Well the family just began April vacation 2009-Yippee! Today we went to the circus and Aiden was a bit bashful around the clowns. He and Todd enjoyed a leisurely elephant ride. Aiden was grinning from ear to ear.

This week I am determined to potty train this kid. I have never met someone as stubburn as he is with the exception of me and his dad. Go figure. At least he now pee's standing up. It's sort of cute.

He started Pre-K a few weeks ago and I cried. The program is in the same building, just downstairs. He has grown up so much, that I ask him everyday if he can stay 3 forever. He gives me that shit eating grin and says no with a smirk.

For his third birthday he invited a handful of friends to Burger King for a Thomas the Train birthday party. The kids played in the playland and ran around to the point of exhaustion. My plan worked!

Happy 3rd Birthday Aiden!!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday to our "Little Man"! Aiden invited some of his good friends to Burger King to help celebrate this brithday. The kids ran around in the playland and had a lot of fun going down the big slide. Of course the theme was Thomas the Tank. He would have it no other way. he continues to work on the whole potty training thing. Can you say L-A-Z-Y!!!!!

Wow! I never realized how much Aiden knows. He surprises me with something new everyday. He knows the colors green, blue, red, yellow, orange, white, black, brown, purple and pink. We are working hard on shapes. He has the triangle, heart, star and circle down. We still need some work on square, rectangle and diamond though. He undresses independently, but needs help with taking his shirt off. His favorite thing to play with still is trains. It's almost an obsession. He can drive by a forklift, escavator, front loader and dump truck and call them by name before Todd or I even see them. I believe he currerntly weighs maybe 26 pounds.

New Year's Eve

New Years Eve was actually fun and family friendly this year. We invited a few couples and their kids to come hang and pig out with us. The kids had mac-cheese and chicken fingers, punch, glow in the dark bracelets and crazy necklaces. We rented a car movie for them and they ran around the house and played. When the ball dropped they cheered Happy New Year!

Christmas 2008

Christmas was a different experience for me this year. It was so cool to view this holiday from Aiden's perspective. It wa sort of enlightening. This year was the first year he really understood Christmas. "Santa will bring me toys and put them under the Christmas tree". I don't know how many times I used that as a bargining tool in the month of December. (Remember Santa only gives good boys and girls presents. Which of course would immediately be followed by I am a good boy).

Christmas Eve was spend at Carole and Tim's house (aka Nanny and grampy). Aiden enjoyed playing in nanny's village, signaling nanny's train to the tune of jingle bells repeatedly, and playing with uncle Timmy and Melissa.

Christmas morning Aiden woke up late. I love him for this. We opened stockings followed by presents. When he walked down the stairs, I said to him lets go see if Santa came last night. When he saw all the presents under the tree his little eyes lit up and made all the shopping worthwhile. I have to admit I even shed a few tears. Being a mom is the best job ever.

Later we went to visit Keith and Angela. Thanks for the bike guys. Then we travelled to Nonna's to hang with the Mento family for the day. We had lots of laughs. Aiden also played with Nonna's village and Calder the dog. Aiden fell so many times throughout the day that the quote of the day was "Man Down". We definately enjoyed Christmas 2008. Thank you everyone.

It is very exciting to have power again! It was difficult to live without power with a 2 and a half year old. It's good to be civilized again. I felt as though I was winter camping.

Anyway, so far this month we have made yummy cookies, decorated the Christmas tree and created our very own gingerbread house. I think Aiden enjoyed the candy more than putting the house together. He loves the movie Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

Right now Aiden knows the following colors: red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple and white. He can sing his ABC's and can count to 6.

He recently got a new Thomas the Tank Engine Bed that he enjoys every night. He also upgraded to a larger bedroom so he can now play in his room with all of his cool toys.

Let me see, no pictures this time. I'm sure there will be many to follow with the holidays around the corner. Aiden is sure taking his time potty training. I think he has the pee part down it's the number 2 that he refuses not to do besides in the pullup. Oh the joys of motherhood. Let me see. Some of his favorite things right now: trains, matchbox cars, firetrucks, building blocks, coloring, stickers, kicking the ball around, and playing on the computer.