Frankenbaby

Last night while Ry was off at a meeting Aidan, Mason, and I had a very entertaining time with the Frankenstein mask and pirate eye patch.

Mason makes the cutest baby Pirate!

They took turns wearing the "scary monster mask" and Mason giggled and giggled as we played.

Here's Mason giggling while playing with the mask:

Another exciting Friday night

Yesterday while at Christmas Tree Shoppes Aidan insisted on getting a pirate eye patch and a Frankenstein face mask.

This pic was taken after Aidan knocked me flat on my back after attacking me while being a monster...... 

I obliged because I thought they would be cute.

And I was right.

Aidan stomped around the house wearing his mask last night saying "I'm a Cary Monster!"

While waiting for him to meet me at the front door this morning to leave for Dorinda's, I saw him come down the stairs wearing the mask, and almost died laughing.

I then brought all the bags out to the car before coming back in for the boys. When I got back into the house I found Aidan leaning over Mason (who was in his carrier on the floor), reaching his arms out like a monster and yelling:

"RAR!!! Rarrrr!! I'm a cary monster !"

......and Mason laughed and laughed........

Oy.

So the silliness continued tonight as Aidan continued to "scare" Mason, while Mason giggled and smiled away at him.

Guess he's not a very convincing Monster...... 

Makin' Biscuits

Yesterday was a cold gloomy day at the start, so I decided that what I really wanted for dinner was Chicken and Biscuits.

So after searching for a recipe that allowed me to use chicken stock, milk and flour for my broth instead of canned cream of chicken soup (of which I had none), I got busy making some yummy chicken stew.

When it came time to break out the bisquick and get the biscuits going, my little helper came running over insisting he get the stool out to help.

We ended up getting the chair out instead because the little stool just wasn't quite high enough for him to reach everything.

He helped me cut the roll into biscuits, and he even got to open one up and put it on the cookie sheet.

He was very proud of "his" biscuit.

Yummy dinner!

Fri evening with little boys

Last night was a chilly but beautiful night. So since Michele and her boys had no plans, and we didn't either, we let the boys play outside as long as they wanted.

(Aidan was the first to have a meltdown, so we were inside first, but they were running around for a super long time before he finally had enough.)

Mason laughed and cooed for most of the fun and then fell asleep all bundled up and snoozed for the remainder.

They began their adventure by playing in a spot of the sidewalk that had randomly been dug up. Why? Who knows...because they JUST put it in a few months ago!

Then Jaden from a few doors down joined us (he's Wells' age) and he and Wells generously allowed the 2 little guys (Aidan and Maddox) to play along and look for bad guys.

Yes I know, it was an exciting Friday! Wooo!

Megan! (and the Philly Zoo)

A few weeks ago we finally got together with Meg who believe it or not lives just an hour away in Philly. What took us so long to finally get together, I have NO idea, but it feels just like old times when we're together. Wow, and I guess I mean OLD since we've been out of high school for 10 years now....

But I'm glad we finally re-connected!

I took my first trip with both boys alone to Philly this past week to meet Meg at the Philly Zoo.

Aidan is definitely getting to the perfect age for things like the Zoo and he had a blast. In fact he fell asleep on the ride back home and when he woke up he said:

"we can't go back home, we have to stay at the Zoo".

While we were there I decided to take a risk and buy Aidan a ticket to get his face painted. I had no idea if he would sit still or not, and believe it or not he did! He chose to get the Puppy look and sat still and chatted away happily to the girl who was painting it.

Just as she finished he wiped his nose and ruined some of it so she re-did it and we convinced him not to touch it.

Then he decided he didn't like it and kept asking me to "take the puppy off", so I pulled out the baby wipes and scrubbed his little puppy face off. It was pretty sad because it was so stinking cute. But at least i got pictures!

Aidan was hiding in this box at the Gorilla exhibit because he was freaked out by them, and I know this is a crappy picture with all the glare, but it was the only one that I got where you can see the Gorilla walking around behind him.

Aidan was also quite fascinated by any exhibit that had water. Here he is staring through a fence at a small stream. We had to try really hard to convince him to keep moving on to a real exhibit!

And finally, a peacock that was just chillin right up at the edge of it's enclosure, letting us get some real close pictures.

Goodbye Summer

It was a sad, sad day last Sunday.

Ryan did his seasonal garage cleanup and got all the summer toys and things ready to be packed away for the winter.

I'm sure things like the bikes will be easy to get to until the snow falls since I know Aidan will want to ride them. So while the garage was wide open and it was a beautiful day we took advantage and hung outside  and played with the bikes.

Aidan still insists upon wearing these hand me down crocs from Maddox that are about 2 sizes too big... aaaaand on the wrong feet, haha.

Goodbye Pirate Pool, see you next year!

Playing Trucks

So the boys were sitting together on the couch and Mason was even holding on to some of Aidan's cars.

(Which Aidan wasn't so cool about sharing ...and so it begins).

So anyway it was super cute and Aidan was playing so nicely with his baby brother....and then the crying started.

Aidan had closed the bed of the dump truck that Mason was holding and pinched Mason's finger. 

Ouch!

If you look closely at the last picture (sadly) it looks like I snapped the picture juuuust as Mason realized his finger was stuck. Poor kid.

Aidan actually felt so bad afterward that he started crying too! Yikes. Good thing Daddy was home to help comfort our little guys...

Updates

Ok, Ok so I know if Michele is getting on my case about being a blog slacker, then it must be true!! ;)

Things have been a bit insane around here the last few weeks. Mason has become the ultimate fussy baby. Argh. He wants to be held 24/7 and has made things like sitting down to type the blog impossible. Thankfully the past few days he's been pretty good, I can even get him to hang out in his bouncer by himself without screaming his face off!

Here he is in his "Dr. Baby" scrubs the Cat bought for Aidan (who also has pics just like these)

Aidan also picked out a new hat on a recent shopping trip:

I recently got a new lens for my camera which I took that picture

 with. It is amazing and allowed me to get that picture with no flash on one of the nasty gloomy days we had last week. Yes I know, I am in looooooove!

I've also discovered that Mason is entertained by certain toys and can even hold on to a few light small things, which make him giggle. I love to hear that little baby giggle. It cracks me up every time!!

One Last hurrah

Yesterday I dropped our wedding rings of at Kay to be rhodiumed/re-furbished. I'm going to miss wearing them for 2 weeks while they're gone, but they were getting so gross and yellow (they're white gold) that I decided we could both live without them for a while to make them all shiny and pretty again!

I decided to go the the Kay at the Promenade Shoppes so that I could take Aidan to play in the fountains one last time this summer. It ended up being a hot muggy day, perfect for fountain splashing.

As an added end of season bonus, instead of there being 30 kids there...there was only about 7.

Score!

Mason snoozed in his carrier while Aidan ran around having a blast, which was nice.

Until next summer, fountains.....

Pinterest

It's official, I'm hooked on Pinterest.

I mean where else can you find how-to's and ideas and great photos all in one spot, and save them for your own use later on?

I love DIY fun things and crafts (minus sewing projects..I

ll leave those to Stace) and taking pictures so I now spend about as much time on there as I can squeeze in.

I saw a baby photo idea on there and I just had to do it.

Luckily I have a baby the right age, and I even had a cute Winnie the Pooh book to use to re-create the shot.

Mason cooperated just perfectly and I love the way it came out!

I took the same shot from some different angles for fun too:

Thank You Pinterest.