Nadia’s Grandpa Greg, Grandma Brooke and Aunt Bayli came up from Houston this weekend to meet the lovely and cute thing! On Sunday Grandma Brooke cooked a fabulous Tuscan dinner including a yummy asparagus appetizer and lasagna with crusty bread. Grammie, Uncle Roger and Aunt Paula joined us for dinner and “Nadia Watching”. My dad asked if I just played with her all day and I said, “Yeah, when she’s not sleeping 🙂 ” Nadia showed everyone how well she can crawl and pull up on the furniture and her mastery of the Curiosity Cube which Aunt Bayli gave her. That is really the coolest toy and it’s perfect for Nadia because she is so inquisitive and likes to figure out her toys. She plays with it everyday and has figured out how to work all 6 sides.
Sunday marked our 6th week with Nadia and Mike and I just feel that we are so blessed. It is surreal to us sometimes that this sweet baby really is a part of our family. Yesterday I told Mike that it seems like she has been with us forever and it’s really hard to believe that we waited so long and then travelled half way around the world to get her. I have continued to take her on my KIDS HOPE interviews this week and she just has fun playing and checking out new people.
Nadia cruised all along the couch last Thursday to get to Daddy and she made really good time. She waved and said, “Ba ba” to Shirley and Grammie on Thursday also. She seems to get the idea of bye bye, but uses it sporadically. She continues to say Ma ma and Da da, but hasn’t quite put together that we are Momma and Dada. I really think she is on the edge though by how she reacts when you say, “Where is Dada?” or things like that. When Mike got home from work last night, I said, “There’s Dada.” and she immediately turned for the door to the pantry. And of course she got SO EXCITED to see Mike and started her little breathing heavy laughing thing that she does. It’s really cute!