Busy Week Part 2

We've been quite busy so I'll probably have to post two blogs just to get a variety of pictures up!!


Here is Maya trying rice cereal for the first time!




She didn't really like it.




Here she is at the house with Max and Uncle Jered.


And at the park meeting geese..I'll add more pictures later!!

Extra Pictures!!

Visting Ames

Last weekend we went to Ames to visit Grandma Jo who pulled a Grandma Jo and fell down the basement stairs breaking her collar bone. But being Grandma Jo she's already back to work and walking 2 Miles! We also got to see Brynna and Jason, Nika and Grandpa Greg! Maya was awesome in the car, she's getting to be a better traveller, with lots of patience.




Maya has laughed a few times, but I guess I really missed out on her rolling laughter at Uncle Jason. I've beeb trying to get her to do it again, but no luck yet.




Besides talking a lot and laughing a little, Maya has also become super duper interested in food. She stares at us and gets excited when we eat, so we make yummy noises and sign "food, we're eating food" and keep telling her that the next time we go to the store we promise to get her some rice cereal.

Tonight we're going to a birthday party and on Saturday is Momma's 30th Birthday! So Maya will be attending a Moustacheo Basheo. Those pictures will be awesome.

Kisses!!

First Cold

Maya has her first cold. It's a little heart breaking to listen to a baby try and cry with a hoarse little voice. And to wake up so sniffly she can't breathe and suck on her pacie at the same time. When she's not tired, she seems to be okay with it. Poor Punkin!



This baby is a water baby. She LOVES taking bubbles, and would probably spend all day in the bath if we let her. She likes to turn her head to the side and drink the water, no matter what mommy and daddy say about it being icky water. "Maya don't drink your bubble water...you probably peed in it."
Sometimes I like to run the sink and let her put her piggies in the water. She likes to splash her pigs in and out of the water.




Her other favorite activity is kicking. She likes to sit in her bouncy chair with a big pillow at her feet and kick it over and over. She's "making muffins" with her feet on the pillow. She would probably kick all day too, but she gets tired and needs breaks from her Rocky style workouts.

And she had her first big laugh. Of course it happened while Mommy was at work, but Daddy said he was blowing on her tummy and she thought it was the funniest thing in the world. So now I've been spending my free time trying to duplicate that moment so I can see her big laugh.

Let's Try, Putting it in My Mouth

Maya has taken to putting everything in her mouth. Her kitty, The birdie Cori made her and sent from Portland. It's her fave. She seems to enjoy it more than her pacie, but not more than her hand.


We took her to the park and showed her the geese and the pretty flowers. She's like her momma, she loves being outside. A big day equals a nap in the car seat, and a big bottle when she got home.

Busy Week

Sorry such a long delay between posts. We've been really busy. Actually, I've been busy trying to balance work and home. Maya's just been busy sucking on her hand and trying to reach her feet. So hard!! And yet she wants them so badly!!

She's also been trying to coo and talk more. Oh and her cute baby laughs!! You know when it's not quite a robust laugh but they are trying and noises come out? She especially likes to talk to "Mr. Guy" which is a smiley face I Sharpie'd onto a card. She just sits on her changing table and coos away to her black and white friends. She laughs at mommy and daddy.

Also, she's trying to figure out a routine and so far it goes like this: Up around 6:30AM, nap around 8:30Am...wake up whenever with baby naps in between, back to sleep for a long time around 1PM, Up again around 4....sleep for a few minutes here and there until 8 or 9, then it's bedtime. What we're witnessing is a big girl in the making. A big girl who keeps out growing (in length, not width) all her clothes. Three months old on Monday!!

Two Month Check Up

This week Maya had her two month check up...it was a week late, and on Monday she'll be ten whole weeks! We found out that she is 24 and a half inches (97%), 12 pounds 2 ounces (80%), and 39.00 cm for her head (55%). So she's for some reason a very tall baby even though mom and dad are not tall adults. At the check up she received three shots in her legs which resulted in her having a silent scream, turning purple and then finally letting out a real scream. She didn't feel very good that night and needed some tylenol.

This week was also a big week for mommy....she went back to work so Maya has been hanging with Daddy. Daddy says that Maya is loving bath time now that we moved her bath into the big tub. She gets really upset at Daddy for not pouring the water into her mouth. She gets even more upset at Daddy for not letting her slide down her tub into the water so she can drink it that way. She gets EVEN MORE upset when Daddy takes her out of the tub.

Daddy says that Maya also enjoys watching him play guitar. She likes to watch his hands for long periods of time. She's been enjoying watching people talk and will imitate mouth movements. She also has been fascinated by her "piggies" as Mommy calls them. She really wants to get those toesies in her mouth, or at least in her hands but she can't figure out how to do it. This is starting to frustrate her. When I get home in the evening, I take her outside on the porch swing and we rock together, looking around at everything. I mean everything! She's taking it all in and really loving the world! And then she falls asleep.