Words of Wisdom

"No crash. Careful mom."

These are the words my 2 year old said to me as I was heading out for the evening.

Cars

I was working out in the basement, Ayden must have decided he was a little bored and headed upstairs. When I came upstairs, Ayden pulled me over to the highchair. "Mom, Cars honkey."

This is what I found:Lightning McQueen is and always will be just "Cars." Ayden knows the names of all of the other characters but when we try to tell him that this is Lightning-it goes in one ear and out the other.

But apparently Lightning got a little hungry (or honkey in Ayden's words), so Ayden poured him some cereal and put him on the highchair tray to enjoy. Crazy boy!

One for the Little One

Here are some pics of Colby's recent doings. He is a happy little guy-all you have to do is look at him and he will give you a great smile.

He is very loved by his older brother. I will often find dried boogers and whatever Ayden ate for lunch that day on Colby's head. Ayden can get a little carried away with the kisses sometimes!

The little monkey started rice cereal recently. He is not so much a fan and probably the messiest eater ever! I will find cereal 5 feet from where I was feeding him.

Colby is sitting in his bumbo chair while Ayden and I were eating lunch. Poor little guy was exhausted and fell asleep right there in the chair.

Red handed...or white handed

We had an excellent, uneventful shopping trip to Harmons the other day. Or so I thought until I looked at Ayden when we pulled up to the checkout line. This is what I found...Apparently powdered donuts are stored on a shelf at just the right height for little boogers to swipe!

Christmas

Here are my boys in their Christmas church attire. Nothing special-but I do love little boy's ties!
Me and my boys. I am in lounge clothes that I change into quickly after church. About two seconds after I got a couple of pictures of these boys-Ayden's tie was off. Like mother, like son?

We had dinner with Kipp's fam the Sunday before Christmas. Grandma Betty had some fun games for the kids to play. They loved it-can you tell?

This is our annual Breakfast with Santa. This year we did it on Christmas Eve. It was a lot of fun as always! Thanks Grandma Betty!

My sister-in-law Cami and her cute familyGrandma Betty and all of the grandkids. In only a couple of years we have managed to match the amount of girls to the amount of boys!

Our pathetic attempt to get a picture of all of the kids.

Colby and his darling cousin Emma holding him. These girls are such good helpers!

I was so proud of Ayden this year-He didn't cry when he sat on Santa's lap! The day before I tried to prepare him. I said, "Ayden when you sit on Santa's lap he is going to say, 'Ho, Ho, Ho! Ayden, what do you want for Christmas?' Ayden's response:"poop!" Really? Are we already to that stage?
Ayden checking out his stocking on Christmas morning
Santa brought Colby a Bumbo seat
My Crazy brother RyanMy sister Celeste and my cute boys in their matching Christmas jammies
The hit present was one my sister brought for her little boy-a box of Kleenex he could go crazy with. He loved it-and Ayden quickly joined in.
Poor Uncle Ryan's back probably ached after a week of hanging out with Ayden. Ayden want him to throw him in the air every opportunity he got.
We had such a wonderful Christmas! We are so greatful for all that we have at this special time of year and the wonderful people we have in our lives to share it with!

Princess and the Frog

We took Ayden to his first movie a couple of weeks ago. Overall he did pretty darn well. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was a darling movie with great company.

Ayden with some cute friends. Ayden was sitting on the turtle and Boston was really enjoying his popcorn. Marina was the only one really doing what she was supposed to.

Ayden is trying to hold Marina's hand in this picture. She wasn't interested.

Zoo Lights

Cold. Very cold.

We headed up to Hogle Zoo for zoo lights. Our dear friend Annie and her darling boys joined us. It is a fun idea-but a little disappointing. There were no animals out! I thought that they would have the different indoor areas open-nope. The only thing that we saw that night were tigers. We also chose one of the coldest nights to go up. I think it was 17 degrees. Afterwards our little fam went to Ruth's Diner. I had some delicious tomato artichoke soup.

Overall a fun night together!