Happy Thanksgiving!

Aidan and Mama had a happy reunion after playschool on Monday. Aidan was thrilled to see me, but also (understandably) mad at me for having left all weekend. I was just thrilled to see my kissable boy!


We had a short week! Daddy was able to take off work on Wednesday, so we drove up to the Catskills on Tuesday night. Mama was going to try to get work done on Wednesday, but Aidan got upset and said: "all of us stay together!" so we ended up just chilling out together: we bought apple tarts, cinnamon rolls and cranberry-chocolate cake from Bread Alone (our favorite bakery), played with trains, walked to the stream, ate pizza at Brios for dinner, watched an owl right outside the window at Grandma and Grandpa's mountain house, and enjoyed each other's company.


On Wednesday, people started arriving. Grandma and Grandpa Ruane and Daddy's cousin Kevin and Sara drove up first. Then the rest of the weekend was full of visitors: Carol, David, and Danielle, Bob, Elli, and Tim; Helen and Rudy; Peg, Chris, and their exchange student Matt; and, of course, Marguerite and Nadir. We had Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, since Bob was on call on Thursday, but the food was still delicious!


Aidan loved playing with Grandpa, helping Grandma cook, and playing trains with Kevin and Sarah. He also loved listening to Tim and Bob play piano: he pulled up a chair two feet away from the piano when they started to play, and just sat and watched in awe! And he even gave a concert to the full thanksgiving dinner crowd: singing "Twinkle Twinkle" and accompanying himself on the piano! We also showed Grandma and Grandpa Aidan's new "letter game", where he types letters on the computer: he tells us what he wants to write, we tell him what letters to click, and then he writes things! While Mama was in Seattle, he sent me an email that he had typed entirely himself that said:

"MISS YOU MOMMY

LOVE, AIDAN
XOXOX"


It was nice to see everyone. We drove home on Sunday after lunch with a very sleepy Aidan who had stayed up late every night, and until midnight on Saturday night, and who was very happy to have a nice long nap in the car through Thanksgiving traffic!