9 Months

Aidan turned 9 months old today. We had a doctors appointment, but it was canceled at the last minute which means there are no new stats to share.

Some random thoughts:
*Grandpa Joe is winning the "comments" award. Well done.
*With Aidan closing in on a year(at light speed it seems like), I've been wondering how long I should keep the blog going. Thoughts? I love doing it, and I think it's good for the Grandparents and other relatives and friends.
*Mark stopped over for dinner on Sunday. We're heading to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving, but Mark will be in Asia. That's what happens when you participate in some winning campaigns this fall. Actually, he's in the 10th hour of a 14 hour flight. He'll be making stops in Thailand, Cambodia, and Nepal.
*What was for dinner? Chili. But for those of you who attended Edmond public schools it was frito pie, however, we didn't include the cinnamon rolls.

I think Aidan is looking at Mark, not George.
This could have been election night.
The remote picture!

From now on this might be the way the picture is taken. Getting the above picture was too much work.
Or not.

Since it's almost Thanksgiving I thought I would post the Halloween pictures. Aidan wasn't in a great mood that night, thus the lack of "quality" pictures.

I told the guards that the new Secretary of State was here, they didn't believe me.

So we went and hung out with the homeless people in Lafayette park.

Tennessee

We were in Tennessee for the long weekend. Everyone else was there too. All told, when we were all in the same room there were a total of 12 people, 8 adults, 4 little ones varying in ages. Gary and Ann must be exhausted.

Aidan can walk around the room now as long as he has something to balance on. He's making progress in taking little steps without an object to balance on, I'll try and get footage.

If he's upset now, and Heather is in the room nothing can calm him down except being held by Heather, including me. He actually reaches for her. It kind of makes me feel bad, but then when he wakes up from a nap and Heather brings him downstairs and he sees me his entire face lights up. It makes me feel like there's a rainbow in the room with a pot of gold while kittens are playing on clouds and I'm holding a bag of Doritos. Of course, when Heather gets home from work he squeals and speed crawls over to her.

And if anyone is wondering if having an 8 month old helps when your favorite team in the entire world loses a game that they shouldn't....I'm not sure. It certainly doesn't hurt, but he had no idea why I was in a bad mood for 24 hours. But then he smiled at me when he woke up and I thought the Iowa game was in a week. Sorry Gary and Ann, but I'm never watching a Penn State game at your house again. Ok, that depends.

Sorry, long post, on to the pictures.

Not sure who's happier. One of the few quiet moments.

I sometimes think Aidan thinks Heather's sisters are Heather.

This was after his cousin Lily ran away with a toy he wanted, and he couldn't keep up.

Election Night

Since it's election night, I'll give you an update through bullet points.
*Aidan stands now without help. However, he still needs help getting up.
*He's eating puffs and Cheerios...finally. Sometimes, he can't find the item in his hands. It's hilarious.
*Aidan believes it's funny when he pulls Heather's hair.
*His flu shots are updated.
*Halloween was fun, pictures are coming.

It's been awhile since a big eyed Aidan picture.
Yep.

Thank goodness it's not Pepsi.

He climbed into this position, and is able to balance himself there for a long time.

This is taken from Heather's cell phone this morning at our voting station. I've stayed away from politics on this blog, but I'm pretty sure everyone knows where I stand. All I'm going to say is that I'm thrilled in the first year of my son's life I get to vote for the first African-American candidate for president of the United States. Hopefully, when Aidan has children this choice will no longer be something to.....blog about. I hope everyone voted. We should be thankful we get to.

Aidan's Close-Up

I'm still learning how to edit these videos, there's only a portion of the video that's entertaining. Over the next few days I should have some Halloween pictures up.

Random Photos

Aidan's sort of like a puppy now. He knows his name, he's cuddly, he slobbers and he follows you around the house. This is one of my new favorite things. For instance, if he's playing in the kitchen, we're able to get him to follow us out. Also, it makes me feel like a dad because I can tell him what to do and he does it! Just wait, I know.

Here's Aidan with his Great Grandmother.
Four generations of Waners, and only one sock.

This is last week when he was all bundled up.

8 month remote picture. To us, he looks like a little boy.

He's almost able to drink out of his sippy-cup without help. He bites it when he's not drinking, see, just like a puppy.

Back in Business

Instead of majoring in ancient history I should have learned how to fix cameras. We got a new camera.

As I said in my last post, Aidan has been a lot of fun lately. We took him down to the Mall this weekend and watched him try to eat grass. I'm a little behind in getting some photos up. There are a couple from Nanticoke I still want to post and yesterday Aidan turned 8 months old so we all know what that means, a remote picture is on the way.

This is the last photo taken with our old camera. He didn't find anything good in there.
He wasn't sure about being bundled up.
I know where Aidan gets his "tail" from.
We didn't quit make it to the Capitol.
If he ever becomes a politician he'll have the comb-over down.