Seattle or Bust!

One glorious September day we headed up to Seattle for a day at Pikes Place and a Mariners game...little did we know that this fun day out as a family would turn into quite an adventurous trip. :) We were stopping every so often for bathroom breaks for me(drinking so much water), feeding breaks for Aiden and just getting him out of the carseat. Boy did we underestimate how much work traveling to Seattle in one day would be! :)
We got to Seattle...a bit tired of being in the car but were excited to show Aiden our city. He loved being in the carrier and looking at everything. We got a family pic taken outside the Original Starbucks, we enjoyed the crisp fall weather...Aiden and Jeph even took a pic by the Monk Fish(which is a tradition we started with the Bunces.)
We got to Safeco and got to get a certificate for Aiden(his first time attending a Mariners game), we got a baseball bat just his size, and he loved the lights, sounds. He squealed and laughed, he was a welcome distraction for the people behind us! It was enjoyable..he fell asleep about the bottom of the 6th inning and when he woke up he was crying(ready to eat), so we headed out but we stopped long enough to take a picture with the Mariner Moose...he even quit crying!!! We headed home and he slept the whole way!!:)
It's for sure harder to travel with a kid, but so worth it...and we can't wait to do it again!!

4 Months

Aiden turned 4 months on Thursday...he had his 4 month checkup...12lbs 13oz, 24 1/2inches, head almost 20in cir..wow he is getting so big!!!! This little boy is amazing...tummy time has become a very constant thing, he loves to lay on his tummy and look around, play with toys. Everything goes in his mouth, he has discovered how to make raspberries,he is a very easygoing, and smiley boy!! He is a good eater, great sleeper...he likes to watch tv..especially baby einstein and football!! He loves peek-a-boo, books, his play gym, he looks at the camera for pics now, quite a ham! He went to his first Mariners game and did pretty good..he loves watching his cousins play, he is interested in Jet and what Jet is doing..he loves to talk..he is so social it's amazing that he is only 4 months. :)
He is such a joy to us, we feel so blessed that God gave us this little man...here are his 4month pics...and one of his birth buddies, Daniel also at 4 months! :)

First Bandaid...Ouch!

At 3 1/2 months Aiden got his first bandaid...since he is a boy we thought he will have lots of bandaids(at some point) but not within his first few months of life.
It was saturday night and our nighttime ritual is bath, pajamas, last feeding and bed...Aiden loves bath time, it's truly an enjoyable part of the day for us..Jeph is the resident bath giver...it's good play time for daddy and Aiden. However this night Jeph was working on prepping for biblestudy and so I was giving him a bath...all was fine and I started rinsing him, all of a sudden he was screaming and I couldn't figure out what was wrong..then Jeph was shouting "the instahot is squirting on him!!" I started screaming and we turned the cold water on him instantly..Aiden was screaming, I was crying, and of course Jeph was calm. He got things undercontrol and calm again. I felt so bad...he had a blister on his finger and forearm, brown marks on his leg and arm..he was fine within an hour and he went to bed happy, and he slept all night...needless to say I was traumatized more than he was.
Here are the pics of our little guys first bandaid.