Pictures are finally up from the last month and a half.
I will try to keep photos coming in the coming weeks and months.
October 2008
Monthly Archive
Aidan24 Oct 2008 03:55 pm
I am on the tail end of two and a half weeks off of work to watch Aidan, and help ease Katherine back into a nine - five schedule at her job. My employer is progressive enough to extend primary caretaker leave to (up to four weeks) to new mothers, new fathers, and parents adopting children. I had grand plans for these two and a half week, including some major updates to my website, fixing the moon and star lights in Aidan’s room, insulating the hot water pipes in the basement, coordinating quotes for new front and back doors etc. However, watching an infant is a full time job. I am lucky if I get the time to eat lunch, wash his dirty bottles, and run to the post office or grocery market in a given day. It is a good thing that he is a generally happy baby as long as he is fed, changed, and forced to sleep on a regular basis.
Aidan, is changing every day now. He can reach for items of interest to him, and spends 30-45 minutes at a time playing on his play mat at least once a day. He has also learned to suck his fingers / hands, and is rolling back and forth, but not quite making it from his back to his stomach. His baby hair started to fall out, but he is still left with a pretty good crop of hair. He prefers being outdoors to indoors and if he is cranky taking him outside usually quiets him immediately (as long as he isn’t hungry or wet).
As challenging as it has been over the last two weeks I am glad I took the time to stay home for him. To a certain extent I feel like starting Monday we will only be a part-time family with a family friend taking care of him during the day he will only see his mother and father at those hours of the night where he is the least happy and we have barely an opportunity to get to know him before it is bedtime. So, to take full advantage of our last four weekdays together… time to take Aidan for a walk.
I do hope to get photos up soon, but that is not going to happen today or tomorrow so I did the easy thing and uploaded a new video.
