Clara

Aidan's book from Mother's Day Event at School

Aidan filled out a book at school about “my mom”; the highlights are:

My mom looks pretty when: she wears a dress [I never wear dresses, I own two…maybe]

For fun, my mom likes to: go to Sea World

My mom likes to shop at: H-E-B

If I had a million dollars, I would buy my mom: a dog

My mom is proud of me when I: listen

My mom cooks the best: cinnamon rolls [he spells Sinnamon Rools]

My mom’s favorite tv show is: the weather [this one cracks me up]

Claras word bank at 18 mos

Me
No
Mama
Dada
Shhh
Bye bye
Mack
Ball
Nana
Pop pop
Uh oh
Ow
Book
More
Down
Poop
Eye
Shoe

Two Snacks

Aidan just told me that because the bus was late, he needs two snacks – the bus was 10 minutes late but apparently it’s hard work waiting!

Aidan - Tball

Brandon baseball

Clara & Jenny

Funny Pics of Clara

Dying Easter Eggs

Another Aidan-ism

Aidan started calling cucumbers "chew-cumbers".

Aidan - tball

Clara @ Easter

Conversations with Aidan

1) Upon hearing the ice cream truck aidan asked James "got any cash?"

2) After watching me sweep for a while, aidan asked "Whose birthday is it?". When I said that it wasn't anybody's birthday he asked me "then why are you cleaning?"

Brandon - Rock Star @ the races

Green day.

The barettes only lasted long enough for this picture on St. Patrick's Day

Book worm

aidan loves to read even when he has no idea what the pages say...

Office artwork 2

Dinosaur in a forest by Aidan

Office artwork 1

Aidan left this for me after spending some time with me at the office.

Clara - OCD???

Clara is sitting in her high chair drinking alternately from two different sippy cups. She picks on up, takes a drink, puts it down, picks the other one up, takes a drink puts it down, repeat.

They both fell and I picked them up and put them back in the “wrong” order. She switched them back. Water on the left, milk on the right.

Brandon's 9th Birthday

Brandon turned 9 this month. We celebrated at Main Event with a rock-climbing party.

Brandon free-climbing

Aidan's 1st venture onto the wall - he liked the "repelling" down part best

The crew...

Brandon, Colton, Devlin, Nachite, Dylan(?), Nathan, Keagan, Aidan Aaron, Macy, Allison, & Sunseaahrhay

Cake time! The volcano cake was made by Mom & Tom. The kids loved the "smoke" coming out of the top.

Post-cake sugar rush

Game Time

Clara had too much fun...

Clara playing

Some pictures of Clara goofing off at home - playing with her purses and smiling for the camera.

Clara loves crayons

Clara loves to take the crayons out of the crayon box (that yellow thing on its side) and scatter them all around

Ice Skating

In February, I took the boys ice skating. We all had a great time. Talk about a workout!

Clara - TTYL

Clara jamming on the ipod & working on her texting skills :)

Goofy kids :)

January 2009

Me & Mom at the 3M 1/2 Marathon

Ok - so this is mostly for the kids but I had to include this one...

January

Well, my New Year's resolution to keep the blog more up-to-date has (obviously) not helped!


Now that I've finally downloaded pictures from the first part of the year (yes, the year) here is what we've been up to.


James' Bday - January 7th

Cheese! (and ham)