Aidan is FIVE

Five.  5.  My first baby is already 5 years old.  It's gone by really fast (I'm guessing it's because we haven't stopped having babies in the 5 years since we had Aidan!), but in all seriousness, "where does the time go?"

Aidan's 5th Birthday Party

 We had Aidan's birthday party at Champion Kids on the 14th.  We go here a lot during the school year to play :)

 Our sweet fam of 5, going on 6 soon!

 Roman and Pappy

 Saylor and Nana

 Say wasn't having a good day.  She didn't get the memo that it wasn't her party and she can't cry if she wants to ;)

 Sad cry where she can't even bear to look at anyone.  Girls are SO different from boys!

 Nana & Pappy with their grandkids and one sad Saylor girl

 The boys' friend Mason on the swing

 One of my best friends since 6th grade!  Roxanne and I take our kids here all the time for playdates.  It's crazy how much life has changed in 19 years!

 Me and my Say

 Birthday boy!!

 Zip line!

 He's so cute :)

 Seesha and Say girl

 My sweet friend Emily!  She's due 5 weeks before me and we both don't know what we're having!  (Since this picture she had her baby and it was a GIRL!  Myla Kate...she's beautiful)

 Roman is non-stop energy

 Hey pretty girl!

 The craziness

 Lila, Myla and Roman

 The cupcake cake...of course it had to be Spiderman :)

 Happy Birthday sweet Aidan!

 Can you tell these 2 are mine?  They might not look like me, but they love desserts like their mommy ;)

 My friend Lauren and Max

 Kyle and Bethany

 5 years ago I had my first baby...time flys when you're having fun :)

 Mom with her girls!

 Opening his gifts...I love how all the kids are zoned in on the goods!

Aidan's invitation to his Superman party.  We have entered the stage of superheroes :)

School Party

Aidan had a little school party the next week (the 19th) so we pulled Roman from his class so we could all sing to Aidan with his class :)

 I made chocolate cake pops for his class

 Singing Happy Birthday!

 Such a cute 5 year old :)

 Family pic!

GRANDMA FAYE & GRANDPA ROBERT'S
Most Fridays we eat lunch over at Mike's parent's house, so we celebrated Aidan's birthday with them on his actual birthday :)

Grandma Faye got Aidan an awesome CARS cake

 crazy boys

 Someone loves cake

SEPTEMBER 20th
After Faye & Robert's the kids came home and took a nap, and when they woke up Aidan got his gift from mommy & daddy...a new bike!

 So excited...

 Roman didn't have one...so we got him one too.  We normally don't do things like that, but we knew that they would want to take bike rides together.

 Say now gets the toddler bike!

 Aidan told us that for his birthday he wanted to surf one last time before summer went away, so that's what we did!  And Nana came too :)

 It was a beautiful day for our last boatride of the year.  We had a fantastic birthday dinner at the lake and of course we had more cake :)

Grandma's

Most Sundays after church we go to Granddaddy's house for lunch, but lately we've been switching it up and meeting at Cathy & Mike's so Granddaddy can get out of the house.  We celebrated Aidan's birthday here on Sunday the 22nd.

 Benjamin!  The boys love playing with him.

 Aidan asked for his favorite lemon cake

 This girl LOVES cake.  Her first few words have been "mama", "peese", "cookie", and "cake"

I love their brotherhood...it's crazy, rambunctious, hectic and fun! Being a mom of boys is not for the faint at heart :)

On Aidan's actual birthday, September 20th, we celebrated by eating lunch and having cake over at great-grandma Faye and great-grandpa Robert's house.  The boys love it over there because they play outside or in the basement after they eat, and then they always get goldfish and animal crackers from Grandma Faye before we leave.  Then later that day we went to the lake with Cathy, Mike and my mom and Aidan went surfing for the last time this summer!  He loved it.  We gave him a bike for his birthday so he has been spending his days riding bikes with his brother (well, Roman likes to walk besides his so it's kinda a slow ride lol!).

We also celebrated another time over at Nana & Pappy's house for a combination birthday dinner for Bethany (6th), Shelley (14th), Aidan (20th) and Tommy (22nd)!  Bethany's parents were there too and her mom's birthday is somewhere between Bethany's and Shelley's, so we celebrated her too!  September is a busy month!  

At age 5 Aidan loves:

the color blue (really all colors)

to play outside and in the woods

to dress up like superheroes, especially Iron Man

to color and draw

to play sports (currently is in soccer)

to ride his bike

to watch old school Spiderman cartoons

the movie Planes and all the characters

to read

to set the table before dinner

to go to school & playball

to play at the park

to sleep in his tent in his room

We're so blessed to have him!!

Spring School Pictures '13

I'm a little late (well, I'm a lot late on this!  But that's what happens when you have 3 kids and you are pregnant...:) on posting the boys spring school pictures.  The pictures were taken right around Easter, so I had them wear their Easter outfits because they're so cute!  

 Aidan's 3 year old preschool class at Acworth United Methodist Church.  He had Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Kim, both amazing teachers!  He learned so much and made so many friends...especially his good friend Gavin (they've been in the same class since they were 2! Gavin is the little boy sitting below Aidan with the pink tie :).

 Roman's 2 year old preschool class at AUMC.  He had Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Stephanie, and he loved school (well...both boys do like school, but they LOVE Playball, and after school sports class!).  Roman looks like the ladies man here!

 Are you serious?  They are too cute.  I may be biased, but they are really cute boys!  I love that they're so close and best friends (I may have to remind them of this from time to time...).

 Aidan 4 1/2 yrs and Roman 3

 My sweet Aidan

 He is so big now!

 Roman looks so cuddly here :)

 This picture makes me want to squeeze him :)

 This was not something that happened at school...these pics are from Dupree Plumbing when the kids visited daddy, Aunt Em and Grandpa at work!  They have a fancy scanner so the boys think it's hilarious to scan pictures of their faces and hands!  They did this in late spring of this year because it was one of the days where I was sick as a dog with baby #4, but I remember them coming home with these printouts of their productive "going to work with Daddy" day!

 Aidan's hands

 Romie (you can see part of Josh's arm holding him!)

Roman's hands