Poor Baby!

Hey everyone! I am trying to get back into the groove and update the blog more often. It has been great to spend more time with Ayden during the weekends and at nights now that I am not working as much. You really begin to realize what you can miss in even just a few days. So, needless to say it has been great to catch up to see all the things he is doing now.

Ayden is just getting over his first real sickness. It was hard to see him that uncomfortable and unhappy. We have been fortunate with him not getting really sick before and it was just hard because you feel so helpless when he doesn’t feel good. He is getting better now and I am just thankful that he is getting back to his fun-loving, smiling personality.

He is really trying to talk and repeat what you say. He is getting pretty good at saying “dog”, “cat” and “ball”. Ayden also loves to look at his pictures around the house and then will say his name. It takes a little coaxing, but he will say “Ay-Den”. So cute because he gets so excited when he sees all of the pictures.

He has 6 teeth now, 4 on top and the two on the bottom. He of course tries to put everything in his mouth. Ayden is also doing really well standing by himself and not holding onto anything. He won’t do it too long, but he is trying. Here are some new pics. Hope you enjoy~

He loves to look out the windows.

Daddy and Ayden

Ayden playing with the car on Koda
He loves his Koda

Crazy January!!!

Hi everyone! I know I have not updated the blog in a while but I have been working late everyday in January. It has been a difficult month for me in that I have not had many opportunities to see Ayden. I am very excited that our busy tax season is tapering off to allow for some more family time.
During the past month, Ayden has been doing some great things. He is really starting to say some words besides his favorite “Dada”. If you say to him, “Ayden, where’s your truck?”…he will go over to his truck, say “Tuck”, drive it around and go ROOMMMM!! It is so cute and I am so proud of him. He tries to say a lot of the words that you say, so it is really cool.
What I love the most about what he is doing now, is he is always looking to see if you are watching when he does things. So, for instance he will have a toy in both of his hands, and he will manage to stand himself up from sitting. He then looks over his shoulder at you to make sure you are watching him. Once you give him praise and clap your hands, “Yeahhhh!! Ayden”, he then get’s so excited and claps his hands with the biggest smile. He is just so happy and we couldn’t be more blessed to have him in our lives.
It is just really exciting seeing him grow and gaining more and more personality. I love to just watch him and laugh at all the things he is doing. I don’t have too many pictures, so I promise I will get more to show everyone now that I will be home more. Enjoy!

Here is Ayden getting ready for to go out in that first snow storm....barely fits in the carseat.
He really loves that camera!

Daddy getting Ayden ready to go out in the snow.

Our HAPPY baby!

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.