Ayden drew a picture for Grandma Betty!
We had fun playing at the park and having a picnic! It was a great trip!
Ayden and the real astronaut suits! This display at this Museum really solidified Ayden's love of all things outer space! This was in early March when we started thinking about our trip to the NASA Kennedy Space Center! Can't wait!
Ayden checking out the difference between human and cow bones!
Ayden looking at different objects under the microscope!
Watching the "dots" fall on us and holding them up with our hands. It was some visual display, wish I could explain it. :)
Ayden loved the kids discovery area about taking care of animals. He spent about an hour or more taking care of the chickens, pigs, horses like he was a real vetrenarian! Ayden loves, loves, loves this museum! We are now members of the Museum of Life & Science. I'm so glad Ayden loves museums...much better than those parks with roller coasters!
I just love the things that Ayden creates...he is so imaginative, it really amazes me most days! His legos (duplos) were the best toy purchase that we ever made for him...they have provided countless hours of creative play time for him. The pillow pictured above is the "Kylaan (I don't know how to spell her name)" pillow that Lucy and Ayden each made together.
I hear this question (Can I Play With My Neighbors?) at least twice a day, if not more from my little bundle (or should I say big bundle) of energy named Ayden! He loves, craves, ok...he is pretty much obsessed with his neighbor friends and therefore interaction with other kids! He is a complete extravert, gets filled up by being around other people that he enjoys. He does play well by himself for some time, but he longs to be with others. I think he loves the fact also that his neighbor's houses are right next to ours (I mean about 8-10 ft apart), so it is that much easier to knock on one of their doors to play!
Another outing while Granny and Papi were visiting in late February/early March was a trip to this small old town about 45 minutes west of our house called Pittsboro, NC. It was originated in 1787 and has some historic sites. One is the old county courthouse, which is right in the middle of the old town. Another place of interest is this old soda shop that used to be a pharmacy. Here are Ayden and Julio enjoying one of the old fashioned cherry sodas!
Cheese!
And the ice cream sundae! Not pictured was this awesome cherry soda with vanilla ice cream that I had...it was soooooo good! :)
Gabriel had lots of fun playing with Papi!
Building towers of cups and knocking them down...one of the favorite activities at 10 months!
Also a fav...playing in the dishwasher! He still loves doing this!
All the neighborhood ladies surprised our friend Stacy for her 40th Birthday! (Stacy is the one in the middle, Deb on the right and Jamy on the left) We all had a get together planned and it worked out perfectly that it was on her big day and so we all had some dinner and cheesecake at the C. Factory and then saw a movie! Fun night!
Here's Ayden having a fun playdate with some of his neighborhood pals, Gavin, Bennett and Sebastian.
In late February, the planner for Ayden's Friday playgroup planned a pizza making date at The Loop pizza restaurant! Ayden loved it! It was quite a unique playgroup activity and we got to tour their restaurant, which included going in a gigantic (or "bigantic" as Ayden likes to call it) refridgerator and freezer! Granny went with us while they were visiting that month. We had a lot of fun!
Here are all the kids in the group enjoying the pizza that they made! :)
So, again...going back to catch up...this was one of Ayden's creations that amused me. It is still all about robots. :) I just love the things he makes with bristle blocks...we need more of them, but he gets pretty creative with just the small set that we have. :)
We decorated the playroom with old hearts that we made back at Stanford. I took two pieces of wax paper and put crayon shavings in between the sheets and then ironed them together and cut out the hearts. It's always fun to pull out the old decorations that still work! :)
Play room fun!
This was the evidence from our Valentine's project this year! Ayden and I made playdough hearts to give away to his preschool classmates. Ayden picked out the color and helped me mix the playdough up. We wrapped them up in clear plastic baggies and they were ready to go. It was fun to give out a "non-candy" fun item for his friends at school to play with. This video is back in early February, but I am working through old videos and photos to try and get up to date. I couldn't resist putting this one in for the scrapping archives. Ayden and I were trying to get Gabriel to put his hands in the air and say, "Yah!" He was saying yah because he knocked over the tower of cardboard blocks. Just one of those cute play times with the two boys. :)
I have not posted for so long because I got a job! Well, a volunteer job that is! I am the Director of Special Events for the Western Wake Farmers' Market in Cary, NC. The market is an incorporated non profit in the state of North Carolina and is in the process of becoming a 501 C3 (non profit status, exempt from some federal income tax).
The Amberly Angels are a group of women in our neighborhood and we all get together twice a month for event nights and Bunco nights. This is a shot of some of the ladies in the group at the bowling alley!
And of course some of the guys!
Here's the whole group! We all forgot how much fun good old bowling can be! :)This video was taken in late January when Gabriel discovered his first expression, "Uh Oh!" in this video, I had to catch the beginning of saying the phrase, so he doesn't say the whole expression, just "Uh." He is now pro at it and often drops things on the floor or pulls something down from a shelf just to say it! It is so cute to watch that connection they make with a certain action=certain response!
