fears

i'm not exactly sure what is going on with aiden, but it seems that he is now scared of night time.  all i have to do is mention "night night" and he's all like "no night night" over and over.  and then we get to his room and he fights me putting on his pj's (where he used to help me) and we rock through his one song where he used to get down and climb into bed before the song was over - he now spends the time glancing up at the video monitor and looking worried.  when i tell him it's time to get in bed he shakes his  head no and refuses to get out of my arms. so we rock a little more.

tonight went a little smoother - i showed him what the video monitor was for and what it did.  he still glanced up at it a few times as we rocked, but i just kept explaining that it was for mommy to check on him when he was sleeping and he stayed calm.  and he went into bed much better - no crying!

so, i hope we have worked through this

Adventures in potty training

We moved Aiden over to pull-ups last week and he's been doing pretty good. We spent the morning naked and he did really well. He ran to the bathroom when he knew he needed to go and he even did #2 twice!

This afternoon wasn't as great. We weren't at home so he had on a Pull-up and shorts so he would just go in his Pull-up but he did go in his potty the 2 times I took him.

Maybe I'll have him potty trained by the time Adam comes home!

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Vote For Aiden!

Aiden is up for Parent's cover contest again... if you wouldn't mind - vote for him... you can vote once a day!

OT

so aiden is getting occupational therapy - his grip measured at 18 months and he also needs some help with sensory issues.  he has had 2 therapy sessions and it's going well. the first session last week I actually took him to and sat in on. they worked on digging small objects out play-doh and cutting with scissors and working with puzzles.

we haven't delved into the sensory issues yet, but he'll get it in the next couple weeks!

counting

my little boy can count to 10!!

well, he starts with 2 and skips 8 - but he's doing it! and i can't believe he is doing it. we were reading his book Five Little Ladybugs and at the end the last 2 pages have a bunch of ladybugs on it and he points at them and counts - his educator mommy is just boasting!!

Happy Easter

Well we colored Easter Eggs yesterday and Aiden LOVED it! He started off wanting to crack open the egg and I had to stop him.  He really liked putting the eggs into the cups and didn't have much patients for waiting to let the color get on the eggs.  It got pretty messy, so glad we did it outside! 

Careful

Aiden enjoyed hunting for his eggs this morning - he did really well - only needed a little bit of help!  I think the part he liked best though, was getting to eat candy for breakfast :)  he loved all his gifts from the Easter Bunny - all in all he had a good Easter!

Eggs!

I got 'em