More visitors

This week Aidan came down with a virus (sore throat and low fever) and stayed home from playschool Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Poor baby! The hardest part for him was that he wasn't allowed to kiss Kiana's head and fingers, which he usually does all the time - he was only allowed to kiss her tummy and her toes. I explained that this was only because we didn't want her to get sick, and he understood, but it was very hard! On Friday, when he had been symptom free for at least 24 hours, he was so happy to be able to kiss her head and fingers as well as toes! And all of us were happy that his hard efforts paid off - Kiana seems to have avoided the virus! (Yay!)

The nice thing about having Aidan home this week was that he got to see more visiting family! On Tuesday, Aunt Beth, Craig and cousin Maia stopped by and on Wednesday, Aunt Helen and cousin Heather stopped by for brief visits. They were all thrilled to meet Kiana, and enjoyed seeing how big Aidan has grown! Daddy was at work for both visits, but I loved seeing them as well!


This weekend Mama had her first solo night with two kids: Daddy went to a wedding in Washington D.C. while I stayed home with both of them. It ended up working out okay. Saturday, everyone woke up at 5:30AM for an early day! Aidan did an amazing art project in the morning (he cut out construction paper, we pasted it together, and he added stickers - a major multi-media project!), and then we took the bus down to the "Dinosaur park" (J. Hood Wright Park - there are dinosaur climbing structures there) for playtime and ice cream. Saturday night, Laurie came over to help me put the kids to bed, and Aidan passed out at 7:10PM after a tired fit and his favorite mac'n'cheese for dinner. Kiana stayed up a bit later, but passed out just after 8pm. Both kids basically stayed asleep all night long, with a couple of wakings that were close to each other but not so much that Mama had to be in two places at once. (Phew!)