So Gwen’s birthday was yesterday. She celebrated with a hair cut! And cake.

Yesterday as I was trying to get Aidan to sleep we went for a walk. I decided that since I want to have my hair cut and I have been waitnig for my hairdresser to finally open her new salon we would go by the storefront and see if she was finally open.

Judith’s is now open for business. Aidan and I went into her shop to make an appointment for me and we talked for a few minutes. I was absently playing with Aidan’s bangs and Judith offered to trim them. Since I have been getting comments from you guys at home and the center of the hair seems to land right down the middle of his nose I said “yes, thankyou.”

It only took about 10 seconds and now I have a small piece of Aidan’s hair. It looks good and now there is no hair in his eyes. I will save a big haircut for when he has lots more hair. If Aidan is anything like me, that won’t be until he is 2.

This afternoon when I had an email to send Aidan found the Minigo that I had forgotten on the coffee table just minutes earlier. After saying “No!” and having Aidan throw the minigo on the carpet I decided that I would have to give up a bit of control and go with the flow. Well within reason. So I put Aidan in his high chair, put on his big plastic cover all bib and let him go at it. Here are the pictures to prove that Mommy will sometimes give up control of the sticky stuff. (Aidan was scheduled for a bath tonight anyway.)

Today Aidan was finally healthy enough to get his 1 year check-up and shots. Of course there was a mix up at the doctor’s office and the appointment I had made two weeks earlier to get his check-up was mistakenly cancelled. I think that the mix up must have been that the appointment I got for him on the 29th of March cancelled the one in April, though he still needed to be check from the illness and get his full 1 year check. This meant that they did fit me in, but we had to wait another 20-30 minutes. Aidan crawled all around the office, played with the bead and wire contraption, tried to eat some books and tried to get some of the open files off a shelf.

When we got into the appointment Aidan was pretty tired since he has been taking a nap mid morning for about two to three hours. He was very good though and we were able to measure him (74 cm, that is 4 cm more than last check-up, 25th percentile), weigh him, on the big scale this time, (a little less than 22 pounds, 50th percentile) and check his lungs (no wiggling on the table).

After weighing him Dr. Izen went to get the needles for his vaccinations (measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and chicken pox) and I got Aidan ready to get stabbed in the legs. Dr. Izen is really good and fairly quick so Aidan didn’t mind too much, but he did cry a little bit. He stopped immediately though when Mommy got her blood-pressure taken. Aidan was very interested to see what the doctor was doing to Mommy.

Aidan had a bottle and a nap when we got home and the vaccinations only affected him a little. I did give him a dose of Ibprophen this afternoon as he got some very red cheeks, but his legs don’t seem to be sore. He is now in bed after falling asleep on Daddy’s lap.