Aidan's First Fourth

Well, he slept through it. That pretty much sums it up. The Eastside branch of the Stutz Clan went to Oak Harbor by boat to enjoy the 4th along with other members of the Sea Ray Crusing Club. We attended the Oak Harbor 4th of July parade (mostly made up of farm equipment, gardening clubs, obnoxious political groups and local high school cheerleaders) and Aidan slept through nearly all of it. Aidan did wake up for lunch however - after we walked into the downtown area of the main road.. then again fell asleep while carrying him back to the marina. In between bouts of sleep, he did exhibit his 'happy baby' side, along with his 'fussy baby' side... so more or less the holiday went like this for Aidan:

Sleep
Happy baby (eat)
Fussy, Fussy, (eat) happy..no, Fussy
Sleep
(eat) Happy, Fussy, Happy/Fussy
Sleep, Sleep

Such is the life of young Master Aidan on his first 4th of July.

Aside from the 4th of July experience, it's amazing how much progress Aidan has made over the past week. Where he was only able to roll over one direction - and only from back to front; He's now able roll either direction front to back, back to front.. and has started to figure out that if he keeps going in one direction he can actually move himself across the floor.

He's almost figuring out the crawling thing, but hasn't quite figured out that he needs his knees and hands supporting him at the same time, not just one set or the other, but I'm sure he'll figure that out quickly enough.

I did give him a taste of my ice cream cone last night - which he seemed to like a great deal as he immediately grabbed my hand with both of his and brought the cone back down to his mouth again for some additional tastes! I just found it fun that Aidan not only liked the ice cream taste, but then to knowingly grab my hand an bring it down to his mouth for more just reminded me of his continual mental and physical development.