May 2013

Wonderful May.  Team Andrews continues to navigate a very busy life like even more of a well-oiled machine.  I must says I appreciate that a lot.   

Sanaa stood up on her own, on command, for the first time.  (see video above)  Thank you Aunt Ebonie for capturing it - I must have played it a thousand times!

Sanaa continued to take swim classes.  When she's in the class, she is so focused on watching everyone else in the pool she forgets to do anything with her own body.  When it's just the 3 of us in the pool, she's very active.  Go figure.  Our teacher, Miss Lisa, says she might be a journalist someday.  I am pretty sure that means that me and Hasan aren't worth watching to her.

We also went to Sesame Place for the first time (theme park for Sesame Street).  That was SO cool to see her take in the fact that Elmo and Grover and Cookie Monster can be real.  And, I have to say, I was very happy that she takes after me (rather than Hasan) in her love of roller coaster-like experiences. I'm hopeful I will finally have someone who says "yea!  let's go on that super fast ride" with me...someday.  

Mother's Day involved a tasty brunch of the two of us along with Sanaa's 3 aunts, 1 grandmother, 4 cousins.  My normally wonderful restaurant child was a little monster...likely because she had the audience of all those kids and aunts.  Argh...

And it was the first visit from my cousin Varun.  The two hit it off right away.  He even put her down for her nap twice.  The first time he couldn't leave her crying.  The second time he took my advice and just walked out (he did have to walk back in to give her Froggie, but he did great!).  Really really sweet to see how excited she was to see him when she woke up.

I also got a first degree burn on my hand after putting away hot oil from frying samosas.  Man, did I learn what nerve endings are for.  The burnt skin is finally peeling away now...eew.   At least the samosas were ones my mom had made...so it was totally worth it.

We had a wonderful Memorial Day of visiting family.  It is fun to have a really personable kid to take around :)

Lastly, she has a lot more words to say.  She knows Please and Thank You now.  Which now means we're working on her understanding that "Please" doesn't mean she gets what she wants.  Oh, yea...THAT is fun ;)  Just watch out that you don't get punched in eye, I tell ya.

The video below is Sanaa and Varun...I love it.  Here are the other pics from May.