The Super Kickers

Aiden has his first soccer game tonight. He is so excited. Last Saturday we meet his coach, Emily. It was so cute to see these little 4 and 5 year olds practicing for their game. He is on the green team and their name is the Super Kickers. He has two kids from Challenger on his team. So they practice soccer everyday at recess.
Here is Aiden in his uniform. He loves it and wore it to Senika's birthday party and the next day. I had to take it off him while he slept just to wash it.

Senika's Birthday

We have four birthday parties for 3 year olds this month. Taylor has so many friends that are just her age, which is so much fun. The first party is for our good friends daughter, Senika. We love their parties, the kids have fun and all the adults hang out forever. We were there for a good 7 hours.

Aiden was tired of me taking pictures, so he gave me this funny pose. I love it!

Aiden and Taylor with their present to Senika. Taylor started crying after she found out all the presents were for Senika. She was afraid that she missed her own birthday party.

Taylor showing off all the fun things she got in the pinata. Just a note to everyone, chips in a pinata is not a good idea.Aiden hitting the pinata.

Aiden and Gage playing sword fighting with the pinata bats.

Taylor loved her fairy wings. She still wears them everyday.Happy Birthday Senika! The two princesses wearing red headbands!

Here is a fun video of Taylor dancing. She was so excited to see Senika open her birthday presents. I have never seen her dance like this before.

A Trip to the Dentist

The kids had their annual check-up at the dentist. Both kids were actually excited. I love the kids dentist office, they make it really easy.

Before we left Taylor decided she needed to look beautiful and rummaged through all my make up. Taylor loves make-up. When I get ready in the morning I will let her put some make-up on as well. I will give her a powder brush or eye shadow brush and tell her where to put it on. This time she did it all by herself and may have forgotten some of my tips. Including that the belly button does not need lipstick.

Aiden was amazing at the dentist for his cleaning. He let them take all the x-rays they needed. He did this by himself since Taylor and I left the room since I am pregnant.

The only thing that scared him was the chair moving, so he waited until the chair was laying down before jumping on it. Unfortunately he had one cavity and had to go back that afternoon to get it fixed.

Taylor had a little harder time. No x-ray's were even attempted. She did let them brush her teeth only while sitting on my lap. Luckily Taylor had no cavities. :)

Aiden was so nervous to get his cavity filled. We had a difficult time getting him to take the medicine or put the gas on. Dad finally talked him into both and the trip was super easy after that. He watched a movie and felt great the rest of the day, even played at his cousins house.

Easter Extravaganza

The kids had a pretty amazing Easter this year. First of all we made a deal with the Easter Bunny, no candy except for a little bag of Jelly Beans. We had promised Aiden he could get Jelly Beans for Easter. Taylor does not do well with candy, she usually takes one bite and then spits it out, usually in the garbage, but not always. The Easter Bunny brought Aiden new church clothes and Taylor a new princess dress. As well as Zingo a really fun bingo type game for the whole family. These were sitting on the counter as they could not fit in the Easter Basket. The baskets were hidden, which was tricky, they had to be places the kids could find them but high enough so the dogs would not get into them.

This is a picture of Aiden with his hand on fire. We played hot/cold game to help Aiden find his basket. It was tricky because it was hidden in the dishwasher with all the clean dishes. Aiden just got his first list of chores last week and one of them is to help unload the dishwasher, so it was fun to find his basket in there.

Taylor basket was hidden on top of a bookshelf. She needed Dad's help to get it down. It was so fun to see her look for her basket. This year she really understood that she was looking for a present.

Taylor is wearing her new princess dress with "High Shoes". She loves high heels and that is all she will wear.

These kids sure love each other. Aiden saw Taylor dress in the back of our car earlier this week. When Taylor was sleeping he told me that he knew the dress was from Mom and Dad. I had to explain that the Easter Bunny does not have a sleigh to carry all the presents like Santa does, so he dropped off Taylor's dress early. It was too big to carry with him when he was delivery the baskets. I think he liked that answer. He is growing up too fast. I don't want the magic of holidays to end anytime soon.

