Brushing teeth

With new teeth comes brushing.

This one is for Aunt Carrie.... Ayden and Carrie's dance party

(Sorry for the clicking noise again... the spirits are back and haunting us)

Sprinklers

Sadly, we are back in AZ, and I say sadly because we all miss Michigan already, particularly the lovely weather (second to the family time of course.) We had a late flight on Saturday so we spent the day in the pool and Ayden got to experience one of life's great joys as a child - playing in the sprinklers.

This one got him right in the forehead, a bit startling, but he kept crawling.

Adios Michigan

Today is our last day in Michigan :( In this picture we told Ayden we had to go back to AZ, this is him protesting.

One last play date with new girlfriend, Sylvia. Ayden has met more new friends this month than any of us combined.
Driving the van.
One hand - its the cool way to drive.

The little guy has the crawling thing mastered, but while we've been in MI he has had to adapt his crawling on the cement around the pool in order to salvage his knees. This is what he came up with...

Four generations....

Ayden is our Grandma Willison's first Great-Grand child..... he didn't really want to cooperate for the photo, but sometimes you take what you can get.

Ayden's first pair of "walking" shoes.

Grandma in all of her glory!

The ZOO

We took the whole clan and went to the Grand Rapids John Ball Park Zoo the other day, Ayden was mesmerized the entire time. This photo of the wallaby goes out to the "family down under" (link on the left).

We went to see Kate's best friend Shari today, and Ayden's best friend Bentley, the cat.

Studying all the toys
Shhhh....
For the most part he was being gentle, the 8.5 month old version of gentle, but gentle nonetheless.