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).

Hooray for SPRING!

We have had some great weather this week and the boys have really enjoyed being outside. I take them out to lunch once a week and this week we were able to sit outside for the first time since last summer. I thought this picture of Logan was really cute. He wanted to try to drink some water out of my cup....it is almost as big as he is!

Michael had his "serious" face on. You can just barely see Aiden napping in the stroller behind Michael.
Here they are talking to each other about mowing. Michael told Logan to go mow the grass and he would mow the driveway.



Logan loves to sing. He sings or hums to himself all day long (starting in his bed when he first wakes up in the morning). In this picture you can almost see that he is humming to himself:)
Filling up with more bubbles!
Michael and Logan are being really good big brothers to Aiden. They love to give him kisses and are always checking on him. They like to rock him and bring him pacifiers when he is crying. They were very concerned about him when he had to get shots at his 4 month check up last week. As soon as the nurse was done Michael said "All done Aiden!" It was very cute:) One of these days I am going to get all of them to sit together long enough for me to snap a picture:):):)

Michael and Logan

This video was taken last Sunday after getting home from Chicago. As you can see, the boys would much rather have Daddy put them to bed than Mommy! They had so much fun hanging out with Daddy for the whole weekend!

Since last weekend, we have had quite a bit of excitement around here! Logan came down with a really nasty GI bug Monday morning. We made a trip to his doctor to have him checked out and they sent us home with some antibiotics. Tuesday Logan was a little quieter than normal but seemed okay. Wednesday morning Logan got really sick very fast and was not able to keep anything down. During a phone call to the doctor's office he started throwing up and couldn't stop. He then went limp in my arms and was pretty lethargic. We ended up in the emergency room and spent the night in the hospital getting IV fluids. We were able to take him home Thursday night and so far he seems to be doing better. Logan always runs 3-4 pounds under Michael but after being sick all week he is now down a lot more. Hopefully he will start to perk up this week and gain some of his weight back. On the positive side of all this, Logan has never gotten to spend so much time alone with Mommy. Despite being sick, I think he had a little bit of fun hanging out in the hospital bed with Mommy, watching lots of videos, and getting phone calls from Daddy and Grandma.

What better way to liven up a sick kid than to let him decorate cookies? The boys had a lot of fun trying to decorate these cookies for Daddy. They did a pretty good job of getting the icing on the cookies. As you can see by Michael's blue lips, he also did a good job of getting the icing all over his mouth! When they were all done and cleaned up, I let them sit on the counter to have their pictures taken with the finished product:):)



Michael
Logan