The best Grammy ever that led the West Portal storytime!

Every week since Aidan was 5 months old, he has attended the storytime at the West Portal bookstore in our neighborhood. It is usually led by our friend Sonia, a former preschool teacher, but since she was out of town she asked my Mom to do it! She did such a great job!!! Here are a couple pictures below! You can tell how proud Aidan is of her, too...

 Aidan and his best friend Julian both got to ride on her lap for one of the songs...they were delighted!

Aidan is THREE YEARS OLD!!!

Aidan Carter Baird turned three today!

 "This is what I needed! A white garbage truck!"

This was Aidan's first gift of the day.

Then before we knew it, it was time to get the party started....

The birthday boy!

Opening gifts

Daddies Eric and Steven, Kiddos Jacob and Delaney

Aidan's Birthday Cake! This is Mommy's favorite recipe from her own childhood!

Blowing out the candles!

Everyone enjoyed a little cake!

All the children in Aidan's room! Natalie, Aidan, Charlie, Jacob, Delaney, Charlotte, and Julian!

Aidan is very lucky to have so many nice friends!

Playing outside in our backyard after the party.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us or sent birthday wishes!

Since Grammy was in Seattle for Uncle Claude's memorial service, we celebrated with her and Grampy a few days ago. We went on the carousel on Pier 39, saw the sea lions, and ate dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe!

Aidan and his great, great Uncle Claudie in April 2008 and August 2009.

 We are so glad Aidan got to meet him! We hope Aidan has a long, full life into his 90s just like Claude did.

Disneyland Trip!

Here are our pictures from the first Baird Family trip to Disneyland!

Happy as can be with Aunties Ali, Cheryl and Amber

Visiting the Noah's Ark Museum at the Skirball Center in Hollywood

Storytime with Aunties Terra and Cecilia in Hollywood.

And here we are at Disneyland!!!

Aidan's first ride was Dumbo. He looks a little apprehensive here but loved it.

Small World was his favorite because of "all the pretty dancers."

The Sword and the Stone

The Jungle Cruise

Aidan and his pots of honey!

Another favorite ride: The Disneyland Railroad

We ended the day by enjoying pizza and some fun with balloons!

The end of our first day at the park--Aidan all tucked in with Mickey

California Adventure park!!! Aidan especially liked the A ("because it's for Aidan")

Aidan finally decided to take a picture with a character ...

and especially enjoyed the photo with Mickey!

Aidan and Daddy on his first bumper cars!

On Ariel's Carousel

On the Toy Story Ride in CA Adventure. Aidan was a little tripped out by the 3D glasses but got into it and wanted to go "over and over again."

Aidan's first churro

Look at the first person on the roller coaster.... yes, it's Carina. According to Aidan, I look "a little happy and a little surprised."

Aidan and the CARS characters

Aidan the Fireman

Ready to go up and away!

Aidan and I got stuck on the Jumpin Jellyfish ride... we sat for about 10 minutes 20 feet up in the air! He was very brave and patient considering he's not yet 3 and got stuck!

Aidan's Mickey Ears. James had to borrow Aidan's hat because he lost his on the roller coaster! Silly Daddy.

Playing on the old firetruck

Who looks more tired? This was the last event of the day...watching the Disney Parade before taking the Monorail to the ESPN sports bar!

Aidan and his friend Dylan. They had a ton of fun playing together and then we went to the Long Beach Aquarium together.

We were treated to an awesome dinner at Marix with the Zambas Family in Santa Monica.

Feeding the fish in the Zambas' pond

Look, no hands! Enjoying a little suburbia and riding bikes at Auntie Amy's house in Riverside

Playing at the park with Maddie

Maddie and Jack. Maddie liked to dress Aidan up until he told her no thank you!!!

Sneaking a kiss with Maddie on the porch steps

Cousin Winnie after our Starbucks trip

And though it was a wonderful trip, we are happy to be back in San Francisco. Aidan wanted to go straight to the zoo and ride the Little Puffer like always!

On the zoo carousel

And enjoying a little time at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on a beautifully sunny day here

Thank you to everyone who hosted us! We had an amazing vacation and visiting friends/family was part of the joy!