27 Weeks

This is her "yea...I'm cute...but I don't need to smile every time you ask me to" look.  This week started a new phase in the Andrews household.  Baby is going to daycare more, and the whole house is gearing up for when I start my new gig, because oh...I forgot to mention that my company has been acquired!  It's a wonderful thing for me...I'm pretty excited about this next phase.  I'm going to the new company to grow a significant new business for them.  It'll be a change for our house...starting with these weekly Tuesday pics.  They're likely to be just like the above since I only get to see the baby in the wee hours of the morning, and for about an hour in the evening.  I miss her, so let's hope this next phase, while exciting, only lasts about 3 years.  That's what I'm planning for it to take for me to achieve my objectives professionally.

26 Weeks

Lately we've been practicing sitting.  She does pretty well with it if she's distracted, which means work for whomever is practicing with her :)  Lucky for us, she loves the faces in this book and will entertain herself "reading" it.  

25 Weeks

Just too cool for school. On our way to Mommy n Me yoga for the first time.  I had wanted to go since she was born, and it took me 6 months to get us there.  Such fun!  She smiled constantly for the teacher and other babies.  And spent most of the time on her belly sliding all over the floor.  Talk about doing Boat pose!

24 Weeks

These were the final days of my mom being with us.  It was really wonderful to have so many weeks of hearing my mom sing and talk to Sanaa from downstairs.  One of my favorite scenes was how much Sanaa enjoyed watching her cook.  Sanaa seems to be a  real foodie...good thing she has a grandmother with delicious cooking skills!

August 2012 - More mom!

August found us settling into our new home, new routines, etc.  My mom took such wonderful care of all of us, and I even started to learn how to cook some Indian food.  Hasan and I are so busy with our businesses that, to me, the highlight of the month was a family walk we all took together one Sunday morning to the Art Museum.  I love the pictures from there that are in this month's set, and above.

August 2012 pictures

There were lots of these moments in August.  Sanaa gets SUCH a kick out of my mother. Her first hearty laugh was with her back in June, and it was such a surprise to hear.



A great place to get her energy out became the Exersaucer.  But I pity our upstairs neighbors who get to hear her when she's "talking" to the various creatures in it.  She seems to have a real thing for frogs.




And lastly, the girl loves herself.  Something I am happy to say.  A guaranteed crankiness breaker is showing her a mirror.  Can be any kind of a mirror - a real one on a wall, one in a bathroom, a kind of distorted one on her playmat, and even her reflection in my sunglasses.