Back to Daycare as Fulltime

Grandparents Li have just left for China this morning. Aiden will start his full time daycare again from today. He has been off since last Wednesday and I was a little concerned that he might cry during drop-off. But surprisingly he went into his room on his own even though slowly. He did show some "not sure" face but at least he gave me a hug before I left and went to play. A big boy now! :))

Sunday Morning Exercise

Like most of the toddler boys, Aiden has a lot of energy and loves to move around all the time. He started practicing jumping around 20 months old and was able to get both feet off ground a little bit around 22 months old. Now he can jump about a couple of inches off ground and do consecutive jumps. He loves to spin around too which I think he got it from Tow Mater from Cars movie. One time he spinned 15 times without falling.

1. Spin, spin


2. Jump, jump

Nice Day in Zoo

It was in mid 50s for high today and it was SUNNY! We decided to go to zoo and it has been almost half year since Aiden's last visit (cold winter). Aiden loved to touch the shark. He also watched the dolphin show and he had very serious expression and only laughed while he saw dolphin splashed water. His most favorite thing is of course train ride and he cried so sadly after we had to get off. He also liked the outdoor garden section since he found it was very interesting to stack the rock chips.

Pretty flowers


Stack the rock chips


In the garden

Happy St. Patrick Day

In order to get some Irish luck, Aiden dressed in green and ate a green cupcake. Yum!

New Exhibition at Children Museum

Aiden went to children museum the day after his b-day party to check out some exhibitions. A huge bumble bee transformer on the entrance was part of the new exhibition, he really wanted to see it but he was a little scared to go near it since it is soooo big. He did enjoy the Dora and Diego section. He planted flowers and water them in this new section.

Bumble bee transformer


Plant flowers


Water flowers


Sorting shapes

Birthday Cake

I made double layer car theme cake for Aiden's 2nd b-day. The bottom layer was chocolate and top layer was yellow cake. I put butter cream between layers and coated the whole cake with butter cream. For decoration, I added black color in the butter cream to make the road and dotted the line with butter cream. I mixed green color in the butter cream and used grass tip to made the grass. I printed out "Happy Birthday Aiden" sign edited by microsoft office and checker flag and car characters from the internet, glue them on the toothpick for decoration. Then I put lightning McQueen and King on the road to complete the decoration. I didn't level the cake, but it turned out pretty good since it looked like a slope for the road per Kim. The finished cake looked pretty good and it was quite delicious. I got quite a bit compliments on the cake, but credit has to go to Matt as well since he helped smoothing the cream and making the road. Kids loved it.

Car theme cake



Stop taking the pictures and give me the cars and the cake!


Yum, yum!




Eating cake with Audrey



Cuddle time with Audrey

Birthday Day gifts

Aiden got a lot of gifts from us, both grandparents and Uncle Jason's family. He showed a lot more interest in ripping off the wrapping paper to see what is inside compared to his 1st b-day and last Christmas. Cousin Audrey and Grant were pretty good helpers with opening the gifts. Aiden got Lightning McQueen, Mater, Doc, King, Hick Chick, Frank, Mack, Ramone, Greater Mater with jumping ramp, a boat for bath, magnetic letters, foam magnetics with 60 different objects and a hot wheel suitcase from Mom and Dad. He got a razor from Grandparents Zeigler, many animal figures (lion, dinosaur, turtle, horse etc), tonka trucks and some clothes and socks from Grandparents Li and a very nice football tent from Uncle Jason, Aunt Kim and Cousin Grant and Audrey. His most favoriate was the cars characters and he kept digging in the bag to see if there were more. He had to check the package to make sure it is empty when Daddy tried to throw them out! He also loves the tent. It did take him a while to get in the tent but once Audrey went in, he followed her in and had a lot of fun with her in the tent! He also liked dinosaurs and elephant. His least favoroiate was clothes and socks of course (typical boys). When he pulled the socks out of the gift bag, he didn't even bother to look for more stuff in that bag! It was pretty good day for Aiden. In addition to the gifts, he had so much fun playing with Audrey and Grant!

Just wake up from nap and hang out with gamers!


Open the magnetic letter gift with Audrey's help


What is in this big box?


It is a razor!


Yay, Frank and Mack


Is it a cookie jar?


No, it is foam magnetics


More cars!!!


Dinosaurs!


The greater Mater ramp set

Aiden's 2nd B-day Party Decoration

As I mentioned in my previous post, we decided to do a Disney Car party theme. It turned out to be good choice for Aiden. He loves to look at the cut out cars character on the door and tables.

Balloon Fun

We took Aiden to Red Robin for his b-day. After a big lunch, Aiden got a red robin balloon and had a lot of fun playing the balloon and he was even holding the balloon during bath that night. Then on Saturday we also got a couple of balloons for the b-day party (truck and smiley face). He loves the truck balloon!

Come down, balloon!


Sooo much fun!


B-day balloon

Almost TWO??

Time flies and my little Aiden is turning 2 in 3 days!! Where has the time gone?? It feels like yesterday when we were celebrating his 1st birthday. We are having a b-day party this Saturday (one day after his real b-day). The 1st b-day party was sports theme, not like Aiden really cared. This year, we decided to do Disney Cars Movie theme since he LOVES (you can even call addictive) the show. He already has two Maters (One Mater talks and the other one spins) and one lightning McQueen (the red paint has faded since he's been holding it too much). I baked and decorated his b-day cake (sports cake) with some help. This year, I will do the same thing since I found it was quite fun thing to do. The party photos will come soon......