Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful rest of our vacation in San Francisco with Uncle Gabe, Aunt Karen, and Cousin Miya this week. Miya continued to be wonderful with Aidan, and they were incredibly cute together!Aidan loved playing "hide and seek" with Daddy and Miya (it was more of a tickle game, and Aidan only let Daddy hide under the covers of the bed) and playing tickle games and following Uncle Gabe around. Mommy and Daddy had fun playing Rummikub with Gabe and Karen after the kids went to sleep at night (we are sold on it!), we all continued to eat and sleep well and have fun visiting parks (playing ball, rollerskating), playing games (Aidan loved Pictureka and pretending to be a baby horse), and just chilling out. By the end of the week, Aunt Karen commented that Aidan was a Wonderpet, because he lived his life in opera (he does sing a lot!)!


On Wednesday, Mommy and Daddy and Aidan drove into San Francisco to have lunch with Mommy's Aunt Rachel and Tami, Aunt Beth, and Cousins Maia and Elwyn. Mommy loved catching up with them, and Aidan loved opening even more presents! Afterward we visited Mitchell's Ice Cream store, which has possibly the best ice cream in the world (Mommy had Buko and Macapuno - young and sweet coconut - yum!).



On Friday(New Year's Day), we visited the California Academy of Sciences, where Aidan loved running around on the green roof, and we got to explore the rainforest exhibit. After naps that afternoon, we packed, had dinner, and went back to the airport for a red-eye flight home. Aidan was sad to say goodbye, but was more hopeful with the promise of being reunited with his trains.


Our flight was decent: Aidan slept for about 3 hours, and then was distracted into waking up and watching TV for the last 2 hours. However we all survived back to New York, and once we got home, we all took a 5 or 6 hour nap to make up for our short night, so it worked out. Amazingly enough, Aidan still was able to sleep all night long on Saturday as well, so that was great!


On Sunday, Daddy took Aidan on a train ride, and he was thrilled to ride the A train and 1 train again (he loves them!). In the afternoon, we had some friends over for a "post-holiday party": Daddy made his special nachos which everyone raved over, and Aidan shared his toys cheerfully with all of his friends (Cira, Johnny & Oliver, Jack, and Jake). We all had a great time catching up! We are happy that we've been able to have a weekend to transition back to New York time and life before starting up another busy work week.


Happy New Year!