Aiden and Taylor's baskets were mostly full of fun toys, books, games and a movie for each.

Taylor was so excited about her chap stick and markers. The markers unfortunately ended up all over our living room couch and Taylor received time-out. The marker did not come out, but the other side of the couch cushion is clean.

After Easter baskets we took Thad to the airport. He is spending the week in South Carolina and Georgia attending the Masters. He was able to do this last year as well and had a great time. Aiden really want to go with him next year. We are going to miss him. Last night I had the alarm set and dogs sleeping in our bedroom. I just don't feel as comfortable without him there with us.

Easter continued at Nana's house, where there were over 250 eggs hidden throughout the house. Taylor had a lot of fun as she slowly followed the other kids picking up all the egg they ran past to get to the playroom. She found about 25 eggs that the other kids overlooked. In this case slow and patience paid off. After Aiden found his eggs he came back and helped his little sister find more. He is such a good big brother. He wants to make sure she is happy and always protects her even if he gets mad at the wrong person. With all the cousins in town this week, I was told he got mad at Grace because Taylor cries everytime she is in town. I feel really bad since it had nothing to do with Grace. She was just overwhelmed with all the kids around. However it is nice that he wanted Taylor to be happy.

After the Easter Egg hunt all the kids went outside and played tag, threw sticks in the pond and just had fun being kids. I am a nervous parent and would not take my eyes off the kids. Aiden knows how to swim, but Taylor does not yet, so the pond is scary. Especially when it was freezing and there was still snow on the ground. What happened to spring?

I wanted to do something fun with the kids for Easter. We made chocolate covered cake balls in the shape of Easter Eggs. The kids were able to decorate them with sprinkles. They are very yummy but very rich.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Natural History Museum

On Saturday, we had absolutely nothing, and I mean NOTHING to do. The house was clean, laundry was done, we did not have anything planned. It was really nice. We just read a book about doing nothing and how much fun you can have not planning your day. This is a big challenge for me. I love lists and having things planned. I am not very spontaneous.

Taylor, Isabella and Aiden

So with nothing to do we hopped onto the Internet looking for activities for the kids. We decided to go to the Natural History Museum. Rachel, Alexander and Isabella joined us. The kids absolutely loved it. There was a special exhibit on frogs. They were able to squirt a bullfrog with water, make frogs out of rocks and paint them.

Afterwards we wandered around the museum. Taylor was very scared of the dinosaur at first but finally got this close for a picture. Aiden loved the mining cave and making an earthquake. Taylor liked pushing the light buttons to see the tarantula and the scorpion. I still get the chills even thinking about it. But Taylor's absolute favorite things was digging for bones. She almost climbed in the sand pit or fell headfirst since she was not quite tall enough to stand on the rock and still reach the dinosaur bones.

We had a very successful day of doing nothing! Until next time!

Bedtime

We started some bad habits for bedtime with our kids. We let them fall asleep in our bed and then take them to their room. Taylor usually only spends a few hours in her room before making the journey back to our bed. We have been trying to change this over the last few weeks. Aiden is excellent at going to sleep in him own room now. He will almost always stay in him bed all night, except for the occasional bad dream when I wake up with his cute little face sleeping on my pillow.

Taylor has been an entirely different story. She loves sleeping in Mom and Dad's room, especially on Mom's pillow leaving me about 6 inches of our king size bed for me to sleep. This has not be a problem until I got pregnant and my belly does not fit in those six inches anymore.

However this last week Taylor has grow leaps and bounds. First she is now potty trained. We have had a few accidents, but 90% of the time she is potty trained. YEAH!!!! Second, she fell asleep in her own bed last night, stayed their the whole night and woke up dry. She is officially a big girl now and no longer my little baby.

GOOD JOB TAYLOR!!! WE LOVE YOU!

Ballerina

Megan took some cute pictures of Taylor yesterday. She was practicing her ballet moves. We hope to start her in classes when she turns 3.