Sunday Birthday Dinner at Teri's

Sunday was Aunt Teri's birthday so we went up for dessert and to hang out with all the Aunts again! Aiden was pretty grumpy until we went out of the heat and let him crawl around. He loves his cousin Dallin! He kept following him around the room it was so cute!! And Dallin loved covering him with a blanket and watching him pull it off. Aunt Christi just graduated and came down to visit! Aiden hasn't seen her since April. My husband has just informed me that I use far too many exclamation points so I am no longer going to use them...for the rest of this post. Everyone got a kick out of Aiden's low growl that he's in to right now. I can't remember who pointed it out but it's so true he sounds like E.T.

Aiden was exhausted because we didn't leave until like 9pm so please excuse his lack of enthusiasm in these photos hahha. Here he is with Aunt Christi



And Aunt Vicki (normally I would insert exclamations after these picture descriptions but alas I was reprimanded for my exclamation overdose so they are sadly unexclamationed)

Saturday Hike...well sort of

We decided to go hiking on Saturday.

our attempts to get a good family picture on jeremy's iphone


can you tell i'm pooped hahha?

Swimming with Teri, Vicki and Dallin

On Friday we went to the Taylorsville Pool with Teri, Vicki and Dallin. Aiden did so well, he didn't act clingy like before and let Vicki play with him and he played in the water for over an hour before he decided he was done!

Dallin shared his toys with Aiden since I was lame and forgot toys in the car

Aiden loved being free and being able to crawl around in the water, the water at the Lehi Pool is too deep!

getting so behind!

Aiden has really started pulling up consistently and any time you hold out your hands for him (and sometimes even when you don't!) he immediately pulls up and stands, he likes to walk but is still really floppy at it although that doesn't stop him from trying to do it on his own, which always results in falling hahha. At least he keeps trying!

His favorite place to pull up is the bean bag

matching daddy

at the drive in!

he loves to sit really close to the tv for some reason lol

i needed him to stay put while I did laundry!

this is his grumpy face, he even folds his arms all grumpy

I decided to start letting him feed himself, I put the food on the spoon but then I just give him the spoon, he makes a mess but some of it actually does get in his mouth!


too many flashes obviously...

daddy was making him laugh

so you'd think that sugary juice would me him a livewire but it puts him out!


Aunts Mandy, Vicki and Sharon came down to visit so we went up to Aunt Teri's to see them!

He loved snuggling with Aunt Mandy

Playing with Aunt Sharon


He was being REALLY grumpy so Vicki didn't get a chance to hold him but they played the next day. Dallin and Aiden love playing together, they are so cute!



Aiden was a mess after feeding himself

laughing at mom



apparently the towel I used after his bath was staticy because this is what his hair looked like afterwards!

Aiden and Life in general!

We got Aiden a tv because jeremy hated having to turn off his shows so Aiden could have a baby einstein (unfortunately his fussy time is right around when jeremy gets home and that's when he needs the baby einstein), it has a built in dvd player and then we put the vhs player under it which is nice because it cleared up some room on our tv stand. We also got him a toy story car because he's feet are so little he feels really unstable when he stands and walks and doesn't like to do it so I'm hoping this will help him to feel more stable to walk on his own.

He LOVES the linoleum, I have no idea why, but he'll drag his toys over onto it and just play there for hours...no joke hahha. He also loves to play under his jumper, they are his special places where he likes to play and not be bothered hahha. He's very independent! But whenever he needs me he crawls over and tugs on me so thankfully he still needs me too! He loves to follow me around the house, when I do dishes he follows me into the kitchen and will just sit and watch.


We had a little bit of a scare this week, we have this recliner that literally eats things, I can't count the number of phones that its devoured and have had to be rescued. So Aiden was playing on jeremy's lap and managed to stick his leg down the hole and twist it so it got hooked on a metal bar. It was really scary because he kept yanking it and screaming which got me all upset and kept making me lose my concentration, after about 5 minutes of panic right as jeremy was about to tear the chair apart I was able to get the foot loose! He made it with only a few scratches and one little cut. Poor thing was more traumatized than anything and we were both in tears by the end of it. Jeremy has now finally given in and is allowing me to get a couch cover for it (thank goodness! I'm tired of losing my phone in it hahha!)

This is how I always find him when he wakes up from naps, he loves to sit now that he knows how hahha!

He also learned to pull up but he HATES it because he feels so unstable so I've yet to get a picture of it :(!

Aiden!

So other than crawling Aiden has also learned to get into a sitting position by himself! Without propping himself up! No real attempt at pulling himself up yet strange boy lol guess he just likes being on the floor!

So last saturday we went out and looked for some spots to take photos for my friend's family portraits and had a picnic in the park! It was a lot of fun and Aiden loved being outside!


Found this awesome amphitheater to take the portraits and took one of aiden and jeremy hahha!

We went to Teri's to have dinner and Dallin was being SOOO cute with him, if I hadn't been eating I would have taken a video he kept laughing all excitedly and running all around aiden and playing with the toys with him it was so funny. Aiden was too heavy for him to want to hold anymore hahha but here he is with his Aunt Teri!
He has decided that he likes challenges, anytime someone is on the floor or there is a big blanket on the floor he loves to crawl over it hahha.





His favorite sitting position (pre sitting up by himself)

Playing at the park!




Relaxing with Daddy while mommy did an hour long photoshoot

For the fourth of july weekend I had my huge photoshoot saturday, on sunday we went outside after church and did some sparklers on the grass, aiden was cranky so didn't really react much other than staring at it wide eyed.
8 months old!!!

he loves this position, he's even tried to crawl/walk like this its pretty funny