The second time around!

Isn't life funny, I swore to myself that with my second child I would make the time to record everything and when my children look back that could compare and laugh about their life and pick on their mother for recording everything, down to the most minuscule little details! But I have fallen victim to what seems like a very common situation in our household.........................the "I will do it later disease!" I can hear myself this very moment nattering inside my head that I will sit down and get up to date with what is now a ridiculously near impossible task to complete.................as my memory these days is not cracked up to be what it used to be! You see when I was a young girl I had a memory like an elephant, I remembered everything, down to what present I bought my boyfriend(now hubby), when we were nineteen!

All I can say is thank goodness for blogs because with out this my little man would have nothing except a couple of dates when teeth came through and weights and measurements up to his 1st birthday, with no photos and no little captions about the special occasions and milestones he reached in that oh so very special first year!

Sorry in advance my beautiful sweet natured and fun little boy, mummy will try and post now some of the special things that have happened to you in the last 18 months that have made me smile, laugh and cry!

So here are a few Aidan isms as I like to call them!

1. He was so determined to walk and get around as fast as he could, very different to Amber who took her first steps at 14 months, Aidan took his first steps at the end of 10 months and never looked back. I think it took us by surprise as it was difficult to get a recording of him moving at first, it seems like such a long time ago now!




2. One of my favourite things that Aidan used to do and is oh so sweet but unfortunately something we missed on video, as you can see by the below taping that we tried to set up, he used to love his blanket so much and he would always have more than one lying around so one day we caught him crawling down the hall that had several blankets lying on the floor so when he was really tired he would crawl along and stop at each blanket and then rest his head down on the floor for a nap but then decide that he had to keep going until of course he hit the next blanket. It was the cutest and sweetest thing I have ever seen I so wish I had taped it, but its ok it will always be in my memories and in my heart forever!










3. The boy loves to climb and I mean everything, you name it in our house he has climbed and conquered it already. The kitchen bench, the dining table and why stop there, he also loves to jump off things my favourite is when he jumps off the ottoman and onto our Wing back chair! He is such a little dare devil, next stop the roof no doubt, if we get to the age of two without broken bones I will be amazed! He also has no fear of water and thinks he can swim and slippery slides who needs assistance when its second nature to slide down a slippery dip isn't it lol!!!!!!


















4. He also loves to jump (well he is constantly trying to jump), everyone up at Amber's school will contest to that, he spends hours trying to jump downstairs one day he will achieve this and shock himself! He is working on walking down the stairs at the moment without using a rail for assistance, he is such a crazy little thing!









5. Aidan adores books and will spend hours sitting in the bedroom looking at the pages and pointing to the words, once he works out how to talk watch your ears,I have a feeling he is never going to shut up once he works it all out!





6. The boy can wee, take his nappy off for a little nappy free time and I guarantee that within 10 minutes you will have approximately 3 puddles somewhere around the house. I know this is not a milestone, but its a fact lol!

7. Aidan's favourite song is HAPPY BIRTHDAY and "If your happy and you know it"....he especially loves the hip hip hooray part! He sang this for the first time at Amber's birthday party dinner and took all the attention away from the birthday girl, lucky she was very gracious about the whole thing!

The boy is also partial to getting his groove on, watch out girls with these moves your in trouble lol!










8. He loves buttons and pressing them, his fine motor skills from a very young age have just blown me away. I remember being up at school when Amber was in Prep and Aidan was a very young 8 months old and he was playing with a Trouble game and he was putting the little player pieces in the little circles with ease, pen lids can be taken off with ease and then placed back on, he is just so fascinated with how things go together, this is very David and I can see a whole lot of trouble up ahead! You can ask my walls they have already received a good battering!

9. A social creature he is and for the last two years he has built a very loyal and some what intense fan club at Amber's school. Their are literally a handful of children that mob him as soon as he walks in the door and Adore him with cuddles, kisses and a whole lot of love is given out in abundance and he soaks up all that attention like a little sponge. I have never met a child that is so happy to be touched and carried around so much, it takes something great for him to get cranky and push them away! He will have a rude shock one day when the attention goes away!

10. He literally never cries, I am sure this will change but he is the bravest little man, twice now he has lost a toe or fingernail through getting his fingers caught in a draw and a toe under a door and both times he only cried for the smallest amount of time and then moved on! Thankfully his toenail has grown back and his fingernail is halfway there, but it just leaves my gobsmacked how brave he is, I would be sucking it for all it was worth and crying my little eyes out if that happened to me.

11. He will wake up in the middle of the night and come looking for someone and if he doesn't find anyone he will just find a spot on the lounge or floor and go back to sleep, it is really so cute!

12. Aidan's favourite food is macaroni and cheese and like his sister he loves his vegetables and fruit especially watermelon, he has also recently thanks to an older sister and with Easter found on obbsession with Chocolate and any thing sweet and with his fantastic climbing skills finding the chocolate is no problem what so ever!

13.. Another thing he loves is my lap top as I found out only recently while on the phone with a customer and within minutes he managed to flick all the keys off the keyboard with my nail file and by the way this is our second lap top as the first one ended up water logged thanks to Aidan whacking it with his sippa cup and filling the keyboard up with water. The computer has now been moved higher, but did I mention that he can climb lol!!!




14. Aidan is not interested in learning words one by one, he is trying really hard to talk in full sentences, unfortunately he is the only one that understands what is going on about! Can anyone remember that lovely frustrating stage in a child's life where there is lack of communication followed by a meltdown and hissy fit because you can't understand them!

15. We have now come to the fun stage of Aidan, the stage that drives me a little nuts, the ,"I must cling to my mothers side no matter what!"(this is not a milestone of sorts but something that I will surely never forget with both my children lol!) and the flash backs of my daughter come flooding back way to clearly now thanks to my new little side kick! Yes I am talking about the stage where they never leave your side, I can not go anywhere without Aidan being on my lap, gone is the peace of going to the bathroom, eating a meal or just wanting to have a little me space, I guess for the interim I will have to be happy with the very small window of peace late at night...............you know the time of the night when your dead tired and should really just go to bed and catch some zzzzzz's but for some insane reason you have the desire to stay up so you can have some me time!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just the thought of me time oh what bliss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. Not to finish on a bad note but our little man has now decided that hitting and biting is the best way to problem solve! Can't get what you want or someone is in your face easy fixed bite or hit them guaranteed to send them running...............right?????????
(I am hoping this stage is brief lol or else we are all going to be all very holey soon!)
And just when you thought you were going to go crazy and couldn't stand any more he goes and does something so cute that you just have to forgive him and go and give him a big cuddle!

So here are some choice new words he has thrown our way lately we have shh which means shoes and doooo that means dog and the perfect way to finish this post seeee ya! Until tomorrow seeee ya mate!