Costumes!

The Costume Trunk was a big hit at Christmas... here are a few more pictures:

"Emeril says 'Bam!'"

















"King Aidan"


















"King Grampa" helps Aidan to put together a new puzzle

Yee-Haw!

For Christmas, Santa brought Aidan a really great 'Dress-Up trunk' full of all kinds of great costumes he and his brother can put on and wear around the house.

Aidan's favorite movie lately has been Toy Story 1 & 2, so when he spotted the Cowboy costume in his new trunk, he instantly decided to be Woody... and his horse, just like Woody's, is named Bulls-Eye!

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Aidan and Bryce left out cookies and milk for Santa tonight before heading to bed...
Aidan had done this before, so he got it a little better than Bryce who seemed a bit confused that we were setting food otu on the table when it was NOT dinner time (notice he climbed up into his high chair thinking he'd be next to receive some cookies)...

"Hellooooo Santa!"

Through the wonders of the internet, we've been tracking Santa this morning, thanks to the good people at NORAD. According to their website, Santa is currently flying over Indonesia!

Aidan and Bryce are waving at the screen and Aidan's saying "Helloooo Santa!"

Sylvie, you're not a present!

This morning, Christmas Eve morning, Aidan came out of his room and, as he does every morning in the month of December, goes into the Living Room to check on our tree.
This morning, he found Sylvie, the cat, lying under the tree..
and he exclaimed "Sylvie, what are you doing under the tree? You're not a present!
[this picture is actually from Christmas 2002-- NOT a photo of the actual event-- but does prove that Sylvie has spent some time under a few Christmas Trees in her day]

"All I want for Christmas..."

Aidan and Bryce met Santa Claus at school this week... and Aidan very clearly told Santa what he wants for Christmas:


1) a train that moves by itself
and
2) a whole bunch of Wedgits

(Note to the family, we've got these requests covered-- don't take these as marching orders :) )

Potty Humor

Well, put this one in the "Wow, I wasn't expecting that today" File..

Bryce cried until his mother put him up on the potty and then, like as if he'd been doing it for ages, he went.

I know many, if not all of you, will be happy to know that I don't intend to post any photographic evidence of the event in this space.

And for those of you scoring at home, that's #2 doing a #1 in the top of his 20th month.

Jingle Bell Rock

Yesterday was the Christmas program at the little YMCA Pre-school that Aidan and Bryce go to. Aidan got a little stage fright when he got up there and saw all the collected audience... but then, as you can see from this picture, he got a little more comfortable when he saw his Mama come up to the front row to be near him...



And when I'm talking about the audience, take a look at this... notice the veritable wall of photo- and videographic equipment. Have you seen a more intimidating display? Looking at this, I can understand Aidan getting a little weepy at the sight of it!

Looking a lot like Christmas...

We decorated trees at our house and at Gramma and Grampa's this weekend..










and the boys both really got into the spirit of it!

.Mac site is updated

Go here for some new pictures from our trip to Knoxville and Asheville.
In Asheville, since so many in our group had still cameras, I mostly used the video camera.. so I'll be clipping something together from that in the next couple of weeks, I hope.
But until then, I'm hoping the family will send me all their pictures so I can compile them and post them for all to see... (Hey Brian, I'm talking to you!) :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Got back this weekend from the family trip to Asheville.. and what a great time the boys had!
Here's a quick picture we took of them outside the Biltmore House on Thanksgiving Day.

Greetings from Asheville

test post from Asheville using cousin Brian's Powerbook..

Okay, one more...

By popular demand, okay here's one more shot from the Squash Roll making extravaganza here earlier this week.

We're all heading out tomorrow for a family get together over Thanksgiving, so this blog will be quiet for the next week or so... but we'll have lots of pictures and lots of funny stories when we get back, I'm sure!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Baking with Gramma

The boys helped Gramma with a little family tradition around Holiday time.. baking squash rolls!

Up on blocks...

Having to put the iMac up on blocks for a few days while the good people at the Apple Store here in Nashville fix a couple of issues with the power supply and logic board... so I won't be posting any new pictures for a few days.

I'll Drink to that!

The boys and I ate some pizza earlier this evening.
After taking his first bite, Aidan noted that the sauce was spicy.
"spicy" has been a big thing with him lately. He says tomato sauce is spicy.
Green peppers are spicy. Grapes... well, no.. okay, he's never tried to say that grapes are spicy.

So after noticing that the pizza was spicy, Aidan looked at me and said, "Daddy, you should drink your beer. This pizza's spicy!"

Happy Halloween!

I'm adding some trick-or-treating photos to the .Mac site...

Updating the .Mac site

I'm updating the .Mac site with some pictures.. should be up and running by the time you're reading this.

Send me an email if you need the password.

El Conductor!

Aidan propped the framed photo on top of his climbing gym, took the handle from one of his toy golf clubs, climbed onto the platform of the gym.....
..and commenced to conduct his imaginary symphony while humming Dvorak (Baby Einstein's influence is going a little far, I think!)

The Dentist!

Today, the boys each had their first ever visit to the Dentist!
Aidan's teeth are in perfect shape. But the really surprising thing is how well Aidan did with letting them clean and polish his teeth! Mama says he was very chatty with the hygienist and was more than happy to open-wide and let her take care of his teeth. And he was really charmed with the Goodie Bag they gave him when he was all done.
Bryce was a little less cooperative, but still did fine. They just checked his bite and made sure his teeth all looked good.
And speaking of all his teeth, the dentist was amazed to find that Bryce already has 16! I don't think they believed it until they saw it with their own eyes!