2011 - Part 2

Here is Part 2 of my 2011 re-cap.
Aiden's first baseball game. Go Astros!
Grandma and Grandpa Sumaya come visit every year for Labor day. It is so nice to get to spend this time with them - we love it! Here is a picture of Grandma, Grandpa, and Aiden on Galveston Beach.
Michael goes to a car wash that has a play area for kids. Aiden loves it! He is getting big enough to play in play sets.
It just doesn't seem the same as when Momma and Dadda drive :) He sure loves to do whatever Momma and Dadda do!
Trying on Momma's shoes...so darling!
Houston Air Show 2011. Aiden loved watching the airplanes! Next year we are going to have to devise some way to keep the sun out of his eyes though. I think he missed a lot just because it was painful to look.
On our trip to the Houston Zoo I think Aiden's favorite part was chasing the Otters back and forth across the tank. He must have done this for 20 minutes - laughing the whole time! (Please disregard his outfit - Momma did not dress him appropriately for the weather!)
Aiden's school picture. Not the best picture of him, but we bought it anyway to save the memory.
Aiden and Dadda playing in the backyard. It is hard to see, but Aiden is laughing so hard he can hardly stand up!
Good Morning and Happy Halloween Ms. Donna! Breakfast (and laughs) at school.
On his first Halloween, we taught our little fireman how to go door-to-door and request 'items' be dropped into his pumpkin. He had so much fun!
Then when we got home, he discovered what all those people were giving him - CANDY! Boy was that a big hit! There is no going back now - he is on to the game of Halloween. We'll see if he lets us wait until we get home to break into the candy next year :)
This is the cute, sheepish grin of a boy who had a little girl 'flirting' with him over his shoulder at the Wildlife Park :)
Texas Renaissance Festival. I don't have much to say - we went, we saw, we ate, we sat in traffic, and more traffic, and more traffic....you get the point.
Dog pile - literally! This is just a cute picture of all of the kids having fun :)
Thanksgiving in Kansas. I don't have very many pictures from our trip to Kansas. As some of you may be able to tell, my photographing frequency dropped off as the year went on. I will try to work on fixing that in 2012. This is a cute shot of the cousins anxiously anticipating the beginning of a Pixar movie. They are all sooo excited they can hardly control their wiggly selves!
We went to the mall in Kansas to have Aiden's picture taken with Santa for the Christmas card, and while there we must have ridden the carousel a few hundred times. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but not by much. Aiden loved it!
We hosted Christmas at our house this year. It was wonderful! It was wonderful to have a house full of family! It was wonderful not to have to travel! It was wonderful all around. It was also Aiden's first "real" Christmas - a Christmas where he could understand and participate. In preparation, I thought he would love opening all of the gifts so I wrapped each little thing individually. It turns out that he would have been happier with everything wrapped together, because after he opened the first present he just wanted to play with it. Forget the rest of the presents - he had a new toy! It really was a delight to spend Christmas with the family and to participate in Aiden's first "real" Christmas!
To finish off the year, there is one more big-boy change. Dadda turned the car seat around so Aiden is facing forward now! Oh my - he loved it! He was practically squealing with delight :) He can see all of the cars out the window now and look directly at Momma and Dadda. Oh boy!

It is hard for me to believe that he is going to be 2 years old in a couple weeks. Where did the time go? He is growing up so fast. I am loving every minute of it, but time is flying by. To steal a phrase from Gretchen Rubin - The days are long, but the years are short.

Good-bye 2011, and Welcome 2012! I know this year will bring many more adventures!

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