This week, Mommy and Aidan hung out together while Daddy was at his conference, and Aidan really missed Daddy! He asked about him every day, lots of times a day, kissed his picture "goodnight" each night, and had a harder time being without him than ever before. Fortunately, Aidan's babysitter Laurie filled in on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and we stayed busy with art projects (finger paints and markers), music, playdates and an excursion to the Children's Museum. On Friday morning, when Aidan woke up and saw Daddy, he was so excited that he did backbends, clapped, spun around in circles, wriggled, laughed, smiled, squeaked, and generally expressed incredible jubilation! Mommy was happy he was back too. :)
Aidan has started saying new words this week. The most prevalent ones are "diy deah!" (right THERE!). He usually uses this to tell you exactly where he wants you to be, and then repeats it insistently until you follow his instructions! Mommy thought he was being a bit of a control freak when he first started doing it, but then she decided that Aidan doesn't have control over most things in his life, so she could understand why he would want to be able to decide at least a few things. (!) Aidan has also started saying "yucky" ("eyeckah!"), "gross" ("kreh!"), and "treasure" ("tlesah") (Mommy calls the piles of food that end up in his lap after mealtimes treasure: "wow, look at all that treasure!").
Aidan has started doing new things this week too. He now points to himself when you ask him where Aidan is ("diy deah!" / "right there!"). He loves playing "knock knock" games (he likes knocking on the bathroom door when he is outside, especially when Mommy says "knock, knock! who's there?" and opens the door so he can point and say "Mama!" and have Mommy say "and Aidan!"). He started screwing and unscrewing lids (milk carton and sippy cup). And this weekend he made his first effort to jump in the air (only one foot at a time)!
We celebrated having Daddy home by driving up to the Catskills and hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa Ruane for the cold long weekend. Aidan was thrilled to hang out with Daddy AND Mommy AND Grandma and Grandpa, and had a blast being silly with Grandpa all weekend. While we were up here, Aidan even threw his first snowball! Mommy and Daddy enjoyed chilling out together, and went skiiing on Sunday afternoon in fresh snow, which was wonderful. We are happy that we could spend such a nice long weekend catching up before the workweek starts up again.
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