Aiden

My nephew, Aiden (Scott and Lauren's son) is about the coolest little boy ever. To give you and idea of what I mean by cool, this is the kind of outfit he wears to school.


Now, I know there are probably a lot of kids who insist on wearing a sport coat and tie to school, but how many of them would think to accessorize with a pair of red swim goggles? Lauren said he wore this particular get-up for a week straight.

I video-chatted with Aiden last week, right before he was about to head to school. On that particular day, he was wearing the same sport coat and McLean plaid tie, but this time he had accessorized with a vest, suspenders, and (of course) a pair of race car red pants.

A few months ago Aiden and his family were going to Mexico. Aiden likes superheroes, so I asked him if he had heard about Zoro. He hadn't. I told him all about Zoro, sent a few pictures so he would recognize him, and told him he should look for Zoro while he was in Mexico. I tried to excite him a bit by telling him that as soon as Zoro saw him, he would probably want Aiden to be his sidekick. Aiden laughed the kind of laugh that says, "Ahh soooo cool!"

So, when they returned from Mexico, I sent Aiden an email asking if he had found Zoro. Lauren wrote back that Aiden wanted her to tell me that he didn't really feel like being just somebody's sidekick, so he decided not to look for Zoro.

The kid totally cracks me up. (And of course he was right - Aiden is nobody's sidekick!)

Anyway, I just got a very funny email from Lauren. Today was "share day" at Aiden's school, and this is what Lauren wrote:

He decided he wanted to take some lincoln logs to show everyone. Little did I know that he still knew you'd given them to him. This is what he said:

"These build houses, and I'll show you all and then you can do them. I got them for Christmas from my dad's brother brian, you know, who's trying to finish up some chemo stuff. I mean Kevin. He's almost done with chemo, but he still doesn't have very much hair. But more than my daddy (laughs to himself). But I know he's almost done because his head is bigger than it used to be."

4.9% bigger to be exact!