Shes been working on it for about a week using this cool toy bar from greatmama, I think its safe to say shes mastered it!!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
north carolina and more!
well, our trip to north carolina was tremendous fun. maya was an all-star on the plane, and so many people said how good she was. i was really glad that we flew while alex and daddy drove, i don't know how maya would've done in the car for that long!! daddy and alex drove and did great also, they got to stop at a cool hotel on the way down.
maya loved meeting her great-mama for the first time!
She got a lot of attention from a lot of people we met at carolina meadows... I think big brother was feeling a little left out!! But, we got to do so many fun things. we got to go back to the Marble's children's museum, which we also did last year. alex had a blast! alex loved playing vet. alex stayed in this section for a long time! he gave animals shots, and helped them, and even checked out some x-rays!
i think alex's favorite part was in the construction area. there were REAL tools there, even a real saw. daddy and alex worked really hard. alex said he wanted to make a house... and they really did make a house!!
Of course we did a little bit of burying in the sand of daddy. He said that he felt like he was having a mud bath!
We were so lucky that our friend Lisa was able to come visit with us for the day on Saturday. She helped maya experience her very first sand trip ever!
maya loved meeting her great-mama for the first time!
We loved having dinner with great-mama and great-daddy in the dining room every night.
We also found a really fun beach to go to. It was gorgeous! Alex worked intently on a sand castle for a really long time. We were a little unprepared, but luckily we were able to borrow some buckets!
It was a bit of a whirlwind, but such a fun trip!
I also wanted to mention that we went out for dinner last night, and had the funniest conversation with alex. Alex was eating a cherry, which he learned he liked at great-mama's. He was talking about how the inside of the cherry had special powers, and was asking daddy and I if we could guess the password for the inside of the cherry.
Daddy asked for hints a few times ("Is it an animal? A person? A name?") all of which, the answer was "No!". Finally Daddy said, "Do YOU know what the password is?" and Alex said, "NO, that's why you need to GUESS!"... then he realized that didn't make any sense and we all cracked up hysterical laughing!
It's been a busy, but wonderful summer. On 9/6 Alex starts kindergarten, and we start a whole new adventure.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
getting ready for a big family trip!
Tomorrow, Daddy and Alex are taking off by car towards North Carolina. They'll stop once, in Petersburg VA, and then finish the trip Thursday morning. After the drama that Miss Maya had in the car on the way to Massachusetts, we've decided it's better if Maya and Mommy fly - so we leave bright and early on Thursday morning, at 6 am, and our flight gets to NC at 9:30.
We are so excited to see great-grandmama and great-granddaddy (or, in Alex's words, Great-mommy and Great-daddy). He remembers them fondly from our trip last year, and he even remembers "I couldn't touch in the pool in the hotel." (He doesn't think he'll be able to touch this year either, but I think he will! He's a good deal taller!).
I am excited to see the grandparents! Last year we went to a great children's museum called Marble's in Raleigh and we hope to do that again!
Maya is chatting up a storm next to me as I type, so I turned the camera on her and she went to town!! It's kind of dark, but it's a good one.
Alex came to a meeting at church with me the other day and drew this picture while the grown-ups were talking. I asked him why the boy was sad and he said that he's inside of a whale. Yeah, I'd be sad too! The stuff around him is the inside of the whale, the little circles are the fish inside the whale, and the best part, is that little circle with the line, to the left of the sad person? That's the whale's "hangy ball!"
We are so excited to see great-grandmama and great-granddaddy (or, in Alex's words, Great-mommy and Great-daddy). He remembers them fondly from our trip last year, and he even remembers "I couldn't touch in the pool in the hotel." (He doesn't think he'll be able to touch this year either, but I think he will! He's a good deal taller!).
I am excited to see the grandparents! Last year we went to a great children's museum called Marble's in Raleigh and we hope to do that again!
Maya is chatting up a storm next to me as I type, so I turned the camera on her and she went to town!! It's kind of dark, but it's a good one.
Alex came to a meeting at church with me the other day and drew this picture while the grown-ups were talking. I asked him why the boy was sad and he said that he's inside of a whale. Yeah, I'd be sad too! The stuff around him is the inside of the whale, the little circles are the fish inside the whale, and the best part, is that little circle with the line, to the left of the sad person? That's the whale's "hangy ball!"
