Hillbilly Swimmin Pool...

Since Penny has now devoured 3 different rounds of a vegetable garden, two window screens, too many rubber balls to count, a log of wood, a towel, and our crazy arm caterpillar sprinkler, I decided to get all fancy like and make Aiden a little soaker tub for the last really warm weekend of summer! It started off trying to be a water table of sorts (notice the bath toys).

He dumped water from bucket to bucket...

stayed dry for all of about 30 seconds...

and then was in the bucket WITH the mower. This picture is so funny to me because when I was little and my sister hogged all of the room in the kiddie pool, I would chillax in a five gallon bucket all of my own.

Now my son, the creative genius he is, sits in a bucket too! My heart melts.

See what a generous kid. He wanted all his toys to enjoy the water as well. Mower and all.

I thought Penny might have a few laps but it reminded her too much of a bath so she kept her distance.

Aiden getting Penny a fresh drink of water...

and Penny eating the bowl. Add a bowl to the list at the top.

Leonardo Da Aiden...

I think we have one of the reasons Crayola stays in business. My son. He LOVES to color. His new thing to color on besides paper? Hmmm, lets see...

Dad's legs.

D was such a great sport letting him color all over him. And I am now a believer! I used to think, yeah right, how washable can they really be? But with just water and a towel I have cleaned walls and tables and dogs and now legs.

A little more right on the knee!

What? NO! I have NOT been in the markers!

I am just waiting for the day when I can laugh hysterically when Aiden accidentally uses permanent marker on dad! But not on my walls. Or on my tables. Or Penny. Just on dad.

Incredible Whadda???

A few weeks ago was my first adventure to the famed Incredible Pizza. I guess the term "incredible" is used as in beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have had great pizza in my day and even pizza I would consider incredible, but none of that pizza was in this building!

We went to "a step above cardboard" pizza for a work party for D's company. It was a lot of fun playing the games and watching Aiden look like he had died and gone to heaven.

playing a little ski-ball

Aiden dominated the carousel. He wanted to ride it non stop whether other kids were in line or not. If we got off the carousel and he heard the music start, we had to run back to it and put him on it while it was moving! Not an easy task!

These two are the only shots of his face I could get, and thats because I held the camera out away from my body and snapped a picture! While Aiden was on the ride, he REFUSED to look at me or D. He either looked straight ahead...

Or slightly to the right. He does not like the camera a whole lot! Here he is looking at the imaginary person behind him!

"Too bad mom! No pictures of me today!"

I think he is tired of all the picture attempts! Even other parents around us were cracking up at how serious he was the whole time! We weren't even sure if he liked it at first. We learned the answer to that when we tried to take him off!