Shhhh….listen closely because I don’t want Aidan to hear this. Aidan has slept *completely* through the night for 11 hour stretches for 4 nights in a row. I don’t even know what to make of this development. We actually had to go wake him for breakfast a couple of mornings.
He must be about to grow…AGAIN! I can’t imagine how much taller this child could possibly be at this age, but I think it’s happening. We usually put him down at 8 and he may linger awake for about a half hour talking to his Curious George and cuddling. We have not seen the whites of Aidan’s eyes before 7 am for the last 4 days. Brandon and I scarcely know what to make of it. Wouldn’t it be nice if this was a new pattern he was falling into? One can only hope….and enjoy it for as long as it lasts. 
He has seemed to have a great sense of humor from an early age and it is only getting better. We often catch him laughing at things and declaring them to be funny. He loves to run into our bedroom shrieking…”I’m gonna get you!” which is his way of telling us he wants us to come find him since we always say that phrase when we are looking for him. Then he runs to the other side of the bed and looks underneath it to see us coming around the other side and declares “I see you!” as he is catching a glimpse of our feet or us on our hands and knees. It probably sounds rather mundane to have it described in print, but trust me, it’s fun. He and Brandon were playing hide and seek recently, when I saw Aidan cover his eyes and begin counting to ten while Brandon hid under the covers of the bed. Little stinker! He counted from 1-4, then at 5 peeked through his fingers to try to see where Brandon was hiding and finished counting to 10. He then immediately went to the bed and “found” Brandon. Sometimes I am just amazed at some of his intellectual skills.
Pictures of some of his humorous antics lately.
Riding us like horses:
Trying on his Mr. PotatoHead glasses:
Deciding the sack makes a good hat and that if he can’t see Mommy, I can’t see him!
Eating continues to get better and better. He seems to be adding new foods to his repertoire all the time. I have been giving him 1/2 slices of banana for a long time (overprotective Mom worrying about the choking hazard). He saw me eating a banana right out of the peel the other day and refused his cut up slices. He looked at me and said “Want Mama’s banana!” He handled it very well! Check it out. There sits the boy who only a little over a year ago struggled with pretty much every solid food…eating a banana like a big boy. To top it off…he made monkey noises for me!
This boy is in a lovely phase. I am one lucky woman.
…And Aidan is one cute kiddo.
I was thinking about perspective too, recently. I remember how Hallie was so tiny that she could be tucked into a shirt. Even once she was home, she could stretch out full length along my (not too long) thighs and have room to spare. I used to ‘clap’ her feet that way. I tried that on Monday, and boy oh boy did that not work. The poor kid was practically hanging down to the ground!