28 weeks

Another week has come and gone and so much has happened!
Aidie and Daddy have been having much better days at home and Aidie and Caina are spending much more quality time together. They even played the other day which was so cute! Aidie kept trying to take Caina's toy. Caina walked away with it and then brought it back to her. So funny!
We had lots of family in this past weekend. Rachel and Ella came from Colorado for a visit. We had brunch at Dan's parents and Ella and Aidie got some play time in. I think it was fantastic for Aidie. She doesn't spend much time with other babies and I feel like her play style has really stepped up a notch since seeing Ella. It was hysterical the next morning. She has never really shown much interest in multiple toys before, but on Sunday she did. One more thing to show me that she is a genius baby. She wanted the bin of little stuffed animals. So I got them down and she takes all of them out and puts them in one pile. Then she separates out all of the dogs. Then she puts them in alphabetical order (now I'm sure that was a complete fluke but that's what happened- Chicken, dogs, rat- in that order). Then when she was done she started putting them all away. It was the craziest thing I've seen since the full sentence first words. No doubt about it- She is amazingly smart!
We also got to see my cousin Jim and his wife Betul who came to visit from Turkey. We haven't seen them since before their wedding and it was a super wonderful surprise! They just loved Aidie (of course!) but Aidie was a bit fussy at first. Poor thing has been going through a "shy of strangers" phase. She even gets fussy with my parents occasionally. It's been interesting. Well, poor Betul wanted to see her so bad and all Aidie did was cry and cry when Betul carried her upstairs. I had to take her outside for 10min just to calm her down. Well, she finally warmed up and turned back into her regular charming self! I guess when she realizes mama won't disappear, things are a bit more okay. Jim even got her to start crawling! Yay Jimmy! We love you and your tormenting ways! Aidie is now well on her way to being the crawling terror we knew was dying to come out. Tiny troublemaker, here we come!