Stars

Aidan gave Mommy and Daddy some great compliments this week.

Early in the week, Daddy put up glowing star stickers on Aidan's bedroom ceiling (the Big Dipper with the North Star, the Southern Cross, and Orion). Afterwards, Aidan said, "You're a star, Daddy!"

Later in the week, while Mama was cuddling with Aidan to put him to bed, he told me, "Mommy, you are my favorite little boy!" He followed this up with "Goodnight, my beautiful Mommy! Sweet dreams!"


He is also focusing a lot this week on how different members of our family are related to each other. As part of this, he came up with a new song: "Mommy and Daddy love their Mommy and Daddy! I love my Mommy and Daddy! I love my Mommy and Daddy!" (repeat). Of course, this week was also the first time he told Mommy, "I don't love you!" with the dramatic pouty face he's picked up in playschool! I told him I would always love him anyway, and he couldn't get around it. (He tried to argue his way out of that one but didn't get very far.)


Aidan is also getting to be more of a big boy every day. Since the Christmas holiday, he is now only drinking out of big boy cups during the day, and only drinks from his "sikky cup" (sippy cup) at bedtime. And at playschool, his teachers told us that he has started to read!!! He has been learning the sounds of the letters (m, p, t, c, a, o) at playschool (his Montessori school does the sounds of small letters, rather than the names of capitals), and his teachers said that this week he put some of them together and read "mop"!!! Mommy and Daddy haven't seen him do this yet, but we are amazed!!!


Despite all of this, he isn't all grown up. We have been playing a running game before bathtime recently, where Aidan runs down the hallway, has Daddy surprise him with a "boo!" or something from the living room, and then runs back into Mommy's arms. (We then rotate positions among everyone.) And a couple of times during this game this week, he has told Mommy (about Daddy "getting" him), "Mommy! He got your little boy!"

This weekend, we all had adventures. Daddy flew to a conference in Atlanta on Saturday (he will be there until Thursday night), and Mommy and Aidan drove up to the Catskills to see Grandma and Grandpa Ruane for the rest of the long weekend. Aidan was thrilled to see them, and we all had fun relaxing, playing in the snow, and having bubble baths (even Aidan)!