Moo Moo Cow

One of Ayden's favorite songs on the radio right now is "Moo Moo Cow", which is known to the rest of the world as "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas. He sang along with the song the first time he heard it as "Moo Moo Cow" and now we egg him on whenever it comes on because it's so cute. Today when it came on the radio in the car, I grabbed my phone and took a video. Since it's from my phone, the quality isn't that great, but you get the idea.

Our Anniversary Weekend

We spent last weekend in San Francisco to celebrate our anniversary. Ayden stayed with my mom, so that made a good weekend great! We stayed at a great little hotel in Pacifica that was right on the beach and our "partial ocean view" was actually pretty good.

We drove into the city to see the King Tut exhibit at the de Young museum. Now, being that I teach about Ancient Egypt every year, I was totally enthralled and even Ken admitted that it was pretty cool. We couldn't take pictures, which kind of sucked because I wanted to take a bunch to show future students, but oh well. It was really hard to wrap our heads around the fact that the artifacts were 3500+ years old because they were still in great condition.

After a nice dinner out, we headed back to Pacifica and sat out on the beach with a bottle of wine. Sunday we took our bikes and rode around Golden Gate Park on what was maybe one of the best days (weather-wise) in SF. Perfect 75 ish degrees and sunny - no fog, no wind (which is pretty rare), and definitely in contrast to the 110 degree heat that greeted us when we got home. We had a great weekend away and even missed Ayden a little :)

Happy Anniversary to Me

Happy Anniversary to my Hubby...Here's a walk down memory lane:

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This is the most recent "decent" picture of us - from last November

Here's to another 10 years :)

Disclaimer: excuse the crappy pictures, our scanner was having issues and I had to take pictures of the pictures, I didn't have time to gather many photos from the pre-digital age and the post-Ayden pics of just the two of us are few and far between

What a fun week!

We've had a great and busy week! Playdates every day! Here are a few highlights:

Monday we had friends over for playing, lunch, and swimming. Wyatt couldn't stay for swimming, but here are Ayden and Katie in the pool

Ryan wanted in on the action too, but the water was a tad too deep for him.What a silly boy!

Shannon's pictures are way better than mine of course!

After Pump it Up on Tuesday and a birthday party on Wednesday (no pictures from those days), Thursday we met some friends in Stockton to check out the Children's Museum:

Ayden & Noah checking out the police carTaetum & Jayda, or Jayda & Taetum, I'm not sure :)The quote from Ayden was "I a fighter-fighter mommy"

Doing some grocery shopping.

Giddy-up!

ETA: Here are a couple that a friend sent me....Our kiddos at the water park today:

Wyatt, Katie, Ryan, and Ayden actually close enough and (somewhat) still enough to get a group shot.

Cutie-Pie

After swimming yesterday, Ayden was sitting wrapped up in his towel and here's the conversation that followed...

Me: You sure are cute!

Ayden: See me cute (smiles)

Me: Yep

Ayden: You going to take a picture of me, mommy?

Me: (laughing) You want me to take your picture?

Ayden: Yes, mommy, I'm cute, go get your camera.

Me: Ok, it's upstairs, wait here and don't move

(at this point, I went in to get my camera, fully expecting to see him out of his towel, and having no interest in having his picture taken when I got back.)

Instead, I found him like this...

this last one was 30 seconds later when he wiggled out of the towel and was getting down off the chair to run around the backyard

Ayden's first movie

I took Ayden to see Madagascar 2 today for his first movie theater experience. He is finally able to sit through a 1/2 hour show or two so I thought he might like the real thing. One of our local theaters has free kids movies during the summer. I wasn't about to spend money on a movie we might be leaving early. Well, he sat through most of it (in his seat, on my lap, standing in front of me, in his seat, on my lap, standing in front of me, repeat). Despite his wiggling, we made it through the whole movie and all of the snacks I brought. We'll definitely be going back for more movies this summer and maybe eventually to a new release that we actually have to pay for :)

Water play

Today we went to a local park that has a fun water feature. Ayden had lots of fun, but kept "stealing" other kids' buckets and water toys (after they would set them down). I had to step in when he wouldn't give a truck back and the owner of the truck pushed Ayden. Guess we need to bring our own buckets next time.