Ames Visit

Going after Trek under the table.

Playing peek a boo with the table cloth at the tea room.

A fake deer head?

Sleeping on Grandpa Greg

This last weekend we went to Ames to visit Grandparents. There wasn't enough time! On Saturday we had a "Girl's Day Out", we went and got hair cuts and such, picked up Maya and went to Ivy's Tea Room for lunch and some shopping, and then went to the mall for some "shopping and strolling." Maya did the strolling, we did the shopping. Maya was pooped out but still decided to skip her usual long afternoon nap because there was just too much to see.

On Sunday we went over to Grandpa Greg's and Peggy's for lunch. Maya enjoyed eating mashed potatoes and yummy corn bread. She then enjoyed Uncle Jason waving his arms and being silly with her. After all that, she slept...on Grandpa.

Then on Sunday night Adriana and her girls came over for the Oscar's (our second year to do this together with them), Banana made an armadillo cake and we ate it up! Maya played on the floor and marvelled at the big girls sitting next to her.

Things she's learned in the last week! Crawling off her tummy, not an army crawl (At Grandma Jo's), walking along the couch (at Grandpa Greg's), and pulling herself up to the couch (at home with mommy and daddy). She is also really into mimmicking (brushing her hair and teeth like mommy and daddy, laughing like mommy) and loves loves loves to laugh.

And spaghetti!

February II

February

The Face

A friend recently suggested that I submit a photo of Maya to the Regis and Kelly Most Beautiful Baby Contest. Maya could win a lot of scholarship money, or baby food. Both of which she'd hopefully eventually use in the unlikely case that she'd win (I'd have to pay like 12,000 dollars in taxes-gulp).


I was trying to take some new photos of her to see if any were "contest" beautiful, and in typical Maya fashion she started with "the faces". This face made me laugh so hard that she started with her new favorite face.

Within the last week she's started this one.

It's her, "I'm copying you when you laugh at me" face. This is what Maya thinks we look like when we laugh at her. She makes this face and breathes in and out of her nose really fast(pretending to laugh). It is hilarious.

"Funny Baby" contest winner, hands down.

Oh and I forgot! She started crawling on January 31st, and that is also funny. It's this cute little army crawl that makes us laugh. One day she just started doing it. It was because she wanted my scissors. And she was so fast, she almost got them.

Friday!!

Maya is a little perplexed by this little baby she sees in the metal plate in the bathtub. She likes to point at it and try to touch that little baby...
Here she sees Daddy peeking into the bathroom and she's all smiles!!



Here is Daddy feeding Maya at the HPB Christmas Party at Granite City, Daddy is not all smiles. Daddy only makes funny faces whenever I try to take his picture.

Kissies!!

8 Mumphs

Maya is 8 Mumphs old! It's crazy we've got this talkative little wiggle butt who was just a little peanut 8 whole mumphs ago. She's gotta be close to 20 pounds of pure wiggle now.

(Maya watching Barack on Inauguration Day)

Maya is in love with jumping. Either in her jumperoo or in our arms she enjoys bouncing and jumping. She has suddenly become a good sleeper and eater in the last week, six whole hours without waking up?? This behavior scares mommy who has to check Maya at least once in that six hours. But it's nice to not get up and make four bottles a night. I don't know maybe all that jumping wears her out and she sleeps soundly.

She says "kitty" but it's always this excited little whisper (she also squeals when she sees one in her books or if she goes to see Wylie), she says Dadda or Daddy when she sees her Daddy, and a few times she's said, "bahbah" and waved bye bye.

She is just the bees knees.

Maya has been stuck in the house for days. With negative this and that temperatures, we feel a little shy about taking her out of the house. In fact a few nights ago we went grocery shopping, took her out, and couldn't get the car doors open. I brought her back inside while Daddy figured out how to get the doors open. She loves the grocery store, or Target, or any place where if you get the cart close enough to what's for sale, she'll grab it.


Maya's been sleeping well this week, eating not so well, and trying to crawl. She's figured out how to scoot a little ways backwards. She is a burst of energy constantly bouncing either in her jumperoo or in our arms. And she's been super talkative it's "Daddeeeee!" this or "Kitteee!" that mixed in with baby babble.



Kisses!!