Its official...

We are mobile.  You can not imagine how happy she is with her new found freedom.  Plus, she seems to have fully recovered from the ear infections and pneumonia and is in the best mood she has been in for a week and a half.  Today is a great day for Maya!

6 Months!!

Hard to believe our baby is growing up so quickly. She's 13lbs 10oz (10%).  The last two weeks have been very eventful for Maya, both good and bad.

The good:

- She started to get herself on her hands and knees, which quickly led to her own version of the army crawl. I think she looks like a little frog when she is moving around the room as she uses both her arms and legs to propel herself forward. She is definitely on the move, imagine my surprise to all of a sudden hear our Charlie Brown Christmas CD come on as I was in the kitchen grabbing a glass of water! She made her way over to the stereo and pushed just the right combination of buttons to make it happen.

- She just figured out how to get herself from her belly to a sitting position. She is so proud of herself when she does it, she sits up tall and starts clapping. This is all she wants to do right now and can entertain herself for a very long time by getting herself up and down. Who needs toys?!?!

- She has developed quite the vocabulary with a whole lot of 'lalalalala' and 'dadadada' and if she has her fingers in her mouth she manages a 'guyguyguy'. It is very fun to have conversations with her as she discovers all the new sounds and noises she can make.

The bad:

- She developed a cough on her six month birthday, which progressed to 104 degree fever the next day, which developed into a double ear infection and pneumonia in her left lung the next day. She's finally starting to do better, but was a miserable little girl for a few days. We spent a lot of time curled up on the couch and spoiling her. She is VERY tired of her mommy and daddy suctioning her nose and constantly giving her some sort of medicine. And was VERY mad at the pediatrician for poking and prodding to figure out what was wrong.

- Due to all of the items above (both good and bad), sleep has been rough. We are a very tired family these days.

For Dylan and Logan:

Thank you for my Elmo shirt, I am finally big enough to wear it!

Love, Baby Maya

Halloween Fun

Just a few pictures of Maya's first Halloween.

She actually liked the costume, we just didn't capture the smiles on camera.

5 Months!!!

Maya turned 5 months last Wednesday, which for some reason seems SO much older than 4 months.  I think she's about 13 lbs now.   She can hold herself up in the sitting position for quite a long time these days and is becoming very mobile.  Not yet crawling (I am not ready for that yet!), but can scoot around and rotate herself to get whatever toy she is after.  We can tell she recognizes Mom and Dad and she gets very excited when she sees us.  She even reached over to give me a hug tonight, which just melted my heart.

We have been so lucky to have been blessed with a good sleeper.  She rarely cries when she wakes up and instead plays and talks to herself until we get her.  Rey and I battle over who gets to be the one to get her out of her crib because we are always met with a huge smile... something like this (although usually even bigger, I just couldn't capture it on camera).

Pumpkins

We took a trip to the pumpkin patch last weekend with the Knowles clan.  Here are a few pictures of the trip.

As soon as we tried for a picture with both babies, this is what they gave us.  Apparently they were done!

We did manage a few at home though.

Poor Maya :-)

Firsts

The last couple weeks have brought about a lot of firsts in Maya's life.

First time in a swing (she LOVED it!)

You can't tell from the picture, but this was her first time in a school bus (we took a shuttle to Issaquah Salmon Days)

First time really sitting on her own, she is getting very strong.

First time facing front in the Bjorn (she also LOVED this!)

And some firsts that we don't have pictures of...

- She spent her first full week at daycare last week (well, 4 days).  I'm now working a couple days a week and she sure was a trooper. 

- Being at daycare has brought all sorts of germs so we've had our first runny nose and stomach virus.  I just keep telling myself this is helping her build up her immunities early!

- She had her first bedtime with someone other than mom or dad and did great.  Grandma babysat while Rey and I enjoyed a night out to see Wicked.

Playtime sure is exhausting!