Pottery

This week, Kiana has turned onto both of her sides, is really "talking" in babytalk (ah-goo! ooohhhhhh!), and continues to be fascinated by her big brother. It's wonderful! Aidan also continues to be wonderful with her - a couple of times this week, he's just sat in front of her swing and babbled silly-talk to her for 5 minutes at a time! She stares at him, wide-eyed, or smiling - loving it!


We had a social week this week. Monday, I went out out for a "girl's night" for the first time since Kiana's arrival with my friend Christa (so awesome!). The rest of the week, we had lots of playdates: Aidan's friends Olivia came over Wednesday, Rowan came over Thursday (with his little brother Wesley, who is just a little younger than Kiana), and on Friday, Kiana met a new friend in our building: Dash (& Kat) - it's exciting to have playdates for her as well as Aidan!


In addition to the fun social outings, I've been happy this week because of a food routine switch with Aidan: I've started only offering fruit snacks in the afternoons (or with cheese or veggies, but no crackers of any kind), and he has started eating a whole lot more fruit, and has been much better about eating dinner! I've told him that he can pick out any fruit he wants to at Ahn's (the neighborhood fruit/veggie store), and he's been willing to have yellow apples and chedder (his favorite), watermellon, green and purple grapes, and even carrots with hummus! Small steps, but good ones. :)


This weekend, we went to a friend's birthday party on Saturday in the park in what turned out to be a beautiful cool and sunny day. On Sunday, we all went to the Little Shop of Crafts and had a great time painting pottery! Aidan painted a salsa bowl for Daddy and helped do the bottom coats for a frame and hot plate, and Kiana put her foot and hand prints on the frame and plate. They are going to be so cute! :)