First Haircut!

Mommy has been resisting Daddy's suggestions to cut Aidan's hair for a while now, as the idea of a haircut felt to her to signal the end of his babyhood. But on Wednesday, Mommy noticed that Aidan was huffing and puffing to blow his hair out of his eyes, and decided that Aidan would ALWAYS be her baby, but that really, he did need a haircut! So we sat Aidan down on Daddy's lap and gave him the unusual treat of watching SpongeBob SquarePants on our bigscreen TV, and Mommy snipped away enough of his golden locks to let him see, unobstructed, give his ears some room to breath, and shorten his natural layer in the back. Mommy has never cut hair before, and she was happy that Aidan was still a cutie pie afterward, and that nobody was injured in the process!

In other news, Aidan is doing amazing things this week! He has learned how to do the sign for "hot" and say "hot" because Mommy uses that sign a lot while she is in the kitchen, explaining why he can't touch everything that he wants to. However, this week, he has transferred this sign both to the bathroom and to the playground! One hot afternoon while we were at the playground, Aidan ran up to a slide and banged on it, and than turned around from the glaring orange plastic with a concerned look on his face, tapping his mouth with his abbreviated "hot" sign saying "ot! ot!" - and he was right: the plastic slide was hot from the sun! He also told Mommy that the bath water that trickled into the tub was "ot ot" with the "hot" sign when somebody flushed their toilet upstairs and it got warmer than it should have been. Mommy is very excited about Aidan's exstention of associations!

Aidan is also starting to be very interested in doing whatever Mommy and Daddy do. In the bathtub this week, he has started taking Mommy's loofah or his baby washcloth and industriously rubbing circles on his tummy with it to get nice and clean. (He is so cute!) He has also started to want to help Mommy sweep the floors! He grabs the broom and dustpan and pushes the broom back and forth, and taps the dustpan on the floor, and gets very upset if Mommy tries to do it without him! (Check out the video.)

Linguistically, Aidan is working on "sk" and "sh" sounds. His favorite Sesame Street character in his Sesame Street piano book is "Oscar the Grouch" because he can say "Osc, osc, osc", and he loves playing with the wash cloth and saying "sh, sh, sh". You can tell that he is very focused on mastering these sounds! He is also expanding his signing repertoire: this week he has been using "hot" frequently, and even has done an abbreviated version of "air conditioning"!

Aidan is also working on new physical skills. Yesterday (Saturday), Daddy asked Aidan if he wanted to build a tower, rather than just knocking it down, and Aidan actually built one! At first, he picked up blocks and Daddy told him where to put them to make a tower. But by the end, he was stacking towers three to four blocks high, all by himself! Mommy and Daddy are totally impressed. :)