A Good Night

We were at the soccer fields tonight, yes, just like every other night! This was for Mckenna's practice so it is the field with a great playground. Ayden Jane has a friend there who is also a little sister of a soccer player so the two of them play while the sisters practice. Her friend is a year older than Ayden Jane and much more verbal, but she is always excited to play with AJ and so patient with her. I chatted with the mom and it was a great conversation. She is so honestly interested in AJ's story. Not the interested with a side of pity sort of thing where you begin to wish you hadn't said anything for fear of AJ being treated like she is contagious. Or the interested until it is complicated. Or even the interested because it is a sort of stop and stare kind of thing. It was that rare conversation with someone who already knows and really likes your little one and is interested just because they want to know her better. As we talked, the mom talked about running and we got on the topic of running the marathon for a fund raiser... Okay, so maybe the t-shirt with the Foundation for Prader Willi Research on the front and the 40 names of kids with PWS on the back spurred on that conversation. Anyway, she wants to run the marathon with us next Feb.! Amazing. I know AJ is cute and all, but when other moms are willing to run a marathon for her after knowing her for only a couple of months! Again, amazing.

Ayden Jane was in a great, alert, full of energy mood tonight. She was totally into climbing. She has been climbing the curved sort of bars (see picture in previous post) but had not been able to climb 2 other sorts of straight up ladders. Well, tonight she climbed every last one of them. Repeatedly. The funny thing was her little friend would get part way up, get scared and want help down. Yep, little Ayden Jane was out climbing her friend who is a year older! Of course, AJ was also risking life and limb as she was up out of my reach and kept trying to go down BIG slides head first. I hope that fearless streak wanes a bit as she ages!