AJ

AJ (Aaron Edmund Beckman, Jr.) was born on July 26th.  He is a beautiful baby.  Pregnancy stunk and labor and delivery was worse, but he so makes up for it!  His favorite thing to do is eat.  He's a big baby.  He also likes to jump.  He jumps in a Johnny jump up and he jumps when you're holding him.  He sleeps well except for that he wakes up once or sometimes twice a night to do his favorite thing.  Fortunately for me, he is already about as independent as a 5 month old can be.  He holds his own bottle and prefers to sleep in his own bed. So waking up to get him a bottle takes a max of about ten minutes.  He loves his big sister, she provides endless entertainment for him (and is happy to do so), but his favorite person is definitely Aaron.  He lights up when he sees his daddy.  This makes me incredibly jealous - but what do you do?  He rolls and scoots wherever he needs to go, although he doesn't really care too much about getting anywhere.  He's happy just to be getting around.  He also loves to be tickled.  He loves to be tickled so much that even Brooklynn can get him bursting with laughter.  He's laugh is this husky boy laugh that's so different from his sister's infectious giggle and it's so sincere that it warms you up completely.