"Don't I look cool in my booster?"

As promised, here's that photo of Aidan's first ride in his new booster seat.

(photo taken on 5/20/2006)

Graduation

"It's my graduation day" Aidan said to me when he got up and started getting ready to go to school this morning.
Today was the last day of pre-school for Aidan and Bryce. But for Aidan, this was the last day at the little YMCA pre-school in Brentwood before he heads off to Kindergarten in the fall, so they had a little ceremony today for all the "Giraffe's" (young 5's) and "Gecko's" (the older 4's-- Aidan's class)...

Booster!

Well, Aidan has graduated from his car seat to a Booster seat! And no one was more excited about this than the man, himself.
Last night, we were talking to Aidan about wishes. His mom plucked a fallen eyelash from his cheek and asked him to make a wish. He asked, "What's a wish, Mama?"

After his mom explained, he said, sheepishly "I wish for a Booster".

Yeah, that about had me in tears, too.

So what did we do this morning-- make plans to go to the store. Armed with a little research from Consumer Reports, Mama had positively identified the make and model that we had to have. So we all piled into the car and headed to Target.

Thankfully, they had one in stock-- we had been working on him a little bit as we made our way through the store, to prepare him in case there were none to be had. But sure enough, there it was.. and Aidan couldnt' get us out of that store fast enough once we had that thing in our hot little hands!

So there I am in the Target parking lot, pulling the booster out of the box-- I practically had to box-out to keep Aidan from grabbing it from me-- and putting it together (some very minor assembly required, but thankfully, no tools). And in no time flat, Aidan had himself setup on his new booster in the way-back seat of the van, all buckled in himself and grinning from ear to ear.

And on the ride home, he asked us repeatedly "Don't I look cool in my new booster?"

[I snapped a picture with my camera phone-- so now if I can just figure out how to get that picture from the phone to my computer, I'll post it here..]

Happy 2nd Birthday, Bryce!

Spring Sing

A few pictures from the "Silly Spring Clean" program at Aidan's and Bryce's pre-school last week...


Aidan's class (the "Geckos") played recorders (and Aidan got a little stage fright and asked for his Mama to come sit nearby)


















... but he had a good time in the end.













Then Aidan and the rest of the Geckos looked on while the other classes came up to the stage...













including Bryce's class, the "Crickets," who sang "Rubber Duckie"

Fun at the Zoo

A couple of pictures from Aidan's class trip to the Nashville Zoo..

Note from Mama

Attention! Attention!

OK, folks. Here are some upcoming dates for our little stars that you might want to know about.

THIS Saturday, May 6--
Spring program at school. Starts at 9:30 a.m. Come see Aidan sing "Heigh-ho, It's Off to Work We Go"--OK, well, come see him look freaked out, put his fingers in his ears, and yell for me. It's still cute! And Bryce's class will come tearing in in their cribs as usual.

Wednesday, May 24--
Aidan will have his Pre-K Graduation. Starts at 1:00 pm. I don't think this is a gowned pomp and circumstance, but it will probably still make me wretched and weepy. Come bolster my spirits and bring booze. (Just kidding.)

Love,
Mama