Nick Names and stuff

Tonight while the kids were getting ready for a bath with Jason, Aidan called him "Mushy Tushy."  So that name pervaded our conversation, and Jason inserted it into our bedtime stories.  Very nice, indeed.   We read Make Way for  Duckling, I Don't Wanna Go To Bed and The Very Noisy Night, Emory's current favorite.  She loved filling in the words when Jason stopped reading, and she makes a very cute hooting sound for an owl. 

The kids had their first night away from Jason and I this weekend.  We are planning to go to Baltimore for a conference Jason will present at, and I am tagging along.  Emory has recently had yet another bout of separation anxiety with me, and it's pretty intense.  So my parents graciously offered to take them for a night this weekend for a trial run.  It was the first time since the twins were born that we had an empty house.  Everything went well, according to the report I got, though mom was exhausted from waking up hourly because she was nervous she wouldn't hear them on the monitor without her hearing aids.  We decided to entice Emory to handle 3 days away from us, we would get her a sleeping bag.  Aidan and Alanna received them for their birthday last Fall, and it was kind of a special treat to use them at Nana and Grandad's.  Since Emory got left out on that, we thought we'd splurge for her.  I bet no one can guess what kind of sleeping bad she'd like...do I even need to write this??   Lightning McQueen!  What else!!