Hill Aerospace Museum

We visited the Hill Aerospace Museum this week and it was fun. There was a lot more there than I remember from when I was little. Aidan was disappointed he was not allowed to touch or fly any of the planes but he did like looking at them. There was a children's area with toys and some planes he could sit in and pretend to fly, that was his favorite part.


Aidan also made this disgusting snow cone on a stick, aka his sock on a nail file. He told me "It's good!" And yes, this is a dirty sock he removed from his foot. I can't believe what some parents allow their kids put in their mouths.

PS

Somehow I forgot to include some very important information in my update...Grandma came to visit last weekend because Bones went to Las Vegas for a golf tournament with Bryce and my dad. The tournament was a charity event hosted by the Ryan Kendall Iverson Foundation to benefit the John F. Miller School. Although Bones' golfing skills were a bit rusty, he and Bryce were big winners in the raffle. Bryce won a pink golf bag and...an iPad 2! And Bones won a very nice golf club. The iPad was not the one Bryce wanted so they took it back to the Apple store and got the one he wanted which was actually cheaper. With the leftover money (and a little extra added by dad), Bones got an iPad also! So we got to have fun with Grandma and Bones got an iPad which he has really wanted for awhile.


In other news, Calder is 5 months old today!

October

I have so much catching up to do...Calder turned 3 months and 4 months (and he will be 5 months in a couple of days!)


He has tried rice cereal and squash so far. He was much more excited about the squash than the rice cereal.



Molly got a haircut and Aidan thinks he is ready to drive

In case you were wondering, proper driving etiquette is to hang out the front window when you can't see, Ace Ventura-style.


We went to a fire and rescue open house at the Farmington Fire Department and we got to check out an ambulance, a rescue vehicle and ride on a real fire truck. We also got look in a helicopter and watch it take off. And most importantly, Aidan got a red balloon to take home!

Said balloon below...

If this picture were not taken in the dark you would be able to tell that Aidan and Bones are inside a real fire engine!

Ambulance

Rescue vehicle

And we went to the pumpkin patch this weekend and had some fun with grandma.

Tractor at the pumpkin patch

We got together with Bones' family to carve up our pumpkins.

I think the star of the night was grandma's pumpkin! I daresay this is the best pumpkin I will see this year (it looks even better lit up!) He is so unique and fun

Diversity Day

Any truck passing by our house is occasion for excitement so we always take note. (Each and every garbage day you will find us out in the yard or at the window so we don't miss a moment of the action!) We have 2 mailmen who drive by our house regularly. As the mail is very important to Aidan, we often discuss our mailmen. Aidan calls them "the white mailman" and "the brown mailman". Hopefully this topic never comes up in a public place, although surely that is wishful thinking. People will just have to accept the fact that we may be raising a racist.

Bumbo

Grandma was here to visit for a few days and she bought a Bumbo for Calder. He enjoys it but I am not sure he enjoys it as much as Aidan does...

My Dirty Secret

If you are a clean freak you should stop reading right now (although I know you are intrigued by the giant picture of bathroom cleaner!). I have not cleaned our shower since Calder was born. Yes, that means it has been almost 3 months since our shower has seen any kind of cleaning supply. Sadly, this is not the only thing in our house that I have temporarily given up on cleaning. Someday I will have the time and energy to catch up... but anyway, I saw a commercial for Kaboom Foam-tastic and was excited to try it because it looked like it cleaned hard water so wonderfully and hard water marks are my arch nemesis in our shower. I never feel like I can really get them all off. I finally got to try it out on our shower and while it is not the miracle product it appeared to be on television, it is SUPER fun to use! It's like spray-painting with bathroom cleaner. It's so satisfying to see the dark blue foam cover the shower walls. Then you have the excitement of watching it change to pretty white (making you think your shower is super clean).