Night Time

i can't believe after all our trouble in the beginning with sleep that we have such a good sleeper who loves his night time ritual. when it seems like aiden is getting tired (fussy, rubs his eyes, yawns, cuddly) i say to aiden "night night?" and he will say "nigh nigh" (SO CUTE!) and then he always wave bye bye to the dogs. after we get PJ's on we sit in the rocker read a book and brush his teeth - he LOVES brushing his teeth - I do the finger toothbrush first so i get it all clean and then i give him this funky oval shaped toothbrush we got from the dentist and he "brushes" his teeth (really he sucks off the training toothpaste) and then when he's done he gives me his toothbrush and then turns around and curls up or he'll reach for the crib.

once he's in the crib he'll lay there a little bit - sometimes he rolls around - sometimes he sits up and plays and talks. he has 2 blankets a stuffed dog and his seahorse in the bed with him. the other night he played and talked for at least an hour before going to sleep - crazy boy!

aiden loves his routine... sunday night we went to Stone Mountain to see the laser show - which doesn't start until 9:30 - i was a little nervous about how he would do - because when he gets really tired he gets CRANKY! he had a BLAST! he loved the music - he was up dancing and just having a grand time. he did good in the car too - i just got elmo on (we only do DVD's for long trips) and gave him some juice and little man was probably asleep within 30 minutes. when we got home around 12:15 am i got him out of the car - gave him to daddy and he put him in his crib - not a peep... and it really didn't look like he moved all night until we woke him up at 6:15am.

he's getting to be such a big boy - i really LOVE that little guy :)

random stuff

i've been pretty busy and haven't had much time to post - so this is going to be somewhat random and not in any order...

last night adam and i were putting clothes away in the bedroom and we had the video monitor on - aiden was going to bed... he does some crazy stuff in his crib sometimes - last night he was walking around his crib - putting his blankets over his head and just walking and it also looked like he was playing peek-a-boo with himself... too funny!

he's also started dancing more! i love it! yesterday we had a yard sale and adam set up the stereo so we had music playing.... aiden was standing in the driveway bouncing to the music and then he started spinning circles - and he was laughing away - too cute!

aiden loves anything that isn't actually one of his toys - he loves water bottles - today he had a water bottle that had a pop-top and he kept trying to "feed" it to me... well i opened it up and let him feed me some - and even when it was all gone he kept feeding me... well i took the bottle away and he fussed for a second and then went over to his toy box and grabbed his empty coke bottle he had... he knew exactly where to look for it!

• aiden will help undress sometimes (when he isn't too mad about getting undressed).
• he has tooth #13 coming in now.
• aiden LOVES peek-a-boo... all i have to say is "where's aiden" and then he'll cover his eyes and then he'll uncover them and i say "peek-a-boo" and he does it again.
• he really seems to be enjoying books now too - he will sit on my lap and help me turn pages (sometimes a little too fast)

i can't believe how fast he is growing up! it's amazing!!

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!