{"id":2189,"date":"2014-05-04T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2014-05-14T23:14:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T03:14:55","slug":"five-tastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/2014\/05\/five-tastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-tastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AidansChalkboard\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aidan is five years old!\u00a0 Such a noble little age for our mellow little boy.\u00a0 He’d had quite the gala just a couple of weeks before, but his birthday Monday was preceded by the Adventurer fun day (just an hour or so from Grammy & Grampapa’s) and he requested to share his birthday dinner with the grandparents on Sunday night.\u00a0 We thought we’d be sharing a festive, Aidan-picked meal of (can you guess?) Macaroni and cheese– Crazy Bugs of course, turkey hot dogs, apple slices, carrot sticks, and cauliflower.\u00a0 But when we arrived ‘home’ after a long and very fun “fun day,” Grammy had decorated the dining room all with digger decorations including plates, napkins, birthday banner and mobile.\u00a0 What a super fantastic surprise!\u00a0 Aidan had little diggers on his amazing-Mrs. Sheree’s-Lemon-Cake and five candles that spelled A-I-D-A-N of course!\u00a0 They turned out to be magical re-lighting candles, or so it seemed, but Aidan took it (surprisingly) all in stride, but with a little relief when he managed to get them all blown out.<\/p>\n

Monday birthday morning we did our family celebration at IHOP, another of Aidan’s favorites as Papa might not be available in the evening.\u00a0 Nana joined us too, and Alex took some time off school to open gifts from Nana and Muma and Papa, and eat Mickey Mouse pancakes.\u00a0 Aidan received his Green Lego Airplane that he’d been ‘waiting for so long.’ and a kite to join in the kite flying fun, as well as some books and treasures from Nana.\u00a0 Nana was so kind to have Lucas over at her house for the day, and since Papa was taking Alex to school, Aidan got to have a special Muma day for his birthday.\u00a0 We had plans to do a couple of jaunts, but in the end he was heart-happy to be home all day building Legos and having playtime with Muma.<\/p>\n

Aidan is truly such a treasure in our home.\u00a0 He is thoughtful and careful and meticulously absorbed in his task at hand.\u00a0 He is a fantastic big brother to Lucas, sharing, playful, and teaching him so sweetly in his cute little ‘teaching Lucas’ voice, bending down to his level.\u00a0 He likes everything in its place and in its time, and his aptitude for puzzles has converted into a fascination with building legos, snap circuits and following a schematic to build with any construction set he can get his hands on.\u00a0 He “loves gymnastics,” he says, and is excited to show off his ever-improving jumps, spins, and balancing skills.\u00a0 He’s getting more and more into playing the backyard games with the friends and we love hearing him chime in to the big kids calls– “not it!” or “I have an idea, everybody listen to me!”\u00a0 Yes, still a little stubborn, sometimes shy to participate, often unhurried- for better or worse.\u00a0 But when joyful, his heart just bubbles over into wiggles, big hugs, and contagous goofy wiggles that fill our whole home with happy… and yes, sometimes crazy too…!\u00a0 We love you, darling Aidan!\u00a0 We are excited to see what treasure of a year God has in store for you at five.<\/p>\n

(here’s yet another silent video from David’s phone… we have<\/em> finally gotten it fixed, but for one more birthday all we have is cheesy soundtrack… haha enjoy!)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Aidan is five years old!\u00a0 Such a noble little age for our mellow little boy.\u00a0 He’d had quite the gala just a couple of weeks before, but his birthday Monday was preceded by the Adventurer fun day (just an hour or so from Grammy & Grampapa’s) and he requested Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16],"tags":[317,410,415,380,314,378,379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winklerworldonline.com\/sda2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}