Homemade Finger Paint!

Yesterday we decided to do some finger painting. Jaden had a lot of fun getting his hands dirty and making "art" on pieces of paper. He loves doing little arts and crafts like this, so I try to do it every once in a while.

(I love his lips in this one. Very focused.)

Here he is painting a horsey...no doubt for Grandma. :)

My little Goof-Ball :)

Alabama!

Jaden and I took a trip to Alabama for about a week and we had so much fun!

Here we are in a pet store and looking at a little baby pig. Those things are seriously cute. Jaden was able to pet it along with some bunnies. This store had a ton of different animals in it, and Jaden did not want to leave it. We persuaded him to leave when we told him we would go to a different animal store later. We went to PetSmart that night and saw a lot of puppies that were up for sale, so Jaden loved that too!



Being a little rockstar.

Riding a little ride at Chuck E. Cheese! He was a little unsure and held on tight with both hands. He had a great time there, though. He loved the jungle gym thing they had and went down the slide a million times with the other kids.

One of the days, we drove down to Florida (about a two hour drive) and went to the beach. This was Jaden's first beach experience. He was a little unsure of walking on the sand at first, because he would sink in a little bit with each step. But he quickly started to enjoy it when a flash of lightening struck, and a massive clap of thunder hit right over head of us that made each one of us jump. Then it began to poor like you wouldn't believe. We had about 10 minutes on the beach when we were rained out and had to head back home. But I guess that is what we get for not checking the weather beforehand! :). Jaden called this his "big sandbox".

Here are some pictures of the aviation museum that they have on Ft. Rucker. It was pretty cool, and Jaden could not get enough of all the "copters".

Inside of a Cobra...these ones aren't very big, but Jaden had a great time pretending to fly it, pushing all of the buttons, and flipping all of the switches.

Looking at the exhibits. There was plenty of room for Jaden to run around and look at whatever he wanted to.

In the back end of a Chinook.

Here is a video of my little pilot! I love that he makes sound effects. He got so excited when he was able to play with all of the little things in there without me saying "don't touch". :)

I'm a big kid now!

Well, sort of :)... Jaden is at that age where he wants to do a LOT of things by himself. Putting on his pants is one of them. He had me laughing pretty hard with this one. I just love him!