Ella's One

Ella's first birthday was on August 10th. We didn't do anything crazy. We went to Dog and Suds because she likes hot dogs and you can eat outside. Then that night we had friends and family come over for cupcakes and present opening. The cupcakes were decorated like a butterfly. That was done at Meijer and they did a good job. We also got Aedan's cake there. This pic is of me holding Ella, either the sun was in my eye or i was mean mugging someone.
This was Ella's cupcake cake from Meijer. We got a butterfly because Courtney is trying to brainwash Ella into liking butterflies like I brainwashed Aedan into liking Star Wars.
This is Ella eating her cupcake or shall i say eating the frosting. What you can see in this picture is all the frosting in her hair. It looked like we dipped her head in mustard.
Here's Ella opening her presents. She liked her presents a lot. She would get really excited then drop it for the next present.
Here's Ella with Baxter. Baxter doesn't come in the house anymore so Ella usually only sees him through the window. So when she gets to see him in person she gets excited. Baxter is really good around little kids but is scared to death of Aedan.

I Like Mondays

I get a lot of Mondays off. This past weekend i had a long 4 day weekend. we first planned to go back to Ohio but we changed our mind. When then thought maybe we should go see the Indianapolis Indians on Sunday but it was the same day as the brickyard. The real reason is that we slept in. But we decided to go the Indianapolis children's museum(http://www.childrensmuseum.org/index2.htm). I wanted to take Aedan there because there is a comic book exhibit. The first pic is Aedan next to Bam Bam. For those who have known Aedan long that might remember Aedan dressed up like Bam Bam for Halloween. If you want to see that picture you'll need to come over.

Don't think we forgot about Ella. Here she is next to Curious George. Ella enjoyed watching all the kids but she really just wanted to move around by herself. Aedan also enjoyed the George exhibit.

Aedan dressed up as Batman. he didn't really like it but dressed up for me.

This is Aedan and I making a comic book. It's a based on a father and son team with the powers of being super awesome and super cool. But they told us that comics are supposed to be exaggerated so we gave that up.

Aedan, me and Spidey. There was also the Batmobile there but the picture didn't come out. And lastly Aedan with the Silver Surfer.

There's a lot to do besides the comic exhibit. They have an animation exhibit that shows how a cartoon is made. I think it's for older kids because Aedan just wants to watch them and not see how they are made. The museum also had a cool dinosaur exhibit and lots of fun interactive things to do. Well that was our trip to the museum.