Party

We had a short week this week: we came back from the Catskills on Tuesday afternoon, and then just had three days of work and playschool! It was nice. On Friday, Mommy and Aidan went to the Natural History Museum with Uncle Matt, Aunt Devon, and cousins Rae and Elsey, who drove down to the city from the Catskills later in the week. And on Sunday, they came up to our neighborhood to see our apartment and try out the playgrounds with Grandma and Grandpa Ruane before they left back to California. Aidan showed off his new balance bike from Grandma and Grandpa (he had tried it for the first time Saturday, and had enough confidence by Sunday to show off his new skills!), which was a lot of fun.



Sunday afternoon we had a friends birthday party for Aidan, and it turned out great! Mommy and Daddy ordered pizza to be delivered to Javits park (we love this perk of living in Manhattan!), and had pizza, watermellon, cupcakes and snacks with a bunch of Aidan's friends. The kids (Olivia, Cira, Hazel, Kira, Angus, Oscar, Jack, & Niko) loved playing with Aidan's bubble gun and lots of water balloons that we brought, and the adults had fun catching up together.


It turned out great! Mommy and Daddy are proud of ourselves for pulling off a birthday party with such a new addition to our family! Kiana contributed to the party too: she wore a beautiful party dress that Nana sent her; and when Aidan was passing out on the couch right before we needed to go to the party, telling him that Kiana was wearing a party dress for his party was the only thing that got him to forget about trying to take a late nap (!) and actually go to his own party! (We offered ice cream sandwiches, chocolate covered ice cream bars, Daddy ladders, or anything else he wanted to wake up, and it was only Kiana's dress that did it!)