Aiden's 10 Month Birthday

Well its been so long since I've made a post that I really don't remember what exactly Aiden was doing at 10 months!! I'm fairly certain he was still eating pretty good. Bath time is lots of fun (as you can see). He is a master at crawling and is pulling up to standing on everything.

Merry Christmas!

Well we opted to start the family tradition of Christmas morning at the Fink household so we were hoping that Aiden would be as excited as we were. However... he (like everyone warned us) was definitely more interseted in the bows, boxes, and paper than he was in any of the presents inside the wrapping. It was really cute though and we snapped lots of pictures to commemorate the event. Someday when he wonders if we even celebrated that first year we can pull out these pictures and prove we did, in fact, sit around in our pajamas and open gifts... and eat cookies :)

After Christmas morning at our house we headed up to Norwalk to hang out with Nanny and Papa Schimpff. We got a picture in front a beautiful tree (unlike ours which never got decorated this year!) and Aiden made off his more than his fair share of gifts. It was a great day which will probably only get better as the years wear on. I can only hope for many many more happy Christmas celebrations to come.

Who needs all these new presents? I've got a new hat, an old binky and a stinky sock...

Aiden's 9 Month Birthday

He sleeps! We looked and looked for something wrong with Aiden to explain why he wasn't sleeping and in the end it was just acid reflux and some good old sleep training - training him to get up every 2 hours by his parents! The first big step was the Prevacid. Within 8 nights of starting him on it he was only getting up twice at night. So we took the next logical step and cut out one of those two feedings. It took a couple of weeks to get him to agree that he needed to give up the feeding but eventually he saw it our way. We do still need to work on that one last feeding...

Aiden's new party trick: pulling himself up to standing! Yay - one step closer to walking. This too has a story... at his 9 month check up we saw a new pediatrician and she was really worried that Aiden wasn't pulling himself up yet. I had not met anyone else that had a concern about it but of course all it took was that one person to get me worried. So we pulled out the Leap Frog table toy that we bought a couple of months ago. Within two days he was pulling himself up on the toy so that he could play with all the cool buttons!! I was so happy, and Aiden was happy too because he really loves that toy. It is one of the few he plays with every day.

Aiden is eating a bottle really well. He eats five 6-8oz bottles a day. He is also doing really well with solid foods - he eats a breakfast of yogurt, lunch is a jar of food and lots of cheerios, and dinner is 2-3 jars of food and as much solid food as we can get him to eat! Oh and Jason likes to sneak him Hershey's Chocolate Syrup whenever I'm not around...