Interview with Aidan

Last year, I asked Aidan the following questions. I'm going to try to remember to do something like this every year, though I've failed already because I forgot to do this with Austin on his third birthday.

1. What is your favorite color?
Red

2. What is your favorite food?
Apples and Macaroni

3. What's your favorite thing to do?
Play with my new toys and play ball outside

4. What do you want to be when you're grown up?
"Let me think. A builder because I build stuff always that's good."

5. Who's your best friend?
"Hayden, Sarah and Kylie."

Austin was sitting beside us and got a sad face, so Aidan added, "And Austin is my best friend."

6. What is your favorite thing to drink?
Milk

7. What's your favorite animal?
Puppy dogs

8. Who's your favorite team?
Gators

In just one short year, we managed to brainwash him to say the correct answer!

9. Where's your favorite place to live?
Alabama

Uh, WHAT!?!?! I have no explanation and nothing to say, except that this child obviously needs to get out of the South.

10. What's your favorite TV show?
Tom and Jerry

11. What's your favorite movie?
Cars

12. What's your favorite thing to do outside?
Play ball

13. What's your favorite dessert?
Brownie with Ice Cream

14. How many kids do you want to have when you're big?
"I wish I had five."

15. How old do you think you have to be to get married?
20 (Let's hope not!)

16. How old do you think you have to be to have kids?
25

17. Where do babies come from?
God

18. How do they get there?
N/A

19. What kind of job does Daddy have?
"I can't think of the word. He does flying stuff. Fly work."

20. What kind of job does Mommy have?
Watch kids

21. Is Mommy a good cook?
"Yep. Daddy's a good cook, too - at breakfast."

22. Is Mommy nice or mean?
Nice

No caveat this time, so perhaps I'm improving.

23. Who's the President of the United States?
"I don't know the President at all. I think his name is Tong Darr."

I literally do not know what to say to that. Tong??

24. What's your favorite season?
"It's close to my birthday. Summer."

25. How old is someone when they're super old?
"100 like my great-grandma."

** New questions... because Aidan was loving this attention and wanted me to keep going. **
26. Where's your favorite place to go?
"Nana and Guka's because they have a basement."

27. How much money do you think a car costs?

$150

28. How much money do you think a house costs?

A hundred and thousand

29. How much money does someone have if they're rich?

$30,000

30. What is the most important thing?

Listening to your parents

Now how to get him to do it...

Get out and PLAY!

It has been so miserably hot here this summer that the only time we're outside is when we're going to the pool. Last weekend, it was a little overcast, so we packed up the bikes and went to a local baseball field that has a huge circular parking lot. The boys rode their bikes, and Jared and I gave them little exercises to do every once in a while. Their favorite thing to do was climbing up the large mound of dirt that was there to pour on the infield. The boys ran up and down it, and Jared and I gave them different exercises when they reached the top. By the end of it, there wasn't much exercising going on - it was just playing in the dirt. I had to strip them down to their underwear to get back in my car, and they went straight to the bathtub when we got home. Actually, Austin went straight to lay on my bed, which was super fun to clean up. :-)

Poor Puppy

This is what happens when a seven year old dog tries to keep up with a 33 year old Marine that's training for another marathon.

Anna's faces

Anna loves to make crazy facial expressions. She loves the attention she gets when we all laugh at her. Here are a few of her favorite expressions.

Doctor visits

We've been to the doctor's office several times lately. Aidan has been having a lot of gas issues - so much so that he looks like a poor malnutritioned baby with his distended tummy. We are currently experimenting with whether he may be lactose intolerant, so our milk lover is off milk until I can get to the store to buy him some that is lactose free.

Our little princess also went in for a check-up. She is in the 90% for height and 25% for weight. Wish I had the same body structure! She obviously gets that from Jared! :-)

On one of our recent visits, there was a child that was losing it, and I mean LOSING IT in a room nearby. I have never heard anything like it. The child was screaming at the top of his lungs for about 10-15 minutes. In his tantrum, he was screaming things like, "GET HIM AWAY FROM ME! DON'T LET HIM TOUCH ME! I DON'T LIKE DOCTORS! I DON'T WANT A SHOT!" As I was thinking to myself how lucky I am that my children are always so good for the doctor, Austin turned to me and said, "I guess he's not getting a sucker." :-)