November 25, 2005
Lansing, Michigan and the snow is falling in soft, white, feathery flakes. This Thanksgiving holiday has been different in many ways this year. For the first time in 3 years we are spending Thanksgiving with our oldest son, Jason and his family. I was so excited to have the opportunity to fly up here in this northern state to visit with Jason and Kari. I am especially excited to get to know our two grandchildren, Aidan and Regan.
Aidan will tell you if asked, that he is two and a half years old. He has a very good vocabulary for his age. He announces with enthusiasm, "I don’t drink beer anymore". Something his mom wishes he would not say, but he always gets a good laugh out of it. He picked it up one day from his daddy. The first time he repeated the amusing beer phrase, his parents laughed. Now it is Aidan’s favorite joke. It just proves that you never know when little ears will listen and pick up what is heard. Of course, we try not to encourage it even though it is very cute. Besides we ARE glad he's "kicked the habit". ;-0
Regan is 7 months old and learning to crawl. She has the biggest brown eyes that laugh with her big one-tooth grin from behind a pink pacifier. Her biggest ambition right now is to become proficient at crawling well enough to get to her big brother’s Thomas train before he catches her. It has been a real treat to observe her and experience all that is "Regan".
Aidan is taking a nap right now. Something I was not patient enough to perfect in his daddy and uncles. He likes to hear a story or two while sucking his middle two fingers on one hand and rubbing his own hair with the other hand. I was reading a few stories to him the other night. One of the pictures was of a bear with an astronaut suit on. Aidan calmly professed that he wanted to be an astronaut one day. Pretty big dream for a 2 1/2 year old.
Well I hear Regan waking up from her nap. She is being broadcast from her bedroom on the baby monitor downstairs in the room where we are sitting. She makes quiet sounds as she wakes up and is probably sitting up in bed looking around her pretty room.
The snowflakes are coming down faster and fluffier now. I’m sure that when Aidan wakes up he will want to go outside to build a snowman. Something every little Michigan boy and girl know a lot about.
Time to play "grandma".
3 comments:
Sounds like a wonderful adventure!
You guys left just before it warmed up. It rained yesterday, but was fairly warm. This morning, all of the snow had melted, and the high is in the 50s. It looks like the coldest days of the year so far were while you were here.
Also, we put up the tree last night. Aidan really liked it. When we went to get it and even after we got it home, he kept saying, "I love Chistmas trees." He helped decorate it, which made Kari very nervous. He broke one ornament, but it wasn't a nice one. Regan, however, hasn't noticed it yet because we put her to bed before it went up. They're really going to like Christmas this year, especially Aidan.
I'm so glad that you all let Aidan decorate the tree. I had a lot of fun doing that with you boys. My favorite Christmas picture is of all of us decorating the tree adn Ryan was only about 15 months old. He'd hold an ornament up to the tree but couldn't figure out how to hang it, so naturally he'd let go and it'd fall to the floor. We all laughed and he cried. Too bad.
Glad we got to be in Michigan with the snow since we won't get any down here.
Aidan will love Christmas trees here too. I know yours is pretty. Send us a picture.
Mom
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