Merry Christmas

Attempted home invasion

Maya and I were hanging out out the couch a couple of weeks ago and heard something behind us at the window. This video is what we saw when we turned around. Maya was squealing in horror, or amusement, probably the latter.

Catch up

I'm slacking on blogging again as you may have noticed. The days have been short and the nights long. Maya is still working on one to four upper teeth. I never thought that three hours straight of sleep straight would feel so refreshing. I have been trying to get a papers left over from grad school finished up. I've spent more hours than I would like at the dmv the past two weeks. There is a never ending pile of laundry to be done. And we haven't even started Christmas shopping yet. So that's my excuse for not blogging.

Maya is generally a lot of fun these days. She is once again waving and saying hi hi, generally in a whisper. She just started repeating who. It's extra hilarious because she's so proud of herself when she does it. And when she amuses herself she looks up and snorts. This last week she's also started say nana and mama sounds. Before it was always dada. I'm not sure she uses them correctly because she says them all the time but she seems to know who mama and dada are. If you ask she will often look and point. Meal time has been hit or miss since she's been sick and teething. I think she just prefers to feed herself. She easily picks up puffs and cheerios but still refuses to try anything not crunchy. She will sometimes let us feed her purees or other soft things. She will usually let me feed her anything off of my plate with a fork. I bought some little squeezy pouches of carrot apple sauce that she can eat with minimal help. She loves them. She recently started signing all done when she wants out of her high chair. She is getting more steady on her feet. She can stand without holding on but she doesn't feel secure doing it. She does like to hold onto our hands and walk around to kick things.

I realized that I never posted her nine month with her owl stickers so here those are.

Also here is a funny Thanksgiving one that I meant to post. Mostly she just poked it, trying to figure out what it is.

Monday, Maya and I tried to get a photo for Christmas cards, not an easy feat these days. She was not impressed. She refused to smile

I do love her ear curls in this one though

She preferred to make faces like this

or this

Or she refused to look at the camera at all

Right after this photo was taken, one of these ornaments meet an untimely end and that was the end of our pictures for the day.

the end

1st Thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving from our little turkey.

The day didn't go quite as planned with some flooding of our garage, a minor injury, and forgetting to take the diaper bag when we went to a friends. It was nice not to have the stress of travel but we did miss everyone. And I am going to miss the shopping tomorrow as I've done in recent years with my mom and Derek's mom. Overall though today was a pleasant day with good food, family, and friends.

Maya celebrated with turkey, pumpkin, and grean beans and a cute little turkey bib.

9 Months

Maya turned 9 months old today. Crazy, itsn't it. She had her 9 month well baby checkup today also. She's 21 lbs (84rd percentile) and 28.75 inches (87th percentile). Her head is in the 94th percentile. The doctor was impressed with how active and mobile she is and how well she grabs/handles objects. She recommended that we up her solid feedings to three to four times a day rather than just the two we have been doing. But said that her growth looked great. She is also cutting teeth on the top, not showing through but definitely working on them. This along with a cold that started last Monday, have meant a very cranky baby and very little sleep around here. I think it was mostly the cold. All day, she would whine until I'd pick her up then she'd whine to get down, then whine for me to pick her up. At night she was up every hour or 1.5 hours. It was just starting to get better the last couple of days. But then I caught her cold and now Derek. We're hoping that her teething or flu shot doesn't disrupt her sleeping again. I'll blame this combined with a visit from Maya's grandpa and gram the week before on my lack of blogging. To make up for it, here's some pictures

This one is from Saturday

This one is from today

What has Maya been up to since I last wrote. Two weeks ago, Maya started waving and saying hi. She won't really do it recently. She's not as much into clapping, either. Maybe it's just because she hasn't been feeling well. Two Saturdays ago, Maya went to the zoo for the first time. She seemed to like it. She made her happy squeal noises at the animals that moved around. This past Saturday, Maya stood for several seconds without holding on to anything. She's let go a few times in addition to this. She's usually fine until she realizes that she's not holding on and then sits. Sunday, she started fake coughing. It's funny. She's really into eating puffs and cheerios this week and not into purees unless its squash or sweet potatoes. She won't pick up anything and eat it unless it's crunchy. We've tried bits of sweet potatoes and smashed peas without success. I'm wondering if her appetite will pick back up after her cold is completely gone or her teeth break through. She is as always into cups. We went shopping today. We played with several toys and put them back. No tears. We looked at a sippy cup and put it back. Lots of tears.

Happy Halloween

More Milestones

Before I forget, Maya started sitting up from crawling last Friday. Yesterday she started cruising on the furniture a bit. Not too fast or far but she's getting the idea. Sometimes she thinks she can stand without holding on to anything but she promptly falls over. The first few times she had a really shocked look. Today she thought it was a good idea to pull up on the high chair. It, however, was not. She bumped her chin on the chair then crashed her head on the floor. It was a horrible noise. It didn't really seem to bother her much. She stopped crying after a little snuggling. I think I took longer to recover than she did. In some ways, I'll be happy when she is more stable on her feet. But then she'll probably start running around and climbing on things. I'm not ready for that.

On the food front, Maya is making progress. She has been begging for our food the last few days. Last night I gave her a green bean. She took several nibbles without gagging. Today we went to a halloween party at Derek's work and Maya had some pieces of banana. She also had a few sips of an apple juice box. She wasn't sure what to do with it at first. She preferred my water to juice. I think because it was in a familiar container. Tonight was day 1 of prunes. Hoping they will help with any future tummy troubles.