Fall Fun and New Skills

It has been exciting here recently. On Friday, Maya started crawling on her hands and knees.  She still alternates between scooting on her belly and lunging on her hands and knees. On Saturday, we went to a friends house then headed to a pumpkin farm and corn maze. It was a great fall day with our little family and some new friends.

A few days ago Maya started clapping. This morning we went to story time for the little ones at the library for the second week. Maya seems to enjoy the books, songs, and other babies. Today she was clapping and another mom commented on it. I told her I didn't think she was really doing it intentionally. But then this evening we are fairly certain that she was purposely doing it. She'd clap when we would say yay and clap. A week ago Sunday someone at church thought that Maya was waving at her. I'm not sure if she really was waving.  I didn't think so at the time since she likes to wave her arms around any time she gets excited but now I'm not so sure. Monday, I was on my stomach on the floor. Maya crawled over, stuck her face in mine, and started talking to me. She sounded like she said hi. I think it's just coincidence but I was surprised because usually all she said is da da da.

After her pulling up last weekend on the couch, she has tried to pull up on various things with limited success. She pulled herself up on the bottom shelf of her changing table yesterday, then practically climbed on it. It's fairly low to the ground so I think that helped. She has tried to pull up on her musical table to play a number of times but she can't quite make it up. Today she would try to pull up on it several times, then give up and crawl over to me to help her. After I'd help her up she'd lean towards the table. Last night she was hanging on to the edge of her crib trying to pull herself up. She didn't make it up but we decided to lower the crib today.

Maya started carrots on Friday. She really seemed to like them. She had a few rashy spots on her cheeks, arms, and thighs Saturday and Sunday but they are all gone except one on her arm. Hopefully it's not related to the carrots. Today (Tuesday), she had avocado. At first, I tried just smashing a ripe one. It went much like the banana mashed did, that is, it resulted in the gag face, so I pulled out the blender. I wasn't sure how it would go but she was a fan. I think peas are next on the agenda in four days or so.

 

 

Here's a couple of videos of Maya. The first is from Monday. She may look more like Derek but she definitely gets that from me. The second one is from tonight. She is showing off her new skills.