Aidan has continued to amaze us with his language this week. He using a lot of prepositions and relational words. He tells Mommy when he wants to turn the vacuum cleaner "on!" and "off!" and he wants "mah moah!" (some more) of it or "no moah!" (no more), or if we should put it "away!" (almost everything happens in exclamation marks, although he does also whisper sometimes, which is cute). He tells us if he wants us to "day!" (stay) or "go!" or stop (he uses a sign, hand up, for stop), if he wants to go "up! up!" or "dow!" (down), and "in!" or "out!". And he loves eating and playing with "wash" (rice) (he likes scooping out cups of rice from our 20lb bag into a bowl). On Sunday, he even said his name for the first time ("A-den")! He is also doing new things, physically. This week, he took off his (velcro) shoes all by himself!
Here is the most amazing story from this week. On Thursday, he watched a Wonderpets episode where Linny, Tuck, and Ming Ming save the Three Little Pigs from the Big Bad Wolf. Afterward, Aidan had a hard time going down for a nap! The story was too scary for him. He kept saying "woof!" (wolf), with a worried expression. So, Mommy talked with him about it. She said, "We say, "No, no, no!" to the wolf: no eating those little pigs! That's not nice. But did the Wonderpets save the little pigs? Did the wolf go away? Did it go home?" Aidan continued to be very concerned. "No, no, no, woof!" he said. "Go (a)WAY, woof! Go (H)OME! Go!" Finally, once Mommy told him that the pigs were safe in their brick houses, and that we lived in a brick house and were safe too, and (again) that the wolf had gone away, gone hom, he finally took a deep shuddery breath, and calmed down enough to go to sleep. No more Three Little Pigs stories for Aidan for a while!!!
In other news, Aidan had a better week at daycare this week. Tia Nina (his daycare provider) put away his stroller except for nap time this week, and that worked out really well. Before this week, he would often refuse to get out of the stroller (his safe space), and he seemed to think that because it was there, Mommy and Daddy could come back to pick him up at any moment. However, because it was not there this week, Aidan realized that he was stuck there, and actually got more involved in playing with the toys and kids computer games there. When Mommy picked him up on Wednesday, he had a blast "jumping" on the trampoline (he still doesn't get both feet off of the ground, but he now has one foot all the way off and only his toes of the other foot on). And when he was taking turns on the trampoline with his friend Cira, he actually held up his hands and wanted to be held by Tia Nina in between turns! She was so happy about this, that she told Mommy that he officially "graduated"!
This weekend, we all drove up to the Catkills to celebrate Grandma Ruane's 60th birthday. We enjoyed our usual haunts: taking nice walks through the woods, visiting Marguerite & Nadir's chickens, eating delicious food (Mommy even made the Ross family Christmas Streudal sweet bread for part of Sunday's brunch), and playing. Aidan particularly loved throwing hundreds of stones into the stream. While we were throwing stones, he learned to say "two" (Daddy would ask him, "Do you want to have one, or two?"), and he got good at saying his name (Daddy would ask him, "who is this stone for? Is it for Daddy? or Mommy? or Aidan?" and he would say "AIDEN!" - unless it was really, really, big, when he would sometimes say "dada" or "mama".) Grandma enjoyed being with loved ones to celebrate, and we all had a good time.
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