Soccer / Clay

Aidan stayed home from playschool Monday through Wednesday this week getting over this tummy bug. Poor baby! I don't remember him feeling this badly for this long in a long time. :( Happily, by Wednesday he was basically better, but we let him stay home one more day just to make sure (he wasn't quite ready to give up his sick/vacation days!). It was a little crazy for Mommy and Kiana, since we weren't used to having Aidan around in the mornings: Kiana got pretty cranky by the end of the week, because she usually sleeps when Aidan is at school (he's too exciting to be around!), so she didn't get as much sleep as she needed. However, we all survived more or less intact.


Saturday was busy and fun. In the morning, Aidan went to soccer school for the first time! We all went to watch him, and it was incredibly fun: he was doing a make-up class (since he missed his Monday class because he was sick) with "Coach Sponge Bob" and "Coach Strawberry", and they taught him to drive his soccer ball train around Penn Station (a circle of cones), dribble it back and forth between goals, and get it past a Coach defender into the goal. The class was held at Innwood Hill Park, and the two or three times that a train went by in the background, Aidan called out "Train!" to make sure that nobody missed it (after all, the Coach did seem pretty excited about trains!).



After soccer school, we all trained down to Family Clay Day at Tribeca Clayworks, where we worked with soft clay (not just painting glaze on like last time). It was great! We made four different pieces, including a hand/foot plate for Kiana, and a hand plate for the family that looks like a butterfly, with the hands of each of us facing a different cardinal direction, and a "3" in the middle. I've been wanting to do that one because for the next few days, all of us are "3" right now, and I'm not sure if that will ever happen again: Kiana is 3 months, Aidan is 3 years, and Alex and I are 3 decades old -- pretty neat! :)


When we got home, Daddy packed frantically and then left to catch a plane to Paris for a conference. We're going to miss him! Grandma and Grandpa Ruane drove down that night and then drove up with us on Sunday to the Catskills: we are going to stay here for the next week while Daddy is gone so I have backup, and Aidan is going to have belated summer (now officially fall) vacation. We're looking forward to Daddy meeting us up here Friday night!