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Last Friday (15th February), we changed Aaron’s cot so it became a bed. We took both sides off and lowered the middle section where he lies on to make it into an actual bed. We didn’t do this for Ben when he was little but decided we would for Aaron as we can’t really afford to buy a new bed for him, and this was why we got the cot bed in the first place!

The first night wasn’t too bad in the end. It took a while for him to settle as Kelly tried to cuddle him instead of rocking him to sleep as he is getting too big and heavy for that now! He wouldn’t settle for ages, but finally did and went off to sleep. We put an old duvet down on the floor between him and Ben’s bed in case he fell out in the night, and we were lucky we did as a couple of times he fell out.  One time Kelly went in and he was sat on the duvet with his head leaning against his bed, fast asleep! So the next night Kelly rolled up a blanket and put down the one side of his bed that he could fall out of and it worked.

It has taken some time for him to go sleep each night since, and it was actually better the first few nights than it is now but he is also teething badly at the moment which doesn’t help. But most nights he has done very well for sleeping really. I thought he would be waking up a lot more than he has been.  He seems to like his new bed and he hasn’t been getting out in the night and walking around which was another thing that we were worried about.  He is doing very well! 😉

The little man is growing big and strong now!  He is getting quite tall and has a very cheeky smile!

Kelly gave him his first hair cut in July as his hair was getting very long and he looked like a proper surfer dude. She managed to do it when he was in the bath and he wasn’t too bad whilst she was cutting it.  Once done, he looked a lot older though – not a little baby anymore, but a proper little boy. He does needs another trim now though!

Towards the end of June we had to change the height of the cot he sleeps in as one morning we heard a bang from the boys’ room and found Aaron lying on the floor. He had managed to climb out over the side of the cot and then fell to the flow.  The poor chap was crying but it didn’t last too long. So we had to adjust the height so he couldn’t do that again!

He has been going to play group sessions with Kelly and Ben (when Ben hasn’t been at school) and had been enjoying them lots. He joins in and always eats the snacks which are there for the children.

In the past week or so he has started singing to himself. It is always ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ as this is what they sing at the play group sessions. He does the twinkling movements with his hands as well which is really cute!

Aaron is always fighting with Ben! Jumping on each other and rolling about on the floor. Usually until someone gets hurt and then there are tears and tantrums. Boys will be boys! 😉

He is teething quite badly at the moment. Mostly due to his back teeth starting to try and push through. It means he is dribbling loads and wakes up in the night a fair bit. Hopefully they will push through soon and be over and done with!

During the summer, when I was off work, we managed to visit several places including Paignton Zoo, Dartmoor Zoo, Dairyland, Pennywell Farm and we also took the boys bowling for the very first time.  Aaron enjoyed all of these visits and loved watching the animals at the various places. He also enjoyed bowling and participated by helping Ben roll the bowling ball down a ramp onto the alley.  He also enjoyed the sweets he had there! 😉  (I will be putting some photos of these visits on this blog in the next couple of weeks!).

He loves the Wii and always picks up a controller and pretends to join in when we are playing it. He has even had a few goes at bowling and has actually managed to get a few pins down on several attempts!  He is also obsessed with the Game Boy Advance and always has to have this open and pressing the buttons when Ben plays with the DSi.  A proper couple of gamers they are!

On the odd dry and warm day during the last few months, he has enjoyed going out the back and playing with our sand and water table with Ben. As you can imagine, they have had themselves covered in sand and soaking wet each time they have used it! But they have had good fun together!

It was also the first Olympics since he was born!

Well, come back soon for the photos and the next update! 😉

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!