No! ME!!!

We were all happy to have Alex come home after his Kenya trip, and things have been going well since then. Busy, but good! I managed to have a very good second round job talk, teach my first day of class (on human rights) as an adjunct, and get into a women's rights activist group that I think will open a lot of doors in the future. So, I'm excited about all of that. Aidan has been going through rounds of kindergarten interviews (the process about this here is ridiculous!) and doing really well. And Kiana has actually successfully used the potty, which is amazing! So, there are lots of opportunities that we are going to be finding out about in next week or two, which is exciting.


We've also had the regular excitement of everyday life, with everything being better with Daddy being home! There have been more rounds of birthday parties (Kira and Virginia turned 4), lots of winter indoor playdates (though we've also had some 60 degree days, which in January and February is pretty ridiculous!), and Aidan has continued to go to baseball school on the weekends, where he is the only kid who switch hits. Kiana continues to jump with lots of words - she has now said two and even three word combinations, which is exciting! Both kids have been having fun drawing together (joint art masterpieces - AWESOME!) and creating their own yoga moves (building on me showing them moves from my class!), which I love. Aidan told me this week that the next time we see Aunt Frances (who is a Bikram yoga instructor), he wanted to show her his own yoga move that he created so that she could teach it to her students!!! :)


QUOTES:

AIDAN:
- "If it was FOR REAL raining Honey Bunches of Oats, and it was warm, I would stay outside ALL DAY LONG!"



KIANA:
- "Me! Pay! [play]" [I want to play, too!] (while watching hockey on TV with Daddy - looks like we should get some pucks!)
- "No! Me!" (e.g., KIANA do it!!!)
- "Bye, Mama!" [Goodbye, Mama!]
- "Day!" [Have a good day!]
- "Do baby" [naked baby!] (running around after the bath)
- "Bappa doos" [apple juice]
-"dow" [draw]
- "pey pew" [paper] (looking for paper to draw on - she ADORES drawing)
- "boo"[blue] (absolutely and without question her favorite color- she LOVES it!)
- "fip" [flip] (wanting to do a flip on the couch like Aidan)
- "Mamo} [Elmo - she is smitten!]
- "No, me! Mamo!" ["Not me!, Elmo!"] (She didn't want to have herself hiding under a blanket, she wanted ELMO to hide.)
- "dove" (stove)
- "ow" [owl] (her favorite bird in books right now)
- "tow oo" [towel]
- "boo boo" (boo boo/ owie)
- "oh" ["oh"] (As in, "it's right there, Kiana!" / "Oh!")
- "uh oh" (uh oh!)
- "Kee oo" [Kilu] (she usually refers to herself as "ME"!)
- "Babbi" [Abbi] (she only referred to me as this a couple of times, when Aidan was talking about me by name)
- "Dota" [Dorota, our upstairsn neighbor]
- "Wee" [Sherie, our neighbor across the hall]
- "Bapa" [Grandpa]
- "Pop pop" [Pop pop]
- "Mah mah" [Grandma]
- "Nana" [Nana]
- "Da Dash!" [There's Dash!] (while on a playdate with her friend on Saturday)
-"wah wee"[Laurie, our babysitter] (this alternates - sometimes she is "Da do", just like Aidan called her)
- "Nuno, dos!" [Uno, dos! / "one, two" in Spanish] (from daycare)