Wednesday, October 24, 2012

20 Months and Lots of questions

Maya has started asking questions such as
"what mom/dad/Maya doing", "who's that" (this means both who is that and what is that), "what that is" and my personal favorite "how it work"

She recognizes that writing is beey, bee, sees (also known as abc's). She knows some of the letters such as M, D, and O. She told me that our igloo cooler had two o's on the lid. She also recognizes the name/logo for Derek's work. She also recognizes some numbers. She told me that one of her shapes for her sorter had an 8 on it and it did in fact have one.

She opened the fridge for the first time a week ago Saturday and helped herself to some shredded cheese. She's opened it a few times since then. Fortunately, she usually just gets her sippy of milk and shuts the door.

She didn't nurse overnight at all last Saturday night. This week, however, has been rough again. She had a tummy ache on Sunday evening. I'm not sure if that's what's her issue is or what.

After going camping she recognized the fire in goodnight moon. She was so excited. She kept saying fire outside just like that and pointing to the picture.

She's gone potty several times last week. Tuesday she went potty and so got her ice cream reward. After she finished eating it, she asked for more. I told her if she went potty again she could have more. She ripped off her diaper, ran to the bathroom and went again. So she's getting the idea. I'm starting to have second thoughts about the ice cream as a reward.

One day at lunch this week, Maya kept asking for my cucumbers with vinegar. She ate a number of them then told me "I not like it"

We went to the pumpkin patch this weekend. We rode a train and tractor, fed the sheep and goats, picked out a pumpkin.

I'm probably forgetting something but it's late and I'm tired. So now for picture overload.
Pumpkin dress my mom made (excuse the diaper pail):

The pumpkin patch:





20 months on Monday (For some reason 20 months seems so much older than 19)






Saturday, October 13, 2012

First camping trip

We took our first camping trip with Maya this past weekend. It went pretty well all things considered. Friday we drove out and got set up. It was cold at night but we bundled Maya and stuck her between us in the sleeping bags and she slept ok. She kept rolling around and hitting us. Between that, the cold, and sleeping on the ground Derek and I didn't sleep much. Saturday, it was nice during the day. We hiked a little


We saw some fish swimming upstream


In the evening, we had s'mores


I don't recommend s'mores before playing in the dirt. We had to round up quarters to give Maya a shower. And we shared the shower with a frog. Saturday night was cooler than Friday night. Maya cried off and on all night. No one really slept.
On Sunday, we grabbed coffee and a bear claw then stopped by the lake on the way home. Maya ran right in despite the cool temperature.


Some friends stayed Sunday night and apparently we missed the coldest night and a bear coming through the campground digging in everyone's stuff.

Tuesday, Maya's other canine tooth (the upper right) popped through. Thursday, we went to a park and fed the koi fish peas. Maya wants to go back and do it again. Next time we are buying some fish food. The seemed to prefer it.

Today we went to a park for a picnic then rode the train and carousel. It's awesome that there are so many good parks nearby. We had pizza tonight. In honor of that (well mostly because I was digging through old videos and found this one and it makes me laugh), here's an old video of Maya's first pizza from almost a year ago (11/23/11).