Gorgeous weather in November

The weather has been gorgeous and usually warm for this time of the year. The last couple of days, we had upper 60s and lower 70s as high. For the rest of the week, the high will be in the lower 70s. We wish we didn't have to work and get out with Aiden to have some outdoors fun!! Of course, the temperature will go down to the lower 50s on the weekend. YIKES!!! Good thing is that Aiden has spent a lot of time outdoors both at daycare and at home with Grandparents.

1. Clean up the backyard

2. Inspection

Family Reunion

My parents came to the States for another visit since October. Matt's family all came to Indianapolis on the weekend for family fun time. Cousins Grant and Audrey had so much fun playing on Aiden's playset in the backyard. Aiden also loved to chase them and climbed up and down the playset.

The whole Zeigler family

The Zeigler and Li Family

Two musketeers

Three musketeers

Goofy Audrey and Grant

Hair Cut

Saturday evening, Dad gave Aiden a haircut. The last haircut went quite well since we let him watch his favoriate cartoon "Cars" during the haircut. He sat still and didn't cry at all. This time, as soon as he saw Daddy take out the trimmer, he tried to run away from him and Cars cartoon didn't do the trick either. He cried and told Daddy "No, Daddy" which broke Daddy's heart. But in the end, he looked neater with short hair!

Freezing Rain

The temperature suddenly dropped since Thursday evening. This Friday noon, we got a little freezing rain. This is the first time Aiden has ever seen freezing rain. He was very curious about the stuff that dropped off the sky. He stood in the front yard and enjoyed watching the freezing rain come down. Of course, he was bundled up like Eskimo.

Happy eater

Since grandparents Li got here, Aiden has been eating a lot of chinese veggie noodles and rice. He can use both spoon and folk if he wants to, but most of time he thinks those silverwares are not as efficient as his hands.

1. Soooo delicious!

2. Don't miss any delicious noodles

3. Half way through my whole bowl of noodles

New words!

Over the weekend, Aiden has just learned a few new words: apple, cracker and help. He could pronounce apple and help fairly well. Cracker was a little difficult for him, he says it more like "kaker".

Trick or Treat at Daycare

There is a spooktacular party at Aiden's daycare today. This is Aiden's second Halloween. We decided to dress him like meerkat which turned out quite unique outfit and very cute. He still didn't quite get the idea about trick-or-treat. When we took him to other room in daycare, he only cared about the toys not candies. Anyways, it was fun!

1. Check out my cool tail!


2. Meerkat's concerntration


3. Check out my back!


4. Meerkat having sweet treat!


5. Thirsty meerkat drinking apple juice.


6. Look out


7. Trick-or-treat at daycare

Animal Sounds

At 19.5 months old, Aiden can do the following animal sounds. Cow (mooo), sheep (bah), horse (neigh), dog panting, duck (gaga), monkey (wowo), owl (owl), dinosaur (roar), lion (roar), fish, pig, bee and cat. He can do a few sign languages: please, ball, book, eat, yellow, outside, more. The words he has managed are: please, outside, ball, book, water (wawa), milk, more, dog, eyes, nose, daddy, mama, owl, car, bus, byebye, bird, NO (his favoriate one), duck. He started saying two words together such as byebye car, car book, mama car, my ball. Also he has mastered all his Melissa & Doug's puzzles including animals, transportation, shapes and cars. Go Aiden!

Time for Raking Leaves

As the late Fall is coming, most the tree leaves in the backyard has fallen. It is time to rake the leaves again. This year, we got a little helper - Aiden. He was very interested in holding the rake and tried a few times, but the rake was way too big for him. I think he enjoyed jumping inside the leaf piles more than working. :P

Look at my leaf piles



Working hard and resting in leaf piles



Daddy's tomato riped

Apple Picking

The weather has been great this October. Last year, we took Aiden to Anderson Orchard while he was about 7 months old. He wasn't sure what to do with the apples in the tree. But this year, he knew exactly what to do.

My big red apple face..

First trip to Children's museum

I am not really interested in Barbies, but these girls are sitting on motorcycles and cars.
My hands are small for big polar bear foot print.

Tonight after work, grandpa and grandma Li and Mom took Aiden to Indianapolis Children's museum. This was Aiden's first trip to children's museum. He loved the water play, train table and lawn mower. This would be a great place to spend family time together in the winter.

Aiden is moving up to old toddler room

Aiden has been spending one day per week in old toddler room to prepare for moving up. The teachers from both young todd and old todd room told me that he has been doing great and is much happier in the old todd room. Finally starting from today, he will be in old todd room full time and enjoy himself with his old friends who moved up a month earlier.

