We had a big milestone this week: we gave Kiana food for the first time! She is over five months old, has been very interested for quite a while, and is good with pushing her tongue out. So, we decided that it was time! On Tuesday at dinner time, Mama fed her rice cereal (rice powder + breast milk) while Daddy held her and Aidan watched, and she loved it! She happily gummed it up and was very interested in the new eating adventure. So, on Thursday and Friday, we tried pureed green beans: however, she did *not* like these: she wrinkled up her face, pushed most of the green mush out with her tongue, and gave us some looks like "what are you trying to pull on me here?" We're having a lot of fun with this new adventure!
This week was also the first week where sibling rivalry began to show up. Aidan is still always wonderful with Kiana. However, after I picked him up from playschool on Tuesday, he started acting out with me, and ended up telling me that he sometimes wanted to be with Mommy and Daddy, without Kiana there. I'm really glad that he was able to articulate this, even though it's a tough issue to deal with. We had a serious conversation, and ended up agreeing that even though we don't like everyone in our family all of the time (we can all be "little punks" sometimes!), we do love them all the time. And when we get frustrated with each other, that's okay, we're allowed to feel upset, but what matters is *what we do with* that frustration. In this case, we agreed that Aidan could have time by himself if he wanted to, or we would try to do more time with Aidan and Mommy and/or Daddy. For the rest of the week, Aidan took baths without Kiana being in the tub, and on Saturday, Mama and Aidan went to the Inwood Farmer's Market together again. These were just little steps, but I hope that these kinds of things will help! It's hard to figure out how to have special alone time right now, but we're working on it.
In other news:
- Thursday was Veterans Day, and Daddy took the holiday off so I could get some work done. It was great! He took Kiana on a walk in the morning in between naps, dropped off and picked up Aidan from school, and made it possible for me to send in a revised book chapter before going out on Girl's Night Out with my friend Christa! I loved it. Aidan loved it, too! On Thursday night, after munching on M&Ms and cookies at Javits park, Aidan - for the first time in recorded history - choose Daddy's cheesy broccoli (over home made french fries and sausage patties) for dinner! Wow.
- This week, Aidan's teacher Nana was on vacation, and Aidan's babysitter, Laurie, filled in for her. Laurie called me up on Tuesday while they were at the playground to let me know that Aidan was showing a high level of marketing acumen: in the 40-50 degree weather, he was pretending to sell ice cream "in warm boxes" to his friends!
- Aidan has become fascinated with money this week: he found a wallet we got him ages ago (which he has never played with before), asked for money to fill it up with, and has started playing "banker": he sits in his blue chair next to his blue laundry basket, where he keeps his wallet and bowl of change (his "bank"), and tells us that he is giving us money "so you can buy cash"!
- Aidan continues to love using silly-talk, both at school and at home. He regularly makes up words for things and tell us seriously that "that is how you say [...]" (something normal). After playschool this week, Aidan told me laughingly that he and his friends are developing nicknames for each other: he calls his friend Rowan "Rowan Doh-dan" and he calls Aidan "Aidan Day-den".
- Kiana was a party animal this weekend: On Saturday, she was totally happy when we had Mary/Cira/Badu over for dinner, despite Aidan and Cira treating her like an over-sized doll (they were mostly gentle, but got pretty excited about putting firefighter hats on her head and kissing her!). And on Sunday, she was totally chill while we trained downtown to the Central Park Zoo, FAO Schwarz and Five Guys (despite really loud Maroon Five music). We thought it was kind of goofy that we were eating at FIVE Guys, located at FIFTH Avenue and FIFTY FIFTH Street, while listening to Maroon FIVE, and our customer number this time was 005 as well.
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