DaDa

Ayden seemed to love his first Christmas. I cannot believe he is already 9 months old!!! He had a lot of gifts from Santa to open. On Christmas morning, Bob and I gave him some gifts and just like we thought he tore the wrapping paper and then put the paper in his mouth. He seemed to really love the taste of that paper and was not as interested in what was in the package. He opened about 3 gifts and then went on and did his own thing. So needless to say Bob opened the other gifts for him.

About 2 weeks ago Ayden began to say Dada. He just started blurting out DADADADA. It was so cute and I was so jealous. It became a non-stop thing and that is all he kept saying. I knew it would be his first word though because Bob was so persistent in saying Dada to him ever since he was born. Once he got the Dada down, he began to say ma. Sometimes it comes out a little different, but we know what he is saying. All in all, we love that he is saying dada and mama.

Here are some pics from Christmas morning.

Here is a picture of Ayden propping up his bottle on the ottoman so that he can drink it. It was so funny when Bob and I saw this.

Here is Ayden in his first car...he loves it!

Ayden and his Aunt Leah

Ayden and Pop Pop Brey

Here are a couple pictures from Christmas dinner with the family

Our Future Baseball Player

So, once again I am late in updating my blog. Well, Thanksgiving was fun...it was really nice to see everyone. Ayden had a great time and just enjoyed everyone playing with him. He is just so much fun. He loves to play ball now. So we throw him a little ball, he picks it up (left handed just like his father) and throws it back to you. He really has an arm, he wings the ball right to you. Hopefully he will love to play baseball like Bob. Once he throws it, he gets really excited as he claps and laughs. I love it. It is very amusing.

We are now getting ready for Christmas. We put up the decorations and the tree now. I really thought Ayden would love the lights on the tree and would constantly be pulling at the branches, but he really has been very good with it. He definitely knows it is there, but just goes along his business and plays around it. We will be having Christmas at our house this year with my family and Bob's family. I am sure Ayden will love his first Christmas, especially all the toys he will be getting.

Here are some pics from Thanksgiving and some other ones of our cutie.

Here is Ayden with his Dad at the top of a slide at a playground

Going Down!!!

Ayden with a mohawk!
Helping mommy with some laundry.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry it has been so long since I updated the blog. I have been sick and busy with work and I have been slacking. Everything is going well and we are getting ready for Thanksgiving. This year we are going to Delaware to Bob’s Grandparents house. We are excited for everyone to see Ayden and to spend some time with the family.
Well, Ayden is definitely teething. He always has something in his mouth and gnaws on his fingers all the time. He has the two teeth on the bottom already, but others must be on their way. Ayden is still crawling around like a champ. It just makes me laugh every time, because he pushes off with his left foot and his right foot is bent underneath his body. Hard to explain…but hilarious and boy does he move. He is around the house in no time and he is so curious that he has to go into every room to see what is going on.
So most recently we are trying to get Ayden to really fall asleep on his own. As he is getting older and can pull himself up in the crib it is really difficult for him to fall asleep now. It used to take him maybe 5-10 minutes to fall asleep on his own, but now it is HORRIBLE. He cries and gets himself so worked up it is heart breaking. He just stands up in his crib hysterical and it is so hard to let him do that. I eventually will rock him or hold him. It is just so HARD! ADVICE?????
I will leave you with some pics of the cutie.

Lil Stinker

So, Ayden was a little skunk for Halloween. He looked so cute in his costume and he seemed to like it because I had him in it almost all day. I took off from work on Halloween and Ayden and I visited Bob at school. It is so funny to see all the kids with Ayden...they just swarm Bob when he was walking Ayden down the hallway. Here are some pics of the "Lil Stinker".

Sorry for the red eye!

His butt actually says "Lil Stinker"

I had to put this picture of Devon and his newly grown hair on the blog.

And of course the Phillies won the World Series!!!!!!!! We are sooo excited and cannot believe it. I wanted to post some pictures of Ayden in his Phillies gear.

Ayden loves his Aunt Lynael

Ayden at the parade (kind of)

So exhausted from all the partying.

So, as Ayden has been crawling around everywhere now he is learning to pull himself up and stand. For some reason, he really loves to stand and jump around and cannot sit still. My mom says he is exactly how I was when I was a baby. I never stopped moving. Here are some pics of Ayden pulling himself up and standing.

And He's Off!!!

Well, I can't believe it is already this time...Ayden is crawling!!! It is so cute to see him because he sits there, looks at you with his big smile and then he is off to the races. He gets on all fours and just goes...it's crazy! We definitely have our hands full with this munchkin because he is going to be into everything. Of course he puts everything in his mouth, so you cannot take your eyes off him for a second.

So, now I can't get enough of seeing him crawl so I put Ayden down on one side of the room and go to the other side and sit down. I start to call Ayden and ask him to come see mommy. Of course along with Ayden, here comes Koda. Koda is so excited and thinks that I am trying to play with him. Poor dogs, the attention they do not get anymore. However, it looks like Ayden will give them the attention they are looking for.

I don't have any pictures of him crawling, and I can't figure out how to get videos on here yet. I will post some pics sometime this weekend.

My Little Pumpkin

Over the weekend, we went pumpkin pickin' with the Davis's (Matt, Abby and Cadence). We met up with Matt's family and nieces and nephews. We had a really good time except for when we got on the hayride. I grabbed Ayden a bottle for the hayride and it seems that with Ayden's two bottom teeth, he had punctured a hole in the nipple of the bottle. It was leaking all over the place and he wasn't able to eat. Apparently he was very hungry and was very upset. Once we were able to get off the hayride, everything was fine...but I felt so helpless. Serves me right for not bringing the whole diaper bag with me. Here are some pictures from that day.

Bob, Ayden and I (I know it looks funny how I am holding him)

Here is a picture of Matt, his daughter Cadence and niece Logan
My little Pumpkin

Ayden is now sitting up all the time. As soon as we put him on his stomach, he gets on all fours and throws his legs out from under him and sits up. It is so great because as soon as we put him down now, he laughs and amuses himself by just sitting there. He is so proud of himself and I absolutely love watching that.

We recently just went to the doctors for Ayden's 6 month check up and the doctor said he was doing great. She said he may start crawling any day now so we have to make sure our house is baby proofed. That is my job this weekend. I was a little concerned because his weight was in the 25% percentile though. I couldn't believe it! I said, "He eats all the time and there seems to be no problem with that." She made me feel better because she then said that he is so active that it is normal.

Enjoy some updated pictures. Once I figure out how to get videos on here, I will post them.

Koda's new best friend

Uncle Devon and Aunt Jenna