OMG! Where's Aidan?

Aidan had her first friend sleep over last Saturday. Our friends Emily and Mark invited her to stay the night with their son Tristan. We didn't hesitate of course. We dropped her off at dinner time, they took a bath, watched a movie, and played- they even took her to church in the morning. We totally thought about going out for breakfast, but I chose to sleep in which I never get to do and it was AWESOME!

Because we haven't been on a date forever Brad and I went out to dinner at Outback because we used to love the steak, good not great this time! I always think about this episode of Will & Grace where they are out to dinner with the couple they met in college who they have game night with and this couple is complaining about the trendy restaraunt food and the fact that they wanted to go to Olive Garden because the food is always good, so W&G hook up with this sheik couple who are totally trendy and wild. Yeah we're the married couple eating at Outback, we love the Olive Garden too (even though they rip you off on the olives in the salad)! Side note (Cathy's totally going to laugh) I love Olive Garden's "SuperSalad" (long story short: my sister Cathy watched me order "SuperSalad" for a to go order and she just let me go on and on when they asked me "soup or salad" I thought they were asking if I wanted their "SuperSalad" and I would answer "yes". The baby sister torture doesn't end as a kid, it's for life!) OK- back to my story... after dinner we went to see "New in Town" with Renee Zelwiger and Harry Connick Jr.. I think for the average person it was a shmoopie cute chick flick, but for Brad and I it was more hysterical. It's set in small town Minnesota and the women scrapbook- yikes! Brad and I just about peed our pants when this lady was showing RZ's character a scrapbook about her dead dog and cat... I was crying a little inside- that's ME! I have a scrapbook about my dead dog Raleigh and I have shown it to people! And our dead cat BooBoo peed on our couch so then we called him Poppy (from Seinfeld). Oooh Yeah-that's me, don'tcha know!

When we got home though it was weird without Aidan. Brad, the poor sap, got his laptop out to watch her song video!

When Emily dropped Aidan off in the morning she gave us a cd with some cute pics of their evening. Aidan was totally fine, which we expected. She did however do something odd. When Mark and Emily went upstairs to go to bed they 'checked the children' and Aidan wasn't in bed with Tristan anymore. They would have heard her if she came down the stairs, so they started searching upstairs for her. They found her in their closet with her blankie and all her animals she brought from home. I am so glad they got a picture of it before they scooped her up and out her back to bed! It's too cute. Emily thinks it's a girl thing, she wanted to feel safe and secure so she surrounded herself with shoes! It makes sense to me! When the party was over Tristan didn't want her to go, but Aidan just wanted to 'come say hi' to us. I like that she is secure enough to go off with her friends, but after a reasonable time away she wants to check in with us.

Aidan has been talking all week about her sleep over and asks everyday when Tristan is going to sleep over at our house, soon I'm sure. It's such a great thing to have someone to swap with now.

Not another bagel shake down!

While laying in bed tonight Aidan and I were talking about random stuff...
Aidan-"I need to make a sign."
Me- "What does it need to say?"
Aidan- "No dogs in my toy room."
Me- "Are cats allowed?"
Aidan- "Yes. Stinkers, Bob, and Roxy, but not Sadie."
Me- "Why not Sadie?"
Aidan- "She knocks my toys down and eats my bagel."
This has been a long time coming, she has told me before about her issues with Sadie in her toy room. The one thing that would solve the issues is for Aidan to stop bringing food into her toy room! Sadie only goes in there to see if there is some food lying around and most of the time there is!

Daddy's the Mayor of Booger City!

I am looking forward to spring, Aidan needs to get out of this house! Listen to what she comes up with, it's pretty funny! (or maybe just to me due to cabin fever)

Little Miss "I don't sing and I don't dance" made up a song today.

I am not sure why it is, but Aidan had declared awhile ago that "I don't sing and I don't dance". It was a very strong and mostly true statement. She doesn't sing in front of people, only by herself in another room or in the back seat of the car. But if you try to sing along with her that's the end of it she gets all discusted and stops. And she only dances in privacy too, except we have now ruined that for her by signing her up for a dance class. We are hoping to get her out of her comfort zone and she is doing fairly well. It's still like pulling teeth to get her to practice or show you any of her moves. If she gives you anything it's very brief. I don't get it, she hasn't always been that way.
Today, there may have been a break through. She came to me (in the bathroom of course) and demaned that I stand in a certain spot and listen to her sing this Halloween (of course!) song she made up. I was of course standing in the far corner of the bathroom, trapped with out my camcorder- my worst nightmare!
After she sang it for me she wanted to sing if for Aladdin, that's when I convinced her to sing it for the camera. It wasn't as cute as the first time, but for me it's always cute and I am so excited that she was willing. So here it is an Aidan Thompson original song:

Fight those winter blahs!

We had a little gathering on Sunday to fight the winter blahs. It was a long December with all the snow and we have been dying to get outside. It warmed up ALOT the week before which made half our snow melt. I was hoping for an inch or two of fresh snow for pretty pics, but that didn't happen. The good news was that we still had plenty of snow to sled, it was just a little dingy.

Last week I opened the front door in the morning to find a dusting of snow and these cute little birdy tracks. I thought they were so sweet and I needed a picture of them. When I went back to take a pic Bob ran out, but didn't get far. His sweet little prints were also worthy of a picture as was he. Isn't he beautiful and always so regal!

Thanks George!

Last week I was reading an article in the Inlander about the state of the economy and the effect on Spokane. I had heard rumors that Trader Joes and Whole Foods were coming, but it never happened. WTF! Well, here it was confirmed they were supposed to move in, but canceled their contracts because of the economy. Instead we are getting a Dress Barn and Red Lobster- BARF!
My other dream is for a Target -NOT A WALMART- to move to the South Hill (my neighborhood). So far nothing has been built up here due to the stinky ol' economy. I have one person to blame...