Last Day of Laziness

Today was my last day of summer vacation. I officially report back to school tomorrow morning. It will be way to early when I wake up...

Jennifer and I decided to go to the new aquarium that just opened in Grapevine. Let me tell you: if you plan on going, buy your tickets online a week before hand. They only let a certain amount in on timed intervals, so you may be standing in line for quite some time. It probably didn't help that there was a summer camp there. That is a story in itself.

We were not allowed to use the flash on out cameras once we got inside the aquarium, so the pictures are the greatest quality. Also, I didn't get them rotated before posting so consider this my apology!



More Conversations with Ayden

That son of mine sure knows how to make me laugh, even unintentionally. He wanted to watch something on tv this afternoon, so I asked him what he wanted to watch. The conversation went as such:

Me: What do you want to watch?

Ayden: Water pail.

Me: What is Water Pail?

Ayden: From last night. Water pail.

Me: Son, I have no idea what water pail is.

Ayden: T-O-wather (yes, with the 'h').

Me: Still no idea what you want to watch.

However, at this point I had a pretty good idea it was the show he and Kendall had watched this morning before church, not last night. Everything is last night to Ayden right now. But I couldn't give in to him since he was starting to literally spell it out for me!

Ayden: Say it with me: T (then cocks his head at me until I say it), O (waits for me to repeat), L (again waits for me to say it, but I am trying not to laugh because he is now adding letters), wather pail.

Me: That's how you spell water pail?

Ayden: Yup.

At this point, I go ahead and ask him if it was the cartoon from this morning, which was Avatar. He got water pail because of the characters in it are from a water tribe. I just found this too hilarious not to share. He has a funny way of remembering things. He calls the movie "Up" 'balloons on house' because the main character ties balloons to his house to fly it to Paradise Falls. Crazy kid.

To Infinity...

Ayden and Keleigh decided to have some sibling love time while watching Toy Story. To begin, no one noticed I was taking pictures...

As I came around the side, Keleigh caught me!

And as soon as Ayden made me, it was "Cheese", though he kept his hand in front of his face.

When he finally moved it, Keleigh was done with the photo op.

Conversations with Ayden

This week I had to attend some training in Fort Worth. Aunt Jennifer was gracious enough to keep both of my kiddos in addition to her two since her house was (sorta) on the way. After leaving on the last day, Ayden wanted to know where Cole went to church (it was a Wednesday). As we passed their church, I pointed it out to him. The conversation then took a comical turn...

Ayden: Where do boogers go to church?

I then try to come up with something to tell him.

Me: Um, in your ears?

Ayden: No!

Me: Uh, in your mouth? (not sure where to go with it)

Ayden: No!

Me: Well, then where do boogers go to church?

Ayden: They go to church in your nose!

A few moments later, after crossing the railroad tracks -

Ayden: Where are the trains?

Me: At home at the train yard.

Ayden: No, they're not. They're at church.

Me: And where do trains go to church?

Ayden: In the trees.

Not sure where this kid comes up with this stuff sometimes.

She's here!

And yes, she has been here awhile now. Forgive me, but I've been a little busy. :) It also doesn't help that we haven't seen our point and shoot camera since a few days after returning home from the hospital. At least I think we saw it at home... I hope we saw it at home...

Keleigh Rene' was born on June 17. Everything went smoothly. Kendall and I arrived at the hospital around 7:40 and by 8:30 I was ready to go. Luckily, my doctor finished whatever she had before me early, so at 9:30 I headed back to get the party started! Keleigh was born at 9:51, weighing in at a whopping 8 lbs 2 ounces and stretching a 20.5 inches. Ayden was the same length, but only 7 pounds, so she looked big to me. The nurse anesthesiologist laughed and told me she had 'thunder thighs'. Guess she started early.

Apparently they do nice newborn pictures in the room before you leave the hospital these days. This was not offered when we had Ayden (at the same hospital), and how do you say now when the pictures were just so darn cute? So since we can't find the pictures taken with our camera, I leave you with the following...

I'm pretty sure he's already smitten.


I know I am!

Love this picture.

Easter

Our Easter at Kendall's moms house was delayed a week due to a sudden illness. Unfortunately, I was preoccupied with my family since I prepared dinner and completely spaced on taking any pictures!

I did manage to get a few Saturday out at Keni's. These are actually in reverse order but I wasn't in the mood to reorder.

This is the end of the egg hunt. Kendall and Ayden are checking out his loot. The eggs were filled with a nice array of Skittles, jelly beans, coins and dollars. Every time he would open an egg with a dollar he would yell, "Paper!" It was so cute. To which Jennifer turned to Cole and said, "You were shaking the eggs and some had dollars!" It was hilarious. Fortunately, both boys got about an even share.

We attempted a family photo at the church egg hunt, but it was not very good. Here is our attempt from Saturday. Not a bad picture, minus the turkey popper. According to it, I should be done!

The boys always have a great time when they are together. I hate they don't get to see each other as often as they use to.

Prior to everyone's arrival, Ayden went for a four wheeler ride with Papa.

First adventure out

So I braved the world of potty training after 4 days (we ventured out day 1 technically, but that was just a nightmare in itself). On Thursday, I was tired of being stuck in the house. Ayden woke up from his nap dry and had been doing fairly well with the potty training. I decided we would brave the park. In all honestly I wanted to take him to the zoo since it was Frank Buck's birthday and admission was only $2, but I decided against it. As soon as we pulled into the park, Ayden wanted to ride the train. So we went ahead with that...

He really enjoyed the train. The wait took forever. We were in line for quite some time, and then had to wait even longer to actually ride. We decided to play at the park until the train came back around. After the ride I made him go to the potty. He wasn't use to a "big" potty yet, so I had bought a portable one to keep in the Jeep. He is going to love me for this in the future. I say senior yearbook...

He has discovered the wonderful world of slides!

This is a favorite...

Unfortunately, I believe my OCD was passed on genetically. An old friend of mine from high school was at the park with her son the same day. She was trying to get her son Caden to play with these by turning the bottom row to all apples. Well, Caden wasn't interested. But someone else was...

Funny thing is this was over two weeks ago. We went back to the park on Saturday and he did the same thing by himself, except he turned them all to trains.