Red Sox Baby in New York City

This has been a big week for us. Daddy started his job at NASA-GISS on Monday, Mommy explored some "new mommy" groups in the neighborhood, and Mommy has been trying to convince Aidan to sleep without needing her to nap with him. All of our moving changes have disrupted the old sleep schedule, and we are trying to get back to something that works better for everyone involved! We've also moved from the baby bath to the big bath, and Aidan has been exploring what to him is a pool-sized upgrade and enjoying it a lot! Daddy bought a set of "Mr. Incredible" and "Dash" plastic toys from the Children's Orchard, and Aidan very animatedly tracks Dash in the bath while Daddy holds onto him and Mommy soaps him up. (Here's a picture of Aidan being held up by Daddy's legs in the bath tub.) Aidan has been having grumpy periods at the end of each day - what with walks and playing and hanging out with people, he has a lot to process! However, baths are one of the saving graces from the 5 to 6 PM blues, so we've been having them a lot, whether he's dirty or not! The other things that work are playing "peek-a-boo" and flying him up in the air above Mommy or Daddy's head, so we do those a lot in the early evening, too. :)

This weekend Grandpa and Grandma Ruane drove down for lunch and Mommy's cousin Heather Beljean joined us for dinner on Saturday. It was great to see them! We took the opportunity to try on the Red Sox jersey that Grandpa and Grandma Ruane gave Aidan - isn't he rediculously cute in it? Aidan spat up on it before we went outside (smart baby: he probably knows wearing a Red Sox jersey in New York City would be a rather daring thing to do). But we caught a picture beforehand, and we laughed and laughed about how crazily cute he looked! We also got a cute video of Aidan and Grandpa Ruane talking at the Indian restaurant around the corner that we went to for lunch - hope you like it!