As I prepared to write this post it became pretty clear to me how crappy I've been when it comes to keeping a photographic record of Aidan lately. I found 6 decent pictures of him from the past three weeks. Six. Can you believe that? I can't. There are so few that I'm now going to add the photos from my cell phone. While my cell phone is a lot better than my past camera phones, its still not good enough to be posting its photos everywhere. This, however, is what my laziness has brought me to.

Aidan has cut his first tooth. It happened quickly as I had just checked his gums for the tell tale redness two weeks ago but found none. Saturday my dad felt the ridge of a tooth and now you can actually see the tooth coming through. The good news is, Aidan doesn't care. What he does care about though is getting mobile.

On Saturday we had him on a wood floor flopping around. Like a retarded ant he managed to get wherever he wanted to go in a slow, round-about way. He would backstroke using his feet to push himself along, roll, and squirm to get to his target. He's also managing to get into a pose that seriously resembles the crawling starting position but he fails to advance. Instead, he slides backwards. We're convinced we only have a couple of weeks left of a non-crawling baby. Given that both Jaime and I walked at 10 months, we figure the dogs are only safe for another few months at best.

The dogs, for those who don't know, LOVE Aidan. Julie especially digs him. They lick him and seem to be generally gentle around him although they sometimes get excited and forget he's there. Aidan, in his turn, adores the dogs. Julie is his favorite but either of the dogs can make him break out in laughter just by walking into the room. One of his favorite moves is to grab Julie by the sides of her face and pull her close to his face. We were initially worried that Julies past life with demon children would put her off towards kids permanently. Thankfully, she seems to actually seek kids out now and her patience with Aidan makes us believe she's not quite as scarred as we thought. And don't worry, we know dogs can't be completely trusted with kids so we never leave Aidan alone with the dogs for more than a few hours.