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this afternoon

sayan's new ride

sayan loves his new ride! and mommy loves it even more!! it's soooo cushy and sporty, i've even started jogging with it which feels fantastic. though we learned the hard way that we always need to bring a sling with us on our stroller rides as sayan has recently been going though a phase where he will just decide he is DONE in the stroller for that walk. we forgot to tell papa about the sling trick while he was visiting and sayan lured him far far away and then surprise! he had to be picked up and carried home with one hand while pushing the stroller with the other.

post-nursing smiles

more morning playtime

mornings are really our favorite time-- we could spend hours in bed playing with him. it was so great, he recognized me fully the other morning! i was sleeping and jai brought him in to nurse and i sat up in bed and as we made eye contact he got this huge grin on his face and laughed and reached out his arms! i completely melted. this is from a few days ago...

bunnies

learning his vowels

morning play time

mornings are sayan's favorite play time. he usually wakes up between 6 and 7 and wants to play til around 10 when he falls asleep again. we discovered his desire for morning play time a couple of weeks ago-- jai usually takes sayan sometime between 4 and 7 so i can have some "uninterrupted" sleep. before a couple of weeks ago sayan would be happy just snuggled up with daddy and jai could sleep or meditate. one morning sayan started pre-fussing and jai kept trying to burp him and get him more comfy and finally i had the thought that sayan might be bored cause he was totally awake and not content to just be held. so jai took him into the sitting room and sure enough sayan immediately perked up. and over the past couple weeks morning play time has gotten more and more interactive. at first he'd respond most to being shown things like his mobile or activity toys or a tour of the house (we feel like tour guides a lot of the time: and these are the dishes, see the big bowls and the small bowls how they have blue on them? and here are the cups, see the tall glasses and the short glasses with the dragonflies? but he loves house tours). now though he loves just talking and physically playing with us. and he has started laughing... it's incredible.

mommy and sayan

independence

sayan is getting more and more independent! he spent almost 2 hours (total not in one stretch) in his little chair today watching us cook and clean up and do other odds and ends. it was so incredible to be able to move about and do stuff! and he looked so cute just mellow and checking us out. i would talk to him and explain everything i was doing which he seemed to like...

i want to update the blog with more pics and video but my hard drive is completely full and i can't import any other media and i don't have the time to clean it up. i keep deleting little things here and there but it immediately maxes again so it may be a few more days before i can figure out a way to get new material onto my computer and uploaded.