This week

Some of what we've been up to this week...

Aidan sang in choir at church on Sunday evening:

We met my friend Sarah and her boys at Celebration Park in Allen. It was HOT!

I took the kids to a place called "Paint 'n Party" with some of our mom's club friends to paint some ceramic gifts for Father's Day (shhh!). I'll pick them up in a week when they've been fired so I'll take pictures of the finalized products then. Aunt Lindsay came with us to help, which was great because there were breakable things EVERYWHERE. Nerve-racking!

We met Sarah and her boys in Allen again for ice cream, along with my friend Brandy from college. Brandy and Sarah know each other from their church and they both have twins (plus a younger one). Fun friendship triangle! All the big kids were too busy running around to pose for a picture, but here are the little ones (Bryce, Avery, & Lyla):

We went to a playdate for Avery's speech therapy. She was a little grumpy until snacktime :) That's her speech therapist Miss Beth. They had a firetruck and police car which Aidan liked:

Bluebonnets

I had bluebonnet pictures taken a few weeks ago but am just now getting around to posting them! My friend Vanessa did them for our mom's club as a fundraiser. She has taken our pictures before and is terrific! Aidan was great and cooperative that morning, but Avery was not such an agreeable subject. So this is the best we could do!

Mother's Day

I had a fantastic Mother's Day! The kids both made me something beautiful at Wee School the week before. On Sunday we went to church, then enjoyed an early lunch at Cheddar's. My sweet family gave me a card and a gift certificate to Cold Stone ice cream...yummy! That night, we went to Cody and Amy's, where Cody and Daniel made us a delicious dinner - roast (for everyone but me, my hubby bought me a delicious lobster tail!), mashed potatoes, green beans, salad, and strawberry shortcake for dessert! We put our kiddos to bed over there so we could enjoy some TV/hang-out time with Cody and Amy before we headed home. This day means so much to me, I am so lucky to have a wonderful mother of my own, and I am so blessed to be Aidan and Avery's mommy! Hope all you moms had a Mother's Day that was just as special!

Miss Avery

Sorry for not posting recently! May has been extremely low-key and uneventful, which is a nice change from crazy April. Anyway, I wanted to do an update on Avery, since it seems like our last few posts have centered around Aidan or our family in general. A couple months ago we switched from a developmental therapist to a speech therapist and I don't know if the timing was just right or what, but Avery started making some progress right away. She has started repeating two-word sentences which is huge for her, like "Hi Mama", "EE (please) Daddy" and "Nigh-nigh Bubba". She loves to identify family by name when she sees them and has names for a lot of our extended family. She's also discovered drinking out of big-girl cups and loves it! She does really well with the drinking part but still manages to make a mess carrying cups of water around. We're testing the waters with potty training and have a LONG way to go. But she has gotten one sticker on her potty chart! And do you like her new hairstyle?

Even More Birthday!

Today was Aidan's actual birthday and he started off the day with breakfast on the Red Plate. Since he had MDO today, I took some leftover party cupcakes up to school for his class to enjoy. It was also Field Day, so it was an extra fun day for Aidan! After MDO, we went out for ice cream with Kaelyn and Tracey. Then we went out for dinner at Cafe Roma with Uncle Cody, Aunt Amy, Sage, Logan, Aunt Lindsay, and Lindsay's boyfriend Jason. What a day...I'm BEAT!

Happy Birthday Aidan!!!

We celebrated Aidan's 4th birthday at Pump It Up Jr. (same place we had it last year!). The kids were having so much fun running around that it was hard to get pictures of them, but here are some of the good ones (some are from Aunt Amy's camera). It was a pirate theme and Daniel made tons of yummy cupcakes for everyone to enjoy. Thanks Rhett, Wyatt, Kaelyn, Chase, Tate, Aitor, Jake, Ryan, Chad, Bryce, Jamison, Kella, Amaia, and Cousin Sage as well as Baby Logan, Baby Reagan, and Baby Brisa for helping us celebrate!!