Happy Halloween!

This Saturday was Halloween, and we all dressed up as the Wonderpets, Aidan's favorite TV characters (they are three classroom pets who use teamwork to save baby animals in trouble). Aidan has wanted to be Ming Ming Duckling (his favorite) for months, so he was Ming Ming, Mama was Linny the Guinea Pig, and Daddy was Turtle Tuck. We bought a duck costume for Aidan, and Mama spent a couple of days hand-sewing capes for all three of us - it was a lot of effort, but we looked good! Aidan wore his outfit twice: at playschool on Friday afternoon, when they had a party and parents showed up early to see the kids dressed up and get "goodie bags" (mostly containing fruit/nut bars, fruit leather, breakfast bars, and only a few pieces of chocolate and cheese puffs); and second on Halloween afternoon/evening, when we had lots of real goodies, went to a party at our friend Jeanie/ Dan/ Jack's house, and then visited Angela in her restaurant, Laurie at her building's party, and a little bit of the neighborhood parade. (We only stayed in the parade for half a block, though, because Aidan melted down a couple of times after a crazy evening of weirdly dressed up people and way too much sugar.) After the parade, Aidan told us that he had a tummy ache :( and was too wired to go to sleep till after 10PM, but despite that, we had a good Halloween!

Here are some other highlights from this week:


- One morning this week, Aidan was cuddling with Mama to wake up, and he turned, looked at me, and said: "I wike [like] your smile!" (I melted.)


- Aidan has been playing a game with Daddy at night time where he climbs up into Daddy's rotating office chair, and tells Daddy to spin him around and around. After a while, we ask him if he is dizzy and tell him to hold up his finger in front of his face and tell us if it is still or if it is moving. No matter how dizzy or undizzy he is, Aidan holds up his finger carefully, grins, and then waves his finger crazily all over the place and says: "it's MOVING! it's MOVING!!!" :D


- Aidan has started telling us, when he is doing something goofy, that: "I'm just siwwy [silly]!"


- On Sunday night, after helping Daddy with the laundry, Aidan opened the apartment door, ran inside to see Mama, and said: "Mommy!!! It's nice to SEE you! I wuv [love] you." :D