Adventures in Baby Food

These days feeding has become quite a bit messy...We have now tried rice cereal, sweet potatoes, green beans, and applesauce. Aiden is not quite a fan of baby food yet...he is more interested in trying to get to our food:)
We have decided that rice cereal mixed with a little applesauce is the one baby food he will gladly eat right now. :) So every morning around his breakfast time we have a breastmilk feeding and then a rice cereal/applesauce combo as well.
He seems to be enjoying that a lot right now. We are still having some issues with using a spoon, his tongue is usually in the way...so we are still trying to get the hang of it. :)
I'm sure in the next few weeks feedings will still be really messy but a little easier and he will probably get more in his mouth then on his face :)

5 Months!!

Wow...Aiden is 5 months already, we really cannot believe how fast the time has flown by! He is such an amazing little guy!!!
He can scoot forwards and backwards...he has now had rice cereal, green beans, sweet potatoes...he had his first trip to Seattle and a Mariners game...he loves playing peek-a-boo, he will sit and listen to stories, he loves to watch football with daddy and mommy...he constantly blows bubbles...he is such a sweet boy...we are so blessed to call him our son!!! Here are a few pics of his 5th month.

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.

The Loincloth Manifesto

Summer is dead! Long live the fall!
The collective sigh of relief you hear all around you is simply nature grabbing a lawn chair, kicking back with a pumpkin spice latte, and chilling with it's bad self.
It is also really really excited to watch football.
And for everyone to go back to school(sorry Emily:)).
Tis true,
Tis true,
Summer is gone.
We had to let it go to make room for another.
Sorry June. It's not you, it's us. We're just going in different directions.
Bye-Bye July. We'll always have the memories...the aquarium...um...and that thing, with the guy and the cookie buffet...no, wait, that was a dream i had...huh.
Fare thee well, August. You always try so hard to become part of autumn.
August.
Autumn.
Your names are so similar, and yet...it just wouldn't be fair. What would I tell the others? It would only create jealousy and infighting, the likes of which we haven't seen since King David took a walk on his rooftop(you see what I did there, bible study? Believe.)
So there you go summer. You are out on your tushy. But it was not without ceremony...
The troyer's said goodbye with a jungle-themed dinner party. Those present were treated to many sights(Aiden in a loin cloth), sounds(the jungle cry of his father, trying to scare the poop out of his nephew and niece), and not least of all tastes(two words for you...BAKED...ALASKA...mmmm.)
mmmm is not a word smarty pantses.
If you haven't had it before, allow me to describe:
Imagine monkey brains.
Now imagine that the monkey has a lemon meringue skull.
Now imagine inside his(or her) skull is filled not with blood and grey matter, but sponge cake, ice cream, and crushed cookie crumbs.
There you have it.
The worst way to entice you to eat baked alaska.
But seriously.
Do it.
Also, if you have a baby...
and a loin cloth...
seriously.
Do it.

Aidens is 3 Months!

It's official Aiden is 3 months old! It's going by so fast..we are amazed everyday that he is here and he is ours...he is doing new things everyday!
He now is over 11lbs and 23 inches long, he can hold his head up all by himself..he is still a little wobbly but not much. He can push himself up on his arms and hold his head up while doing tummy time, and he has been rolling over for quite awhile from tummy to back, and he is sleeping in his own room in his crib. He loves to stand up while we hold his hands of course:) He loves to talk, smile, he's quite a giggler and he loves people. He already has a favorite toy...Octavius the octupus, and when we read books he likes to look at us and then the picture and back. :) He has been on a pretty good 3hr schedule since month 1 and he has been sleeping through the night since about 6 weeks.
Jeph and I are enjoying every minute with him...we are so excited to share this fall season and everything it holds with him. :) We are so blessed and he was well worth the wait!
Here are some 3 month pics with some of his cousins, and some of him doing tummytime.