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!!

Tagged

Sarah tagged to post the 6th photo in the 6th album on the computer, so here it is:

from last June - Ayden in only a diaper. I think this was one of the many times he was jumping from the ottoman to the couch. He's got quite the dorky look on his face!!

OK, I tag Shannon!

Holiday Weekend!

Since Ayden & I have both Friday & Monday off for President's Day, Ken took Friday off and we had planned on going camping with Ken's mom (in her 5th wheel). With the bad weather, when we got to my mother-in-law's on Thursday night, we all decided we'd better not risk the winter storm warnings and opted to skip the camping trip. So, we took advantage of the weekend with nothing to do and hung out around there.

On Friday, we went to the Fresno zoo and got lucky with a break in the rain! We didn't have the stroller with us, so Ayden had to hoof it around the zoo for the first time. Because it had been rainy, we pretty much had the zoo to ourselves, which was great!

This has to be one of the best zoos we've been to for little kids. There were spots for Ayden to see at his level at all of the exhibits, we didn't hardly have to pick him up at all.

Not having a nap caught up to him as we were leaving...we enjoy these cuddly moments because they don't happen too often.

I'm going to try to get a video of Ayden talking about what he saw at the zoo. It's hilarious what he remembers about it!

On Saturday, we headed the other direction and drove to San Jose to visit the Children's Discovery Museum. It was so fun - I wish we had a place like this closer to us! There were areas for pretend play, things to climb on - even a real fire truck & ambulance, a "pizzeria" to make your own pizzas, and much more! I took a ton of pictures and it was hard to narrow them down....unfortunately the lighting wasn't very good so the pictures didn't turn out that great, but you can see how much fun we had.

Ayden & Grandma sharing a picnic lunch in the park.

Mirrors!

Getting ready to make his pizza

The bubbles were a big hit!

The water area...

...and changing his shirt after he got soaked in the water play area!

Ayden was excited to open his Valentine's Day present from Grandma Newton. We enjoyed our present from her too....she babysat so we could go out to a movie and dessert!