This is Melissa writing. Tani has a good friend, Aiden, who lives right down the hall here in our building. They're the same age and share a lot of the same interests (trains, trains, trains, trucks, trains, music, trains). They love to run up and the halls together. I have Tani with me on Mondays and Wednesdays and generally share their toys nicely, and today (Wednesday), Aiden spent the day with us. He came over in the morning to play. He loves Tani's toys! and then Grandma Susan (who was visiting from DC) helped me take the two boys to the Please Touch Museum, where we have a membership (we got a membership that allows us to brings up to 6 people, so please come visit with us!) The museum wasn't very crowded, so Tani and Aiden had the run of the place-- the excavator, the city bus, the musical instruments, the mountain with tracks for wheeled wooden birds, the flying bike...it was a bit challenging to keep track of two boys; however, overall, it was a lot of fun. We then drove Grandma Susan to the train station. The boys wanted to get out, but I knew they were tired, and they were both asleep soon after we got onto the highway towards home. We all napped in the car for about half an hour (Tani woke up at 5:30 this morning) and then went upstairs to play some more. We also made pizza-- Grandma Susan had bought some whole wheat pizza dough from Trader Joes yesterday, and the boys helped roll it out and put on tomato sauce and cheese. It was really good.
I checked out a picture book called Guts from our local library, and Tani loves the picture of the insides of his body-- how food travels-- the esophagus to the stomach to the small intestine to the large intestine, and "then you poop it out." I made a copy of the picture and taped it up next to Tani's diaper changing station. I don't think I was anticipating that he would be so interested--but it does make sense that he is curious about what happens inside us. We bought Tani a beautiful picture book about the insides of the human body. We took the train downtown last week and went to the Franklin Institute, which has a huge heart that you can walk through. Tani has been talking about walking through the heart.
After Neysa came home tonight, Tani, Neysa, and I went down to the sukkah, as I hadn't been there yet today to shake my lulav. Tani shook the lulav for the first time. Tani is starting to wear size 4T--tonight he's wearing PJs with firetrucks and dogs. Tani and Mommy Neysa fell asleep around 8:15 tonight. Moadim l'simcha.
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