Aidens Dedication/Thanksgiving Week

We have had such a busy but wonderful holiday...it all started with Aidens dedication and the Troyer Thanksgiving...good food, family, and games! Then on Thanksgiving Day..Wendy came and joined us for a meal and of course games!!! Aiden loved sitting in his bumbo and squealing at Settlers. Then on Black Friday, I went shopping with my mom..it was a fun day and we got a lot of Christmas shopping done. Then on today we had a Thanksgiving at my Mom and Pauls house...4 sisters, several guys, and 5 grandkids...full house. We had great food of course and games!!! :) It was a great time..Aidens first Thanksgiving was full...we have so much to be thankful for!!!

6 Months

So much has been going on in our little family...Aiden has been trying to get crawling, and working on sitting up, he took his first max ride, and he got to meet Amish relatives and ride in a horse and buggy, we visited the Bunces and got to see the Carlsons and some of Marcy family..we took our first plane rides(6 in all)..he was a rockstar!! What a good little traveler we have!!! He is enjoying solid food quite a bit, although his tongue is still getting in the way...he loves books, and watching football with daddy, he is such an amazing little guy!!! :)

Pumpkins Galore!

Here are the pics from our fun pumpkin carving night with our friends.








We had our annual pumpkin carving night this year...it was so fun our bible study group joined us. We had such a fun time carving pumpkins, eating banana bread, drinking cider and enjoying each others company! Seriously best group of friends...we had such a good time! Looking forward to next years carving! :)

Cousin Time

Since we live so close to many cousins...Aiden is so blessed to get lots of cousin time pretty regular. This past weekend he got to spend time with Ty, Hailey, and Naomi..it is always so fun to see Ty and Hailey playing with their little cousins. :)











It is especially fun to see Naomi(7months and quite mobile) playing with Aiden(5months and not mobile)..they are about the same size and squeal at each other and try to grab at each other...it's so wondeful to have cousins close to the same age.

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!!