Taking lessons

Today, early in the morning Maya taught me about how she likes her morning milk. First I poured her a little whole milk in her Sippy cup but it was met with a few minutes of dissatisfied chanting of “mommy.” Then, I decided to just ask her what she wanted and she said “more” and pointed at the fridge. So I picked her up and opened the fridge – and she clearly pointed at the carton of chocolate silk. I figured, I might as well play along and took it out. Meanwhile she was sitting on the floor, very happy and while I was opening her Sippy cup she opened the Silk and pointed where she wanted me to pour it ( into the milk). So I felt that I was following precise direction of my not yet 21 month old daughter who knows what she wants and is not shy to ask for it. I wonder where she gets it.

And now we are sitting in the kitchen, she on her step stool and I on mine, enjoying our early morning.

Policy Update

The new policy has been working fairly well. Sometimes Maya wakes up between 10 and midnight and usually one of us will go in and remind her to drink water and she'll go right back to sleep. And sometimes she wakes up between 4 and 6 a.m. and we ignore her, and she cries and eventually gets herself back to sleep. We are getting better at sleeping through that time, too. Then we give her lots of praise for making it through the night. Plus, when we get up at 6 we can have early morning laptop time together, although as you can see she's still too drowsy to write her own blog posts.

 

 

Picture day!

It's picture day at Maya's school, so we put her in this outfit. She didn't seem too mind to much. Here are some of her latest words: Wah-wee = water; adapoo = applejuice; ah-pay = airplaine; adayga = alligator.

 

 

 

This is how we roll

We were talking to Maya about what she might want for breakfast and when I asked her if she wanted some rolls she stretched her arm behind her as if ready to throw an imaginary object forward. It took us a little time but we figured it out - she was bowling!

New Policy

We decided to start taking weekend trips mainly to stop fighting with Maya about her taking a nap. She sleeps well in the car so in a way we are getting the trip for "free" - as in the time would have been waisted anyway. So the idea is to leave on Saturday around nap time and come back Sunday around nap time. I understand that announcing our new strategy to the world is somewhat risky, but I do hope that if anyone was considering breaking into our house they would not read the blog. However, if this entry has made you change your mind and you absolutely have to - the key is in the fake rock to the left of the mailbox ;).

Now it comes down to executing the strategy!

Great big punkins

On the way back from the falls we stopped at a farm and saw, as one man explained "them great big punkins". I can't imagine walking around in squash that's almost as tall as I am. Maya was very brave.

 

 

 

Day o' Georgia

We finally went exploring in the mountains North of Atlanta yesterday and went to Amicalola Falls State Park. First Maya's Dad got some boiled peanuts at one of the many many roadside stands, and Maya's Mom found out that they are not gross if you think of them like peanut-shaped chick peas, and, even better, they are soft enough not to be choking hazards for Maya!
Then we drove to the park lodge, ate a yummy buffet with a fabulous view, saw part of a talk about owls, and started hiking down.