Aaden is 3!

I can't believe our boy is 3!  Oh how life changed so much for us 3 years ago.  Becoming parents has been a pretty amazing journey for us so far.  And what a blessing we have in our boy - he's sweet and smart and funny, adventurous and curious, and becoming all boy with his "tricks" (jumping and spinning or tumbling) and "fighting" with Aaron.   He can be bashful at times but loves playing with other kids.  And he's well-liked.  His preschool teacher says that he's very mature for his age, he keeps up with all the kids and gets along great with everyone and even though he's the youngest she said you could never tell.  She said that she just loves him. (So awesome for a parent to hear that about their child)  He definitely has his tantrums but for the most part he is pretty well behaved.

Right now -
He loves to run around in his underwear.  As soon as we get home he says, "I want my shirt off and my pants and not my underwear." But then he always wants to play in the backyard so he'll put snow boots on because they're easy for him to put on.  So you'll often see him in the backyard with nothing but underwear and snow boots on.
His favorite phrase is "2 minutes" like, "Mom, I want to play outside 2 minutes" or "I want to play the iPad 2 minutes"  It's his way of bargaining.
He loves riding his scooter and is really good at it.
He loves playing outside with the neighbors Isaac, Allan, Scotty, Justin & Mikayla.
He still loves his sandbox.  He's learning how to ride a bike but still can't quite get the pedaling thing down.
He likes Batman "Batban" even though I'm pretty sure he's never seen it.
His favorite movies are Spiderwebs (Charlotte's Web), Lion King, & Shrek.
His favorite toys are his play horses and cows and other farm animals, barns, firetrucks, and he loves to watch youtube videos of horses and cows (he's accidentally tapped on a video of some not so pretty images of horses umm, procreating, more than once...I was horrified!)
He knows his ABCs and is working on colors.  His favorite color is still orange.
Aaron has taught him how to ask for things using a complete sentence - and he does!

He weighs 37lbs (90th percentile) and is 38" tall (50th percentile).

We are so lucky to have such an awesome boy.  We love you so, so much, Aaden!

Aaden woke up to balloons all over his bedroom floor

He thought it was pretty cool! 

Excited for his bday!

So cute 

Love this kid! 

♥ My handsome 3 year old ♥ 

This was at his 3 year appointment - first time getting his blood pressure taken

I thought it was so cute!

1st Day of Preschool!

Aaden started preschool today!!  We had gone to meet Net a few weeks ago and Aaden was looking forward to going there.  This morning when I woke him up, he woke up and said, "Preschool! I play with horses there? And moo cows? Where's Net? She has toys? And she has a big dog and a little dog. And fire trucks"  He was very excited, to say the least!

There were no tears for Aaden, Mom or Dad. Well, until I went to pick him up - he threw a fit because he didn't want to leave. Guess that's a good sign that he really liked it!

Mommy-Son Day

I decided that instead of spending my day off doing laundry and cleaning the house and birthday planning that it would be more fun to have a special Mommy-Aaden day since he's starting preschool next week. Sometimes it hits me that time is flying by - I just need to set everything aside and enjoy these times because they sure don't stay little forever!

So - we went to Gilroy Gardens. Even though it was really hot, we had a lot of fun!

Not looking too thrilled on these two rides. 

(Even though the firetruck was his favorite in December)

Loved the carousel and the horses!

This is his "smile Aaden" face :-/

On the spinny cups. I wish I could have gone with him,

 he didn't know how to make them spin

Stopping for some lunch

Hot air balloon ride

Love all the flowers at this place!

Love the colors

Waiting in line for the balloons

His first carnival games!

And his prizes

He really, really wanted to do the "ducks" last time

So even though it was 100 degrees, I agreed to take him on the ducks this time

He loved being out on the water

Mommy workin' up a sweat since she's doing all the paddling

Can't complain about the views around here!

Last ride - the strawberries

Lookin' at Mommy like she's a weirdo 

(and rightfully so)

Yeah, seriously, it was HOT!

10 Months

10 Months

OH MY - we are in trouble iwth this girl! I'm actually a little scared! ;) She has one giant personality and is so sassy - we are not sure where she got it from!?  And she's so loud, when she's happy she yells - I can't believe she's the same sweet, quiet baby that she was a few months ago.  She's becoming this totally different little girl than we imagined she would be.  She's pretty hardheaded and feisty.  We've had to get on her a few times because she'll hit us in the face when she's excited.  Sometimes when we tell her "no!" she'll look at us and grin and go right back to what she was doing.  Oooh!  Stinker!  But she's so fun! She is such a goofball and she makes us laugh all the time.

She's changed so much this month- she's conquered some milestones.  On July 17th, she started to pull herself up to stand.  We found her in her crib, holding onto the railing, standing up.  Now we find her in there standing up all the time, screaming for us to come get her.  On July 21st, she started frog crawling which quickly turned into this funny inchworm crawling (which left a blood blister on her big toe) and on July 29th, she started officially crawling.  Now she's a champ and crawls really well.  Better than Aaden ever crawled with his dead man crawl.  In early August, she started pulling up on everything and she's getting really good at it.  Now she loves to play with bigger kid toys.  She really loves playing with Aaden's kitchen.  She now pretty much hates the jumperoo and exersaucer - 'don't tie me down, Mom!'  She is babbling and 'talking' a lot (and yelling). She says Mama, Baba and Dada but I haven't really counted them as her first words because she mostly just babbles them.  She also does a clicking sound with her tongue and if we click back at her she'll do it again and then we'll go back and forth clicking tongues at each other.

This girl loooves to eat.  She's doing really well with solids.  She loves blueberries and veggie burger patties and turkey meatballs and sweet potatoes. And she loves anything that her brother is eating - she snatches stuff off his plate all the time.  She still loves Mums and puffs too.  She also loves those little pouches of purees.  They have fun mixes of flavors and they are organic.

Her hair is filling in a little but still no teeth.  She has the most beautiful baby blues - they are almost crystal blue sometimes.

Grumpy sleeper

"Ack! I got caught!"

Standing like a big girl. 

She loves that truck book because it makes sounds.

Because our family is weird

How we eat around here, apparently ;)

Pulling up on her Zany Zoo

Look how proud and excited she is! LOL

Getting pics for her birthday invitation

Little ham!

And little crankpot

Love these pics of my Dad and Sissy

Just whippin' up a little something...

Meeting some of the October Moms

Tonantzin & Sitara, Sandra & Zoey, Me & Sissy, Alison & Keira

Addison and Sitara - they have the same birthday! 

 Being crazy

Antagonizing her brother 

10 Months!!