Aiden loves carbonated water. We have a CO2 tank in our kitchen (seriously) to carbonate our own water, and he’s also a big fan. His first few attempts were comedic, to be sure, but now he loves to remind us that they tickle his throat (I think my mom started him saying that).
Usually it’s unprompted, but sometimes a little prompt is necessary to get something on camera!
Today, without prompting, Aiden counted to 4! Prior to this, he would voluntarily count “one, two” over and over again, and would throw in a “three” with some prompting, but otherwise his numbers would just be by repeating what I said number by number. By chance, I caught the moment on video:
I was taping Aiden’s lunch since he was moving his grapes from pile to pile and I had no idea why. He seemed to know, though!
Aiden is an active little man. Aside from running and biking and climbing, he is also working on his strength training. Because cardio alone is not very well rounded, right?
So, we have Aiden swinging kettlebells and doing chin ups on rings, and even doing push-ups.
He wishes ;)
For some time now, Aiden has expressed his thirst by doing a dainty little cough. Months before he could express himself through words, he figured out that his little cough would be followed by the question “Are you thirsty?”.
For a long time, water was identified by this cough. I remember when Aiden was first learning to use his words, he was telling me about his lunch… “Apple, nana, deeda (his word for bread, derived from the tick/tock of the toaster oven)… *cough cough*” He specifically pointed at the water for his *cough cough*, as if that was describing what it was.
In the above video, I managed to capture one of Aiden’s last uses of the *cough*. It’s becoming more rare, as he uses words to express himself instead. He began by replacing most instances of the cough with agua or juice, and this week finally started using the word “water” more often. It’s kind of sad when these baby quirks start to disappear!
Some of Aiden’s big “firsts” have all involved Daddy. His first 100% accurately pronounced word was Daddy. His first two-word sentence was “Hi, Daddy” and now his first 3-word sentence is for Daddy too. And what better day for it than on Father’s Day? We tried to get Aiden to say “Happy Daddy Day”, but all he could say was “Happy Day” or “Happy D Day” until this one absolutely perfect moment:
SO SWEET!!
We spent our Father’s Day having a family breakfast and going to Car Free Day on Main Street. As you can see, Aiden made Daddy a card, though he definitely prefers using stickers to pens right now!
