Summer Swimming and Carpet Rides

You are most definitely a water baby! Not only do you love bath time, but you love swimming too. Well, not quite "swimming" but walking around in the water and going splish splash. You are with your Mom right now at your second swimming class, which I'm sure you'll love...except for the part where they're teaching you to be submerged. But, even one scary moment can't make you get out of the water.

We've had our blow-up pool inflated just about every weekend and you will basically climb into it to go swimming. In this regard, you're just like your Daddy: I love swimming too...well, not quite swimming, but walking around in water and going splish splash.





Speaking of water, the other day I spilled some in the kitchen and grabbed a recently-used swimmin' towel to clean up the mess. Later on that day, the towel was dry and still on the floor (because that's how Daddies can clean effectively) and you saw it. Your Mommy and you invented a super fun game called "Magic Carpet Ride!"

Of course, it all looks like fun and games, but the really amazing part for us (besides how much you loved (and the dogs) loved it) was that it really dawned on us how much you truly understand us. I don't think we've ever really told you to "lay down" before when your safety depended on it, but while playing this game, we asked you to lay down and you did it!

So, to reward our good boy, we dragged him around the kitchen floor on a dirty towel all while being licked by dogs. Good parenting!

Week 13: The Great Nipple in the Sky, Uncle Jerkface and Auntie M's Wedding, Naked Tummy Time and and other tales

Week 13, your first full week of being 3 months old, was full of great fun and adventures:

First of all, on Saturday, you and Mommy and Daddy went to the rehearsal dinner for Uncle Jerkface (he named himself that!) and Auntie M's wedding!

You were a big hit! All of Michelle's sisters loved you and wanted to hold you. And all of Michelle's brothers in law were a little fake-mad at me for letting their wives/fiance's hold you...because then they wanted to have babies just like you! Even Michelle's Dad thanked us publicly for 'spreading the good baby vibes around..." and then he said he hoped that soon Auntie M's sisters would start families of their own! We think it's a great idea!

Uncle Jeremy's family loved you too!

We barely got to hold you the whole night because everyone wanted their turn holding you! And you were such a well-behaved baby boy: You slept for a good long while on me, and Auntie M's sister Nicole and Auntie M! But then Uncle Jeremy woke you up (accidentally) and you were bright eyed and bushy tailed for everyone else to hold you!

Aunt Kari held you!

Auntie M's sister Kristen waited all night to hold you!

See...you were the superstar! (Besides Jeremy and Michelle, of course!)

Even Auntie M's Mommy got to hold you too!

Mommy had some Aidan time too! (And so did I..in fact, you scarfed down a huge bottle of milk in my arms!)

You got Uncle Jeremy back for waking you up by chewing on his arm the whole night. It was a bit hairier than what you're used to, and Uncle Jeremy said his hair was matted down for the rest of the night. Good thing you don't have any teeth, or you might have gotten hair stuck in them.

But this whole arm-chewing business was another new thing for Week 13.


We knew that last week you really fell in love with your own hands and chewed on them all week, even though you hadn't quite figured out that putting your whole hand in your mouth can kind of make you gag a little.

But in week 13, you discovered that you can chew on other people's hands too! In fact, any time you held someone else's hands, you pulled them to your mouth to give them a nice chew!



You spent a good part of yesterday afternoon eating your Mom's hands (and enjoying it !)

All that hand chewing sure can make you tired, though. And you slept a lot this week. I think you brought sleeping to an all knew art form with this move:

Awake in Mommy's arms:

And....two seconds later:

So you may be a narcoleptic baby, but you are such a cute sleeper that we don't mind! (We don't actually think you're narcoleptic...but while you're out, don't blame me for taking incredibly cute pictures of you!)

And when you're sleeping, I'm pretty sure I know what you're dreaming about. We noticed this week that not only do you love to flirt and giggle and smile at the ceiling fans, but you smile and giggle and flirt with the ceiling fixture directly above your crib too! It took us a few days to figure out what the attraction was, but then your Mom figured out what you must see in it...and now we can't help but laugh whenever you make googly eyes up at your light fixture above your crib!

Now, even though week 13 was big for sleep it was also big for exercise too!

You continued to do your baby sit-ups and love them! (excuse how lame my narration is here)

And then your Mommy really pushed for more Tummy Time because when she took you to the Doctors (more on that later), Dr. Accordion complimented how high you could raise your head up...we'd been doing tummy time on a blanket which is slippery...but the Doctor's table had more grip. So we swapped out the blanket for a yoga mat and some receiving blankets and...voila..you're the tummy time head lifting master!

Look how high you're lifting your head up!

There are different types of tummy time.

First up is interrupted tummy time, in which Preston tries to 'help'.

Then there's uninterrupted tummy time, in which Preston has given up and just wants to lay down next to you.

And then, of course, there's NAKED TUMMY TIME! The books (and grandmas) all recommend that you be naked more often, because it's more freeing, and you're more comfortable. So, we got you naked and did some tummy time! You're almost able to roll over on your own!

We couldn't be more proud of you!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you...the reason Preston is now submissive to you is that we think you weigh more than him now! At your doctor's appointment they weighed you and determined that you weigh 12 POUNDS and 13 OUNCES! That's like 12.8 pounds...so in week 13, you're almost 13 pounds! Pretty impressive, buddy boy!

So, you were a party animal, a hands-on baby, a cute sleeper and a naked exerciser this week. That's not too bad for a 13-week old!

And that's all she wrote for this week's story. So, I gracefully say...the end.