Companionship

Brigid and I are about to embark on new adventure this week! Just she and I are going alone to Minnesota for a quick weekend "back home." Like I said in a earlier post, we want to go back and see everyone and check on the house. We need to be sure we can find the house and all our friends under all that snow I've been hearing about. It gets a wee bit expensive to be flying 4 people back and forth across the country multiple times a year! It makes a lot more sense for just one or two of us to go at a time, and make more frequent, yet shorter trips.

Brigid is excited, yet very tentative. She and Aidan are like two little peas in a pod. She wasn't even 2 yet when he was born, and she's never known life without his constant little companionship! She's not sure she wants to go five whole days without her little brother to harass and boss around.

Mind you, it's totally odd that she would complain considering the number of times I've heard her cry "Aidan is not never ever my friend ever again!!" after some playful misdeed, like he was looking at her wrong. For someone who is not "never" her friend ever again, she sure looks around for him when she's got a good fart noise she wants someone to giggle with her over.

Brigid's been training Aidan to be her playmate a little too well for his own good sometimes. It might be good for Aidan to have a little daddy alone time, where they can read dinosaur books and build stuff. Having a strong-willed older sister can have interesting consequences for a little boy. He unfortunately knows as much about the Disney princesses as Brigid does. And he prefers the pink sparkly nail polish…

Not to worry though! Here is Brigid joining Aidan at the train table. With Brigid's assistance, Aidan is learning the fine art of sewing his choo choo sewing card. It's nice when they can find mutually enjoyable activities together.

Things could've been much worse with this picture. Instead of prancing around in a tutu, he's happy just being the musical accompaniment. Every dancer needs her musician after all, and these two make the perfect team!

We do try to balance our activities out and it's not all princesses and make-up around here. Not all the time. Last weekend we went on a tour of the Arizona Diamondbacks dugout and locker room at Family Day at the Ballpark at Chase field! In the true spirit of baseball, they enjoyed the ballpark food more than most of the sporting activities, but who can blame them?

We will miss Aidan on our travels, and everyone will miss seeing him I’m sure. But Brigid will certainly relish in the individual attention that will be lavished upon her. I have to guilty admit I am looking forward to a much quieter plane ride than many we've had in the last year. I'm sure we'll find some way to have fun on our own!