Yay us!

Well, we finally made it! We all survived our crazy last five weeks, and our incredibly crazy last two weeks. Yay!

This week, Grandpa Ruane spent his spring break with us to help us manage while Mommy finished her second and final week attending the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings, and Daddy worked to meet a World Bank consulting job deadline. It was hugely helpful to all of us! Mommy took full advantage of the opportunity to attend CSW, Daddy was able to get significant work done, and Aidan was thrilled to hang out with Grandpa. He still went to "work" (daycare) on Tuesday and Wednesday as normal, because Mommy and Daddy want him to keep getting used to that routine, but Grandpa picked him up early those days. The rest of the week, they went on walks, visited playgrounds, played in the sink, and were silly together. On Thursday, they visited the Natural History Museum. On Friday, Grandma came over in the mid-afternoon, and Aidan immediately grabbed her hand and started showing her all over the house. Grandma and Grandpa left Saturday morning, but not until they spent some time with Aidan watching trains in the subway, and letting Aidan "drive" their car (he loves steering with the steering wheel, and turning on and off the radio, windshield wipers, and lights).


Daddy has had to catch up on work in the office this weekend, but Mommy has missed Aidan, and has been happy to have the chance to catch up with him a bit. We have been chilling out, making yummy food, taking walks, playing in the sink, and taking naps. Mommy is still exhausted from the last few weeks, and is happy she can afford to take it easy this weekend.


Here are some updates on Aidan at the moment:
- In addition to dealing with a crazy schedule recently, Aidan has also had what Mommy thinks are his last four teeth break through! He has been remarkably calm about it. We are glad these aren't as bad as the molars!
- Aidan loves the noisy animal book from Grandma Ruane, and can do "hiss" sounds for the snake, snuffling sounds for the racoon, "ahowwwwwwwwwwww" sounds for the fox, and "gub dub dub dub" sounds for the turkey
- Aidan surprises Mommy by trying to say at least two new words each day (that she recognizes at least). At bathtime tonight he tried to say "whirlpool" (it sounded like "wihpoo"), pointing to the water going down the drain!
- For unknown reason, which drives Mommy crazy, Aidan has decided that he wants the moon in his Goodnight Moon book to be in the OTHER window (there are two), not the one that it is painted in. He regularly points to the window without a moon and notes that it is all gone, and repeats this even when Mommy points out that, THERE it is in the other window. Tonight before bedtime, when we started having this conversation, Mommy finally told Aidan that there was only ONE MOON, and it was in the OTHER WINDOW, so it couldn't be in the window that he wanted it to be in. He responded immediately by pointing to the moon in the offending window and signing "stop", and the pointing to the other window, and saying "go!". Mommy responded, do you want the moon to stop being in that window, and go to the other window? And he said "uh, huh!!!!" Mommy had to laugh, but was amazed to think that Aidan is doing such relatively advanced logic at only 20 months old!