Starfish

They graduated!! Swim lessons are done and they both did exceptionally well. As you can see from the picture Callie Joy finally decided to give in and learn how to swim and float (her teacher isn't holding her...she floated like that by herself forever)!

We at the Aagaard house have had a lot going on. I will try to get more pictures up soon. I am determined to be good at the blogging thing...just need to remember to post stuff!

Friends and Cake!!

We had a wonderful day of Hailey, Allison and CAKE! Hailey and Allison are dear friends from Redeemer and we love them to pieces. We experimented with cake and much to my suprise (my kitchen experiments usually go terribly wrong) it was so good!! Thanks for visiting Deltona ladies...can't wait until our next reunion!

Shamu!!

We finally got an opportunity to take the kids to Sea World! What fun! They had a blast and just loved seeing all the animals. Riley's favorite were the sharks and Shamu. He informed us yesterday that he wanted to ride on a whale when he "growed up." I just had to post this picture because they are wearing their new Sea World shirts and clutching their Shamu dolls after a full day of fun. It felt like 150 degrees outside and they did not even notice. It is just so exciting to watch your own children discover new things. I didn't think Shamu was that cool until Saturday and now I have a whole respect for that whale. He actually is pretty talented. Thank you for an awesome day Me-Ma and Scott!

Riley just being Riley. I love watching our little ones act their age. He is almost 4 and we can't believe it. It is just great how the silliest things crack them up. Riley is very into "knock, knock" jokes and he comes up with some creative ones. Today it went a little something like this:

Riley: knock knock

Me: who's there?

Riley: booger

Me (reluctantly): booger who

Riley: booger in my nose!

And no, to answer the question of whether or not we teach him this...he comes up with it himself!

Callie Joy in a basket that was full of very exciting toys, but the basket proved to me much more fun alone! The kids pushed each other around in it declaring it was Santa's sleigh. Merry Christmas (in July)!

A rare moment...they are both not only looking at the camera but also smiling. I just had to ignore the red eyes b/c the picture was perfect!

About 3 seconds later!

she didn't cry!

Well, she has kinda given in a little bit...Callie Joy that is. After a more peaceful swim lesson Friday she actually said she liked going to Ms. Becky's pool. I am hoping she has reached a turning point since we have a few more weeks to go. Things are good in the Aagaard house, just busy as usual but always fun. Riley went to bed tonight insisting we call him "Batman." This is really a big deal since Riley has NEVER let us call him anything other than Riley. When people even say, "aren't you a handsome boy" the response has always been, "I not! I Riley Dean Aagaard!" There is usually a bit of attitude that goes with that reply as well. Our dear Riley lives in a somewhat literal world, but for about 30 minutes tonight he just let himself go and was...BATMAN! (you see, he was wearing Batman pjs which included a cape...of course!)


Will post more pics soon!