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Aiden’s newest thing is making his toys crash into each other and yelling at them the entire time (see the video below). It is a lot of fun to watch and should be good blackmail material when he gets holder. Hopefully, he won’t be crashing real cars In the video below, he also goes mowing with Curtis and really enjoyed himself.

Another of Aiden’s idiosyncrasies as of late is holding a pretzel and corn chip in his hands. He walks around with them and occasionally licks the salt off. Sometime, he even puts them in his mouth but it comes out a few seconds later. Additionally, he loves sitting Indian style and sometimes even falls asleep that way as you can see in the first image below.

The twins are getting smarter, strong and more cunning — which means more challenges for us! Fortunately, they are getting a little better at listening as well which helps quite a bit. Below are some images of the boys splashing around in the pool and posing in their McQueen underwear.

Hard to believe in less than a week they will be three years old!

Aiden asleep in the car (always sitting Indian style)

Don’t touch anything in the office!

Here comes Evan

In his swimming attire

Ethan too

Walking in his father’s shoes (only Manish does not share the same clothing style )

We decided to keep diapers on Aiden while he was in the pool

Time to swim, splash and laugh

They love when daddy jumps in and does a super splash

Classic reaction from the Trips

How do you tame three rambunctionus soon-to-be three year old boys? By putting on their favorite movie: Cars. Their hero is “Lightning McQueen.” Just mentioning that they get to watch a few minutes of it makes them giddy with excitement (especailly Aiden who points at the screen and laughs).

Over the past couple of weeks, they have been agressive with each other. These boys play hard and laugh hard. Aiden has learned how to taunt his brothers and they know that they can’t wrestle him, etc. like they can one another given his delicate condition. Unfortunately, last week Aiden would not stop harassing them and the twins decided they had enough and attempted to make Aiden stop.

We are not sure exactly what happened but think they sat on him and caused the balloon-type mechanism (which secures the G-tube button) to pop. Shortly thereafter, the button came out and he had to be taken to the Emergency Room to get the button replaced before the flesh closed. After six hours or so, they had dilated the opening to the point where they could get the button back in. So the question is, did Aiden learn his lesson…probably not!

In the video below, you can see Aiden doing somersaults, the Trips listening to Elmo, Ethan and Evan smothering Aiden and Aiden singing happy birthday to Amisha. Also, the boys had a good time at Carter Cates‘ birthday party.

Sitting very still and focused

What could possibly keep them so calm?

Lightning McQueen (from the Movie “Cars“)

At Carter’s 3rd birthday!

Guzzling

Snacking

They love their cupcakes

Ferocious eaters!

Ethan enjoyed going into the water

He smiled but closed his eyes

Getting restless!

Manish’s birthday and Father’s day happened to both fall on the same day so there were quite a number of ’surprises.’ Of course, the children tend to get the lion’s share of the goodies. Speaking of surprises, Amisha unexpectedly showed up and the boys were very excited to have their “meesha” for several days. Aiden thinks she belongs to him, and him only!

A few days after the ‘festivities,’ everyone in the house was (at some point) sick. Manish had a terrible fever and headache, the twins were not 100%, Aiden had terrible congestion (due to allergies) and Hannah has a sinus infection. All of this during summertime!

Here are some recent images:

Aiden and his “meesha”

Posing

He waits patiently to Skype with Papa and Grandma

Waiting…

Looking…

There they are!

Finally!

It was delicious!

The boys waited for their turn

Evan could not wait any longer

Satisfied.

Ethan loves it too

Even Aiden pretended to taste it