Playing Horsey

One of Aidan and Peyton's new games is horsey. Aidan is the horse and he gives Peyton rides on his back. It is so great to see them playing and laughing together. They were laughing so hard on this day that Aidan was having trouble getting off the floor.





He did finally manage it and Peyton was very happy to get to ride the horsey.

Halloween

Iron Man and The Fairy Princess all ready to go trick-or-treating.



On a mission. When she realized she was getting candy, she was glad to go up to every house.
Peyton stopped to ride in the jeep.
Walking down the street with neighbor friends.
Aidan and Blake trick-or-treating.
The kids had a blast! We went up the one side of our street and then back down. At that point it was Peyton's time to stop. Aidan and his friend Simon wanted to keep going, so we did. Aidan filled two buckets with candy. At 8:30, after 2 hours of trick-or-treating, he insisted that it was not time to stop because he didn't have enough candy yet. I don't remember how I convinced him to stop, but eventually we made it back home. We have enough candy for the whole year!

NC State Fair

On Thursday, Jon took off of work so we could go to the fair. It turned out to be a great day. It was 80 degrees outside, and it was can day. You just had to bring canned goods to get in.


We started our day by riding a couple rides.

First the tea cups:
then the merry-go-round.
driving a car.
Next up was playing a couple games. Jon and Aidan played a squirt gun game and on their first try they won. Jon and Peyton played the fishing game and she won a little pink whale.
Peyton spotted the ponies and said she wanted to ride, but when I tried to put her on it she was not having it. We actually tried twice. So instead we just watched Aidan have fun riding.
Peyton decided it was time for a nap,

and Aidan decided it was time to ride every ride possible.

The big slide,
the four wheeler,
the motorcycle,
and the dragon. We also went on the ferris wheel, but I didn't get a picture.
When Peyton woke up we decided to go check out the animals. We seen cows, sheep, horses, chicks, pigs, goats, rabbits, chickens, and ducks.

It was a very fun and exciting day. When we got home Jon and I were exhausted.

NY trip Sept.09

About a a month ago, on Labor Day weekend, we took a week long trip to visit relatives in NY. We were crazy and decided to drive the 10-12 hours.


This is the very beginning of the whole trip. This day we drove to Baltimore to visit one of Jon's friends. We figured it would be good to split up the trip. It was awful. It ended up taking almost 8 hours because of traffic.


The kids had lots of stuff to keep them busy while driving. Aidan and Peyton reading some books.


Lunchtime!
The next morning we woke up and drove to Norwich NY. This is during the annual golf tournament on Sunday. Aidan loved the golf carts and even got to drive it around with Daddy.
Peyton loved the golf carts too and had fun pretending to drive.
On Monday morning we left Norwich and drove to Rhinebeck NY to visit Grandpa and Irene. This is at their lake, where the kids had a blast swimming.
This is Peyton after she got out of the water. She insisted on wearing her hood and Aidan's hat.
In the meantime, Aidan went fishing with Grandpa and Daddy. He loved it and waned to go again, but we never got a chance.
Aidan and Grandpa watching Wally.
Aidan loves bugs, so one of his favorite things to do while we were there was to go find daddy long legs with Irene. They live around a lot of trees and water, so there is a ton of spiders and bugs around. Aidan was in heaven!
Of course there was no time for naps so he was pretty tired when bedtime came. He was asleep before 8 most nights, very rare for him.
This is the first time we tried to leave. We had the van backed, PJ's on, and tired kids that were going to sleep most of the trip. About a half an hour down the road we had a flat. We called AAA, they put on our spare, and we had to turn around and go back. We couldn' t take the chance of driving with a donut. The funny thing was that Aidan slept through the whole thing.We were able to put him right in bed when we got back. After we remade all the beds, of course. Peyton, on the other hand, was wide awake through the whole thing and would not go to bed until after 10.
The next day we took our time and left after lunch. Another 12 hours and then we were home. Driving was tough with the kids, but we are glad we did it. Looking forward to next year when Peyton is a little older and the drive should be a little easier.

Aidan's first day of preschool

My computer has been broken for forever, so this is the first chance I have had to write about Aidan's firs day of school. He has been going for about three weeks now, and he absolutely loves it. I knew he would like it, but I didn't think he would like it so much that he doesn't even say goodbye to me. He just jumps out of the car and basically runs into the door. He always says how much fun he had, and is very eager in the morning to go. Jon even had to leave early one morning cause he was so excited to go. I have to say it is much better to have him love it and not care one bit to leave me, than to have to deal with crying ad not wanting to go. He did a little trial run over the summer and he cried the first day, and was a little sad the second. He is getting to be such a big boy, and I am so proud of him for being so brave.

Wordless Wednesday

My two cuties!

Funny faces