The past month and a half or so has been pretty crazy. Right before Maya turned nine months she had her first real cold. Then I got it and then Derek got it. Derek then had another cold. Then on December 11, Maya had her first stomach virus complete with fever, puke, and lower gi issues. She was sick for a week with it. We celebrated my birthday with take out on December 14. Derek and Maya got me a blender since apparently I'm rough on them. This is my third since we got married. On the 19th, Maya started showing signs of another cold and our garage door broke. Also around this time Maya started taking lunging steps, that is she'd lunge from the couch to the ottoman and take a few steps in between.
We left town on the 20th for our tri state tour. Maya was stuffed up and snotty for the first week we were gone. State one was visiting with Derek's family. While there, Maya turned 10 months old. How are we into the double digits already? As posted below, we had our monthly photo shoot. And yes I hauled her bear across the country so that we'd have it for the photos. Derek probably thinks I'm nuts.
On Christmas eve, Maya puked again twice. I didn't really sleep that night. I was concerned that she would vomit again and spent a lot of time just snuggling her. I was also worried that she had another virus or wasn't getting over the original virus. She didn't act ill though and was fine by morning. We are still not sure what the deal was. Maya celebrated her first Christmas with a stocking from Santa first thing in the morning. She later was spoiled with gifts from Derek's family. She wasn't really into unwrapping things but liked to pull the tissue paper out of gift bags.
On December 27, we left state one and headed two states over. We spent the night in a city in between that we frequented when we lived in state two. We ate good food, walked around the city, looked at a Christmas exhibit, and had a lovely day. We then headed to state two for a wedding and a visit with friends. On December 30, Maya took her first real steps. Then a few hours later started puking again. I was at first mildly concerned that she wasn't getting over the first virus. However, the next day Derek and I got sick as well. We decided that we shouldn't get sick at the same time again so that someone can take care of the peanut. Unfortunately the timing also meant, we missed the wedding rehearsal and wedding. I rang in the new year with a nap while Derek and Maya played. I woke up feeling much better at about 12:15.
On January 1, we slept in recovering from the bug and then drove to state three to visit my family. We had our belated Christmas celebration on January 2. Maya was much more interested in unwrapping things this time. Sometime during the festivities she stood up without pulling up on anything. (On a side note, it's nice that she's had many of her major firsts while Derek has been home to see.) I think we brought germs with us to my mom's house. On the 3rd my mom got sick. On the 6th my nieces and nephew got sick. And on the 7th my grandma got sick. Fortunately it was a short lived bug. Unfortunately, since we were all contaminated we got to see but didn't get to snuggle our new cousin that was born on the 3rd.
We left for home on January 7th. The trip was smooth. Our flights were on time, early even. This never happens to me. I was thinking that everything was going too smoothly. Then we went to pick up our luggage. Only three of our four bags made it. (Yes we had four bags. Yes it is a lot. Funny thing is only one had clothes. The other three had presents. We had to buy another bag so that we could haul everything home.) The finally found the bag and said they would deliver it between 1 and 5 on Sunday. We waited and waited. At 5:30 or so, we finally heard from them. They were stuck in traffic. The eventually made it here and fortunately Maya's first Christmas ornaments, that were in the missing bag, survived. The moral of this story might be to not check luggage containing a fire safe box or other suspicious items.
Sunday while we waited for the luggage, we unpacked, bought groceries, and such. Sunday night our fridge started making a horrible noise, worse than usual which is saying something since it has sounded as if it's dying since we moved in. The new noise apparently was in fact indicative of the fridge dying. On Monday, we bought ice and a cooler. Tuesday the fridge seemed to get a second wind. But our landlady was able to get us a fridge that afternoon. I feel like we are turning into those renters. We just had the kitchen and tub facets replaced/repaired. Now it's the garage door and the fridge. Not that any of it has really been our fault. It's just general wear and tear over the years.
Also on Tuesday Derek and I celebrated our 8th anniversary. We put the kid to bed early then bought her a big girl car seat with our Christmas money. I think that means we are getting old or something.
On top of all the sickness, Maya has been working on four teeth on the top for the last month and a half or more. They still haven't cut through. Needless to say we haven't really gotten much sleep lately.
