6/10 - Blood draw tomorrow

These are old pictures but I didn't have anything else. The one above is from Aiden's birthday when he decided to teethe on my leg. He's been doing that a bit more lately. I think his 1 yr molars are coming in and they are causing him lots of discomfort over the past few days. The picture below is Aiden thinking he wants noodles from Brad. After Brad gave him a taste he remembered he doesn't like noodles.
Aiden had his 1 yr well baby appointment on Friday (we actually went in to get his eye checked out and they did his appointment then). He was 28 inches which places him in the 5th percentile which is where he's been at since he was 6 months old. He also weighed in at 21 lbs, 5 oz. This places him in the 30th percentile. When we look at the weight for length, Aiden is in the 90th percentile which means he's very symetric. He's small but small all over so he's pretty balanced. By Aiden's first birthday, he had 8 teeth!!

Aiden has taken off the past few days with walking. He walked across the entire kitchen tonight!!! He'll be running around the house by this time next week. In the video above, you can see that Aiden can climb up all the steps in our house. We are trying to teach him to go down. He doesn't really get it yet. He does know how to climb down off the bed and couch so it's just a matter of practice. We will continue to work with him. On Friday, I think we will start trying to transition to one nap a day by moving his morning nap by a half hour each day until it gets to 11am. I'll keep you updated.

Tomorrow I am supposed to take Aiden to get his blood drawn for a lead test and a hematocrit test. We'll see how that works out.

6/7 - Videos of Aiden walking

Today Arin and Mike, Aiden's godparents, dedicated their baby girl, Grace. They all looked beautiful and things went well. Grace is such a sweet baby. After church we went out to lunch to celebrate. The boys had to hurry though because they had a softball game a 2:00. They were a few minutes late but had fun playing.
The team isn't that good but they have fun playing against other churches. We have fun going to watch daddy play. Aiden hates hats but we tried again today with a ball cap. He didn't like it. He doesn't like sunglasses either and I keep trying those as well.

Aiden has been taking a few steps but it's hard to get on video but we finally did it today. Aiden has been taking 2-3 steps on his own before he sits down but the past 2 days he's started taking about 5-6 steps. He's gonna get this walking thing soon (I'm not sure if I'm excited about that or not). 

6/6 - Birthday Party

Brad got home last night and it was so good to see him. Aiden even got to say hi before he went to bed. Today was fun. We had a birthday party today for Arin and Aiden and we had lots of fun. Aiden watched daddy blow up balloons this morning as he played with the toy we got him for his birthday.
Arin, Mike, and Arin's parents came over along with Andrea and Brigit. It was a small but fun group. We enjoyed some yummy food and then it was time for Aiden to take a nap. While he napped, we had cupcakes and watched Arin open her presents.
Arin and Mike got Aiden a present and it was a bubble lawn mower. Aiden LOVES it. Brad took it out of the box right away and he was off down the hall with it. 
In fact, he loved it so much that when I grabbed him to do the birthday cake, he threw a fit and cried his little eyes off. He had huge tears coming down his little face. I tried giving him a paci and hugs and he didn't care about that. The only thing that made him better was allowing him to play with his lawn mower again.
Once he got a hold of it the second time he wasn't letting it go (see picture below).
Once we finally convinced him to come try his cake (his lawn mower had to be next to him), he was okay. He was a little unsure of the cake and didn't want to get messy. You can see from the short videos below the progress of cake eating. Brad actually had to pick him up and set him down on the plastic to eat the cake. He went from standing up and eating the cake to sitting down, to taking the fork and playing.

Aiden enjoyed eating his cake for the most part. He went straight from eating to the bath!!




After our company left, Aiden opened the other presents that Aiden didn't open on his birthday. His favorite were the Iowa State Football that makes noises and the Gator chomp toy.


Aiden is pretty worn out today. The shots yesterday really wore Aiden out and he has been really tired yesterday and today. Aiden's appetite has been down for the past 2 days and he's been taking longer naps than normal. He has also decided he likes no veggies which is breaking my heart. Hopefully this is just a stage. We are still going to try but he doesn't like a lot of the veggies he was eating just weeks ago.