Maya the technophile

Maya likes to send instant messages to Daddy at work.





"OMG UR2silly, Daddy!"

Summer daze

Maya went swimming with her friend Alice in the kiddie pool today and gave us a great excuse to catch up on picture taking.

dinner of champions

We could tell Maya had been practicing. She ate her first serving of rice cereal like a champ.

chomping

We decided to start Maya on "solid" food (rice mush). We think she saw it coming, though, because she started doing this, a few hours before mealtime.

sitting with style

In addition to babbling in two syllables, Maya can sit on her own now, for a few minutes at a time before slowly toppling over. She is also showing interest in being mobile but only for really important things like the laptop, her favorite book and (sadly) the remote control.

While she is most often still astonished, she has added 'perplexed' to her facial expression repertoire, seen above, with a variation seen below.

First egg caught on film

To respond to the popular demand voiced by a miriad of tiny people inside our heads we decided to post the video of the bluebird laying the first egg. For those of you who don't have four and a half minutes and way too much ADHD to even last a minute here is a quick synopsis:
Chapter 1 - sitting.
Chapter 2 - being fed by a spouse.
Chapter 3 - heaving.
Chapter 4 - pushing.
Chapter 5 - is it out yet?
Chapter 6 - egg bowling.
Chapter 7 - sitting.

faces

Maya loves faces. She loves her Mirror Me! book that has a cartoon animal on one page making a face, and a mirror on the facing page. She looks at the baby in the mirror, and smiles, and then I tilt the book so she can see a Mama in the mirror, and she smiles.

But as much as Maya loves faces, she has been pretty much concentrating her own face into one main look-- astonished. Sometimes she deviates from astonished to practice happy, and occasionally, upset. But mostly she's astonished. Recently our friends came to visit and practiced some of these facial expressions with Maya.