Sunday, July 8, 2012

The Zoo - a 1 Year Party!

Aaron is now 1!
He is 21 lbs, 7 oz which is in the 52%. 
His head circumference is 17.76" which is in the 22%.
And he is 2'6" tall which is in the 56%.

For Aaron's birthday we went to the Portland Zoo - he wasn't excited except to go outside, but man, once we got there... he had a blast! He would get mad at us every time we left one animal to go to another... By the end of the 2 hours he was exhausted and so were we, but man did we have fun!


The first animal we saw was a bear



We came across a fun waterfall and of course, Aaron had to play in it!



Crawling down the fun tunnel


Aaron loved the fishies!






Another person came along with a camera much bigger and fancier than mine...
My little HAM then refused to look at me and wanted to pose for the other man's camera!
Silly boy


Aaron thought the turtle was pretty cool



The Sea Otters wanted Aaron's Sunglasses! 
Who knew?





Aaron loved going in to pet the goats!

And, of course... he wanted to kiss the goats...




The Penguin zoomed by Aaron and he wanted to follow it!




It was over 90 degrees and so lots of the animals were hiding in the shade.
We were lucky enough to happen upon the polar bear as he was heading to new shade

Gorillas have bigger hands than Aaron



Aaron thought the elephant was pretty cool


Until we ended up at an angle way too far from the elephant
then Aaron was only interested in the pole...





A better view = an interested Aaron

Yeah, my boys had fun in the drum area...

Eric's awesome drumming drew a crowd - lol


Aaron was easily distracted by the other kids

Fun animals to play with!



In the bird walk, a lot of birds were hiding,
but Aaron found the ducks!!!



Too hot for the hippos


Looking at the zebras and the *something* (I honestly can't remember what they were called...)





Looking at the strange monkey
Getting very tired


We didn't get Aaron out for the giraffe, he was so tired


Aaron saw the bat on the ground and focused on it rather than the ones up top
do you see it?


By the time we got to the tiger, Aaron didn't even want to sit up to see it



And by the time we got to the car, he was gone...

On Sunday we opened his presents
(he let us sleep in till about 1 on his birthday 
so we had to leave for the zoo pretty quick after waking up)
We took videos of him opening his gifts - you can see them on our youtube channel


Happy Birthday my little man!

Friday, July 6, 2012

Swimming with the Basses

Emily, David, and Eli came over to swim today!

Glopping on the sunblock
Look at his curly hair!

Right when I put Aaron in the water he leaned forward so I stuck him on his belly
He started kicking his legs and flailing his arms as though he was trying to swim...
Apparently it's something my brother, Thomas, taught him.



A picture with both dudes looking at the camera


 My little HAM - totally willing to get his photo taken!

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Dirt...?


Happy 4th!

Happy Independence Day everyone! I hope you made the day spectacular!
Do you like my wreath?

For our celebration, we slept in.  Aaron woke in the morning for like 30 minutes so I put him back down and joined Eric in bed. Everyone eventually rose around 12:30... twas awesome.

I spent the early afternoon putting the finishing touches on Aaron's birthday cake and then we headed over to Mark & Ane's for a family birthday celebration!

Aaron saw me wearing my apron and he wanted to wear it... as a cape. So cute.







I made fun matching shirts for the fam!


The Tigger cake I made for Aaron
On the left are pooh bear fondant balls
On the right are (supposed to be) pooh bear brownie balls (but they look more like rats...)

 Getting ready to blow!
(he decided last minute to not blow so his cousins helped out)

Everytime Aaron has his sunglasses on he does the funniest thing!


Aaron loved opening presents outside!




After presents they played with bubbles

On the butt of Aaron's shirt I wrote "li'l firecracker" ... cute huh?



In the evening we had fun with a BBQ and fireworks.
Aaron wasn't disturbed by the loud sounds - he didn't even jump.
He was, however, in a cuddle mood! So fun!!! He liked watching the lights and pointing.

How was your 4th of July? Did you have as much fun as we did?