Keeping up with Maya

Let's see... what's new with the Juliens?

Maya has some teeth:

Two serious ones on the bottom, and several coming in up top.

This is helping her try new foods... we're always wondering if dinner time will be a battle or fun. This night was a mixture of both (see this huge smile... and the tear on her cheek?):


And, now that she's seriously mobile, she's all over the place all the time. She can stand all alone without holding on for a few seconds at a time... usually until she realizes she's doing it, then she slowly lowers herself to the floor. We're working on getting up and down the stairs, but she's far from mastering it (or at least far from mastering the fact that she shouldn't turn around while she's doing it). One of her super favorite things to do is to rearrange the kitchen furniture, pushing the high chair in front of the back door and the rest of the chairs into the corners of the room:

I learned something today...

About the Texas political process. It turns out that Texas is not JUST a primary state... it's a hybrid of a primary and a caucus. (There's a good, though party-biased, explanation here.)

Now the question is just on the acceptability of taking a baby to a caucus...

The Day with Grandpa and Grandma

Maya's been a little up and down sickness wise lately. She seems to get the wimpiest cold, and it goes straight into her lungs. She stays happy, but she sounds horrible. We went to the doctor on Monday, and the doctor thinks Maya has a touch of baby asthma. :( So now Maya gets a nebulized steroid every day. She seems to take it quite well. But while Maya was out of day care last week, my parents helped out so Tim could cure the animals (and, coincidentally, spay Ginger) and I could teach the undergraduates. Here are some photos of Maya cutin' it up at her grandparents' house:

More Maya Pics

Here's Maya with her play table. This is an awesome toy... the legs come off of it, so she's been playing with it for a while now. But now that pulling up is her super favorite thing to do, the legs are perfect. In fact, today she was playing with it on the tile floor, and it kept scooting away from her... meaning... she had to walk behind it to keep playing. Yay!


And, now that she's completely mobile, she seems constantly headed for the dog toys. What's the deal with this? The dogs think Maya's toys are better than theirs, and she thinks theirs are better. Luckily the dogs like to share... Maya can crawl up to Hannah and take her bone right out of her mouth...


And of course, the requisite "baby jail" photo. We LOVE our new baby gate. If anyone ever needs a recommendation, we've got one...

Theresa at work

We've heard from Tim's little sister a few times in the past week or so. She's stationed on the USS Truman in the Persian Gulf. She sent a few pictures of herself at work. She's promised us some pictures in which we can actually see her face, but for now, she's the smaller person in green...

Look at me!

Puffs

Larissa wasn't sure Maya would learn to pick up food and put it in her mouth while she was in town visiting. She may not have mastered it before Larissa left, but it was close on the visit's heels. Never underestimate Maya in milestones related to food...