Happy Easter!

Happy 5th Birthday!

Since it was our spring break, we had a small family get together for Aidan's birthday. We picked Aidan up from his school (where he had a small party) and went to Cheeky Monkey, an indoor play area near our house. Normally he drags one of us along with him so I expected to get lots of cute pictures. Nope, not this time.  He took off and was only occasionally seen. I would have to ask Kiira if he was ok since she say him more than I did. He had a great time but was exhausted by the time we finished.

Taste testing the cupcakes for school

After Cheeky Monkey

Refreshed and ready to play some more

Best gift EVER!

We had wanted to get more wooden tracks for Aidan's Thomas the Train set, but we couldn't find them this year.  I stumbled across a water play set, Patrick agreed it was brilliant, and Aidan ended up loving it!  he spent about 2 hours with it outside before he moved on to playing with his Iron Man figures Patrick picked up in the States.

You know what he liked almost as much as the boat set?  Any of Emma's gifts.

I don't have a lot of pictures of Aidan, he wasn't in the mood.

Pointing out what he likes

Can't wait to open gifts

Someone has inherited Erin's can't-wait-for-Christmas genes. He tried to be sly about it but Patrick caught him.

Don't bake with hyper kids

Aidan really likes the way some ingredients puff out when you blow on them.  It was funny when he did it with cinnamon a while back.  Cinnamon hangs in the air, and then he walked through it.  Lots of coughing and watery eyes but he stopped blowing into the mixing bowl.  Apparently he was feeling brave last night.  Flour was everywhere.  I thought I'd cleaned everything up and then found this the next morning.

I don't care what you've planned, I have my own ideas

We had two options: 1) a Darth Vadar costume that was pretty comfy (a nice hand-me-down from another family), or 2) shorts and the Batman shirt and cape.

Aidan chose the shirt, no cape, and just the Vadar mask.  Darth Batman was born.

Kiira came over to trick-or-treat and we ran into several families from school.  The kids had a great time.  Unfortunately some families really got into thematic decorations and the younger ones didn't really appreciate it.  After a few iffy visits (Aidan will ignore a lot for candy), the last house ended up being the last straw.  They had an animatronic witch that moved, lit up, and cackled.  It went off right as Aidan was walking by.  He spun around and took off, I couldn't even catch up with him.  Luckily Omar had moved the car to the new street and had just gotten out.  Aidan launched himself at him.  Omar calmed him down and we sat in the car while the others finished the up the street.

Riding to school with Darth Batman

Kiira's class in the Halloween Parade

Keeping citizens safe

Super Twins

Aidan thought the matching shirts were "Awesome"!