Maya is growing so fast, right now she is passed out across my lap, and I know I should go and put her in her bed, but oh how I love feeling her little weight, listening to her little breaths, and watching her sleep so sweetly... I often wonder exactly how many more times I'll be able to do this before she's just too big.
We have still been very busy with working on the dome. Jimmy is trying to do a bit of finish work on the inside, but when the weather actually is nice outside (it's snowing as I type this) we all want to be outside, so we've planted a little lawn out where the "mud pit" used to be, and next is a fence around three acres to keep the dogs in and the cougars out. Things are getting fixed, very slowly but surely.
Maya has started to sleep through the night once we night weened, and we are day weening as we speak. She's also often only taking one long nap a day, allowing Mommy to get some thing done, such as update this blog. She's also getting to be fairly potty trained, telling us when she has to go pee and poo. This can be a bit challenging when out and about dealing with public bathrooms with freak mommy out, and the car potty only works when it's not pouring down rain, and when the car isn't parked too far away. Either way, we see the end of diapers and that's awesome!
She's also totally into her babies. Sometimes we have to take the babies everywhere dragging them to the store, to Omi's house, in the bath, to the potty, to the park.. you name it. Sometime she wakes up saying "baby, baby, baby", or walks into the house and yells "BABY" and runs around yelling then until she finds one. She puts them to bed with blankets, feed them dinner and snacks, shows them how to color, cleans them and drys them off, kisses and hugs them, tells them to "SHHHH", pats their backs, and takes their clothes off over and over and over again, then says "uh oh mama"... this is my cue to put all the clothes back on.
Coloring is also a new big thing in the house. Maya LOVES her crayons and coloring books, and we seem to be going through them very fast. Her favorite is Sesame Street, and she knows to color Elmo red, Big Bird yellow, and Cookie monster blue.
She's been spending alot of time outside these days getting filthy in the dirt, digging, watering the "baby lettuce" and picking herbs for the dinner salad. She comes in at the end of the day with dirt in every possible crevice, and bright red cheeks.
We started swimming lessons on Monday, and she LOVES it. She loves all the baby, and thanks to Daddy's lessons, she can already blow bubbles, kick on her tummy and back, and can jump in from the side of the pool. Maya cried at the end of the lesson when it was time to get out. She looks absolutely adorable in her tiny little bathing suit.
She's slowly starting to talk more, and connecting a few works here and there with encouragement, like "Up Please" and "Here Doggy" "Night night baby" "Bye bye Daddy" "Maya's Chair" and other little things like that.
She's very into hiding, and there's alittle space between the stove and sink in the kitchen that is just big enough for Maya and the other day I heard her calling me and ran around looking for her to find her giggling in her hiding spot.
More to come soon, but I'm going to enjoy this little snoozing person passed out on me. xoxox
