It is truly amazing to see how fast Andromeda is learning new skills these days. She has mastered using her hands and can easily reach and grab for absolutely anything and everything, especially things she shouldn't be grabbing (S taught her to grab his sunglasses from the top of his head as a fun skill which has unfortunately parlayed into Andi trying to grab my vision glasses off of my face...). She has rolled over a grand total of 2 times. The first time was at daycare and the second time was later that same day at home. Of course neither was caught on video. There has been plenty of rolling onto her side since, but no full rolling over. Andromeda has also mastered sitting on her own without assistance. Her new obsession is the kitties, though she still loves her doggies as well. All of the fur babies do so well with her! She has officially started to giggle when you tickle her just right (baby giggles are the best!) And she talks in her adorable baby babble ALL THE TIME! Every time I go to pick her up from daycare the ladies tell me how happy she is and how she has barely shut up since I dropped her off...
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| One of Andromeda's favorite toys is her car. She constantly reaches for it! |
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| Giggling with mommy |
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| The cuteness of this picture kills me. She is sitting up on my legs completely unassisted while we play with her alphabet train. |
We did a lot of stuff over the past month. Andi got to spend a bunch of time with S's family when grandma and grandpa came into town for her uncle K and cousin A's birthday.
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| Spending time with Grandma and Grandpa |
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| Chilling with her cousin A at his bday party! |
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| Andromeda always digs snuggles with Uncle K |
We also went to go hang out with some friends and Andromeda got to spend
time with some big kids (she loves big kids!) Then friends came into
town and Andi got to spend more time with big kids, including a trip to
the neighborhood playground, some very loud piano playing/pounding, and a
trip to a local brewery for an afternoon.
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| A mutual adoration between these two cuties! |
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| Yes, it was loud. But it was also a great way to distract 3 kiddos! |
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| Brewery fun with friends and family! |
The next weekend I had a
work picnic and Andromeda played her first game of cornhole and charmed
all of my coworkers. We also took some time in early May to work on art projects for the grandmas for Mother's Day. And Andi's fifth month ended with her first night
being babysat (by Uncle K) while S and I went to go see Hamilton!
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| It's a 3 pointer! |
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| Andromeda wasn't too sure what to do with her bag of paint and paper at first... |
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| After some careful consideration, though, and some thorough fussing about the forced tummy time, she came to the conclusion, as she does all things, that it should probably go in her mouth! |
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| Our first adult night out with friends since having the baby - S got me Hamilton tickets for my birthday! |
A few other highlights from this month were Andi's Super Baby pose every time we lift her into the air. She will do it on repeat for many minutes at a time and she had S and I in stitches laughing! She has also obtained her first set of wheels from grandma and grandpa in Florida and she LOVES her car. S is thrilled. He is now introducing her to as many car-related activities as he can. She has not protested yet...
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| Super Chunkster! |
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| Andromeda's new wheels. She is a BIG fan! |
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| Andi helped daddy get his drifting wheels ready for the track. Vroom! |
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| And this cutie was having fun sitting in daddy's new (to him) Porsche |
And that's all we have for month 5! Sorry it's a little late - Andromeda's decent sleep skills took a turn for the worse after her 5 month birthday and we've only just recovered. Although before that happened she had a few nights where she only woke up once to eat and it was absolutely delightful to get a solid 4 hour chunk of sleep! We are a work in progress... I leave you with a few more moments of random cuteness.
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| Someone has finally started to like books!!! This one about shapes and Frank Lloyd Wright is one of her favorites! |
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| I got her some new geeky space bibs to capture the gallons of drool she releases each day. |
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| That's all until next month when Andromeda will be half a year old!!! |
