Idiosyncrasies

Here are some snippits of information which we think are wonderfully endearing about Aidan right now:

- At bedtime, Mommy can avoid a sleepy meltdown while she is putting on his pajamas by singing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" from a near-yell to a whisper
- When Daddy picks him up by his ankles and hangs him upside down, he laughs

- He is infatuated with plumbing: he will contort and do cartwheels to watch us turn the water on in the bath or sink, hyperventilates while reaching to try to grab water coming from any faucet, and could be entertained for ages by watching the water swirl down the drain

- He has a rebellious lower lip: he pushes it out when he is getting ready to be upset, when he's really there it trembles adorably, and he sucks on it like a teething toy every once in a while

- When he's going to sleep he sometimes talks to himself in a high, sing-song-like voice until he passes out

- He has a ton of different kinds of laughs. Here are a few:

*full-bellied laughs of happiness

*laughs in the midst of crying which happen despite himself when we blow kisses on his tummy at bedtime

*a short little "ha" with an almost-straight face when we are trying really hard to make him laugh and it's not really working but he seems to want to say "thanks for trying"

*an excited repeated laugh at anything that Daddy does that is remotely funny when he comes home from work, just to let him know how happy he is to see him