Aiden Update

As we are approaching 2 I wanted to take a moment to talk about some milestones. Yes 2! OMG WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE! Feels like just yesterday I was in the hospital.

Talking: We still aren't where I want him to be, but I can at least see him trying. He is VERY vocal, just doesn't make sense (or to me at least lol). Like in our paci days he didn't call it paci but "Das", which confused the heck outta me because it sounds nothing like PACI. I've been talking to his doctor about it, and she said sometimes boys just take longer so I should fret too much. But on the bright side he does sometimes pop out 2 words at once.
WORDS he definitely can say CLEAR as day: Apple (his by far fav. lol), Bath, Murph (#2 fav word), Dada, Mummy, No (well...this might be his #1 too lol), mine (definitely picked that up at daycare), Bear, Banana, Pop, Cupcake, Airplane, etc.

Development: He goes 24/7 now and is like the Energizer bunny from sunrise to sunset. He doesn't get the concept of Mommy needing coffee before we start playing. :-)

He has an EXCELLENT memory. This kid would dominate you in the Memory game. On all his puzzles he can place everyone in the right spot and occasionally attempts the word too (Mommy didn't show him he just matches up the pictures by himself). However on his alphabet puzzle Xylophone is a little bit of a stretch people. Really!?

He knows when things are trash and "All done" because without me saying anything he will go immediately and put them in the trash or dirty diapers in his diaper genie. His laundry hamper is in our room, because he used to love to pull out his dirty clothes but now after I change him he will take the old clothes and put them only in his hamper (It's next to mine and I don't like our stuff mixed).

He has memorized where his food is in the frig and pantry, which helps because some of the things he can't say yet so I tell him "Go get what you want so I know" then I tell him what it is.

Toddler Stage: As he is getting more independent the testing is in full force. I say come here. He says No, but in a playful laughing way. I say come here again. He says No. Which then leads into me asking one more time and if he doesn't there is a butt spank, which leads to HUGE tears and fake crying for a minute. But he is getting better, but my main weapon is the threat of leaving and Murph coming with me. HAHA Mommy wins! Whenever I get onto him for disobeying and after his meltdown I always go give him a big hug and explain why mommy had to pop him. And he gives that face. The face of but Mommy how could you I'm so cute! Feel sorry for the future girls in his life. :-)

Now since he has more control of his motor skills I have started to give him 3/4 full cups of juice or water when we are eating meals. And about 98 percent of the time he drinks with without spilling a drop. It seems like that remaining 2 is when we don't really have time to change clothes. Naturally of course. But he drinks so funny, with every sip when he puts it down he says "Ahhhhh" and grins. Must be an awesome drink!

We've been in the twin bed for awhile now, which is still going GREAT! We've got our pattern down and no more fear of him rolling off. So people ask does he get out of bed in the middle of the night. Nope, never. The first few weeks when he woke up he wouldn't get out of the bed. Only a handful of times he did and opened the door (Which scared me so we started shutting every door before bedtime, because what if we didn't hear him and he got into something bad). So we taught him its okay to get out, but you must play in your room. We come get you. And wouldn't you know he actually does that. Sometimes he will play and sometimes he will stand by the door crying waiting on us. Either way works for me. :-)

That's all I can think of to update about, but I'm sure I'm missing something. On other news, we have finally saved up enough and we are back on the hunt of having our roof/gutters redone. So a bunch of people are going to come out and quote us. Yeah! So excited...because I think we are going to have a BAD tornado spring. Just a feeling...so a new roof is VERY important after our bad hail storm not too long ago.