Happy Thanksgiving!!

Thanksgiving week was a big one in our house. I returned to work on Monday, after having almost 5 months of maternity leave. This meant that Sonia started attending daycare as well...but fortunately her new "school" is in my office building, right downstairs! So far she appears to have enjoyed her first 3 days of daycare, and I survived being apart from Sonia. And thanks to all the activity of her "curriculum", Sonia was exhausted in the evenings and slept through every night!
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First day back at work for Mommy and first day of daycare for Sonia!


We stayed in Seattle for Thanksgiving this year and joined our friends Kelsey and Tony for dinner at their place. It was so much fun, the food was great, and Sonia and her buddy Reilly had a great time playing together.

Sonia and Daddy in her new Thanksgiving outfit - very fall festive!


Kelsey and Reilly, and Deepa and Sonia - all the girls had fun!!


Reilly and Sonia love to play!


Recently we discovered that Sonia knows her own name! Ok - she will look in your general direction if you say her name repeatedly, but we think that is a good start. Also, she'll giggle at you if you are smiling at her. And also exciting, she is into some new toys as you can see from the pictures below.

Sonia's friend Reilly let her borrow her Exersaucer on Thanksgiving - she loves it!


Bouncing around in her new jumper toy that we bought in a post-Thanksgiving spree. She loves spinning around in circles, but check out her expression in this photo...Olive kept sneaking up and trying to join in on the fun.