After three and a half wonderful weeks away, we returned home to the UK. It took us all some time to adjust to the time zone, not helped by the cold weather and the short days. The next few days were quite a rush: we had only ten days at home before we went north for Christmas. Aidan did manage to sit up for the first time, and continued to assert his independence in selecting his sleeping position. He also developed a cough/cold which hung annoyingly on and on.

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Home at last! After riding in a car, a plane, an underground train, an overground train, and a taxi, we collapsed collectively in a heap on the floor with our luggage, just before 4pm on Tuesday 9 December. It felt good.

Sitting up for the first time! He stayed up for several minutes, at which point he started crying and we lay him down - he didn't fall over.

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Christmas lunch out with Mummy and Daddy (at Daddy's work).

Our budding musician - teaching himself the basics of the Western scale.

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Asleep on his side for the first time.

Aidan has been getting quite a bit of teething pain, so on Mon 22nd we gave him a piece of apple to chew on. He sucked all the juice out, and enjoyed it so much that we gave him a second piece. This suffered the same fate, so we puréed the rest and fed it to him! He loved it, and thus was introduced to solid food.

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