First dentist appointment

Aaron had his first dentist appointment today and did great!!  He operated the Mister Thirsty most of the time and at one point turned it off, saying, "I don't want to waste the batteries".  He had a cleaning and some ultrasonic scaling done to his front teeth.  He also sat through a flouride treatment!  I was so proud of him. 

In unrelated news, Aaron's abstract art is really taking an exciting new turn.

The caption says: "Well this (pointing to the water) is a camouflaged whale.  Over here (pointing to the sky) is a shark jumping out of the sea."  I can totally see it.

Fancy dress

Aaron is mostly out of his car phase and into his superhero worship phase.  He likes to be a transformer and will fold himself into a crouched position by degrees, making a "chuh-chuh" sound with each fold.  It's hilarious.  Grandma Linda made him two capes to fly around in and she let Aaron pick out the material.  He picked American flag red and white striped, and a flashy silver lame.  When he pulls the silver one around him, he looks like one of the Supremes. 

He thinks everything has to do with fighting bad guys.  We went to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which has all sorts of science-y stuff, recently, and he inspected a display of Ben Franklin's stuff- there were a pair of bifocals, a page from Poor Richard's Almanack, and a large commemorative medallion.  He identified them as "Ben Franklin's glasses, his book, and his shield."

It was also "Crazy Hat Day" at his school on monday.  I offered several good hat choices, but none of them were fancy enough.  So we sat down and made one according to his instructions (of course).  It had to be rainbow and he wanted to tape little pieces of paper on it to look like an airplane (they did not).  Guess who had the only kid there with a homemade hat?  Would Susan Starr's daughter send her kid in anything else?  You have to admit that it's REALLY fancy.

Let's go fly a kite

Aaron got a kite from Grandma in his Easter basket.  Yesterday was really windy, so we took the wagon and the dog to the park to do some kite flying.

He was so cute and ran around in circles until he was so exhausted he basically fell into the wagon.
I hope the video works this time.  I'll try the sword one again below: