It has been a rainy week, this week. Temperatures have been fluctuating between the 50s and the 30s, and it's just making me want spring to be out in full blast!
At the beginning of this week, Daddy took an abbreviated conference trip to Iowa (Monday through Wednesday), but was happily able to keep it pretty short. On Wednesday, Kiana turned 9 months old! She celebrated by finally cutting through part of her top right tooth. (The top left one is on the way as well!)
The rest of the week was pretty low key. We mostly kept to our regular routines: Monday we have soccer school (3:-5-3:50PM at the Cornerstone Church) and Monday and Tuesday we try to have playdates with Laurie, Rowan and Wesley around 4PM (after Rowan naps). We usually also have a playdate with Cira Friday, but we missed that this week.
This weekend was chill: Mommy and Daddy took a break from work, and we had fun together. Saturday, Laurie babysat 10am-1pm while we had a date! (I think this was our second date since Kiana was born? We also saw the first of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" movies in theater over Thanksgiving.) We ate brunch at Indian Road Cafe followed by a short trip to the next door vintage thrift store: It was delicious and amazing! We have been wanting to go to the cafe for a long time, and we enjoyed the yummy food and (most importantly) the chance to have an uninterrupted conversation for a whole hour (not just in 30 second increments)! We also had fun exploring the thrift store, which had 1920s flapper dresses, real fur coats, beautiful old china, and more. After we picked up the kids, we played at the PS 187 blacktop for a while, and then headed home. I made a delicious lasagna for dinner, and Cira came over to play (great to see her since we missed her Friday!).
Sunday, Aidan ran his first race! Coogans 5K Salsa, Blues and Shamrocks race was being held Sunday morning for adults, but following it they also held a kids race! (Check out the photos in the link - Aidan is in one of the slide show pictures!!!) Despite the rain, we watched the race while walking down toward the kids area first, and it was amazing: there was a different kind of band on every single block, from our house (187th street) to the finish line (168th street?): we saw jazz, mariachi, slide trombones, taiko drums, banjos,bagpipes, and hip hop DJs with a dance troupe, and more! Once we got to the adult's finish line, we registered Aidan for the kids races. He was pretty sure he didn't want to race. However, we ran into a bunch of his friends who were also racing (Olivia, Virginia and Eme - we later also saw Gage) and finally convinced him to give it a shot, and he did it! He ran the whole way, and got a medal (his first!) from a friendly policewoman. It was very exciting! He wasn't convinced that it had been such a good idea though, and refused to take pictures with his friends (he didn't want the green bagels, either). However, since then he has been very proud of the medal he took home with him!
Here are some highlights:
AIDAN:
- "My milk has to be a LITTLE bit cold in a BIG blue cup!" (10 sec microwave)
- "Mama. You are the best woman and the best mac 'n' cheese maker EVER!" (Saturday)
KIANA:
- Has a new sad sound: "Dee, dee, dee" (getting new teeth is not fun!)
- Loves sleeping on me with her feet up on my tummy/hips (restrictive, but so, SO sweet!)
- Is starting to look like she's practicing yoga! She is definitely doing a "downward dog" stretch - Aunt Frances would be proud of her!
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