California Trip Part Three: The Aquarium

On Wednesday we went to the Cabrillo Aquarium. It was a smaller aquarium, but it had a touch pond and starfish, which was about all Aiden needed to be happy. They also had a really cool children's exploration area with fun costumes, and puppets.

We took this video of Aiden playing with the puppets with the camera, so it's not the best quality, but still cute!

California Trip Part Two: Disneyland!

Disneyland was a blast! Aiden loved that Uncle Drew came with us.
Before we left for California I had Aiden get on the Disneyland website with me and pick out some things he really wanted to do. His top choices: Pirates, Haunted House, Buzz Lightyear, and a train.

We did all of them. He thought the Haunted House was "awesome" and kept telling me that I turned into a ghost. The train was also a lot of fun. He smiled and pointed at things through the whole ride. In the Buzz Lightyear ride you get lazers and you get to shoot Zurg. Aiden did the Buzz ride at least five times. The Pirates ride was neat too. He had fun pointing out pirates with swords (imagine that). Seeing Mickey Mouse was also on Aiden's list. His face just lit up when he saw Mickey Mouse. And he thought it was amazing that he got to shake his hand.

The Finding Nemo ride was another favorite. He really loved it, and kept talking about all the starfish he saw. We also rode the Winnie The Pooh ride and Aiden just kept saying over and over that he got to see "pooh, iglet, wabbit, yore and roo".

It was fun to watch Aiden get into the Jungle Cruise ride. He pointed out elephants and told us to watch out and made sure nobody got hurt.

The Peter Pan ride made a pretty big impression on him too. He couldn't believe we were flying and told me for a couple days afterwards that he got to fly up above stars.

Aiden loved his "First Visit" button that he got at the gates. He still wants to wear it.

California Trip Part One!

It was so nice to spend a week someplace where we didn't have to bundle up just to go outside. Aiden's first comment when we got to California was that there was no snow. There sure wasn't. It was even 85 degrees one of the days we were there!

Here are a few pictures from the first couple of days of the trip. Hooray for having a Zoo pass for the Idaho Falls Zoo that got us into the L.A. Zoo half price!

Pin the Rock on Goliath

For one of our family home evenings we told Aiden the story of David and Goliath and then we played pin the rock on Goliath. Aiden had so much fun doing it we played for about an hour and we just had to get video of it.

Present from Brent and Laura

About a week ago, Aiden got a late Christmas present in the mail from Brent and Laura. He was so excited that he got a package just for him.

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He really loves his "awesome car book" that has his name in it. He has just learned how to recognize his own name and when I am reading the book to him he has fun looking for his name and pointing it out on every page.

Thanks Brent and Laura!

Overstock Sale!

For those of you in the Idaho Falls area, I am doing a big overstock sale with items from my website: www.kindredcreations.com
Free Admission
When: Friday, Feb. 12th
10:00 am-8:00 pm
The London Café
Inside the Guesthouse Inn on Lindsay Blvd.

Everything at least 75% off from big Companies like:
Daisy D’s, American Crafts, S.E.I. BasicGrey, 7gypsies, Around the Block, Chatterbox, and 20 others.

All 12x12 paper including cardstock ten for $1.oo!
Deep Discount table with kits and other items up to 95% off! Hundreds of items for a quarter.

You won’t want to miss it.

Once There was a Snowman!

Thought everyone would enjoy pictures of Aiden playing in the snow.