aidan loves to share

aidan loves to share with his sister ... and sharing all his yo gabba gabba characters is a BIG deal!

aidan loves oreo cookies and milk

aidan LOVES oreo cookies and milk ... just like his momma ... and c'mon let's face it, who doesn't??

aidan loves to run in the sprinklers

in august when hannah and adam were visiting my parents aidan joined them while running around in the sprinklers. he had a great time ... and then even more fun after he pooped in his swim trunks and we had to hose him off.

aidan loves his great-grandparents

aidan loves his great-grandparents, g-papa and gigi (ya know ... "G"reat-"G"randma.) yup ... he loves 'em ... and balloons ... let's not forget balloons ... he points them out in stores, on tv, while driving in the car.

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last weekend my parents watched aidan while robby and i attended his work christmas party. my parents had planned to attend a retirement party so they took aidan with them. he was the life of the party saying "hi" and patting them to everyone he saw. all of the sudden he yelled "papa" and started running away from them. my mom tried telling him that "papa" was with her (my dad is called "papa" and was standing next to her). he continued to run. as my mom made her way through the crowd her found aidan. he was at the feet of his great-grandfather and was patting his legs, motioning he wanted to be picked up and excitedly saying "papa" over and over.

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i LOVE that aidan knows his family and is excited when he is with them! when my mom was telling me about what happened it brought joy into my heart. this is why we are so lucky to be able to live close to family.

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updates for this week:

first words the nursrey leader said to me on sunday as i went to pick up aidan ... "what did you feed him for breakfast?! pixy stix?!" apparently he was more exuberant than usual.

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aidan's vocabulary is amazing me everyday. he can now count to 10 and uses sentances (6 words so far!) sheesh! he's growing up so fast!

aidan loves his paci

aidan loves his paci. we've been trying to limit it, sometime is works sometimes it doesn't. these 2 pictures CRACK me up. he's silly even when he has a paci in his mouth. and yes he really does walk around with 2 pacifiers in his mouth.

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head on over to the jocole blog ... i'm talking about clothing personalities this week (on monday, wednesday and friday)

aidan loves to color

aidan loves to color ... i, on the other hand, don't like trying to keep him contained while coloring. he hasn't learned yet that we ONLY color on paper. he likes to try to color on clothing, his hands and arms and the couch!! yikes. (on saturday he found a pen at my moms and colored ALL over the tablecloth on her coffee table ... sorry mom!!!!)

aidan loves his momma

aidan loves his momma ... he loves giving me hugs and kisses ... CONSTANTLY!! check out my one arm camera skills, while holding 2 children!

how do you pick?

how do you pick out your pumpkin for halloween? this is how aidan does it

the second we got there aidan found some loose chickens running around, so he ran around with them.

this is the face aidan makes when you ask him to smile for the camera ... i love my silly boy!

aidan was really interested in the rides that they had, unfortunately him momma and daddy weren't.

here he is checking out some pumpkins

aidan loves finley

aidan loves finley ... he loves giving her kisses, sometimes he loves her TOO much! but it's really sweet.

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finley turned 1 month old yesterday. i can't believe it, it went by so fast. to celebrate she slept 8 hours straight (she might have slept longer, but i woke her up to feed her). unfortunately, she didn't go to sleep until 1 a.m. ... and aidan decided to wake up at 6:30 (he usually gets up around 7:30) ... so i didn't get to take advantage of the 8 hours ... bummer!!

aidan loves to read in the car

aidan loves to look at books while we are driving all over town.

a new shirt for aidan

i've been wanting to make some recycled clothing for aidan (and start making some clothes for #2 before she pops out). so i've been drafting some patterns. since i don't have a newborn around to try out those patterns i made a shirt in aidan's size to test out my patterns. what do you think? i made one, then tweaked the sleeves a little. i had enough fabric from one of robby's shirts to make 2 for aidan!!

check out that smile and the shirt matches his eyes! i think he's happy with the results. (sorry about the drool, the boy never closes his mouth) -- i set him on the couch and told him to smile and he totally listened and did it ... he's getting TOO old!!

i'm making some things for caleb to test out my 0-3 month size patterns. i'm actually really excited about this.

sorry about not posting lately ... i've been in a slump ... but i just wrote and scheduled 10 posts (scheduled for every other day) so there will be more posts coming ... i PROMISE!!

aidan's dictionary and update

he had a well baby check-up on thursday (6/26) and he weighs in at 26 pounds 4 ounces, and is 33 inches tall and his head circumference is 18 1/2 inches. for weight and height he's in the 75 percentile. he's now 16.5 months old!!! he's my BIG boy and i love him (although ... he's getting so heavy and that wears me out!). on friday (6/27) he had some blood drawn just to make sure everything is going well (and it is, we got the "normal" phone call on 7/3). it was so sad to have to hold him down like that while they took 2 viles of blood from him -- he screamed.

