April 4 - Easter Exictement

Aidan is starting to get pretty excited about Easter.  We've been getting a lot of questions about the Easter Bunny and Jesus.  We have never taken him to church yet, but he's definitely showing a curiousity in religious topics, so that may be something for us to consider doing soon.

He is very concerned about it raining on Easter because he doesn't want the Easter Bunny to get his feet wet.  He's got the whole hunt thing planned out and is giving Al and I rules to follow, which essentially lead to us giving him anything we find.  We have decided that we will leave the Bunny all of his plastic eggs from last year that he likes to play with.  I told him that if he leaves the empty ones, they will get filled again.  He liked the idea and saves me having to buy more and even better, saves me from having even more of the damn things lying around until next year!

April 3 - Big Brain

Today, I told Aidan he had a very good memory.  His reponse:  "I know, it's because I have such a big brain".  Confident much?  :-)

April 2 - School Pictures

Aidan recently had some vintage costume pictures taken at his school.  They turned out really cute!

April 1 - Great Weekend

Our Great Wolf Lodge weekend was great!  This was the weekend I had planned for last December, but had to reschedule because I was sick.  It was much busier than our last visit, since this time was a weekend, and we had a major Aidan melt-down Saturday at dinner, but other than that it was a really great time.  Aidan was a little under 1/2" too short for the 42" cutoff for the next level of slides, but he still had a great time on the kiddie slides and the big Wooly Mammoth family side (which last time scared the crap out of him), so I think he'll be more than ready for the next step up when we go back again.  He really loved the wave pool and would laugh his butt off every time one hit him.  He's already asking if we can go back again.  I think I may plan our next visit for December and be there to see Christmas theme stuff, which had been my intention last year anyway. 

March 30 - Surprise!

This morning we surprised Aidan with the news that we are going to Great Wolf Lodge this weekend.  He was so happy!  I can't wait!

March 29 - Passports

Today, I went into the Passport office and applied for my very first passport.  We're planning a summer vacation to the States, so we all had to get one.  I got myself all worked up over the details of the application and I was worried that I'd be in line for hours, based on what others had told me.  So, I was pleasantly surprised to get to the office and find no line at all and I had all 3 applications processed in about 5 minutes!  Now, I wait for them to be sent.  She said we should have them by mid April.

March 28 - My Parents Birthday Weekend

I've been offline for a few days and out of town visiting family.  To celebrate both my Mom and Dad's 80th birthdays, our entire family got together  on Sunday for a brunch.  It was so great that all of us (siblings, spouses and all kids) were able to be there.  I can't remember the last time we all got together, it seems we're always missing one or two.  I think this may be the first time since Aidan was born.  My brother took "official" photos.  I haven't seen them yet, but hoping he gets them sent out soon.

We also got a chance to visit my Mother-in-Law and Aidan was able to discover fishing.  Al dug out some of his old rods and took Aidan over to the river.  It was freezing and they had no baits or hooks, but he still had a blast.  I think we're going to give him the chance to do some real fishing this summer.