Today Aidan turned ten weeks, and looking back at the earlier pictures we see a huge difference in the last month. He's nearly grown out of his clothes, and he's drinking larger and larger quantities of milk; he makes much more intelligent noises, and loves being played with and sung to. Today he giggled for the first time! Another really exciting thing that happened this week is that he started sleeping eight hours at a stretch! This is fantastic, because we get more sleep -- but we wake up anyway, worried that he hasn't woken up... :-( We'll adjust!

We are also installed in our new home, which is lovely. The move (out, then a one week gap which we spent in Scotland, then in) was a big job, and took a lot out of us; Aidan coped admirably although he found all the sudden changes a bit traumatic at times. The chaos of the move accounts for the gap in updates to the website, for which we apologise profusely: it won't happen again, promise!

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Keith, Aidan, and Carolyn had lunch together on Tuesday (9th) at the Pike and Eel pub, by the River Cam.

Tired out after a long suck.

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On Thursday he finally discovered his thumb -- and did he do it properly!! He spends a large fraction of his waking moments sucking it now. He spent several weeks trying sucking his fist, but it wouldn't fit, and recently discovered his fingers, but now he's hit the jackpot.

Monday morning -- ten today! (weeks). His birthday present to us is that he slept eight hours solid three nights in a row! Wow! (Obviously he sleeps in his Moses basket, not in our bed, but he does seem to end up in our bed between 7 and 8am...)

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