New York Trip

As many of you know Team Shelle took on The Big Apple last week. We had a great trip, saw tons of cool stuff, caught up with some old friends, and came home exhausted :) The most amazing part of the trip ... A 12 hour car ride each way with only about 30 minutes of crying total!!! What an AWESOME kiddo !!

Our hotel was 2 blocks from Times Square.

Day 1 we went to the Bronx zoo. It was really cool but SO big that we couldn't see all of it. Aiden is very into animals right now so he had a really good time.

"I totally LOVE fish right now, so even though this was the Tiger exhibit I liked the fish best"

Right before we got yelled at for walking on the grass :0

Aiden spent a lot of time putting wood chips into this puddle - maybe next time we will skip the zoo and just find a puddle and some wood chips.

End of Day 1 (you will notice a trend here)

Day 2 we went to the Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, and then met up with some friends for dessert and coffee. Here are Aiden and Papa riding the ferry to Liberty Island

Mom trying to pose for a pic but Aiden would not be contained.

Dad giving the pretty lady a kiss

End of day 2 - hmmmm looks a lot like the end of day 1

Day 3 Pam, Aiden, and I got up early and went to see the Today show. It was pretty cool to see how the filming went and if you watched very carefully you can see us on TV :)

" I didn't really understand why mom wanted to stand around and watch people talking to a camera so I just pushed my stroller around the back of the set"

After the Today Show Aaron and John met up with us and we went to the top of the Rockefeller Center - amazing views!!

End of day 3 ... looks familiar



Day 4 - we went to the New York Aquarium. It was not as cool as I had hoped but Aiden seemed to like it. Somehow I didn't take any pictures of day 4 but don't worry , the end of the day looked just about like all the others :)

AIDEN'S HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP
We were walking back to our hotel one day and who should be standing on the street but a giant Elmo (Aiden's most favorite). When Aaron put Aiden in Elmo's arms I thought that he would start crying but he just looked up at him and said "Melmo" with look of total love in his eyes.