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Shortly before New Year's, Maya finally got to go out in the snow. The temperature was perfect for her to dive right in and work on perfecting her snow angel. "Do you love it momma? Do you love my angels?" Thank you Ruby from "Max and Ruby" for teaching Maya all about snow angels.


Here you also see a picture of Maya tentatively hugging Max while he's playing video games. New Year's Eve was low key at our house. I tried to take Maya swimming but Bender Pool had misadvertised that they were going to be open!! They made my baby cry!! So, we went and bought her this fabulous pink tutu swimsuit.


This is my baby that doesn't sleep. Just like his uncle Chris. He likes to eat his hands, coo and sorta laugh, smile at Maya, and be adorable.

Swimming two days later...

playing catch up, with ketchup

Sorry I've been a bad poster for the Maya updates. The past few months have flown in some ways (new house, never a moment to myself, extremely hot, etc), and dragged in others (still pregnant, extremely hot, did I mention being pregnant? The second time you want it over two months into it...)

Here are a few highlights that I haven't shown from Maya's summer. Hopefully, I'll do better keeping up with this now that our upstairs isn't 100+ degrees.

First we have Maya in the morning sunlight on one of our first mornings in the new house. She's was my little ragamuffin all summer long. Mommy cut her hair a couple of weeks ago.

Next is Maya enjoying "farklers." Since it was a rainy Fourth of July, and Maya is scared of loud noises (loves music, cries if it's too loud) we just lit "farklers" on the porch. Good enough for her.


At the end of July we went to Vail for the family reunion, we spent the whole time chasing our kids so these are the only photos I got!!
I wanted a better picture of the three little girls playing, but Ella never stops moving. I think when she stops you are so suddenly blinded by her cuteness, so it's better if she keeps moving.

Last, are some pictures from when Chris and Kim and Nika came to Ames for a week and Maya got to spend time with her oldest cousin..whom she called Maisie until we left.






A month later she stills talks about that last day when she "boogie, boogie'd" with Nika. Oh, and now she's obsessed with Scoobie Doo because of Nika as well.

One Crazy Weekend

I have lots of older photos to upload but I figured I should dish out the weekend extravaganza photos first.

Sesame Street Live! Cousins!! Grandma Jo! Grandpa's "fing" (Maya for swing)!! What more could a girl ask for?? (cookies)







(Maya is ten seconds from a meltdown in this picture).

Easter Number One- B's House

Maya woke up bright and early on Easter morning and promptly ate candy. Then she ate some more candy. Then we got in the car and she ate a blue lolly. So, all the pictures you are about to see involve blue lips and a cracked out candied up baby. She pretty much didn't eat anything but candy all day (too excited, too riled up from chasing Max, too tired nooooo nappp!!!)







This sugared up little one isn't done yet. She takes a ten minute nap as we head over to Grandma Paula's and Grandpa Jeff's for another egg hunt...I'll post those tomorrow.

Snow Days

So, everybody knows it's been cold as a blankety blank in a blanken blank right? And we all know how this affects our adult cabin fever right? Can I just say, that it's got to be ten times worse for little kids? Especially little kids that love to be outside?Maya sometimes cries because she can't go outside. When it's below zero, there's not much we can do. But here are some pictures of her first time really playing in the snow. She loved it and really wanted to go sledding!

She couldn't figure out how snow sticks to her mittens and it was like she was saying, "How does it stick to my mitten?"
"It's still there!"
"What the?, it's still there?"


In other Maya news, she's gotten really into imaginative play and uses Mommy and Daddy (leads us by the hand) as her subjects in these play times. ("Dadda, sleep now.") One of her favorite games, no joke, she made it up herself, is "Hide and Go Boo." We hide, and she comes and finds us and we jump out saying "boo!") There's nothing cuter than having a little girl grab you by the hand and say, "Hide and Go Boo Mamma?" She loves aggressive physical play, horsey rides, wrestling, tickling,chasing, she laughs and laughs.

She's stopped being obsessed with tv! She'd rather play! (Still loves Sesame Street and Yo Gabba Gabba, but the figures and stuffed animals she has are her replacement for watching hours of the shows.)

She still has this amazing vocabulary and uses long sentences. It's also equally adorable to hear long sentences with that little voice. ("Grandma's coming to get me. She's gonna get me.") And she's ultra adorably polite. "Thank you, Dadda." "Your welcome, but I'm not Dadda I'm Momma." "Pease, more Mamma Dadda?"

She has so far, successfully used her potty three times. She'll just ask to sit on it, (I go poopie.") and peed all three times. She loves the part when you flush it, she says "bye bye poopie" cause one time her cousin Lili went on the potty and said that. She also likes to sit on her potty and make farting noises thanks to her daddy's readings of her books about pottying. Actors. Even when reading books about using the potty, they're still acting.