Post-Holiday Adventures

This week felt quiet after our busy Thanksgiving, but we continued to have our own adventures.

For the last couple of weeks, Aidan has been much quieter than usual, and on Tuesday afternoon he broke out an entire new vocabulary! He can now say things that sound like "da-da-da-da", "bleh-bleh-bleh" and "dleh-dleh-dleh" - it is an entirely new language! He hasn't started directing "dada" at Daddy yet, but we are looking forward to that!

We have also been working on convincing Aidan to sleep in his baby crib. (He is now almost too big for the co-sleeper in our room and Mommy is getting less excited about waking up every 2 hours to nurse at night!) He now will sleep in his crib if we put him down when he is totally asleep, which is a huge improvement from last week, when he wouldn't even do that. However, we are now working on having him sleep for longer than 2 hour increments. That means Daddy is walking around with Aidan at night when he wakes up and snuggling him back to sleep, instead of Mommy nursing all the time. Aidan isn't a huge fan of the routine change (who could blame him? snuggling and snacking are wonderful!). But things are slowly getting better. Wish us luck!

On Saturday, Daddy walked with Aidan to the northern tip of Manhattan, and both returned with rosy cheeks. This morning it snowed, and we all took a walk outside and watched the little kids sledding in Fort Tryon Park. Aidan is a great sport and seems to love these adventures. We can't wait till we can go sledding with him!