6 Months Old!

Our little baby boy is getting bigger and bigger by the day! We can't believe that the time has flown by so quickly already!

He can now sit up by himself... with an occasional face-plant here and there depending on how tired he is or if he over-reaches for a toy. He is an expert grabber of things now and ANYTHING he sees in front of himself he will grab for it. He loves to jump even more now than before, which is hard to imagine. But, as you can see from the video, our kiddo can jump for hours if we let him! And he continues to be a noisy (and nosy) little boy! He definitely cannot be a ninja! He can roll to one side (mostly his left) and can roll from his tummy to his back... but he doesn't do it consistently.

He did catch his first cold earlier in January. It started out as a runny nose and minor cough. Two days later it escalated to a 103.7 degree fever and we rushed him to Urgent Care. He had his first chest X-ray (which was negative for pneumonia) and his first swab for RSV (also negative). But he did have to have nebulizer treatments with albuterol, which we did for 3 days before stopping; mostly cuz he really started to fuss and turn away and Daddy and Mommy ended up breathing in more of the medicine than Aidan! =P But his fever broke in 2 days and his cough was finally gone by the next week. He then caught a minor runny nose but got over that in a few days. At this rate, his immune system is going to be like STEEL!

Otherwise, he continues to be one happy and easy-going baby boy! Even when we fed him his first food last week! It mostly ends up on his bib but he does slurp it down occasionally. Haha!

With Grandpa Jung

Caught red-handed while watching TV

Daddy's babysitting me... err, maybe I'm babysitting Daddy


Look how big I am now!

Stealing Mommy's teddy bear

Picking my first orange in the backyard

Trying to ride my rocking horse that Grandparents Sue gave me... I'm a little too small for it still

Petting my rocking horse

Lounging in my Radio Flyer wagon from Auntie Shelle

Ahhh... this is the life!

Ready for a walk outside. Don't I look cool?

Daddy's giving me my breathing treatment after I caught my first cold. I don't like the nebulizer at all! =(

Sitting up by myself

Mommy, stop taking all these pictures of me!

Ta-Dah!

Practicing sitting in my high chair

Bad hair day?? Nah, that's how my hair is naturally! =)

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Today's milestones

Today, Aidan sat up all by himself for the first time =)

Today also marks the first day Aidan's ever been sick =(

My First Christmas

I woke up bright and early on Christmas Day! Mommy, Daddy, and Auntie Shelle were all ready to help me celebrate my first Christmas. I got to visit my great-grandparents, great-aunts and uncles, and aunts and uncles all day long. I was tired by nighttime but I sure did good and didn't fuss at all. Santa's going to bring me some good gifts next year since I was sooooo good this year! =)

My very own stocking.. I wonder what Santa brought me?

What's on top of my head?

Sitting in front of the Christmas tree with all my presents



With Daddy and Mommy on Christmas morning

Stare-down against the snowman

Mommy's opening my gift to her!!

Daddy helped me to make this for Mommy. I had paint all over my feet and hands the day that we made it. It took Daddy 30 minutes to clean me up because I had fun smearing my legs with the paint on my feet! Hee hee...

With Great-Grandma Sue

With Great-Grandma Yuen

With Great-Auntie Musina

With Great-Uncle Frank and Great-Auntie Musina

With Great-Auntie Eva and Auntie Vicki

Holding my lucky money from Uncle Andrew and Auntie Vicki

With Uncle Clinton

With Uncle Bryan

With Uncle Mallen (next year I get to play with his baby girl, "Laguna"! Yay!!)

Playing with my toy from Auntie Tricia and Uncle Rich

More pictures

Aidan has learned to recognize our camera (the big one and Mommy's camera phone) so you'll see a lot more pictures of him just staring wide-eyed in his pictures! Cracks us up but also makes us work a lot harder to get a smile or laugh out of him! =)

Mommy, why are you always kissing me?

Enjoying the Bumbo

I sure love my teether! I just love to shove it into my mouth! =)

Playing in the Exersaucer

Dressed up and ready to go out

After my first day at day care... I was knocked out!

With Auntie Gigi and cousin Justin

Staring contest

Happy Thanksgiving!

5 Months Old!!

Okay, we have been super lax with our posts.... sigh. Are there any followers left of our blog? LOL!

Anyhoo, Aidan is doing well. He's a little kangaroo now - every time we stand him up he'll jump, jump, and jump non-stop for a few minutes; catch his breath; and continue on. He laughs especially when we clap our hands. Apparently Daddy has introduced him to his Exersaucer (thanks for letting us borrow it, Michelle!) and he loves the sun and the star because they have faces on them. He's also learned how to grab including pinching so lucky us we get pinches of love occasionally. But he'll grab links, teethers, and his toys and into his slobbery mouth they'll all go. Apparently our pediatrician said that his back gums are swollen from the teeth growing underneath. Hence all the drool (he goes through at least 2 bibs per day) and all the handsucking! Finally he loves his music! Anytime he hears music cube he'll turn towards it and try to grab for it. We try to use it to entice him to roll but no go.... he still hasn't rolled again. But his tummy time has gotten tons better!! He can last for 5 - 7 minutes at a stretch, depending on his mood and if he's entertained. He hates doing it on the floor because there's not much going on even though we put up mirrors and his toys. He knows there are better things to see than that! Too smart!

Sleeping has been interesting because he goes to sleep at about 5:30 to 6:00 pm now! Which means that Mommy does not see him at night unless she dream feeds him. =( But at least he's getting his rest! His wake-up times vary between 4:00 (not our favorite) to 6:00 (so much better!) and we've been playing around with that since we don't want him to wake up at 4:00 too often. ;) Speaking of which, he learned to fake sleep in the car! Mommy was pretending to sleep to try to trick him to sleep. But she fell asleep during the car ride home, yet still heard him babbling and laughing. About 5 minutes from home she woke up and saw that he fell asleep. But he kept smiling at every turn even though his eyes were closed (he never does that when he sleeps). So she took out her camera to take a picture of his smiling sleep and then, BOING!, his eyes popped open, he smiled, and then closed his eyes while he was giggling!! Silly boy! He thought it was a game!


Christmas was soooo fun and boy did he get spoiled! A ton of clothes and toys... even though he didn't know what was going on. Mommy was scared about Christmas because of all the stops that day but Aidan was a trooper. He lasted from 11:00 am to 9:30 pm and the only times he napped was in the car and on a short 30-minute walk in SF. He was pooped but didn't fuss that night or the next day!!

Finally, he loves his attention. If we don't pay enough attention to him, he'll go, "Ack!" and laugh/giggle. Mommy has tried to ignore him to see if he really is seeking attention and Aidan will continue to "ack" until she looks at him. Then he'll laugh like crazy.

So here are some recent pictures of him: