Bummer

I broke our camera. It was in the line of duty, but I broke it. Right now we're trying to decide whether it's more cost effective to fix it or buy a new one. I broke the camera.

Ali was here over the weekend, and we had a bunch of fun. It's a good thing Ali took pictures with her camera because I broke ours.

Aidan's been great lately, just a lot of fun. One nice thing is, at least for Heather and I, he doesn't complain when he's hungry. He allows us to make his food without whimpering. I think he's learned he's gonna get fed.

For the time being I'll use photos from Gary when Aidan was visiting a few weeks ago, along with some more Naticoke pictures. It's clear he had a good time with Gary and Ann. These are all from Tennessee.

No, no you're supposed to stand with it.

There's a good smile.
He's got it now.
Nice smile and you can see two of his top teeth. Barely.

Aidan and His Puffs

Aidan got to try puffs for the first time on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know what puffs are, imagine Captain Crunch but for babies(in fact this is the only baby food I've tried and it's not bad). They desolve in the mouth. We like how Aidan is only able to use his pointer finger and thumb.

He couldn't get it in his mouth by himself. The result once we put one in there for him is disappointing. Is he the first baby ever not to like puffs on his first try?

Nanticoke

About doing more posts in October.....not so good with that so far. My apologies.

A couple updates, Gary and Ann took Aidan for a weekend, and it was fantastic. Heather and I saw two movies, went out to dinner 3 nights.....and we missed Aidan. When we were leaving Aidan, Heather said how much she was going to miss him. Ann replied now she knows how she felt every time Heather would go somewhere. I had never thought of leaving Aidan from my parents perspective, and it's very true. From here on out, this is what it's going to be like....someone should have warned me.

Over this past weekend we went up to Nanticoke, PA to visit Aidan's Great Grandmother, and my parents met us in DC for the trip up. For those of you who watch The Office, Nanticoke is close to Scranton.
Aidan got a new toy.

For all the money we've spent on toys, blowing in a straw is what entertains Aidan at restaurants.
I thought this was a great picture. There's more to come.....

Video Update

Thanks to Uncle Mark we have a new camcorder. I'm still working on it, but hopefully there will be better videos on the way. I think you get the point of Aidan's mobility. You can here my old man grunt when bending for the remote. However, it's really tough to get Aidan to do something when the camera is out, he knows we're waiting for him to do something. That's why we entice him with goodies, such as phones, remotes, computers etc...

If you haven't noticed, I've been really bad at getting posts up this month. I think it's a combination of things, but I'll try and do better. We should have some new videos this week...

Aidan turned 7 months last Friday. It's almost impossible to get him to stay still for the remote picture now, but here you go.
This is one reason why my blogging has been slow. He ends up in funny places and I have to keep track of him more and more.
Ditto.
Speaking of ending up in funny places, Aidan got his first tour of Georgetown on Sunday. Uncle Mark has already promised tuition help if(I should really say when) he gets in.
It's a good thing there's no malaria in DC, because Aidan got attacked by some vicious mosquitos. You can see the worst ones here, but there's one on his neck, ear, ankle and hand.

Last of the Oklahoma Pictures

Aidan's moving right along, literally. It's to the point where he's so mobile that he'll whine if we take something away or don't let him get to an object such as, my dirty shoes, the trash can, computer cords. Basically anything a baby shouldn't touch Aidan goes after.

When we crossed back into Oklahoma after family vacations we would sing the state song. Everyone knows the song, whenever I meet someone new and I tell them where I'm from they sing the song. It's pretty much the only thing they know about Oklahoma. Here's Aidan landing in Oklahoma for the first time. Not sure if his expression is appropriate or not.
The is one of my best friends, Dan, who got to meet Aidan for the first time. What a flirt! Not Dan, but Aidan. Although Dan is popular with the ladies.
Dan's mom Susan. Aidan loved her, and I think the feeling was mutual.
The Waner family! Believe it or not, after four days of being there and multiple guests we had to set the timer on the camera the morning we were leaving to get all five of us.
After bath time Aidan has great hair.
One last note. I can't believe we didn't get a picture of the Shannons(and as I found out loyal readers of the blog). They are friends of my parents and the parents of one of my long time friends, Ryan. They watched Aidan one night so the four of us could go out. My apologies, and thanks again for watching Aidan.

More Oklahoma Pictures

We made it through Tropical Storm Hannah, and I have to say I was disappointed. I was hoping for a little more umph. For those of you in Oklahoma, a normal thunder storm was worse then what we experienced.

Aidan had a great time and got a new friend out of the trip.
This is what the weekend encompassed. Four adults, sitting around a baby just watching and trying to get his attention. I wonder what the ratio of adult weight to baby weight is.....
Not only was it his first trip to Oklahoma it was his first college football weekend too. Penn State won.
Georgia won too.....
Grannie won too!