Aiden is 5 months old!

I can't believe Aiden is already 5 months old! He is a very happy baby and loves to be around Michael and Logan. Michael likes to help me put Aiden down for his naps and Logan loves to give him hugs. Aiden takes two good naps a day and sleeps til about 8:30am....other than that he is awake and very alert the rest of the day. He is rolling everywhere and will sit up with a little help. He "talks" all day long to anyone who will listen:) He has also started to use his hands to grab things. Michael and Logan think it's really funny when he grabs their noses:) He loves to be outside watching Michael and Logan play or in the kitchen watching Mommy make dinner. He has become my little buddy...always hanging out with me while the big boys are off playing. I am posting some photos of all the boys at 5 months to compare. I think it's cute that they all liked to suck their fingers at this age:)

Aiden 5 months

Logan and Michael 5 months

Aiden's first boat ride!

Brian and I took the boys down to visit my parents for the day last Sunday. Michael and Logan had a lot of fun driving Grandpa's boat and Aiden loved his first boat ride. This morning Michael kept asking where Grandpa was and wanted to see the boat again:) My mom gave the boys sunglasses to wear and Logan would not take his off. It was a really fun day with lots of time spent out on the lake. Hopefully next time we visit the water will be warm enough to take the boys swimming and tubing:):)

Family photo 2008

Brian's family has a tradition of taking yearly family photos. It can be a little crazy getting 18 people to sit still long enough to take a picture but we did it. You can tell by their lovely smiles how happy Michael and Logan were about it:):) At least Aiden is still to little to protest!

New Haircuts

I finally found a good place to take the boys for haircuts. Michael and Logan are usually terrified of the person cutting their hair so they thrash around and end up with horrible haircuts. Today we tried a new place and the boys did great. They loved the lady cutting their hair because she let them play with bubbles the whole time and was very patient with them. Aiden sat in his car seat and was very content to watch his brothers get their new haircuts. I had to post some pictures because I thought they looked so handsome:):):)

Silly Boys!

These are some random shots of the boys being silly.

Wearing Daddy's shoes...
Wearing Mr. Potato Head glasses...
Discovering the remote control for the first time...
Aiden news....We had Aiden tested this week and found out that he has a severe allergy to milk....which means that we cannot have any milk products in the house. If you start looking through your pantry you will see that pretty much everything has milk in it. We are hoping that he will outgrow this but for the next year we will be a milk free house hold.

Introducing Hazel Elizabeth

Here is the new addition to my sister's family. She was born last Friday at 3:14pm, weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Michael, Logan, and Aiden can't wait to meet their new cousin!

Ready....set.....go!!!

The boys new favorite thing to do is swing Aiden. They pull him back as far as they can and then let go. They give him a little warning by yelling READY, SET, GO before they actually let go:):)

We had a little bit of a scare with Aiden this week. Apparently he has a severe allergy to formula which can result in anaphylaxis. Brian and I found this out Tuesday evening after Aiden took his first bottle of formula. Soon after he was done we were dialing 911 and headed to the ER. We now have an appointment scheduled with a pedes allergist at Riley to find out what in the formula caused the reaction. Needless to say...that was the last bottle of formula he will be getting for a while.




Daddy and Aiden "talking"

3 under 3

Sometimes I forget that I have 3 children under the age of 3. (I tend to think of Michael and Logan as one since they do everything together.) I was fully reminded of this fact as we were trying to get pictures of all three boys at the same time. Michael was in the middle of a huge temper tantrum and Logan was running all over the studio. In the middle of his temper tantrum, Michael bonked Aiden on the head so he then started crying too. The poor photographer was wiping his brow the entire time and kept telling me how much patience I must have. Well, we finally did get a picture of them all together and it is one of my favorites. You would never know by looking at the pictures how unhappy they were to be there:) Luckily we had a really great photographer who knew lots of tricks to make them laugh:)


Logan
Michael
Aiden at 4 months

HUGS!!!

I love my brother!
I really love my brother!!
I REALLY REALLY love my brother!!!

Tuesdays with Michael, Logan, and Aiden...

We only have 2 weeks of music class left and then we are off for the summer. I thought I would share some pictures from class this week. They both are very into the drums and have really funny looks on their faces:):) We usually are out the door by 9:30am to head to class and then run errands afterwards. This week was the grocery store. The boys have loved the grocery store since they were born and it just keeps getting better for them! They get to ride in this cool shopping cart and if they are REALLY good they get a cookie from the bakery for the ride home:):) When we were driving away Michael said in a very sad voice..."bye bye BEEP BEEP" (his name for the shopping cart).