Taking Elizabeth to Longwood

Wednesday. The garden railway is back at Longwood, so Aidan wants to go every day. Today we took Elizabeth.

Making Movies

Tuesday. Aidan and Amy made a movie. To check it out go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhGC3MaSetI

Playing Hookie

Aidan was finally well enough for school! But Ali and Lizzie were here, and he was not going to go without a fight. So we took a field trip to the Herr's factory instead. We saw pretzels, tortilla chips and potato chips being made, and we even got to sample hot off the conveyor belt chips. Mmmm. Aidan preferred pretzels of course, so we purchased a bag at the gift shop (and some peanut butter pretzels for Uncle Chris).

After a morning of cousin time, Aidan was ready for school, so he spent the afternoon at art class. After that was music therapy. He had a full day!

Pancakes

Sunday. Aidan and I slept in. Big time. Amy arrived at 10 and got us out of bed. I headed into Philly

to help some friends, and she and Aidan made breakfast. Here are a few shots of the process. Of course, there is a "Pots and Pans" interlude. Enjoy! Note his expression in the spatula photo. He said to Amy, "This tastes so good, I can't keep my hands off of it! I think I'll eat all of them up!"

Constructing a Medical Cart

Friday/Saturday.

Aidan's big activity on Friday was constructing a medical cart. It all started in the morning... We woke up in a leisurely manner. He read a toy catalogue (see first picture) and found a $44.00 medical cart he simply could not live without. I suggested we try making one. Remarkably he was amenable to the idea, so we ventured forth in search of raw material.

Our travels took us to the barn and to Nini's house. Ultimately we settled on a plan to construct the cart out of cardboard and other materials left over from his party. We began our work by studying the prototype (see second photo). Aidan drank yogurt all the while (see yogurt cup in pics 1-2). Then wham bam allacazam we had a medical cart (see photo 3 titled, "lalalalalala" and, on a more serious note, photo 4 titled, "satisfaction").

Amazing thing was, Saturday (medical carts raineth down) there was a knock on the door. Francisco (cameo in "Aidan Saws Wood"), had heard tell of Aidan's cart from Maria, Mauricio and Juan who had stopped by the night before. He incidentally had first heard of the cart when Aidan and I went looking for wood at the barn. I digress... So Francisco decided to make a cart himself. This one of course was far cooler than the one we had made - in that it was made out of wood and had real wheels where ours just had felt pads on dowels. So one thing led to another and we spent the late afternoon out in the driveway painting cart #2. (Sorry no pics. Instead, please imagine two tiered now-black cart on wheels, paint spots on the driveway, etc...)

Beatles Rock Band with Amy and Dan

Aidan is still sick and house bound (more or less). He did manage to move his video gaming party to "Dan's house" tonight with a little help from Amy. Amy tried to get him out of his pj's before they left. She got his shirt changed. The result is his spanking Ringo rock look.

Goodbye

Aidan said goodbye to his dad today. That and being sick made for a pretty quiet day. His dad has gone back to Belize but hopes to visit Aidan again in a few months.