14 weeks

One of my most favorite things that Hasan does is to pick flowers on his walks out and about and bring them to me.  We often have a box full of now-dried flowers he has brought home.  Now that has extended to the baby.  I love that.  And she loves to have the flowers tickle her nose.

13 Weeks

Today, Sanaa and I were treated to a wonderful mid-afternoon meal with my favorite professional advisor and friend, Anne.  We went to the French brasserie restaurant Parc in Rittenhouse and felt fabulous for an hour or two.  From the minute she saw "GG" (as Anne likes to be called), she couldn't stop smiling or talking.  And the little one is well on her way to being a jewelry buff.  Anne let her wear her "just came out of the safe deposit box" ring...thank goodness she never flung it across the room!


I'm so proud to be her mom.  She makes it so easy to take her everywhere.

12 Weeks

Well, that's clearly not a picture of Sanaa...But this particular week the above was front and center in my life.  I came down with a terrible stomach virus (picture above) and was out Monday through Saturday!  Talk about "it takes a village"...Hasan took one day off to be with Sanaa.  The rest of the week Auntie Ebonie was here.  So in all of that, little Miss Sanaa's 12 week picture was not taken.

Here is a cute video from last week, however.  The conversation is in Telugu, but for those who don't understand, she's cute enough to overcome the language barrier :)

May 2012

May was a wonderful month...she grew quite a bit, the first person from my side of the family came to visit, and Hasan and I had our first date night.  Cousin Janae has taken a real liking to Sanaa as have her cousins Jameel and Jaheim. And I can tell her cousin Tanuja just wants to reach out and touch her via Skype.  It was my first Mother's Day (which was positively sweet) and Hasan's 35th birthday.  And what would we do without Auntie Ebonie to help our whole family by taking such good care of Sanaa?

Here are some pics from the month.

11 weeks

Another week where it was about 11 pm, I realized that I hadn't taken her 11 week picture and she was sleeping.  But I was so determined to get the picture, I ran in there, turned on the flash and hoped I wouldn't get yelled at by Hasan (who was also sleeping) nor wake up her up.  Mission accomplished!

10 weeks

This is a picture I'm sure will have my mom calling me to tell me not to do this again.  Yes, that's me happily eating my sandwich while my child is crying and I'm using her as a table.  Trust me, I'm not heartless...it was just kind of a funny moment of multitasking (which happens a lot these days) caught on camera.

9 weeks

This was my first "oh shoot, i'm supposed to take a picture and it's just about to be bedtime" photo.  9 weeks marked my first full day away from her.  I was in NYC all day - running from sales meeting to meeting, navigating "pumping while on the go", and everything in between.