aiden's 1st christmas!!

well we got home from SC around 11:30 pm on christmas eve - aiden (luckily) went right back down once he got in his own crib - aiden woke up around 6:30ish on christmas morning - we hung out in our bed for a little bit - watching barney - adam was the one getting antsy!! so we went out to the dining room around 7am...

aiden really enjoyed his leap frog table! it was hard to get him away from it to open up the rest of his gifts!

he got this dog from one of my teachers... he really like this too!

he LOVED the bows!!

the tree with all the christmas loot (most of it is aiden's - but not all)

also - christmas 2010 wasn't only aiden's 1st christmas - but also was a white christmas in GA!

aiden loved watching the snow fall...

because of the weather we didn't want to drive up the mountain to adam's grandparents house for dinner... so we had to go and get dinner - chinese! here is aiden all wrapped up in his daddy's jacket - about to get in the car!

all in all - we had a FANTABULOUS christmas! aiden made out like a bandit... books, various leap frog toys, ball popper, 3 different dogs, race track, truck/cars, shape sorter, and a few pieces of clothing...

adam and i had a good christmas too - santa was good to us!

i hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!

Christmas Eve in Beaufort - Er... Port Royal, SC

we drove to adam's parents the night of the 22nd - they moved to port royal, sc and had just closed on their house like the week before. they have a great house and it looks like they have been there forever! we left our house around 7pm... aiden was out like a light in about 5 minutes and slept the whole way there! we arrived at about 12:30am - and aiden went right from the car to his pack-n-play and slept until the morning!

adam's parents had a little get-together for us and we saw a lot of people we haven't seen in a while - i met some new people - and aiden met A LOT of new people. it was a lot of fun!

the 23rd was also adam's birthday (31!) we went out to dinner - a little place called MoonDoggies
- it was really good - adam had a steak and i had crab cakes - DELISH!! there wasn't much else going on - so we drove around a little - got some ice cream and did some shopping.

christmas eve after we had our dinner of Maryland Fried Chicken (adam's choice - his favorite) we went for a nice long walk down to the sands...

our christmas family picture - at the sands in port royal

aiden and daddy on the walk

he looks like he's getting sleepy - doesn't he? don't let him fool ya - 5 minutes later he was acting all goofy and kicking his blanket off!

adam was enjoying playing with the camera

once we got back from our walk - it was time to open up presents - here is aiden opening up his first gift from grammy and poppy...

remember this guy from that magnet game - LOVE IT!

aiden enjoyed the paper most of all!

here is aiden opening up his big gift from grammy and poppy...

notice he's standing on his own

lil zoomers race track!

here he is playing with his shape sorter - he likes to take the shapes out of the bucket!

once all the gifts were opened - he decided it was time to take the ornaments off the tree...

and then he wanted to help daddy and poppy put together poppy's christmas gift

then go for a ride!

well it's time to get back on the road - but first some pictures in the santa suit!

we got back on the road around 6pm on christmas eve to head back to rome, ga - again aiden fell asleep pretty quickly - but he didn't sleep the whole way home - woke up about 30 minutes from home - but once he got in his own bed - he went back to sleep. aiden was a great traveler! he's getting better in the car! (although it probably helped that we traveled at night!) ;)

nap time

so i took aiden into his bedroom around 8:35 - put on his music/white noise and laid him in his crib and then went into my bedroom to watch him on my video monitor - he laid down and then sat back up... cuddled up with his little blanket... i went into the living room with my monitor and i sat and listened to aiden babble until he fell asleep.

i love the fact that we have finally gotten to the point where we can put him in his crib - awake - and he will go to sleep on his own! thank you dr. weissbluth for your wonderful book - healthy sleep habits, happy baby!

now i just wish aiden would sleep like this at daycare!

follow up

we had aiden's follow up appt from his surgery - everything looks GREAT! aiden's ears are clear and tubes look good and his hearing is good! yay aiden!! we go back in 3 months to have the doctor check the tubes.

aiden is getting so big! is crusing between the couches and table - grammy bought him a pushing walker toy and he LOVES it - i'll have to get video of him "walking" he loves playing with his blocks (the dogs love them too) he is becoming so active! he's also finally wanting to eat solids. yeah - he would eat them before - but he wouldn't eat much. well ever since Thanksgiving he has been an eating machine! he is eating so much more! and not needing so much formula - which also means he is growing up!

i can't believe i'm going to have a 9 month old in 3 days!!