Aidan's first Christmas

Aidan in Santa suit,
originally uploaded by Helen Norris.

2007 was Aidan's first Christmas. He seemed to have a good time, His favorite gifts were the exersaucer and a stuffed moose. For some reason, he likes to stuff the moose in his mouth! It's amazing to see how much more alert he is than before. He also has found his voice and his feet.

After Christmas, we had an open house, where many of our friends came over to eat and drink some non-Christmas food. It was a lot of fun. The next day, Aisling and I drove up to Reno to visit Amanda & Tim and also to sled and tube. It was snowing on the way up so I was worried about the roads, but it was absolutely fine. Aisling dragged me to every mall in Reno, and there are a lot of them! We went sledding on Mount Rose one day, and the next day we went tubing and sledding at Donner Pass. In addition to the excitement of the snow sports and the mall visits, Aisling also spent a lot of time eating oysters both on the half shell and as shooters. Visit our youtube videos to see Aisling in action! Who knew she would develop such an adventurous food side (unlike myself!) We stayed at the Atlantis resort, which was fine. We especially liked the Sushi bar on the skywalk, which is where Aisling experienced her oyster bliss! The only negative thing about the Atlantis was the exercise center, which was under construction. They did have a temporary exercise room, but it was only available to people over 18, so Aisling couldn't use it. Also, the hot tub was just too full of people for us to really use it at all, and that would have been very nice after our bruising sledding experiences!