Saturday 19 December 2009

Four Months Old and Staying Busy in Chicago

Aidan is now four months old and boy have we been busy since we got to Chicago two weeks ago. I've seen 'A Christmas Carol' at the Goodman theatre, the new Addams Family musical, the Chicago Symphony Christmas show and Aidan has been getting reacquainted with family and meeting some new friends. Although we are having a lot of fun, we are so anxious for Al to arrive on Christmas Eve...it can't come soon enough, we miss him so much!

Aidan got to meet his Orsinger cousins, Claire who is almost 2 1/2 and Nora who is just about 6 weeks!


Aidan got an early Christmas present...a Bumbo Seat!


Kim, my roommate from college had me and our other roommates over to her house. There are five of us and 3 of us have sons! Unfortunately Mary, Will and Thomas had to leave before we had a chance to take the group picture.


Aidan's first taste of solid food went well. He had a few spoonfuls of rice cereal and seemed to like it...and it looked good on him too!


A huge thanks to my Dad who has been great about babysitting Aidan the past two weeks. I've been calling him my Manny!

Sunday 6 December 2009

New York!



We spent the last two weeks in New York and had the best time. A huge thanks to Pat and Bob who spoiled us completely! Aidan had a great time visiting with all of his New York family and friends and had quite a few firsts:


First NYC taxi ride



First visit to Uncle Sean's office at DC Comics



First trip to Bob & Al's favorite diner Thomas' Ham and Eggery

First heart-to-heart chat with his cousin Ryan



First Thanksgiving


(He told me he wanted to wear that shirt)



First trip to Brooklyn to visit Stephanie, Matt & his new friend-to-be Gracen!


First nice family picture!


Al is back in London and Aidan and I are in Chicago now bracing ourselves for another first for Aidan...his first snow! Yikes!






Monday 16 November 2009

Three Shots for Three Months Old!



Three vaccination shots that is. Aidan is 3 months old today and had his three month shots today. The poor guy took them like champ though and is very much looking forward to his big US trip on Saturday. I am looking forward to seeing New Moon tomorrow night and Al is looking forward to two weeks of vacation.



Baby stuff continues to take over our house...Aidan got a new play mat.


Some manly manicure time with Dad!


Aidan's days in the Carrycot are numbered!

In case you want MORE Aidan pictures: http://gallery.me.com/nora.taylor#100071

Saturday 14 November 2009

Welcome to our Blog!


Here it is...our Taylor family blog. I have to thank Laura Mogensen who is the inspiration behind this. I'm hoping to update weekly with news and pictures of what is going on with us.
This weekend is our last weekend before our big trip to the US. We leave for New York on the 21st and then Aidan and I head to Chicago on December 5th where Al will join us on Christmas Eve. Aidan is looking forward to his next trip to the US and Al and I are hoping that he is as good on the flights as last time!