Let's go on the bus!

This week, Aidan is continuing to amaze us with his leaps in language. On Saturday, he told Mommy, "Yeh GO bus on!" (Let's go, on (the) bus!)! He is now regularly saying things like "Yeh GO, dada!" "Yeh GO, mama!" "Yeh GO pob-dah" (Let's go Dada/Mama/pasta). It's amazing! He is also now using "beep! beep!" as "excuse me" and will go purposefully around the house (pushing strollers or trucks, carrying toys, or just going by himself), saying "beep, BEEP! mama" or "beep, BEEP! dada" when we get in his way. :) He is rediculously cute.


It was great to have a week to decompress after the stressful last few weeks. We started to get caught up on laundry and sleep, and Mommy started to feel human again. On Thursday, Aidan started coming down with a bug, and was incredibly grouchy all day long, so we were not surprised when he got a low fever and cold on Friday and Saturday. It seemed to be something just going around the neighborhood, and we are glad it wasn't anything too serious.


On Sunday, Aidan let us all sleep in, woke up bright and cheery-eyed, and proceeded to be a phenomenally happy, patient, wonderful toddler all day long. This was a huge relief, because we ended up getting stranded at Costco, and the extra patience was especially helpful! Our car died, wouldn't restart with jumper cables, and then needed to get towed to a dealer; but the tow-truck wouldn't drive with a baby onboard, so we managed to get a hold of one of Mommy's friends, who picked up Mommy and Aidan, while Daddy drove with the tow-truck driver to drop off the car at the dealer. Amazingly, Aidan was just sunshiney and wonderful the whole time! It helped that an amazing tractor with both backhoe and frontloader attachments was in the Costco parking lot - that kept him fascinated for maybe an hour in total! (His current favorite bath toys are his trucks, and he is still wonderstruck when Mommy tells him that Pop-pop used to drive a big bulldozer, and that Grandpa drives a little bulldozer.) We were happy when we all finally got home!