First Hayride

Grandpa and Grandma Zeigler came to Indy to visit this Sunday and we all went out for a Octoberfest in Zionsville. Aiden did his first hayride. Not sure he enjoyed it or not, he was very curious to look around during the ride. He liked rolling and kicking the pumpkins and did some art work there too.

Mommy's huggy bear

We spent Aiden's second memorial day weekend with grandparents Zeigler. He enjoyed playing with cousin Audrey so much. Before she went home, Aiden gave her a big hug. That was sooooo sweet!

Kisses

On the past Saturday, Matt was holding Aiden and out of nowhere, Aiden gave a big kiss on Daddy's cheek. Since then, he has been really enjoying giving kisses. That was a nice gift from him to me for mother's day. :)))

Walk, walk and walk

Since his first b-day when he started to practice on walking, lil Aiden has been walking, walking and walking. The best time he can walk from kitchen to my bedroom without falling. That is about 20 feet. Recently, he likes to dump everything out of the box and put them back in over and over again. Also during the daycare drop off, he would wave byebye to me if he is in good mood!

Aiden's one year birthday party

We had Aiden's one year birthday party on Saturday March 13th, two days after Aiden's birthday. We had all Matt's family and two of my friends here. We made an all-star sport birthday cake for Aiden since it matched his b-day party scene. Here is the cake. (This is my first to decorate a cake). Aiden's cousin Audrey also made a special cupcake for him.

Mom's homemade b-day cake - not too bad















Aiden checking out his special cupcake made by cousin Audrey







Sport scene party




















Aiden got three-wheels from Grandparents Zeigler

Here I comes - walking

On the day of his 1st birthday, he decided to practice on his walking. He took a couple of steps, then he got down on his hands and feet on the floor and got back up to get his balance back and took another few steps. The most steps he took alone was 6. He did that over and over again for about 10 times. And this morning when I dropped him to daycare, we walked halfway from the car to the entry door and then from entry door to his room!

One Year Check-Up Stats

Aiden weighs 20lbs 9oz (19%), measures 30.25'' (67%) and head is 45cm (14%) at one-year check up. Even so, he still gets called as big boy in daycare.

HAPPY 1st BIRTDAY!!!

Can you believe that my lil man is ONE YEAR OLD today!! Happy 1st Birthday, baby!!!

Slide show

Just before Aiden's 1st b-day, I made a slide show with my favoriate cartoons!

Aiden's 1st birthday party theme

We decided to do all-star sports scene for Aiden's 1st birthday party.I can't wait for the party day. It would be fun!!!

Need to get busy with planning Aiden's first b-day

In less than two weeks, my little man will turn 1 year old. Matt and I need to get busy this weekend on planning his b-day party and buying party supplies and decorations.

Aiden is sick again after one week sickness-free

Aiden started running nose and coughing the past Sunday and developed fever since Monday. And yesterday he stayed at home with me and his eyes started having discharge and got pinky. So I thought he also got eye infection, possibly pink eyes. I took him into the doc's office again (4th trip to doc's office since the beginning of this year) and he did have one ear infection, sinus infection and eye infection. But at least lung sounded good. He started amox again tonight for another 10 days. It seems that his sickness during the winter has been nonstop.....

Recovering from Hives

Out of nowhere, I came down with horrible hives this Monday night and Tuesday was the worst day. I have been on steroid for four days and it seems to be working well. I haven't got any single breakout today so far. KNOCK ON WOOD!! Keep my finger crossed that it wouldn't come back after I stop the steroid.

Almost full day at young toddler's room

Yesterday morning during the daycare drop-off, I was told that Aiden could be dropped at young toddler's room. He ate all his AM and PM snack and lunch (spaghetti, peaches and corn) mostly on his own. When he was done with his lunch, he got up his chair, leaned on the table and tried to reach other kids' lunch. Hungry boy!! He also slept about an hour on the cot. Finally he returned to infant's room around 3pm since he was exhausted and needed some rocking and cuddling. The teacher thought he did pretty well as being the youngest one there! We are pround parents!!

Aiden is sick again

After one week recovering from ear infection, he started terrible coughing. I learned that one child from his daycare in his room had RSV, so it is likely Aiden might have it too. I took him to doctor's office today since he developed fever since last night. But for now, we will watch his fever for the weekend. If fever still persists next Monday, he will probably have x-ray to check his lung. Hopefully he will feel better soon.

Aiden took his first steps!!

