First, he got to spend the morning with his buddy Chloe. He loved how nice she was to share her lovey with him and watch him play at the park. He also loved rocking her gently in her car seat.
Next, he got to spend a few hours with one of his favorite girls- my friend Hayley' sister Brooklyn. She played with him in the whale pool and drove cars with him. The smile on his face when we pick her up is priceless. It is like baby adoration/shyness mixed with total excitement. So precious!
After Brooklyn went home we had four other young girls from church come over. They ate treats and dinner with Andrew, splashed with him in his baby pool, played toys with him, and basically kept us both entertained all afternoon and evening.
He had the attention of at least two of them every minute. They loved taking pictures of him with my phone.
The girls worked on his new words with him too. My favorites this week are (in Andrew-language/partial English): lemonade, bubbles, help, up, duck, quack, treat, mama (been slow to come), snack, and several others. He will try and copy most words that I say these days too. It makes our talks a lot more fun. It is amazing how his vocabulary is growing every day lately!
He loved talking to the girls. I think they need to come over every day. Now I understand why people like having a lot of kids. They were so helpful. It was like having 4 little mommies.
I am also loving his receptive language skills. It is amazing how much kids at this age understand. Today he was yelling because he wanted more dinner. I said, "How do you ask for that nicely?" and he quieted down and did the baby sign for "more." We're still working on "please."
We were both sad when the day end and all the girls were gone. We are looking forward to hanging out with a lot of our other favorite girls in Utah this weekend though- Elise, Maddie, Jessie (back from Europe, yay!!!!), and Grandmas!
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