Day Trip to Pittsboro

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! :)

The Beach, Here We Come!

I am still here at my home, but my mind is at the beach! Hence this ocean-like background that I chose! One more week until my first Summer vacation in two years! We've had off season vacations, but nothing in the Summer in two years due to a certain little someone in our house! The countdown has begun! Beach in T-8 days!

Parents Visit - 2 weeks in late February

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!

Tunnel crawling! This thing has given both the kids hours of fun!

Stacy's 40th!

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!

All Boys Playdate!

Here's Ayden having a fun playdate with some of his neighborhood pals, Gavin, Bennett and Sebastian.

Pizza Making Playdate!

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! :)

February Happenings...

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!

One of my favorite parts about February is all the Valentines that the kids (and adults!) give to each other! I have to admit that I especially love hand made ones. One girl in Ayden's class made heart shaped cookies on a stick with her mom...they were so pretty and yummy! Those were a hit! Hope our playdough hearts went over well. :)

Playtime!

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. :)