Slowly, slowly, it's beginning to feel like spring might be getting ready to appear around the corner. Rain has washed away the towering piles of snow and ice that have accumulated from the blizzards this winter, and this week has been pretty mild. This morning while dropping Aidan off at playschool, I discovered (to my surprise) that underneath one of what used to be a giant snowdrift is a - still deliciously piney smelling - pile of Christmas trees! I can't wait to be done with winter and really welcome spring!
This week we had a lot of adventures. The UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is meeting this week and next, and I wanted to try to attend some of it, to help me with my research projects. However, Kiana does not really even know what a bottle is right now, and it takes 2 hours just to go down and come back on the trains. So, attending was tricky!
Monday, Daddy took President's Day off, and brought the kids down to me for a couple of nursing breaks so that I could attend NGO Consultation Day - a preparatory session for the week. (He is THE BEST!!) Aidan was psyched because they ate lunch at Five Guys, and Kiana was a good sport about nursing at the Salvation Army headquarters, so it all worked out! I caught up with some colleagues from the CSW I attended 2 years ago, and learned a lot.
During the rest of the week, Daddy had to work (of course), so I decided to take Kiana with me in the hopes that she would either nap during the sessions, or play reasonably quietly on the floor in the back of them. Unfortunately (though predictably), things were much too exciting for her to sleep, and the sessions we attended were too full to have much playspace in back, so I didn't get much out of those, except for some rather exhaustingly long periods of train time up and down and up and down. Kiana was definitely the youngest CSW attendee and made many friends, but thought she should be the main speaker at all events, so it wasn't exactly as I had hoped for! Ah well, it was worth a try!
On Saturday, I was fortunate enough to discover that an all-day event I wanted to attend on "Celebrating UN Women: The Way Forward" was streaming live. So, I watched most of it from home, while we relaxed in the morning (Aidan watched WALL-E and Kiana napped). Then Daddy took the kids downtown on the trains to see probably "the biggest construction site in the world" (the World Trade Center) while I finished up. It worked!
Sunday we did a Target run, and Aidan did a short bike stint with his friend Rowan (who was out with Laurie and Wesley) at the PIS 187 schoolyard blacktop. It's SO nice to have the snow gone!
AIDAN:
- Quote of the week: "Old MacDonald had a booger. EIEIO!... With a pick pick here, and a pick pick there..." (!!!)
KIANA:
- Kiana is now greased lighting as a crawler, but is already bored with crawling and wants to walk! She holds her hands up above her head, waiting for us to take them, and then walks all over the place. She especially loves racing down the hallway with Aidan, while Daddy holds her hands to help her walk, and then getting scooped up with him by me to giant "yay!"s and cuddles!
- She tried *spinach* this week, and LOVED it! I am so excited! (Maybe she'll convince Aidan too ;p )
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