Mission #1: Aidan

Yesterday Aidan and I dropped Isabelle off at Playcentre and bussed into town. We had two shops, the library, the doctor and the chemist to visit - quite a mission for a small boy! Aidan behaved extremely well the whole time, aided again by a full lunch box. He did lots of walking too. We stopped at every "hole" on Lambton Quay (the holes being little construction areas surrounding pipes still being worked on following the major gas problem that hit a part of the central city recently). Sometimes there were workers in the holes! They were very tolerant of Aidan's interest in what they were up to, usually smiling and waving, or saying hello. They seemed to realise that to a small boy, like firefighters, police officers and the like they are in "fancy dress" (hard hats, orange vests). And they have exciting things like diggers, rakes and spades to play with.