Matt and Patti

Matt and Patti, some of my favorite vistors, came to see us on Sunday. They moved away to NYC for the last year or so, but they were in town for Chinese New Year. I gave them a big greeting and got hugs from them too. We played a number of game including one I made up where I used the pillows from our couch and love seat to make up a version of Candyland. I like seeing them a lot!

My favorite place

I got to share my favorite place with Daddy---Chuck E. Cheese! The whole three family went there yesterday in the late morning. Mommy and I have never been there on a weekend, and we were shocked at how many people were there. We were actually sort of lucky to arrive when we did since, by the time we were leaving in the early afternoon, the line was out the door. Mommy used a terrific coupon to get me lots and lots of tokens. Once we found a table, Daddy and I were off to play games. We played skee ball, a kind of kiddie slot machine, a game where you have to squirt water at a target to make a Barbie or a Ken go down a ramp on a jet ski. I won some of the races (I had Ken) while Daddy won some others (he had Barbie). It was the best time ever.

I won so many tickets that I was able to get two lizards and a bug with my winnings. My lizard collection is getting very big.

The Terrible Towel

On Friday, the two Terrible Towels that Daddy ordered arrived in the mail. I was very excited to receive my Terrible Towel and proceeded to create a football game consisting of Little People Steelers and Little People Colts. The Steelers consisted of Little People who either wore yellow or had yallow hair. The Colts were Little People not meeting these criteria. The huge advantage the Steelers had was that a giant Terrible Towel would sweep down and knock the Colts out of the way, so the Steelers could get into the end zone.

On Sunday, we tried out our Terrible Towels for real by helping the Steelers defeat the Denver Broncos. We twirled the towels over our heads at key points during the game and did lots of high-fiving when the Steelers made good plays. We also got out the Dragon Tales guys and had them play football too to try to help the Steelers. There was lots of joyful jumping up and down when the Steelers won. I can't wait for the Super Bowl---the Terrible Towel will be out once again.

I go for penguins

In school this week, each of us made a penguin. My penguin is rather unique in that I used all of the available eyes to make him. He has big eyes, small eyes, eyes looking up, looking down, looking left, and so on. He also has a large cluster of wings. Mine is definitely the most distinct looking penguin in the classroom. Mommy says my penguin looks Picasso-esque.

Birthday Celebration

Today in school we will celebrate my birthday. I know it's a little late, but Mommy asked for them to wait until my leg was sufficiently better that I could enjoy the festivities. At circle time, we'll all gather around and cross our legs (except me--there's an exception for boys with casts) and pass around pictures of Aidan for each year I've been alive. Mommy spent a long time yesterday finding just the right pictures. Best of all, we'll be enjoying chocolate chip cookies that I picked out myself from Safeway. I like school, especially when there's a celebration!

Friends of Aidan

Since there are a lot of people who visit my weblog from all over the world, I thought it would be neat to create a map with pushpins in the locations of all the people who visit. So far, I have two pushpins (one for me and one for Daddy). Please click the link below to add a pushpin to my map. You can also add photos and other goodies so that it becomes kind of a collective scrapbook.

I've also added a running "photo album" scroll thingy on my website as well. Check it out here.

As I get more pushpins, I'll publish updates from time to time.

I've added a clickable "sticker" below as well as a permanent link on the sidebar.

Go Steelers!

Yesterday, we saw a very exciting football game where the Steelers took on the Colts. When Daddy puts on football, the first order of business is to figure out who to root for. Sometimes I root by the color of the team. For example, the Green Bay Packers, with their green and yellow color scheme, are my favorite team. I always root for them. Failing that, I'll ask Daddy which team is winning and root for that team. (Daddy doesn't like this idea. He thinks I should root for a team regardless of the score.)

Anyway, when I discovered that the Pittsburgh Steelers had yellow as a prominent color and were from one of my favorite states, Pennsylvania, I decided to root for them. I also liked that the fans of the Steelers wave big yellow "terrible towels" to root them on. I'd like a terrible towel of my own. It was a great game with lots of high fives and cheering for the team to do well. What an exciting game.

Daddy says that when I get older, we'll have to "hoist an Iron for Myron" to celebrate Steelers successes.

Old School Hot Wheels

I like the term "old school" and use it in a lot of different contexts. A new context was when we got out the Hot Wheels "G Force" track that Uncle Dave, Aunt Julie, and Cousin Emma got me for Christmas. We got out all the pieces for the track and were getting ready to play when I asked Daddy where the motor was to make the cars go. He told me that this was an "old school" design---we were going to let gravity power the cars. As I soon discovered, gravity is pretty powerful stuff. We set up our ramp, loop, and jump arrangement down the little staircase separating our living room form our foyer. (These are the only steps in the whole house, so I find them fascinating.) Then, we sent the cars on their ride. I'm getting the hang of developing rules for the various games we played. Here are the rules for Hot Wheels. Each car gets at most two tries to complete the course, otherwise it loses. If a car succeeds, it gets to keep going as we change the length of the jumps and so on. The big winner from today's event: the fire engine. In fact, in one version of the course, it managed to complete the loop, make the jump, knock over the finish flag, and then drive all the way into the "movie room." Hooray for the fire engine!

Speaking of old school, many of the "Daddy cars" did well too. The Daddy cars consist of lates 60s and early 70s muscle cars like a 68 Pontiac GTO. I love the GTO.

Solving the World's Transportation Problems

I'm really looking forward to when I grow up and have all my rainbow colored stuff. One of the inventions that I'm most looking forward to is my rainbow car. As you know, it has buttons that let it turn into an airplane, a cloud, and a boat in addition to being a car. I also added a new feature this weekend--a button that let's it turn into a tunnel should one of those be needed.

I want everyone to have rainbow cars as well since they're so useful. Initially, my projection was that it would take 72 rainbow cars for everyone to have one. Daddy, however, informed me that there were a lot more people than 72 in the world. I initially upped the production level to 100 and then to 1000. Finally, Daddy let me know that I would need about 4 billion rainbow cars for everyone to have one. So that's my new production target.