Smile parties

This week, Aidan is growing bigger than ever and is smiling tons and tons! It is very exciting!

On Saturday, we had a visit from a nurse that was part of California's "First Five" program for healthy families, and Aidan checked out a healthy 11 pounds 10 ounces! So, he is now about a third bigger than he was when we brought him home from the hospital! (So amazing!!!) He continues to amaze us as we enjoy him. He has a lot of fun doing baby exercises - especially practicing standing up while Mommy holds onto him: check out this picture! he can stay standing like that for over a minute!

He also has been really getting into smiling! We now play smiling games, where Mommy smiles at Aidan, he smiles back, and it keeps going (a great tit-for-tat game :P ) This morning, he played that game with a two-headed Mommy&Daddy monster (we were all hanging out in bed together), and he seemed to love it. Here's a picture of Aidan and Daddy smiling at each 0ther - so cute!

Aidan continues to *adore* the blinds next to his changing table (he likes rotating fans and other clear dark/light things, too, but the blinds are his favorite). Here's a picture of him gazing at them - such a silly kid! :) Mommy and Daddy are going to have to buy blinds when we move to NYC so that we can keep this guaranteed calming method with us!