Aidan turns 3!

Since facebook has made me lazy, it's now been 10 months since I posted. Oops...but I have more than I care to put in a facebook post, so here goes.

Aidan is now 3 years old! How time flies. Since I actually have a little more vacation time this year, and it was spring break last week, I took Thursday and Friday off and we took him to a couple of places we thought he'd like.

First, the Louisville Zoo. We'd been to the Cincinnati Zoo plenty of times, but thought we'd try something different, and since we hadn't really been to Louisville since we moved here (sad, it's only a little over an hour away) we headed down there.

Aidan was a fan of this globe that had water coming down over it.

On his actual birthday we went to a place called Entertrainment Junction, which bills itself as the world's largest indoor model train display. It was pretty impressive, they had 3 different eras (~1860s, 1940s, and modern) and each of them were huge. It was a G-scale train, which is pretty large models.

Here's a view inside one of the displays:
They also had a train themed play area. Look, mommy can play too!

Mari also had a good time.

And now that Aidan is 3, he'll be starting preschool. He's always talked about the school bus when it comes down our street, so he was pretty excited when he got to actually ride on it (not that you can tell from the picture, but when he got up the steps into the isle he was smiling and doing a little excited hop thing). We've been doing flashcards with him, at his insistance, and he can identify all the letters and numbers, count up to about 10, and knows colors and shapes. So, preschool should be great fun.

When he got home, he started singing "Ring around the Rosies" and falling down in the family room. Any time he can learn a new song and run in circles, it's a good day as far as he is concerned. The only challenge will probably be the lack of a time during the day for nap, as he is in afternoon preschool and has mostly been on a 1-3pm nap time, although at day care he hasn't been always actually napping. So it will be an early bed time for him now.

Crazy how fast he's growing.