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here are some of the words that aidan can say (although most you wouldn't recognize if you heard them) but he uses all of these consistently. these are in no particular order, i have no idea when he started saying what. but dada was his first word, followed by mama. but he called me dada for the LONGEST time (up until about 3 weeks ago) ... even though he could say mama.
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daddy = dada

mommy = mama (also uses this word for gr'ama)

please = psss

thank you = key koo

uh oh = uh OOOH!

fish = pish (one of his earlier words, ya know since we have 'em EVERYWHERE in our house!)

cracker = kaa kaa

wiggles = gee gee

bye bye = buh bye

hi = i

hello = beau

go = go

bottle = baa baa

yogurt = yo go

cheese = ch-sss

baby = bee bee

dog = ya gee ya gee, or gaa gaa (which he always says when he sees one, or hears one barking)

birdie = dee dee

duck = kaka

scott = cott

amanda = da

papa = papa (one of his FAVORITE people ... when we pull up in front of my parent's house he always immediately starts saying papa, he LOVES my dad)

dora = door

hannah = haa ya
ball = baa

phone = poon

spoon = poon
hello = hey-o

shoes = shoo

jaws theme song = da da da (while playing with his stuffed shark, HAHA!!)

blanket = key key

pillow = poe

diaper = dee da

juice = joose

jo jo = yo yo

banana = baa baa

cheerios = chee-yo

night nights = nigh nigh

shh shh = shh shh
keys = keys

all gone = aa on

yummy = num num

woof = oof

push = puu

show = sooo

milk = mooe

drink = kink

beep = eep

honk = hon

oh and on friday (6/27) aidan figured out how to say "la la la" and he thought it was great and did i all night long, finally he can say the "L" sound.
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aidan, what does a dinosaur say? "rooaaar"

what does a car say? "booom" (vroom)
what does a duck say? "kak kak kak"

what does a monkey say? [shakes his finger at you] ... meaning, "no more monkeys jumpin' on the bed!"

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he can point to his head, hair (he pulls it), eyes, nose, mouth, tongue (sticks it out), teeth (chomps 'em down), ears, toes, hands

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i'm trying to teach him baby #2's name before she pops out, so far it's not going so well (i say the name, he just says "bee bee" back to me). we're also trying to teach him to be soft to my tummy, which is going pretty well. he often comes over and hugs and kisses my belly button.

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his favorite tv shows are wiggles, doodlebops (but i haven't put that on lately, waaay too annoying) and most recently jo jo's circus and backyardigans. although he still enjoys watching oprah and anything with music and dancing (hairspray, hello dolly, etc.). he prefers live people to cartoons (hence wiggles and doodlebops ... although he's getting better about that ... hence his recent attention span for jo jo's circus and backyardigans).

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he now has 10 teeth, 4 on the top in the middle, 2 on the bottom in the middle and 4 molars that have all broken through. (you can see his back teeth in the second picture!!)

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and he's VERY into high-fives right now. if he's getting into something (like climbing on top of tables to do jigs ... i can ask him for a high-five and he'll get down and come give me one)

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and i must say i really apprecite great friends in my ward who are willing to watch aidan when i need it, whether its watching him for an hour until robby gets home so i can go see wicked (thanks kristi) or watching him for 2 hours while i go to do my glucose screening test (thanks wendy). i have the best friends, plus our kids get along great so it makes trading kids easy.

aidan loves dora

dora is my parent's dog. she's a german shepherd-labrador retriever mix. and she's perfect, she's mild mannered, almost never barks and in all the years of being around kids has never lost her temper while the kids poked and pulled on her.

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aidan LOVES her. he doesn't say very many people's names, but he says dora (well, his version of the name dora). he follows her around my parent's house trying to hug her and kiss her.

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yesterday while we were at my parent's house he was playing with his uncle tj and lost his balance and he accidentally gave dora a prostate exam (yup, stuck his finger up her ...) EWWWWWW!!!!!

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needless to say neither dora nor aidan were very happy about this. dora headed for the back door and aidan cried. robby quickly snatched up aidan and washed his hand like 20 times.

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later on when aidan needed a diaper change i asked robby if he would do it, and he responded "i already changed his finger today!" HAHA!! needless to say i changed his diaper, i figured rob had earned it.

aidan loves mashed potatoes

we were eating mashed potatoes (and roast and carrots) at my parent's house the other day, and we let aidan feed himself. he was LOVING the mashed potatoes ... and found a better way to get them to his mouth than the spoon that 'ama gave him.

after dinner, and he was all cleaned up, he decided that he wanted to cuddle with great-grandma hendrickson and see what she was doing. it was really sweet.

aidan loves playing in the blinds

aidan loves to climb on our window seat and play in the blinds. the other day he climbed up there and slid between the window and the blinds. i sternly asked him to stop and get down. he froze and acted like if he stayed still i couldn't see him. it was the cutest thing ever, so i grabbed the camera and snapped some pictures. then i pulled him out.

aidan's hair cut

on monday, june 16th, i was at my mom's house and we were talking about how aidan needs a haircut. and i said i've been planning on it, but just haven't had the time. next thing i know amanda is holding him and my mom has sissors in her hands and i run to get my camera. all his curls are now gone!! here it is all short ... no more curls. he looks so much older!!here he is with my mom ('ama) ... while she was cuddling with him after he bashed his eye on saturday. this is one of my last pictures of his curls.here is the best picture i could get of his black eye. poor little guy!!