Mini Olympics

Brennan and Aidan both had their last gymnastics class for the year yesterday.

Beam is Brennan's favorite apparatus

Somersaulting on the beam--not so much!

Kicking while on the bars is a close second.

Warm ups

Doing floor routine--only needed one prompting

My Guitar Heroes

This is what happens when Daddy is in charge:

Marian was actually getting pretty good at it!

The Graduates

Aidan graduated from the preschool 5's class last night. He's all set to blast off to kindergarten!

And Thomas took Marian out to Tucson last weekend for his sister's graduation from law school.

Deidre with fiancee Dan

Number 4!

Here's the first official picture of Baby #4.

Due date is Dec 28th, so I need advice from all the December babies out there on how to keep birthdays special! Otherwise, everything is so far so good.

LPC Mall

My aunt and uncle have started a shopping website, so I'm helping get the word out! Looks like they've got all kinds of stuff at discounted prices and they'll be adding to it as time goes on. A portion of their profit goes to Children's Miracle Network. Check it out: http://www.lpcmall.com/

Under the Sea

Aidan's last High Flyer field trip was to the Downtown Aquarium.

Riding the train.

Entering the tunnel...

...which was filled with sharks!

This shark was above us

The boys then wanted to go on the Ferris wheel, which I thought Aidan would change his mind once he got closer.

Nope! They loved it!

They were all hoping it would get stuck and the firemen would have to come save us!

We had a great view of downtown and Gramps' building

Then they wanted to go on the free-fall ride, which I thought Aidan would change his mind once he saw what it really did. Nope! It drops about 5-10 feet and he did ok the first 2 times. Then he tensed when it went back up and had a frozen scared smile on his face for the next few drops. But he said he liked it when he got off.

After lunch we went into the actual aquarium.

The touch pool had a spot to go underneath to see the stingrays swim over you. Aidan is on the left. He had a great time feeling the very friendly rays. If they swam over to you and you didn't pet them right away, they would splash you to get your attention!