Sick

We've all been sick this week with a cold. Aidan has been pretty chipper and has even slept pretty well at night all week. However, Kiana has been alternating staying up most of the night with sleeping decently, since she keeps waking up because she can't breath -- so, that means the other three of us haven't slept much at all! :( Fortunately, this weekend was very chill, and we all took naps, so that helped.


KIANA:
- Kiana has for the most part lost her long morning nap, and instead now takes a 30-60minute nap around 9am, and then another one about an hour later. So, I've started taking her to playgroup on Tuesdays/Thursdays pretty regularly now. It's fun! She loves watching the other kids and listening to Troy play his guitar, and it's fun to see her so engaged, with just the two of us. :)


- This week, Kiana has really worked on developing her reach: she managed to knock over THREE drink cups (milk, chocolate milk and apple cider)!
- Kiana is still teething, but no sign of cutting through yet, so we have cut out most medication, unless it's before bedtime and she looks like she really needs it. Back to the teething waiting game! In the meanwhile, she's blowing some really fantastic bubbles!
- We had a playdate with Leo and his Mommy, Karah, this Saturday while Aidan was on a train date with Daddy, and Kiana and Leo had a blast staring at each other and grunting and squeaking at each other.


AIDAN:
- We have been having regular playdates with Aidan's friend Rowan on Mondays and Tuesdays while Laurie babysits Rowan and Wesley, and they have been fun! This week the boys played at the hay-covered "big rock" at Benett Park, and pretended that the rock was a boat and then a train. They also spent at least an hour carrying arm-loads of hay from all over the park and dumping them into the trash cans!


- We told Aidan that Pop Pop (Grandpa Ross) used to call Mommy a "squeaker deeker", since Kiana has been squeaking up a storm this week. He thought that was really funny, and has been calling Kiana a variety of permutations on that, including "squeaky deeker" and "squeaker teaker".
- Aidan has also been really into keeping time with music lately, doing a rather presidential metronome impression with his hand (might also be a tomahawk chop or a karate chop). After Daddy told him he could move to the rhythm with other parts of his body, we had a dance party in the living room one night - it was fun! His favorite song right now is the Ting Tings' "That's not my name!" song. He walks around the house saying, "that's not my name! that's not my name! that's not my [count count, wait for it, wait for it] NAME!"


We're hoping that we all get some more sleep this week, despite a Post-Doc application deadline for Mommy this week and a conference for Daddy! We'll see how it goes.