So What's Aiden up to??

I haven't kept up with what poor Aiden has been up to lately and I know you are all wondering :-) !! He is now 9 1/2 months old and his first Birthday is nearing quicker than I would like. He is my sweet sweet boy, pretty agreeable with everything we do. As you can see in the above picture he is looking more like a little boy lately than my baby. It's sad really knowing he is our last one (not sad enough to make me want to have another, I might add). He is now crawling on all fours as opposed to his former army crawl, pulling up on everything and already starting to torment his big sister.

He now has 7 teeth and has given up every lick of baby food and is eating with the family. I haven't found any food that he doesn't like...fruits, veggies, meat or an occasional sneak of ice cream!! He is particularly fond of chicken teriyaki with broccoli (I know Mom and Dad - you wouldn't even eat this). We are hoping Alyssa will see him eating everything on his plate and follow suit...hasn't happened yet.

The only word he says still is "DaDa". But is always making some sort of exciting "Eh" or "Ah" noise.

Here he is trying to sneak up the stairs, which means the baby gates will have to come back out :-( . He loves to give hugs and kisses, and will several times a day crawl over to me and do just that!! He loves to touch anything his sister is holding to cause a major upset on her part. The only time he gets very upset is when I have to pull him away from the fireplace again or when Alyssa takes a toy from him. Unfortunately the latter happens most of the day...If Aiden even touches something she may have "thought" of in the last 24 hours she will try to take it from him (this is a serious all day job on my part).

Well I think that is all our little man is up to these days. I will try to do better with his updates!

Oh, and I am now redecorating his room. When I took out his crib bumpers and took down the matching quilt his room suddenly became very plain. So I started looking for some more frog stuff to put up, but couldn't find anything I liked. Then while randomly surfing eBay (I know bad idea) the other day I found this picture:

And now we (or should I say I) are turning his room into monkeys instead...what do you think?

~~Tracy~~