About the time that Anya and I figured we'd never get any full night sleep ever again Aidan hit the 10lb mark - and suddenly started sleeping through the night! Yeah! Sure, he still woke up at 4am but it was a start! These days Aidan falls asleep and gets put to bed around 10pm and sleeps until around 7am where he wakes up, takes a quick snack, then back to sleep for a couple more hours. It's Great! Well, I can say it's great, because I leave for work before 7am, so I'm already up; Anya on the other hand... Well, she never really gets a chance to sleep in. I'd feel bad for her if she didn't often go to bed before I did - as I generally am the one who waits for Aidan to go to sleep and then put him in his crib.

Which brings up another set of milestones which we as parents were lucky to quickly rush by. Aidan only spent the first week or so asleep with us in our bed... This worked out well in that Anya didn't have to move much for the every 2-2.5 hour feedings. After the first week, Aidan transitioned to a bassinet which was positioned next to our bed without much of a fuss. At first there was a little fuss and we used the heating pad under a towel on top of the mattress of the bassinet trick. But after a few nights this wasn't even needed. After a couple of weeks, maybe three, of sleeping in the bassinet, I just put him down in his crib, in his own room and he's been sleeping there ever since. Overall, after hearing the stories of other new parents with a baby born around the same time as Aidan, I have to say we've been very lucky; we have a not terribly fussy son who is sleeping through the night in his own room and crib. Nothing to complain about there.

Aidan is also nearly an old hat around boats! Only two weeks after he was born Aidan was along with us at the Seattle Boats-a-Float show on lake union - being pushed around in his, must have been designed by NASA, folds in on itself, ski binding like car seat adapted, must be four wheel drive and make coffee for you (there must be a button for that which I haven't found) stroller. Aidan was brought on board a number of 'don't even think of it unless you are only 30-35 years old and already retired because you got out of your vested DotCom stock before it plummeted to $0' boats. But he seemed to enjoy looking around and being outside - when he was actually awake.

We've also taken him out on our 22' Sea Ray three times! Yes, we did get him a little infant life vest, not that he likes it much, but we have it on the boat. Shortly thereafter we sold the 22' boat in favor of a larger 35' boat with more room for baby stuff - at least that's the rational we're using for moving up to the larger boat :) - and Aidan has been out on that boat as well! He doesn't really seem to realize that he's out on a boat, he just likes to look around at anything that's within 5 feet of him - the floor, seat backs, anything with some color to it - but I'm not going to complain.


And that's about it. So now Aidan is a little over 3 months old (note: personally I don't like the 'he's X weeks old', I have no idea how many weeks old he is, I have no idea how what day it is, let alone keeping track of the number of weeks old Aidan is - I know he's over thee months, but less then four - and besides, I don't think he's holding it against me) and loves standing up, with a little bit of help. He's been doing that for well over a month (that would be a bit over 4 weeks for those of you who only count in number of weeks) now and is sometimes even upset if he's not standing up looking around. He's a continual eater who is starting to get that chubby baby look to him, with baby fat creases around his neck, wrists and feet - on him it's cute, the same thing on me, not so much, funny how that happens, somewhere around the 1,560 week mark.