Good Taste in Music

I recently discovered Aiden's favorite singer. Thankfully it is not Barney or Elmo. Its.........wait for it.........Blake Shelton! Man, my kid has good taste! How on earth could I know that he like Blake Shelton? We were driving to meet my mom very early one morning and Aiden was fussing. I gave him is paci and he continued fussing. Finally I turned on some music, mainly to drown him out, and he got wide eyed and sat in silence for the remainder of the trip. Not sleeping, listening to music. A couple of days later I was running a quick errand and he was again fussing in the car. I turned on the Blake Shelton CD and he quieted down. I turned down the music to place my order and he started fussing. I turned it back up and he quieted down again. So, I tried different music. Although he really likes music and wiggles around like crazy where he hears it, nothing works quite as well as Blake Shelton to make him happy. Thank you Blake!

P.S. Please ignore the horrible long hair. He has since come to his senses and his hair looks much better.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Aiden's first Thanksgiving was great. My mom hosted the Farmer family Thanksgiving this year and Aiden was a big hit. He got to spend time with all of our family, including his great-grandmother, several great-great aunts and a great-great uncle. He got to see great-aunts and a great-uncle, lots and lots of cousins. He was happy to be held by anyone that wanted to hold him. He is looking forward to the Farmer family Christmas in a couple of weeks!

Church participant

In church on Sunday, when we all stood up to recite the "Our Father", we all took hands and I looked over and Aiden had his arms reached out. We said the "Our Father" and then when we all raised our hands higher for the last portion of the recitation he raised his higher too. It was adorable. Even the guy behind us commented on Aiden's participation. Hopefully we can raise him to be an active participant at each Mass and not check his cell phone every couple of minutes like the guy on my other side.

Two months

So I have wanted to start this blog since Aiden was born. Unfortunately, because of taking care of a newborn, classes, studying for the MPRE, preparing my BAR application, and the rest of the stuff that life has thrown at me, I am just getting around to it. I know that I have missed documenting several events in Aiden's life, but I will go forward from here. My goal is to keep this blog as my own journal of his life. I have never been good at this type of thing, but I am really hoping to keep up with this for Aiden's sake.
Aiden turned two months old on November 8th, 2011. He has started smiling and has giggled twice in the last week. There is nothing sweeter than his gummy smile and his giggle melts my heart. He has grown so much over the last month. He now weighs 12 pounds and is 24 inches long! My little guy is in the 84 percentile in length and 58 percentile in weight. He is now wearing 0-3 month clothing. He eats 4-6 ounces at each feeding. He is eating a combination of breast milk and formula. One of the more exciting things about him growing so much is that he finally fits into the cloth diapers that we have for him. It is so nice to be using cloth diapers. They are environmentally friendly and cost less in the long run than disposable diapers. Plus there is so much less diaper rash than with disposable diapers.
He is interacting with us more these days. It's fun to try to get him to smile and giggle. Today at his one month Doctor's appointment he rolled over for the first time! It was so great to see him accomplish this feat and even more exciting that Jay and I were both there to see it for the first time. I know that over the coming months and years there will be lots of firsts. I hope to be there for as many as I possibly can, but know I will miss some. So, going forward I am going to try to document as much as I can so that we can look back at this years down the road. Maybe even use some of these stories and pictures to embarrass him at his high school graduation.
Here are some pictures from Aiden's second month:

One month

Aiden turned one month on October 9th. The first month flew by. He continued to be a great eater and although he started out as a great sleeper the Pediatrician insisted that we wake him up at night to eat. Waking up every three hours became his new routine. I still wish I hadn't listened to her.
At one month Aiden weighed 8lbs 6oz and was 21 3/4" long.
He still wore newborn clothes. He ate 4oz every three to four hours.
Here are some pictures of his first month.
                                                                  Right after he was born.

                                                                Our first family portrait.

                                                       After settling into our recovery room.

                                                                      Daddy and Aiden

                                                                      Mommy and Aiden

 This is Ginny. She taught several of our birthing classes and came to see us just before we went home.

                                                                   On our way home!

                                                     He participated in his first 5k with Nana.

Just so you don't think that he is happy all of the time. He definitely lets us know when he is not happy.