Overdue Update

Well… An odd thing has happened since we stopped giving Aiden Honey in his oatmeal. No ill effects to report from the honey, which is good news. But Aiden has stopped sleeping those 6-7 hour stretches, and gone back to getting up every 4 hours pretty much like clock work. Now part of that is probably the result of us trying new solids with him. We have not been giving him the oatmeal cereal, instead introducing the banana baby food. It is supposed to be the same amount of calories, but who knows how baby’s system works through these things. We have certainly seen a change in the consistency of his poo. So maybe once we get up to twice a day solid food meals we will see the sleep pattern return to “normal”.

Of course the other explanation for the lost sleep could possibly have to do with the cutting teeth. His one tooth is coming in pretty good. We hope and expect to see a second tooth emerging any day now, but of course who can gage these things? When mommy and I have a chance to sit with Aiden together we will try to get him to open up his mouth so we can get a picture of that tooth.

Aiden is sitting up very well on his own now. He still needs help getting into a sitting position, but once he is up, he can stay up for several minutes without falling over. Only tipping when he decides he wants something that is down on the floor and he has to overbalance to get to it.

It shouldn’t be too long before he starts “creeping” as well. He is getting himself into an upright “crawling” position, and flexing his legs so his body moves… he just hasn’t figured out how to coordinate the moving of his arms to actually produce forward momentum. So we still see his main mode of transportation being rolling over, which he does effectively to get across the room. I still need to catch a video of that for you.

That’s about all I have for right now. Of course there is always more, but there hardly seems to be enough time anymore to type nice long updates, as aiden is constantly doing something that requires supervision.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Thanks for reading, and I’ll type at you soon!