Happy 3rd Birthday!

Aidan's birthday started out with a bang when his nanny, Sara, came over looking like a Birthday Santa.  She had two large gifts and eight balloons, she barely fit down the hallway to Aidan's room. He's normally a bit grumpy in the morning but he popped out of bed as soon as he saw the balloons.

We had a small birthday party in the school nursery this year and Aidan had a great time. I made cupcakes (cupcakes and icing from scratch, probably the last year for that), popcorn, and apple juice.  Sara had also brought a small cake.  The kids went nuts as soon as they saw the sweets and Aidan was excited because they were excited.  He didn't really know what the cake was but he'd been stealing cupcakes with varying degrees of success since the night before, so he knew he liked those.  As soon as I put the candle on the cake Aidan knew what was happening.  He tried to blow out the candle before we even had it lit.  Everyone had a great time and I owe the nannies a treat because the kids were supper hyped up afterwards.





Sara was a little nervous about her present for Aidan.  He loves Dora the Explorer, Charlie and Lola, and Shaun the Sheep.  Sara found a Dora bed set with lots of blue in it and bought it for him.  Another nanny said it was for girls and poor Sara worried.  I assured her that boys love Dora too (they do) and Aidan liked the bed set.  I'm not so sure he cares about the character on the bedding, but the fact that he has a comforter that fits his toddler bed has sent him over the moon.  He hops into bed and snuggles under the covers, then gets really excited and just starts wiggling all over.  Mira and Omar got Aidan a ball that he could sit on and bounce and a tunnel to crawl through.  Aidan will get in it and play cars or just roll around on the floor.





Last night we were able to pick up our gift for Aidan - a kids sized chair.  Or it was supposed to be a chair but Patrick came home with the couch.  We've been using Aidan's booster seat as a chair on the floor and sometimes he uses his toy stroller as a chair, so we knew he'd like this gift.  Aidan loved it!  We put it next to the coffee table so he could eat dinner while sitting on his new couch.  We actually had to put it in his room last night to get him to go to bed.  He was trying to sleep on the little couch while it was in the living room.





  All in all he had a great birthday.

Aidan at the Petting Zoo

Last week KG1 had Posh Paws bring in their "petting zoo".  I guess, being Dubai, we should be happy that we had any animals at all and none of them were on the endangered species list.  The nannies took the nursery kids down to have a look and Sara got some nice pictures.  She said Aidan loved it and wanted to climb into the pens with them, but she was a bit freaked out about how much he liked the snake. 

WARNING: Mom, there are two snake pictures ahead.

Summer 2012 Flight info

I've posted our current flight information under the Tour Dates tab.

Playing

We use the drying rack to build forts for Aidan.  Every time I pull it out to actually dry clothes he wants to play.  I love the part where he acts out what he wants Patrick to do.

The New Kid

So now all the family members have been told about our latest edition and Erin can go nuts and blow up her various social media outlets with the news.  We thank her for the great restraint she has shown. :P

But most importantly, I can show you the cool little video I shot at my 13th week appointment.  Patrick was home sick so he couldn't go with me but I was able to bring something home for him to see.

You're looking at the baby from the back and the doctor will point out the heart beating.  You can see all four limbs, the legs kicking away, and while you can't quite tell from this clip, it looks like this one has also gotten Patrick's "super activity" gene.

We're back in business!

Yahoo, we're fixed!!  Well, almost fixed, I still have to figure out how to hook up the old blog archive.  I know there's a way that we can still access it through this site without my having to copy and past 6 years of posts into this new blog.  Other good news, Patrick will be able to easily post on the blog, so you can get onto him about slow updates as well. (And we all know he's much better at checking his email than I am.)

I made the navigation bar similar to our old site.  You'll find Aidan's stuff under "Scrapbook" and all of the rest of our photos under "Shutterbug".  It seems at some point I accidentally deleted a lot of pages from the old site so I'll have to rebuild those and finally put together some others.