Yet another post

A video of Ayden playing with his water table...

Finally a patio!

Ken has been working on building the forms and getting everything ready to pour our patio for over a month. My brother can only help on Sundays because that's when he's off - wouldn't you know that the only rain we've gotten over the last month has been on Sundays. After being delayed by rain for a few weeks, they finally had two weeks in a row of (somewhat) decent weather and we now have a patio!! We took advantage of warm evenings and let Ayden play in the backyard - we even got the patio table out of the shed and ate dinner outside. It is so nice having a patio again!

The new cement had to be sprayed every night and Ken thought it would be a good idea to let Ayden do it.

Surprising, I know, but Ayden ended up soaked!Since he was already wet, we set up the water table he got for his birthday. It's made for sand on one side and water on the other, but I don't see us ever wanting a backyard covered in mud, so we'll probably stick to one or the other.

March Birthdays

*Disclaimer - excuse the bad photography. I think my camera must have been on a strange setting or something?

We had a big birthday dinner to celebrate all of the March Birthdays in our family - my mom, cousin Deanna, sister-in-law Dominique, and of course, Ken.

Ayden is always the center of attention whenever grandma & the aunts are around.

He had fun exploring the McKinney's backyard.

getting the dog toy out of the pool very carefully

This was so cute - he kept taking people into the pantry and calling it his "office". Here he is showing his office to Papa.

and to Aunt Dominique.

Here he is with two of the birthday girls - Grandma & Deanna

Helping Deanna blow out ALL 18 (!) of her candles

It's fun to stay at the....YMCA

If only I could have gotten him to do the hand motions. I had to take pictures of Ayden in just his Handy Manny underwear "fixing" his dance cam. It was out of batteries, so it didn't work. He said "OK, I fix it" and ran to get his tools and tool belt. I didn't make the village people connection until Ken saw the pictures and pointed it out. If only he would have kept his yellow hard hat on for a picture!

A few from the last couple weeks

We've been super busy around here lately, with not very many pictures to show for it. Here are a few.

We were lucky enough to have the Cardenas' come to visit. But with as many kids as adults, I didn't get very many pictures - none of the cutest twin baby girls ever! Noah and Ayden had lots of fun playing together, here they are when we walked to the park and around our neighborhood lake.

This is what we found when we went to check on Ayden the other night - think he was hot? Even funnier was the next morning when Ken went in to get him up and he had his PJ's almost off and was going to "change" his own diaper - which was full of poop, of course. Glad we made it in time!

Here is a video of Ayden singing a couple of his favorite songs. The first is "ABC"s, and he knows more than this, but of course wouldn't "perform" for the camera. The second is "Jesus loves the litle children" even though I asked him to sing "Jesus loves me." He's just getting to be such a big boy!!