My Gym

Tuesday night, I went with Amy and Aden to gym class!

First, they had all the kids in a circle stretching, then it was time to go around and explore. I'm not sure how Aden felt about the balls.

Ok, time to come out!

We bounced with him on the trampoline.

Then the rings.

They kept setting up different things for the kids to try.

Aden loved the swing! Video to follow.



That's a big ball.

He loved watching all the other kids.

The swing is still his favorite.



Aden was very helpful at cleanup, he loves to put things in containers.

He wanted to be near the teacher. He is that way in music class also. I guess that's what happens when your mother, grandmother and various other relatives are teachers.

Wednesday night Mark and Melissa stopped by and we had some root beer floats! Melissa was like I don't usually like root beer, but she was surprised and how good it was with ice cream. Mark and I spiked ours with the Root alcohol. Yum!

Touchdown!!!

Monday was 96 degrees so we headed over to my parent's friend's pool in Richboro. Aden hadn't napped all day and was hungry so he was kind of mellow. Just floated around.

Grandpa says that Aden has to be swimming by next Summer!

Just hangin' out. Pretty soon after this picture was taken, he fell forward and his face went under the water. I was right there and got him out immediately and he was cool, did not cry.

There were three little dogs there. They loved Aden and he loved them.

Getting a call from his homeys.

We then went to Amy's parent's house for dinner. Aunt Melissa was excited to see Aden.

Oh no! The camera case is coming to get you!

Amy has been practicing "touchdown" with Aden. He is all ready for the Eagles!

Yay! Could I be any more a mess?

At least he enjoys eating.

Aden is lucky. He got to see both grandpas!

Now this is an interesting story. I always liked root beer and I found this the other day. Root tea was an alcoholic drink made by the Indians and taught to the settlers. In the late 1800's, a Philadelphia pharmacist took out the alcohol so that Pennsylvania coal miners could drink it on the job. He ironically called it root beer, which became a big hit and people soon forgot about root tea. There is now a company trying to bring back root tea and they call it Root.

You can kind of make out the ingredients here. It's birch root, all spice, anise, cardamom, lemon, clove orange and sugar. All natural and it actually smells and tastes like root beer, albeit 80 proof root beer! Tonight I am going to make some root beer floats and spike it with Root!

Back to Teplitzky's

Saturday night we got a babysitter! A nice local girl that was a student of Amy's friend. She had an easy night. Aden was asleep by the time she came over. She got $12/hour to watch tv and play on Facebook. But we liked her and she liked us so we are set for the rest of the Summer at least.

Adam and Ellen picked us up and we headed back to the Chelsea to eat at Teplitzky's for the second time in a week. We sat out by the pool.

Since we had so many people, that we just ordered a whole bunch of stuff and shared. It's good but tastes like all Steven Starr food. The waitresses were characters.

Then to the Greenhouse! Everyone ran into unexpected people so we hung out pretty late.

About 2 in the morning, there was a bad car accident. The crash woke us up.

They took away a guy in handcuffs. Probably drinking.

Sunday morning, it was storming like crazy, so we worked on Aden's walking.

We packed up and headed home even though it did end up clearing up.

Walkin' On The Beach

Today is supposed to be the hottest day of the Summer so far. It only took until the middle of August! Friday after work, we headed to the Shore. We stopped at Tiifany's Diner on the Boulevard for dinner. It had been a long time since either of us had been there. Average age 85.

Grilled cheese anyone?

Diner's are great. They don't seem to mind the mess.

We got down pretty late and put Aden to sleep. Dave and Danielle came around 10 and we stayed up till 12 talking.

Saturday morning, Aden got to open his presents. He loves his new books.

As usual, the wrapping was more fun than the gifts.

After breakfast from Juniors, we all headed to the beach.

There was a synagogue having services on our beach!

We had lunch from Mario and Luigi's again and chilled out. It was nice to just sit and talk. Aden had a great time playing.



We did go for a long walk through Longport. Aden fell asleep in the stroller.

Some nice houses.



We ran into Adam and Ellen. Adam helped Aden walk on the beach.

Not that we are encouraging it. Next Summer is going to be tough with him running around.

He stood on his own a little.

That's my boy!



Soon, I will really take him in the ocean, not just at the edge. Maybe in Florida in two weeks.