Playing with Addie

Maya's friend Addie came over for a visit while her parents did some errands. Here are the girls escaping the family room:


They've figured out how to conquer the piano:

At work in daddy's office

(You can see the construction work in the background...)

Play-Doh

We got Maya some art stuff the other day. The first day with play-doh was a dud... Maya didn't seem to care for the texture. But the second day was much better. She LOVED it!

Uh oh...

(But really, she wasn't going to eat it. It's just the perspective of the picture.)

Sunday

This morning, Maya and Tim planted Tim's new plants, while I tried to get some work done. Tim's going to try growing some herbs and vegetables. Some are transplants, and some are from seeds. He's been doing quite a little research on what the best things are to plant at this particular time of year (and at other times of the year). Here are the two gardeners:

And the finished product:

It was hot outside, so breaks were obviously necessary.

This evening, we had Angela, Jim, Zane, and Evie over for dinner and playtime. The girls had fun pointing at the dogs through the window:

While Zane was infatuated with his toy plane:

Saturday

Saturday, Maya woke up demanding food at 6:00am. Because it was still dark outside while she was eating (first) breakfast (my dad says she must be part hobbit), the light in the kitchen helped create a strong reflection on the windows. Here's a video of her waving at the various babies around the room. She loved it.

I didn't cut down the video so you can see a lovely hairdo and some great eating habits (e.g., "clean" your plate before you ask for more)



After lunch, Maya and I were joined by my mom for a trip to the nursery to get plants and to the grocery store. After a great nap by the little one, we were joined by my grandma, Jocelyn, and JoAnn for a trip to the mall. We stopped by Sonic on the way:

Though Maya managed to put her straw through the bottom of her cup in the middle of the shoe department. Oops. (And for those of you out there questioning the purchase of a Sonic drink for a one-year old... while the rest of us had cherry cokes and other sodas, Maya had an apple juice slush.)

"Can you say..."

Maya's vocabulary is improving at a regular pace. Every day or so, she adds a new word. She's very good at "more," "no," "up," and "dog" (her first word). She's also got a lot of signs for things (the two newest are "please" and "thank you," both of which she sometimes uses unprompted!). The other night, at dinner: "Maya, can you say 'yogurt'?" Pause. "Yes." Well, at least that's a new word...

Our Little Helper

Maya has become our perfect little helper now. I suppose we should just be pleased that she wants to do "chores." After we change her diaper, SHE has to put it in the diaper pail and spin the top around. Around dinner time, she'll pick up an empty dog bowl and bring it to the pantry to be filled. SHE has to carry it back (with help...) to the right spot. The other night, after we fed the dogs, I grabbed the mostly-empty water bowl to fill it up. She insisted on helping carry it back. (We had only a little spilling...) We had to draw the line when she tried to help dad clean up after the dogs in the backyard. She doesn't seem to see the difference between picking up poop with your hands covered and picking up poop...