Surprises

We had lots of surprises this week! First, on Monday, Aidan surprised everyone by "pulling up" on a couch for the first time! He promptly fell over and hit his head - poor baby! - but he is now pulling up quite often (while Mommy pays more attention), and building up his little baby body-building muscles!

On Tuesday Aidan had his next round of shots at the Doctor's office, and we found out his official new stats: He now weighs 20 pounds 1 ounce, is 29 inches long, and his head is 18 inches in circumference. That means he is officially too big for his "infant" carseat, and is now moving on to his convertable carseat!

Then this weekend, Uncle Chris Ross surprised us by visiting Manhattan! So, on Saturday, Mommy, Daddy, and Aidan all took the train downtown to have brunch with him and walk around the city. Aidan took a nap while everyone else was brunching, but then had fun playing with his uncle and showing off how he well he could scoot across the floor of FAO Schwartz! We visited Ground Zero, saw the Statue of Liberty in the distance, walked up Fifth Avenue, checked out Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and scoped out the toys at FAO Schwartz. It was such a treat to see Uncle Chris!!!

Finally, on Sunday while Mommy and Aidan were having a "Skype date" with Grandma and Grandpa Ruane, Aidan started crawling!!!! He saw the webcam on the computer across the room and crawled a good foot or two as he tried to get over and grab it! Previously, he had been doing lots of "commando crawling." Grandma and Grandpa Ross were thrilled to see his new crawling technique, and Mommy was floored that he is starting to crawl already! He is moving towards light speed extremely quickly!