Aidan and the Concept of Time...

The other day, Aidan was asking how long he could borrow a game from Grandma that she brought over to him the other day...
Aidan: So can I keep it until after Sunday?
Mom: Yeah, I don't think Grandma cares, because she is going on a trip anyway, so we can keep the game for a while...
Aidan: Ok, I'll borrow it until May.
Mom: Well, we're not going to borrow it that long. May is in the spring - that's when you will be almost 5.
Aidan: Oh, ok.

A few minutes later...
Mom: Monday will be the first day of October.
Aidan: Oh - October (pause) Is that when I will be 5??
Mom: No, your birthday is in July.
Aidan: July again????

So what does a baby boy do while Mom is cooking dinner?

Aidan's Drink Stand

Last Saturday, Aidan had a drink stand at our garage sale!! He had lots of fun, and made enough money to buy a couple small lego toys. We bought some sodas and water bottles, and he sold those for 75 cents each. Daddy helped him make his sign. Aidan lasted out there longer than I thought he would, although the concept of money and making change is pretty far over his head... So who wants soda at 8:00 a.m.? Apparently a lot of people. We went in at 10:45 a.m. after we sold out!!

I know what those random strangers are doing, Mom...

Aidan has been cracking us up lately with his assumptions about what various strangers that he sees out in public are doing and why they are doing it. Yesterday on the way to church, we saw several people out biking. As in long distance racing type biking. Aidan said, "I wonder where they're going. Do you think they're going to church, Mom?"
"No, I don't think so."
"Oh. Well, maybe they're going home from a hotel because they have been staying there a long time because their house caught on fire..."
Yeah, I bet that's it!

Today at the lunch table he was saying "whewww!" and waving his hand in front of his face like something smelled bad. I asked him why he was doing that.
"Well, I'm doing this to teach Gresh that this is what we do when something smells bad!"
"Why does he need to know that???"
"Well, (in a real innocent voice) I want him to grow up to be a responsible boy, and he needs to learn that's what we do when something smells bad!"
I laughed until I cried on that one!

On Saturday our neighborhood is having a garage sale, and I'm going to let Aidan have a drink stand and sell drinks. So check back... that should provide material for some more blogging!

Gresham...

Gresham has discovered that he can get into the pantry and get the Cheerios out all by himself! He can open the box and everything!

This post is for Aunt Leah...

On Sunday night, we went to Jordan's mom's house for a grand unveiling of her home improvement projects. We had a great time!



Jordan, Aunt Elaine, and cousins Lauren and John

The paint in this room is not as yellow as it looks in this picture.



Gresham and Grandma Evonne



The kitchen looks wonderful with the new cabinet color, new paint, and new countertops!



Close up of the new countertops



New fireplace mantle



The front dining room



Aidan got to see what a cousin is! He hasn't seen Ty since Christmas, and Ty can do a lot more now! Although it will be more fun when Ty and Gresham are older. Aidan kept asking Ty (who is 18 months) "Do you want to play soccer? Let's build a zoo!"

I know that children learn by asking questions, but...

...the process can really drive one crazy.

Here are some of our evening conversations. Aidan talks nonstop, so it would be impossible to record it all.

Aidan: What should we do tonight?
Mom: Well, after dinner we are going to a meeting about our neighborhood. It's at Grayson's school, so you can see what his school looks like.
Aidan: Oh, yeah...that's cool... Why are we going to a meeting?
Mom: It will be all people from our neighborhood.
Aidan: (interrupting) will the school people tell us how to do things?
Mom: No, we're just meeting at the school to have somewhere to meet. We're going to talk about landscaping. We're going to talk about whether every house should have at least one tree and some bushes.
Aidan: We have two trees.
Mom: Right. So we don't have to do anything.
Aidan: Well you said one tree.
Mom: At least one tree. That means we can have more than one.
Aidan: Will we have to rip out our tree in the back yard?
Mom: No!
Aidan: Well you said one tree.
Mom: AT LEAST ONE TREE. That means we have to have one, and more is fine.
Aidan: Okay, at the meeting they will tell people to have one tree in the front and one tree in the back.
Mom: Well, actually they will tell people they have to have one in the front. It doesn't matter what's in the back yard...
Aidan: Yeah, at least one tree. One in the front and one in the back.
Mom: No... oh, forget it.

So we go to the meeting, which is an HOA meeting to vote on a change to our neighborhood regulations to require people to have landscaping (many have none). The HOA is paying for it. We are really interested, because the neighborhood is starting to look kind of ghetto...

(At the meeting)
Gresham: da da da da da da da da da da
Aidan: (loud whisper) Why do we have to sit in chairs here?
Mom: SHHHHH!
Gresham: Ohhhhhhh Ohhhhh da da da da
Aidan: Mom I saw toys
Mom: SHHHHH! Aidan, sit back in your chair.
Aidan: I don't have room because Honeybear is sitting there so he can see what's going on.
Mom: Just sit down, please.
Man asking a question: So if we add landscaping, it will add 7-10% to our house value, so then they will assess my taxes higher and I will have to pay more taxes and it will cost me sooo much money.
Man running the meeting: Well, we can't make decisions like that. Let's start burning some houses down so we won't have to pay as much taxes....
Gresham: mommm mommm da da da da
Aidan: Can I sit on the floor?
Mom: No. SHHHHHH!

Gresham never stopped making noise, but stopped as soon as we left (after 20 min.)

Gresham is getting closer to walking! When we got home, he pulled up to standing several times and took one step before falling!