Aidan has, it seems very suddenly, turned into a little boy. He's taller and thinner and talking a lot - repeating words that we say regularly. I noticed a picture of him that was taken in November and he looks completely different. He's really a joy and such an easy kid. His cousins were over the other day and Sophia and him were running around with plastic buckets on their heads with Sophia announcing "we're bucket heads". So Aidan is still putting the bucket on his head and running around gleefully. He changed a lot after his most recent sickness and I have noticed this before - him seeming to grow up suddenly after an illness. A friend mentioned noticing the same thing with her daughter.

In other news - we think our cat is really cool now. There was a day soon after we got her where Steve and I agreed that she was a really mediocre cat. Then there was a day recently that we agreed that she was an exceptionally cool cat. Now we just need a name for her. Our most recent conversation about it resulted in the name Delphine for the DJ Delphine Blue who used to have the radio show Shocking Blue on WBAI. We'll see if it sticks.

We are still looking for land - we have some friends who we have been thinking about going in on some land with whose need to move just became more urgent. We tried to look at a parcel today that they have been considering with a friend of theirs - it's 18 acres that would be divided into three 6-acre lots. I wish I could say that I am excited by it - it is right on the Green River and has a partially constructed bridge. We couldn't really get over the river and onto the property with Aidan. What's bugging me about it is that it is right on Route 22 - a very busy road . They say that if you build toward the back you can't hear the road, and the river runs between the road and the property, but its not a river like the Hudson - its a river that you could walk across in most places. I really wish that I was excited by the prospect of it. I'm ready to move on... or maybe I'm not.