Ethan's Birthday

Ethan turned 10 years old on April 25.  He is getting so old!

All decked out in Under Armour and Nike.

 He wanted a peanut butter pie for his birthday, "to eat all by himself." In reality, he probably ate half of it. The rest of us shared the other half, and I also made a lemon meringue pie (Ruth & Christian's favorite) for the rest of us to eat.

Aidan's Baptism

April 20 was Aidan's special baptism day! Grandma Ruth was able to attend. He was the only person being baptized this day, so the program was catered specifically around him (songs of his choosing, family, friends and his primary teacher doing the talks & being involved in other ways). He was talking to Nana after the baptism and said to her, "Before I went down in the water I was feeling kind of nervous. But after I came up I felt happy and relaxed." It was very sweet.

We love you, Aidan!

Kaitlyn Shenanigans

Kaitlyn sees Boo as a blank slate, just waiting to be decorated.

Christian suggested I paint her toenails (I had never really thought about it). She was THRILLED with the results. She never does that arm thing, which shows you just how excited she really was.

Aidan's Birthday!

Aidan turned eight years old on April 14. What an exciting birthday! You can tell how excited he is in this picture.

 He wanted to light the candles on his cake all by himself.

 Oh baby. A skateboard.

 A remote control race car. Yay for birthdays!

2nd Grade Music Concert

Aidan had his music concert April 4. He got to be a part of a quartet singing extra verses of Yankee Doodle. Unfortunately, I didn't take any videos that are small enough to upload on to Blogger. So pictures will have to suffice.

Surprise, surprise, Christian's and my kids are always on the back row. Aidan currently has two best friends. Zak is three kids to the left of him, in the bright blue shirt. Abby is on the front row, in the white shirt with bright blue cardigan. He loves hanging out with both of them.

 Here he is as part of his quartet.

(Next would be Christian's birthday post. I didn't take any pictures. I suck.)

Helicopter

Did you know this is what a helicopter sounds like?