Photo Booth

The light was right, the purple curtain in Julia's closet was drawn, and you two were hopped up on sugar after eating lollipops.

 

Your Mommy grabbed her camera and tried to convince you squirmy wormies to sit still and take some photographs.

 

The result?

 

Some of the best darn pictures of you two I've ever seen. These pictures capture so many sides of both of you: silly, serious, loving. You can almost hear your laughter coming to life just from looking at these photos! But most of all, they capture your friendship.

 

Your mother and I are SO proud of both of you, and a big part of that is the respect, love, and friendship you tow have.

 

 

Summer Saturday with Daddy

What'd you do today with your Daddy?

Oh nothing...we just watched some cartoons...

Had a blast at the spraygrounds,

Turned the tables on Daddy and coordinated a military-style splash attack...

Ate lunch on the playground...

...then we went and checked out a new bakery in the 'hood and tried all the croissants,chocolate croissants, and macaroons!

Then we went to CVS and each got to pick out a piece of CANDY!!! (no pictures...due to the sugar high!)

Man...I love hanging out with you guys!

Dino-zoo

The zoo never gets old....but sometimes it gets Jurassic!

After a month of rainy days and rainy weekends, we took advantage a beautiful day and went to the Dallas Zoo to eat popsicles...

Look at cool animals...

...and see some DINOSAURS!*

*animatronic, statues, puppets, and water-spraying fake dino heads.

We saw a cool puppet show featuring some very real-looking and real-acting dinosaurs. You two were enthralled! Aidan, you wanted so desperately to go up on stage, but were never called on unfortunately.

Fortunately, we ALL got to go backstage and see the dinosaurs after the show.

Julia, you were not a fan. You were still, silent, and wanted nothing to do with the dinosaurs.

The two of you got to hold one of the baby dinosaurs. But since you didn't support the head, Julia, the baby dinosaur's "head fell off" (more like fell backwards), but you guys thought it was hilarious! (which it was).

As we approached the larger dinosaurs, Julia got further and further away, and more and more quiet. But, the second we left, you said "I want to do it again!"

Aidan, you wanted EVERYTHING to do with the dinosaurs; you scratched their heads, stuck your hand in their mouths, petted them, examined them. Intrepid!

We even got to go on a super cool dinosaur Train ride!

And we pretended to be scared of the dinos. A gag which never gets old!

Aidan, like I said, you were enthralled. You stood and watched the T-Rex for 25 minutes, asking him questions ("why aren't you roaring? are you scared? are you going to roar?")

I can't help myself. Forgive me for what I'm about to say. We had a dino-mite time!