), and G-ma Phyllis's wonderful friend, Bob also came to visit us! They brought us a ton of furniture they had been storing for us, and we finally have furniture in our bedroom and the guest room! We had such a great time with them! And Grandpa Ralph even helped Ian fix our roof and he fixed our dryer too! They were so generous and also got us a new BBQ grill for a housewarming present. I was so proud to show off our new house since my mom hadn't seen it since she came down to help paint before it was finished and we moved in. My only regret is that our vacation with them wasn't longer! We can't to see them again this winter!

Life has been good to us... although the transition back to work has been a rough one. It might have been smoother except Aidan has been struggling with his nasal congestion and this past week he had a little stomach virus. He is doing much better now! I can't post pics currently b/c Ian has the laptop with all the pictures at work, but I'll get new pictures posted this weekend! I can hardly wait for three days off! Especially since we are getting DirectTV installed on Saturday!!