Aaron's Adventures

This is what happens when you leave your child alone with markers for 5 minutes:


Oddly enough, I took off his clothes so he wouldn't get markers all over them...I guess the joke's on me...



On another note, I was taking pictures of a few of my crafts and as soon as I started snapping pictures, Aaron started yelling "Cheese!" and smiling for me, so here is one of him playing with one of his Christmas gifts:


The next 2 pictures are of Aaron's first trip to the Discovery Center. He had a lot of fun with the "Floating Ball" exhibit:



This was some kind of spinny-tornado-thingy...well, whatever it was called, Aaron loved it.


And here is Aaron playing in the first real snow of the winter back in mid January...But again, the joke was on me - As I was getting Aaron ready in his "warm" clothes to go out into the snow, I realized that he didn't have any snow boots! So we sent him out in his regular shoes that actually worked pretty well, but I didn't want to take any chances, so we decided to take a trip to Walmart to grab him a pair...wait...it get's better....




As mother nature would have it, as we were driving to Walmart, it started to rain. Not thinking twice, we bought him a pair of snow boots and headed home.


When we got home, Aaron and Matt got out of the car and immediately started throwing snowballs at each other. Matt made a huge snowball to give to Aaron to throw:




Well, after experiencing our first real snow of the winter, we all went back inside to warm up. The next morning we all woke up to look outside - THERE WAS NO MORE SNOW LEFT! It all melted away with the rain. So as it turns out, the first snow of the winter may have been our last snow of the winter. It has rained off and on here since then, but mostly we have had sunny skies. And being that it is already February, I don't see too much more snow in our near future. Sadly, Aaron's lonely, unused, snow boots are still sitting in his room with the tags on...good thing Walmart has a great return policy! ;-)


And finally, Aaron has officially transitioned to a booster seat (still a 5-point harness, of course - mom wouldn't have it any other way)! It's an Evenflo SecureKid 300. We LOVE it. Aaron loves it too. He calls it his "Big Boy Seat." We especially love the cup holders - just throw a Capri Sun in one cup holder and a few french fries in the other, and he's good to go! =)