All Work and No Play

A rare dry and sunny day recently gave Radha an opportunity to help us with some yard work.

Nothing like a little dress-up for playtime after all that hard labor.

A short video of Radha and her Babaji the other week at the park. Although not shown in this video, Radha has really taken to going down slides and stairs head first (with assistance, of course)!

Little Drummer Girl

Little Drummer Girl
Originally uploaded by MookieLuv

Happy New Year!

Although it's a couple weeks late, Radha wanted to ring in the New Year with a catchy beat. This drum and her little egg shaker instruments were definitely her favorite gifts from Santa. Both are sure to bring lots of fun and noise mayhem to our household for years to come.

Note the boogie dancing she does.

Next week Radha turns 9 months old. We've been hearing a lot from friends how "grown up" she's looking these days. It'll be interesting to get her stats from the doctor next week to see just how much she's grown.

Baby Mayhem

(from Terri)

I finally hosted my playgroup of moms and babies last week.  It was the first time I had hosted this particular group; the first time we had planned to do this, Radha got sick.

We had 8 babies and moms altogether in our living room.  As you can imagine it's difficult to get all babies in one picture, so not everyone was captured here!

When we tried to put everyone on the couch for a group shot, all hell broke loose!  This seems to be the case with the group baby pictures.  The crying seems to always be contagious.  Radha tried to take her friend Molly's toy, various babies pulling hair, trying to eat body parts of other babies, etc.  Pure mayhem!  

Should I feel bad that I was laughing at bit at the chaos?  (I wasn't the only mom laughing, by the way!)  And boy, did we need to do a thorough cleaning of Radha's toys after this playgroup.

Exersaucing

Now that Radha has her head control she's been able to spend a lot of playtime in her "exersaucer".   

We were fortunate enough to get this item gently used from one of Ro's co-workers.   It's been especially nice to have a structure that supports her while she plays because she outgrew her bouncer chair last month. (The amount of clothes she has outgrown already is pretty staggering!)

Can you see the drool coming from her mouth in that picture?  Clearly, she's working really hard at spinning those colored cylinders...it takes a lot of focus and attention!  She likes the cylinders (which each make a different sound when spun) and the sun rattle the best.