Talking

Each day gets more exciting because little by little Aiden is saying more words. Hard to keep up with all the new ones introduced! This makes me very excited to see his vocab grow to other than just saying "No!" all the time haha. We now get a "Yes" too. YAH! Not all the words are clear so you have to listen really hard. For example More sounds like "mOR". The m is sometimes faint and I just hear or. But that is better than his old way of just grunting or saying "Ugh Ugh" ummm what is that?! I don't know what Ugh Ugh means. Do you mean you want MORE?! haha

The other day when I went to get little man from Preschool his teacher also confirmed to me how much he is talking now. And that she can pretty much understand him 100% now. YAH! Go Aiden! He even is saying his classmates names. Especially when he's able to tell on them. Yes, my son is a taddle tell. lol He even does it to Murphy...."Bad Murph!" haha. But hey we will take what we can get. So proud of him.

He still doesn't tell me 100% what he wants all the time, but we are getting there. Practice makes perfect. Now our reading time in the evening is not really what you call reading but more flipping through the pages and him trying to tell me what the picture is. It's quite funny because goats, sheep, and horses are always dogs. haha I correct him and he gives me the funniest look like "Really Mommy? Because that sure looks like a dog to me." haha

Not sure if y'all know what Little Bear is, but its a show on NickJR that we watch every night during his breathing treatments. He is OBSESSED with it! We ask if he wants to watch something different, nope "Lil Bear". Not complaining because he will sit there for his 15 minutes and not move, plus it's a really cute show with great lessons. Just like books he likes to point to things and tell me what they are.  "Lil Bear" "Duck" he calls the hen a duck too. "Cat" "Bird" is the owl. Eventually I'll get the books for him, but they are a 4+.

Another issue we are having that we've always really had is his eating habits. He is VERY picky and I constantly worry about him getting all the nutrients he needs. He does like to eat don't get me wrong but it's all the bad stuff that I want to limit. He is his mother's son after all. lol This kid really prefers not to eat meat. Yesterday I called his pediatrician to talk about it because for the past 3 days in the AM. he's been eating half of his breakfast, all of his lunch, and for dinner almost nothing. Enter freak out mode because I know he isn't getting every part of the nutrition triangle. Is there something wrong? Is he sick and not showing any signs? etc. So she recommended that we start giving him PediaSure for those times he prefers not to eat food. It's like a pint size protein shake. And THANKFULLY Aiden loves them. So I can rest a little bit but I'm still going to try to expand his taste.....the eating in front him doesn't work anymore. I used to be able to get him to eat if we all sat down in front of him eating the same thing, but not anymore....so I'm gonna be looking for new techniques...

I mentioned yesterday how we are going strong with no wake ups. Well this morning he woke up when Wes was leaving for work (apparently I was passed out because I didn't even hear him babbling on the monitor). Wes said he wasn't crying just sitting up in bed and playing with his stuff animals. I will take that! And it explains why he was still sleeping hard when I came in there during his normal wake up time. As long as he's not waking me up and crying/screaming at the top of his lungs I will take it!

Other news, this week at his preschool they had their Scholastic Book fair, great prices on the books. Walked away with 3 new books for under $20. Aiden was very excited about all of them and we were contributing to the school. Win Win!

Tomorrow we are for real starting potty training....so wish us luck! So wanting this to go successful because we are up to size 6 diapers now! Same price as 5, but about 30 less. EEK! Must get out of these things.

Bit of a random post.