Aiden in the hot tub

I meant to post this video last week, but am finally getting around to it. He really loved "swimming" in the hot tub!

Smarty pants

I had a rough day with the kids today (ok, mainly Ava, lol) but I wanted to share this nice comment from Aiden's 3K teacher. He had a rough start to the school year, so it is great to see that he is really coming around and doing well in school. When I picked him up today his teacher told me, "You know, I am sure you already know this, but Aiden is really smart! He is always the first to answer when we talk about letters or numbers, and he knows every kids' name in all the 3K classes. He even remembered that Ben is in Australia, and he's been there for 6 weeks! We can tell you work with him a lot at home, he's really smart!" Ben is his friend who is visiting his relatives and Aiden reminds me almost daily that Ben went to Australia, where kangaroos live, lol.

We've always thought that Aiden is pretty bright, but it is nice to hear it from his teacher too! :) We're proud of you, little man!

Ava counting

I took this video today at the pond, feeding the ducks. You can't hear her very well, but she counts the statue's fingers (4 of them, his thumb is hard to see, lol) and then I ask if she can count in Spanish and she says, "no, dos, tre, taco" which I think is pretty good pronunciation for a 22 month old! She can count to 8 in Spanish unprompted, and surprisingly she doesn't skip 4 and 7 like she does in English, lol. She is completely in love with St. Francis, as you can see from the pics following the video!

Halloween pictures

Liz let me know that you can't save pictures from Smilebox, so here are the hard copies of the Halloween pics, including a few that didn't make the Smilebox. Happy Monday!

Happy Halloween!

Wow, it is November 1st already! Congrats in advance to my sister, Liz, and her husband, Dave, who officially become homeowners tomorrow when they close on their 1st house together! I am so excited for you guys!

Scrapblog started charging to use their site, so I made a Smilebox of my favorite Halloween pics of the year. This is a tough age to get "good" usable pictures (they move too darn fast for me, lol), but I did manage a few cute ones. Our Halloween almost got rained out--we stayed home the entire day instead of doing all of the fun things we had planned:( But then at the last minute, the rain stopped at 6:30pm and we ended up going to Trunk or Treat at a nearby church (this is an alternative to Trick or Treating, where the kids get candy out of people's car trunks. Fun for them and easy to accomplish with young kids). Then we came home and Trick or Treated in our neighborhood. Ava was particularly funny to watch, she was yelling all down the street, "Door! Door! Knock knock! Trick treat! (which sounded a lot like "Titty!! Titty!!" lol), yum, candy! Candy, yummy!!! THANK YOU!" Chuck and I were both surprised at how fast she caught on to the whole idea. Aiden had a really nice time and told me it was his "best Halloween ever" which since it is only his second Halloween that he's actually dressed up for isn't saying much, but still, lol. It made this Mama feel pretty good:)

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