Beginning of May

May started off busy!  Ayden celebrated his summer birthday at school.  I made whoopie pies to take for his birthday treats.  Ayden got to wear a crown and blow out candles on a pretend cake.  Joel was even able to take off work for a little while to come for treats at preschool. 

 

 

Ayden got a huge black eye when he was trying to balance on a cement paver and lost his balance and hit his cheekbone on the corner of the sandbox.  This is about 5 days after it happened.  It looked much worse than this!  Of course a week after he did this we were scheduled to get family pictures taken by my friend.  She's is amazing with Photoshop though so was able to take his black eye out :)

We went to the zoo on Mother's Day.  I think everyone else had the same idea, it was busy!

 

Cael liked milking the cow.

I love this picture.  Cael is in the stage of not wanting to smile for pictures, so it  is rare to get one of him genuinely smiling lately.

 

 

 

Ayden had beach day at school and got to wear swimming trunks and take some beach toys to school.

 

I made the boys Elmo shirts for the Sesame Street Live show we took them to.  Cael wasn't cooperating for pictures at the time.

Outside before the show started!

Daddy and Ayden watching the show.

Ayden insists he is too old for Elmo and that Elmo is for babies, but he really enjoyed the show and was dancing to the music most of the time :)  Cael was a fan too, and did well sitting for the show, although he was a bit wiggly at times.