Super Saucer

Thanks for giving us your play saucer Brianna (and Uncle Kevin)!! We really like it!!

The Sippy Cup

Wow mom this is pretty cool, what do I do with it??

Hmmmmm

It seems like I should put it in my mouth but what next??
(we were just playing around with the sippy cup, he never got anything out of it but he seemed to have fun holding it so maybe soon! )

Toes Anyone??

The Big Move

As some of you know Aiden has been sleeping in our room since he was born but since he now no longer fits in the bassinet we decided it was time to make the move to his crib. I prepared myself for a few sleepless and tearful nights (for all of us) and plopped him in his crib on Monday. Much to our surprise he slept GREAT!! Still got up 2 times but that's not bad for him. So now he is officially a big boy and we are finally using his beautiful crib!!

Here are just some cute sleeping pics :)

New Tub

We have always given Aiden a bath in the bathtub using one of those big yellow sponges to lay him on. Unfortunately our VERY naughty dog migo decided the sponge looked good and ate it a few days ago (one of the many things we have lost to the dog). So instead of getting another sponge we decided to try the giant inflatable duck - seems to work OK :)

6 Month Portraits

"Can someone help me out here, I'm falling over"
(don't worry mom was on standby to catch the leaning tower of Aiden)

This face just screams I'm up to no good!!

We got a bunch of family pics taken too but decided not to get any prints of them. It is just really hard to look good when you are in a picture with such a cute baby!!

Six Month Checkup

Yup that's right, Aiden is already 6 months old!! It seems crazy to think that he is already that old - the time has gone soooo fast. We went to the doctor yesterday for his 6 month check and he said that everything is looking good. He weighed 14lb 2oz (5%) and was 27 1/4 inches long (75%). Of course his head is still in the 80th % but what can you say... he's a Shelle :)

The doc's only concern was that Aiden still had some fluid in his ears. He had an ear infection about a month ago and the Dr. Josh had hoped that the fluid would be gone by now. Since the fluid is still there he decided to just wait another month and see if it goes away on it's own. If not we will have to go to an ENT doctor and maybe think about ear tubes. The fluid doesn't seem to be bothering Aiden and doesn't cause any damage to the ears but if it interferes with his hearing it could cause speech delays later on. However since Aiden talks ALL the time and pretty much talked for the entire doctors visit Dr. Josh isn't too worried about that right now.

As for his development he is doing great, meeting all the expected milestones. He rolls from his tummy to back pretty regularly now and is almost rolling from back to tummy. He is also getting pretty close to sitting on his own but still tips over sideways when you let him go. He has developed a great laugh - he usually saves it for dad but sometimes I am lucky enough to get it too.