With Mommy at an off-site clinic this week, Arya and I spent daytime away from home.
Since she likes exercising by cruising around the house in the morning, we went off in search of an area near the clinic with enough space for Arya to walk and crawl.
Cold temperatures meant we ended up in a baby play area at the shopping mall.
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Arya has found a new favorite game.
Now baby loves playing peek-a-boo with the curtains.
We have been playing peek-a-boo with our little girl for months, but in recent weeks she discovered she could initiate the game herself by using the window curtains.
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Now that Arya is mobile she has started to follow me around the house throughout the day.
She gets particularly interested when she sees me repeat an action over multiple days. Since I unload the dishwasher everyday, she decided she wanted to “help” with the dishes as well.
As a result, I got to see baby playing with the dishwasher this week.
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As usual, Arya got plenty of attention this past weekend during our outdoor bbq turned indoor picnic.
Baby is the center of attention no matter where she goes, but she was quite literally surrounded by cooing women for the entire afternoon.
My daughter loves being the center of attention and she stayed up for more than eight hours delighting in all the love from friendly faces.
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Arya got to meet the last of her four grandparents this afternoon.
She had already met both grandmothers and my dad. Today, my wife’s parents came to visit for a week.
GungGung (the Chinese word for grandfather) was the final one of her four grandparents to meet Arya in person.
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Arya showed off her baby stepping reflex this weekend.
The stepping reflex is one of the primitive reflexes displayed by newborn babies.
In the case of our daughter, she likes to step off of adult thighs when being carried from her upper body. While she has shown the stepping reflex before, Arya never stepped as hard as she did yesterday afternoon.
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