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Aaron actually slept through the whole night on Thursday 18th August. We were a bit worried at first as he usually wakes up a couple of times during the night, but he must have been tired out and had enough food during the day.

Unfortunately, he hasn’t quite slept through the whole night since but he has done very well with his sleeping! 😉

Well, the little man is growing so quick that we have had to take him out of his Moses basket now and put him into the cot. He is still quite young to go into Ben’s room as he is not sleeping at all at night really, so we have had to move the cot into our room for now. A bit of a nightmare really, as it is quite large due to it being a cot bed, so there is barely any space for it. We are looking into getting a smaller cot for the next few months until he finally settles down during the night, but we will have to see how this goes for now.

Aaron is now teething and has been for several weeks. This has made him into a right dribbler, and is probably not helping him to sleep at night. No teeth have actually come through yet, but you can feel them all just beneath the gums so it won’t be long before they start coming through.

In the past week, Aaron has started to pull himself into a sitting up position!  He is a very strong baby and it is quite early for him to be doing this, but he fights you to get up so that he is sitting up and he seems to quieten down when he is in that position.  Maybe it is because he can see everything a bit better!

He is also smiling all the time now and when he does smile, it makes him look very cheeky indeed! All you need to do to make him smile it to look at him and talk a bit to him, and then he smiles back at you! Very cute!

Aaron is now in 3-6 months size clothes, even though he is a little way off being 3 months still!

Aaron is now a month old and is doing really well! He has grown lots in the past four weeks, probably because he loves his food from Mummy.  The last time he was weighed he was over 10 lb and that was a little over a week ago, so he must be pushing on 11 lb now. He was putting on more weight per week than the average, so he has had no problem with eating. Unfortunately, this means that he fills his nappy up a lot as well!  I have lost count how many nappy bags we have got through since he was born – it feels like hundreds!

He has had his first hearing test, which he passed successfully the second time. The first time, the machine that measures whether he can hear properly or not, was not working correctly, so the health visitor had to come back a week later with a different machine to try again. She reported no problems at all, that was great.

In the past week or so, Aaron has started smiling to us.  It is very cute!  The first time we thought it was just a bit of wind, but it definitely isn’t. He is also very strong and can hold his neck up for a long amount of time and has a good look around. He has been down on his stomach on his play mat, and he was able to lift his head up far enough to turn it round from side to side. This is very impressive seeing as gravity is obviously pushing his head down to the ground!

Sleeping hasn’t been so great recently. He tends not to like sleeping in his basket during the day, although he will do at night time. The only problem being that he tends to not sleep for very long at night, and even during the day at the moment.  This has led us to be very tired indeed with only a minimal amount of sleep each night!  When he does go to sleep, Ben tends to wake up, so we have to get up with him anyway! We are hoping in the next few weeks his sleeping pattern will change and we can get more sleep.  He is also a very noisy sleeper and snores quite a lot! 😉

There are a few things he tends to like at the moment which settle him down.  He likes to be sung Silent Night and he likes the bouncer and the TV.  He can sit in his bouncer for a good 30 minutes whilst looking at the TV. He also seems to like riding in the car as it puts him to sleep almost instantly!

Ben is still being very good to him, and tries to help us out with him too much really!  A good big brother so far! 😉

Come back again soon to see some new photos of Aaron!

Aaron is now one week old, and we don’t know where the time has gone!

The first few days and nights were quite hard as he was always hungry, so we were up until the middle of the night trying to settle him down.   As the days progressed, we have started to get into a better routine where we are all actually getting some sleep at night – even Aaron is sleeping for about 2-3 hours at a time during the night!

We have had several visits from the mid-wife and everything has been OK.  He lost a bit of weight when 3 days old, but this was normal, and it was only a few oz.  The next time he was weighed – a few days later – he had put on nearly all his weight again, so that was great!  The mid-wife also checked him over, and Kelly also, and both were given the all clear.

Aaron was registered at the Plymouth Registry Office on Wednesday 11th May, so we now have his birth certificates.  The same day we also went and got pasties to eat on Dartmoor (obviously Aaron didn’t have pasties!) so it was Aaron’s first little trip out for a picnic in the car.  He seemed to enjoy it as he slept nearly all the time he was in the car, apart for waking up for some food! (he is a guzzler!).

A lot of the family have visited us over the past week, and it was good to see them all.  They all thought Aaron was gorgeous and adorable.

We have received lots of cards and presents from everyone, so thank you to you all!

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After being 7 days overdue, baby boy Aaron decided that he wanted to be born into the World in double quick fashion on Wednesday 4th May at 6:40am (Jedi Day – May the 4th be with you).  Kelly only went into labour at about 3:15am so it was very quick compared to the 17 hours it took Ben to be born, and she was practically fully dilated by the time we got into the hospital!  So we were both glad that we left home when we did.

The birth was carried out with no unusual complications, with Aaron being fully fit when he arrived.  He was a large 8lb 7oz in weight, which was 1lb 3oz bigger than Ben was, so no wonder Kelly’s belly looked quite large! 😉

Once he was born, he had his usual checks (and so did Kelly) and they were eventually discharged at about 12:30pm, which was nice and quick.  So they were only in hospital for about 7 hours.

Aaron is a lovely little baby with a very loud set of lungs!  We aren’t sure who he takes after yet, though he does have lovely blue eyes the same as Ben and Mummy.  He had a good amount of dark hair and is a very big wriggler.  He also wants to eat all the time (so takes after Daddy and Gramps!) 😉

A special mention to Grandma who helped out with driving us around during the day and for looking after Ben when Aaron was being born!

Here are some photographs from Aaron’s first day. Enjoy!

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