Aidan has been very into feeding Mommy this week. Before this, Mommy would usually feed Aidan when it was dinner time, but this week, he oftentimes refuses to be fed unless he feeds her as well! So, we end up feeding each other our dinners, at least part of them! It's a little odd, but since we're both eating the same thing, it works. The change in dinner routines this week made Mommy think about a story that her mom told her about heaven and hell, which her mom had heard growing up. According to the story, heaven and hell are the same place: a giant table laden with delicious food, with lots of people gathered around it, all of whom have extremely long spoons fixed to their hands. In hell, everyone starves and is miserable because they all try, unsuccessfully, to feed themselves. But in heaven, everyone is healthy and happy because they all feed each other. So, Mommy thinks that our family must be in heaven right now!
The beginning of the week this week was fun: Uncle Chris and Aunt Lauren stayed until Tuesday night and hung out with us, which we all loved! On Monday, Mommy and Aidan brought them downtown where we met up with Mommy's cousin Heather, and we visited the "Top of the Rock" at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and got a great view of the city. Heather took us out to yummy Thai food afterward, and Aidan was a trooper despite getting a big bump on his head while running up and down the ramp at Anthropologie. On Tuesday, Uncle Chris and Aunt Lauren babysat Aidan for a couple of hours in the afternoon so Mommy and Daddy could both keep appointments which would otherwise have been impossible to keep, and they said that Aidan did great! He didn't get out of his stroller for a while, but didn't cry, and he eventually got out to play on the playgrounds - so it was a big success! Mommy and Daddy wish they could babysit more often!
On Wednesday, we were back to just being our family again. While Mommy was making dinner that night, something funny happened. Aidan was playing calmly with his toys in the foyer, and then all of a sudden, he started crying with a sharp, scared voice. Mommy stopped what she was doing and ran over to see what was wrong, and gave Aidan a big hug and kiss and said, "what happened, baby?" He pointed down on the ground, and Mommy realized that he had found one of Mommy and Daddy's artistic pop-up books - The Wizard of Oz. Aidan had opened it up to the page with the hot air baloon, and it had popped unexpectedly out of the pages and scared him! Mommy cuddled and comforted him and tried to explain that it was okay, it was just a book that played "peek-a-boo" with you, but she had to try hard to not laugh! It was pretty funny.
In other news, Aidan is getting extremely good at going up and down stairs with his teddy bear stroller: he can go down without help most of the time, and can go up with only a bit of a boost. It's still scary to Mommy, but if he's going to do it, she is glad he is doing it as safely as possible! Also exciting is that tonight (Sunday) Aidan managed for the first time ever to pick up his spoon, get food onto it, and get the food from the spoon into his mouth all by himself! He has been playing with spoons and even getting the spoon into his mouth (while loosing the food) for a while, but this is the first time he's gotten the entire sequence down. It's pretty amazing! Finally, Aidan has been getting really into playing Daddy's piano and listening to Daddy play recently. Tonight he even wanted to eat dinner while listening to Daddy play! Aidan also still loves singing and banging on drums (and slides and anything else) - so music is definitely one of his interests!
The beginning of the week this week was fun: Uncle Chris and Aunt Lauren stayed until Tuesday night and hung out with us, which we all loved! On Monday, Mommy and Aidan brought them downtown where we met up with Mommy's cousin Heather, and we visited the "Top of the Rock" at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and got a great view of the city. Heather took us out to yummy Thai food afterward, and Aidan was a trooper despite getting a big bump on his head while running up and down the ramp at Anthropologie. On Tuesday, Uncle Chris and Aunt Lauren babysat Aidan for a couple of hours in the afternoon so Mommy and Daddy could both keep appointments which would otherwise have been impossible to keep, and they said that Aidan did great! He didn't get out of his stroller for a while, but didn't cry, and he eventually got out to play on the playgrounds - so it was a big success! Mommy and Daddy wish they could babysit more often!
On Wednesday, we were back to just being our family again. While Mommy was making dinner that night, something funny happened. Aidan was playing calmly with his toys in the foyer, and then all of a sudden, he started crying with a sharp, scared voice. Mommy stopped what she was doing and ran over to see what was wrong, and gave Aidan a big hug and kiss and said, "what happened, baby?" He pointed down on the ground, and Mommy realized that he had found one of Mommy and Daddy's artistic pop-up books - The Wizard of Oz. Aidan had opened it up to the page with the hot air baloon, and it had popped unexpectedly out of the pages and scared him! Mommy cuddled and comforted him and tried to explain that it was okay, it was just a book that played "peek-a-boo" with you, but she had to try hard to not laugh! It was pretty funny.
In other news, Aidan is getting extremely good at going up and down stairs with his teddy bear stroller: he can go down without help most of the time, and can go up with only a bit of a boost. It's still scary to Mommy, but if he's going to do it, she is glad he is doing it as safely as possible! Also exciting is that tonight (Sunday) Aidan managed for the first time ever to pick up his spoon, get food onto it, and get the food from the spoon into his mouth all by himself! He has been playing with spoons and even getting the spoon into his mouth (while loosing the food) for a while, but this is the first time he's gotten the entire sequence down. It's pretty amazing! Finally, Aidan has been getting really into playing Daddy's piano and listening to Daddy play recently. Tonight he even wanted to eat dinner while listening to Daddy play! Aidan also still loves singing and banging on drums (and slides and anything else) - so music is definitely one of his interests!
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