13 Months and Nenons

3/17
We had a lazy St. Patrick's Day. Maya's car and chair are still occupying our living/dining room.
 


3/22
13 months already. Crazy. Maya is into everything. I was making coffee and turned around to find peanut soup. Right after I snapped this she got mad because she couldn't get out without help.

She loves to carry around this shirt for some reason. It's one of her favorites that she retrieves from the clean or dirty basket any time she gets a chance. She managed to get it over her head, but couldn't quite manage the sleeves.

We took some pictures outside with her bear after her afternoon nap.

She loves to play in the rocks but tries to eat them

At least one of my subjects sits still

3/26
We apparently have a nenon tree. What do you mean you don't know what a nenon is?



In addition to lemon, Maya is now saying moon, banana, doll, and thank you. Lemon and banana sound a lot alike, as do moon/balloon, doll/duck/dad, shoe/sock. Thank you and hi are probably the only two really understandable to someone other than me and Derek. She signs thank you when she says it. Her personalized version looks like her hitting herself in the face. She also has added to her animal noises. She knows a horse says neigh, a cow says moo (sounds more like boo, maybe we have ghost cows), and a cat says meow (mow). She can point at her hand, fingers, feet, toes, arm, hair, nose, eyes, ears, teeth, face, and belly button when she wants to. Derek taught her arm on Monday when I was out playing soccer. I tried to teach her knee but it sounds too much like me and she just points at herself. She will point to me, Derek, or herself if you ask her where mom, dad or Maya, respectively. I'll try to get a video of some of this. It's hard because she runs over to me and wants to play with the camera when I pull it out.

She's still struggling with tummy troubles. We did blood work last Tuesday and stool cultures last Wednesday. I hope not to have to do either again anytime soon. Hoping to hear from her pediatrician sometime soon. I'm thinking the two virus hypothesis followed by secondary lactose intolerance sounds plausible. But wanted to see what her doctor has to say.