Catch Up

Post 3 of the day.
Between Brody's teething episodes. Fever and Pain. Aiden hasn't felt 100% either. Darn allergies. But luckily each episode only lasts a night. But I've gotten lots of snuggle time in, so I won't complain!

Every weekend this month has been jam packed. So much on our list...but the boys have had a blast. One weekend we celebrated sweet Kaylie's 2nd birthday! Sweet cousins! It's nice to buy non-boy related items for once haha. Lights out for both of them on the way home. Oh sweet silence!

One weekend he got to go on an adventure with Gabby to get ice cream while Mommy and Daddy did yard work. Lots of yard work! Ugh can we trade places?!?!

In this house we are on a nap strike. Both boys have the hardest time napping. All last weekend Aiden didn't nap (which is scary because the whole time I feared OH MY ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A CRANKY KID THAT EVENING?!?!?! surprisingly NOT! whew!) Brody is afraid he's going to miss something so instead of long naps he takes like 30 minute naps or shorter. Even at daycare! He can't even make it out of the parking lot before passing out....smart because he can get a solid 30-40 min nap before big brother makes his LOUD arrival after school.

 

Lastly I leave with a sneak peek....1st sleepover party. Aiden is beyond excited about Harlee spending the night, no one else just Harlee. They adore each other! Sweet cousins! Post to come....

Aiden constantly requests to watch Monsters Inc (Refers to Sully and Mike as Monster Inc---that's their name according to Aiden haha) or Tinkerbell (thanks to Miss Harlee)

Brody 6 months

Just a little late. haha!

Call him the paper destroyer! Eventually we gave up putting new paper out, because .05 seconds later it was shredded and in his mouth. haha

Stats:
Weight: 21 pounds
Height: 27.5 inches
Size 3 Diapers
12 month clothes

Likes:

• Anything that crinkles. 
• Daddy. He is a daddy's boy! Lights up when Daddy is around.
• Being tickled, right under his armpits....nothing is sweeter than that laugh!
• His Sully lovie, especially when Mommy makes it attack me!
• Shake his head back and forth when I say "No no no!"

Dislikes:

• Being on the living room floor when Aiden and Mommy are in the kitchen.
• Bumping my head! Experienced my 1st boo boo this month thanks to crawling!
• Changing clothes.
• Being in the crib when hes awake.

Milestones: 

• Army crawling!! Everywhere and anywhere! You just follow Aiden and me all through the house and slap the hardwoods to make your presence know (like "HEY! I made it over here!!!")
• 2 front teeth
• Babbling back when I talk to him. Such a talker!
• Moved into Aiden's room. (I was worried at first, but its been AMAZING so far! It's so cute to see them interacting in bed, Brody will be staring at Aiden and Aiden will talk to Brody. If Brody's crying Aiden will say "Brody its okay. Its okay Brody you can go to bed." And surprisingly Brody will stop. Melts your heart!)

Eating Pattern:
3- 6oz bottles. 5am, 9am, and 4pm
2-4oz bottles. 12pm and 7pm
2-4oz baby food. 12pm and 7pm

I tried making the 7pm strictly food, but you have a hard time sleeping all through the night. But we will keep trying once you stop having teething issues. My good sleeper is now waking up once a night around 2am...but daddy is all over that!

Swim

Aiden had his first swim lesson ever this month! For 2 weeks Mon thru Thurs we were up at our YMCA.

Day 1 Grande took him so he wouldn't be a chicken.

Day 2 He cried at first, but eventually warmed up to the idea. All the other moms were like "He didn't act like that yesterday..." Yes when Mommy is around he's very timid unless I say its okay.

I will say one thing sitting in the inside pool area was like being in a sauna. SOOO hot!!!! The other moms kept commenting every day how good Brody was just sitting there like a champ and watching. Gotta love that cute kid!

Aiden's reward for doing a good job at swim was going to play outside in the "cool" pool as he likes to say. I must say it is quite a cool pool! It's more like a splash park because the shallow end only comes up to Aiden's chest. We did have quite a few meltdowns when I wouldn't let him go down the slides...but other than that each day I could see his love for the water grow!

Exactly what I was looking for. He now wants to swim at Gabby and Grande's all the time.

Even Brody and myself joined him in the outside pool some days. Way to hot to just sit there. Funny how opposite Aiden and Brody are. I have to push Aiden in the water and Brody...well he's a water baby. As soon as you put him in the water hes trying to swim off just a kicking and moving those arms. Loves the water!

We will definitely do this every year until Aiden is a GREAT swimmer!

Slack

Well I have lots of posts that sitting in draft....promise I will finish them over the weekend, so look for a overload! :-)

But I have finished a couple things..prepare to laugh but I have finished editing BOTH boys birthday party invites. haha OCD much? Turned out pretty awesome considering all I used was Paint and Word. No need for a fancy Photoshop program :-)

 Aiden requested a "Hulk Spider-man" party....I was like ehhhhhh well.....can we invite the other guys?! Big pause. "YEAH!" This year we are letting him invite his school friends, so it should be wild and crazy. Thanks to Target and all the seasonal Justice League gear and clearance Spider-man plates I've been able to save a lot. (It was SOOOOO weird typing "FOUR"!!! When did he get so big?!?!?!)