9 month's old! Where'd the time go?

So after must anticipation and build up, here are three videos from our no longer quite so recent road trip. Sorry it has taken so long to get to these, there just always seems to be something else that needs to be done. I am going to TRY (no promises) to do a photo update tomorrow as well. It is all I can do to upload 150mb of video to Blogger tonight.

As for current events, well, Aiden had his 9 month check up last week. Everything seems to be fine, he is 20 pounds 12 ounces and 28 inches long. He is hitting all of his milestones that he should be and the doctor is happy with how he is doing. We go to the dermatologist on Thursday (Finally) top hopefully get some better answers about his Eczema.

Aiden can stand on his own without support for anywhere from 2-3 seconds to up to about 30 seconds at a stint now, and it won't be too terribly long before he takes those first shuffling steps. He creeps all the way around our living room, going from the couch to the end table then crawling over to the next item in line and standing up and creeping along that. We've got most every cabinet latched now but he still is finding ways to get into everything and anything he isn't supposed to be in to.

Otherwise we've been keeping pretty busy, mommy had surgery for her hearing last week and we all had a week at home together while she recuperated. We used the time to do a laundry list of house projects that have been needing to be done for awhile. The big project which will be ongoing for awhile is getting our yard up to par. We're not terribly good gardeners, and the people who owned our house previously had planted a ton of stuff that has just kind of gone to wild in the three years we have been here. So we took some time and cleaned out some things that needed to go including a dead tree in our front yard, and replanted some new stuff. With all of the plants in our yard, all we did was one small section for now, but we hope to tackle one little section each week for a few weeks and get it all knocked out. While we were working on the lawn Aiden sat on a blanket and watched us. At this point the lawn is still too brown and prickly for him to want to play in the grass, so he crawled from edge to edge of the safety of the blanket, but refused to crawl off of it. that was pretty funny.

For our video entertainment today we have two videos from Mimi's house, him doing some of his favorite activities, banging on things and making loud noises. And one video from Granddad's house where he discovered that tearing up newspaper was lots of fun and leaves your hands a pretty cool black color.

Enjoy!