New Year

This week we continued to celebrate the holidays while shifting back into work mode and reversing our 6 hour jet-lag. We flew into Newark airport at 5PM on New Year's Eve, after a set of flights where Aidan was a perfect angel (hooray!). We dropped off our bags at our apartment, and walked over to a New Year's party at our friend Christa's house (we know Christa from Mommy's new mom's group). The babies came to party too, and Grace (one of Aidan's friends) turned over for the first time, which everyone oohed and ahhed over! It was fun to celebrate the new year with other families, and it was wonderful to relax and kick back after the long plane trip!

The next day, Aidan celebrated new year's by rolling over from back to front for the first time! He then continued to roll and roll and roll for the rest of the week - very amazing! Mommy's friend Julia flew over from Los Angeles (for the second time!) to visit between Friday and Sunday, and Aidan showed off his new rolly-poly skills to her again and again!

Mommy and Julia went out to see Chicago on Broadway on Saturday, which was the first time Mommy had been away from Aidan for more than 3 hours. She was worried about it, but everything went great! The show was fantastic, and Aidan drank a 4 ounce bottle of formula (the most ever) and took a nap with Daddy (where he put *himself* to sleep in his swing after a minute of crying - the first time ever!), and enjoyed the first time by himself in the baby swings at the playground. The afternoon was a resounding success! On Sunday, Mommy, Daddy, Aidan and Julia all took the subway downtown on Sunday where we saw the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center together (the second time for Mommy and Aidan) and ate delicious Thai food before Julia had to fly back to California. It was so nice to have the visit! Mommy is going to miss her, but was so happy she could come. It was a wonderful way to start off the New Year!