Yesterday was my b-day. Aiden gave me a big surprise gift. He took his first steps without any support!! I was playing with the camera and trying to take some pictures. He was about a foot away from me. He got up to standing position and took two steps to reach out for me since he wants to touch the camera. Anyways, it was a pretty good b-day gift for me!

One snowstorm after another

We just had one snowstorm last Friday and had about 8 inches snow. Today, we have another one and we are expecting another 4-8 inches snow. Might have to pick up Aiden a little earlier if the daycare decides to close down early. We can't wait for the warm weather!!!

Cutting first tooth?

Aiden woke up this morning with 100.8 degree. I thought he was not completely over from his ear infection about a week ago. So I took him to the doctor's office and got his ears checked up. They looked good and lung sounded good too. So I asked doctor to check his gum since it looked a little irritated but I couldn't feel the teeth. She touched the gum and told me that she could feel one of the bottom incisors cutting out. And she thinks sometimes kids get diarrhea or low grade fever less than 101 from teething. Hopefully we will see those lil teeth come out soon and they would be Aiden's FIRST tooth. He is three days short of 11-month old!!

New teachers at daycare

Aiden's favoriate teacher at daycare left for a new career last Friday. This morning during drop off, two brand-new teachers were there. Hopefully he will do well with new teachers.

Mom's B-day dinner

It is not my official b-day yet, but since it is on Tuesday, we decided to go out to Joe Crab Shack to have b-day dinner on the weekend before my b-day. Seafood is my favoriate food in the whole world!! Aiden enjoyed watching waitresses dance.

Aiden is moving up to young toddler's room

Yesterday when I picked up Aiden at daycare, the teachers asked me if I am ok with moving Aiden up to young toddler's room before his first birthday since they think he is ready in terms of motor skills and some self feeding skills. Aiden seems to enjoy playing with older kids who are more mobile and have more skills. Per teachers, he is very happy when older kids around. Right now, they start having him stay in young toddler's room for a few hours a day before the final transition. My lil boy is growing up!!

Almost 11 month old Aiden

Time flies so fast when there is a little kiddo in my life. My little Aiden is almost 11 month old and he is so much fun to be around right now. Recently, he learned a new trick - high five. When we say high five, he will raise either one hand or both hands and waiting for us to give him a high five. He is also so curious about the people around him especially the toddlers who are a little older than him. Last night we took him to Applebee and he saw a little girl about 2 or 3 years old next to us. He smiled at her right away. So cute!!!
P.S. The picture was taken around his first Christmas time. He was a little over 9-month old then.

Aiden's First Christmas

Today is Aiden's first Christmas with Mommy and Daddy! He got puzzles, "cell phone" and ball popper from us. He didn't quite understand the concept of opening the gift. But he surely liked the box better than the gift.

Daddy's birthday with Aiden for the first time

Today is Daddy's big 40th birthday. Mommy got his favoriate DQ icecream cake for his birthday. Happy 40th Birthday, Daddy!! WE LOVE YOU!!

Aiden crawled forward FINALLY

After nearly two-month crawling backward, Aiden finally decided to crawl forward. Mommy and Aiden were doing webcam with Grandparents Li in China as usual. Aiden saw the computer and out of nowhere, he crawled forward on all fours towards the computer. He just achieved another milestone :))))

Aiden's first Halloween - Little Dino

This is Aiden's first Halloween. We dressed him up as a little green dino. We didn't take him to trick-or-treat since he was too little and I bet next year, he will enjoy Halloween a lot more!

Pumpkin Patch

It is fall time. We took Aiden to Anderson Orchard this weekend. We picked up a whole bag of Fuji and Golden Delicious apples. Aiden also enjoyed lying on the big pumkins.

Aiden is half year old!!

I can't believe that my lil boy is 6-month old today! It felt like yesterday when I held him the first time. We took him to JcPenny to get family portrait done with Grandparents Zeigler. Look how happy is Aiden!!!!

Aiden's First Time to Zoo

We took Aiden to Indy zoo for first time when he was a little over 5-month old. He was more interested in people than animals there. But it was still nice to take him out and stroll around the zoo! Next year, he will be enjoying the zoo a lot more!

Aiden can sit now!!!

Aiden is 5-month and 1 week old. He has been showing interest in sitting. So today we put him on the floor and he sat without any support for about 20 seconds!! Yay!!!

Aiden's First Veggie

After one month of rice cereal, we decided to try something new for Aiden. Mom did some research on whether to start with veggie or fruit and found many Moms online suggested to start with veggie since fruits are usually sweet and once the babies have sweet food, they don't want to eat veggie. So Mom and Dad picked up sweet potato for Aiden and it turned out Aiden LOVED it so much more than rice cereal. Yumm....