Chatting with Ayden

Ayden is so fascinated with the video camera when it comes out that I have to trick him into talking to me. Marshmellows work!

More Christmas Morning

Making Cookies

Ayden enjoyed helping to make Christmas cookies for our neighbors and friends.

Christmas Morning

This year was Ayden's third Christmas and he still wasn't quite sure what all the presents were about.

Christmas Lights

Ayden enjoyed taking a drive to look at Christmas lights each weekend in December. There was an abundance of lights in our area and we never saw the same lights twice.

Christmas at Mimmi's

After we opened the presents Santa left at our house, we headed to Mimmi's house to open more presents. What a fun day!

Christmas Day

Ayden woke up at 5:30 on Christmas morning to open presents. He was excited to play with each present at he opened it, so it took us several hours to get through the presents. His favorites were his kitchen set (he loves to cook for us!) and his train table.

Christmas at School

Ayden loves his teachers, Ms. Jennifer and Ms. Sarah and Ayden commissioned our wonderful neighbor to make each of his teacher's a hand back with her name on it. Ayden was very excited to give them their presents the week before Christmas.

The kids also decorated their "Happy Holidays" sign with little reindeer made from their very own hand prints and thumb prints.

Christmas Decorations

We had fun putting decorations for Christmas around the house. Ayden was especially helpful and we shared a Christmas dance by the tree once we finished making cookies for the neighbors.

Christmas Carnival

Ayden enjoyed his first trip to a carnival. He rode the carosel three times, the train, and begged us to ride the roller coaster and the ferris wheel. He had so much fun, it was hard to leave!