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| Alex's Whale Picture |
Here's another recent good one of Maya girl:
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| Maya at the park, August 2011 |
Well, I have a lot to do to get ready for our trip! I'm sure we'll have a lot of pictures to share when we get back!
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Where IS the other sock?
After several years of using Livejournal.com to try my hand at blogging, I've realized that I've failed miserably. LJ was the blog of choice when I was in college, but compared to other blogging sites out there, is not nearly as user friendly as some of the others. So, I've decided that it's time to let my LiveJournal blog come to a close; although, I will permanently link it so that I never lose the memories.
I am hoping that with a fresh start to a new blog, I can try to write more often. Facebook, now that everyone, even the grandparents and great-grandparents, are on it, is a fast, easy way to share a quote, memory, or picture. However, the posts are lost into cyberspace as quickly as they were posted there; and it's not the same as having a blog to look back on.
Maya was just born, so switching formats seems perfect right now; the Live Journal can be dedicated to five wonderful years where Alex was my only child, as that was written as a narrative to him. I now have two kids and need to attempt to capture the memories of both within the blog!
Maya has fit right into our family like she's been here all along. Alex is incredibly protective of her (a friend giggled at a face she was making today, and Alex said firmly, "Don't laugh at her, babies just make funny faces."). She has been smiling a lot, rolled over at her two month well visit last week, and giggled at dinner the other night (at which I shouted, "SHE LAUGHED!" and promptly scared her, so she is sure to never do it again).
Watching her "firsts" happen is of course exhilarating, but it's definitely different the second time around; with a first child you want all the firsts to keep coming, I think. With the second, I'm more apt to want it to slow down.
Alex and I just finished reading Stuart Little last night. I didn't really remember the storyline other than that it involved a mouse, so we really experienced the book together. Well, about a quarter through the book, Stuart befriends a bird named Margalo and he absolutely adores her. She is living with the Little's, until she hears that a cat has planned her attack and she flies the coop. The rest of the book is largely about Stuart's journey to look for her, and Alex and I wondered aloud several times if he would find her. We would finish a chapter and muse, "I wonder if Stuart will find Margalo."
Well, at the end of the book, Stuart asks a man sitting by the side of the road which way he should travel, and they decide that the best course is for him to go North. The book then abruptly ends with the notion that he was going to travel North and that he felt confident he was "going in the right direction."
Well, the lack of resolution did not sit well with Alex at all; in fact it brought him to tears. He had become so emotionally involved with the characters, which, at 5 and a half is a bit of a marvel (this is exactly what I'm studying as I'm obtaining my masters degree at Kutztown). He could not accept that there is not a "Stuart Little 2" (There's a "Little Mermaid 2" and "The Land Before Time 290129," after all). He cried and mourned the end of the book for about 10 minutes until I suggested that we write our own ending.
So, that is what we did today. The words are Alex's, as is the illustration. It is below.
Seems like a perfect first entry, so I'll leave it at that. And, so as it is not forgotten, here is the link to the LiveJournal blog, which will always have been my first:
http://littleone2005.livejournal.com/
I am hoping that with a fresh start to a new blog, I can try to write more often. Facebook, now that everyone, even the grandparents and great-grandparents, are on it, is a fast, easy way to share a quote, memory, or picture. However, the posts are lost into cyberspace as quickly as they were posted there; and it's not the same as having a blog to look back on.
Maya was just born, so switching formats seems perfect right now; the Live Journal can be dedicated to five wonderful years where Alex was my only child, as that was written as a narrative to him. I now have two kids and need to attempt to capture the memories of both within the blog!
Maya has fit right into our family like she's been here all along. Alex is incredibly protective of her (a friend giggled at a face she was making today, and Alex said firmly, "Don't laugh at her, babies just make funny faces."). She has been smiling a lot, rolled over at her two month well visit last week, and giggled at dinner the other night (at which I shouted, "SHE LAUGHED!" and promptly scared her, so she is sure to never do it again).
Watching her "firsts" happen is of course exhilarating, but it's definitely different the second time around; with a first child you want all the firsts to keep coming, I think. With the second, I'm more apt to want it to slow down.
Alex and I just finished reading Stuart Little last night. I didn't really remember the storyline other than that it involved a mouse, so we really experienced the book together. Well, about a quarter through the book, Stuart befriends a bird named Margalo and he absolutely adores her. She is living with the Little's, until she hears that a cat has planned her attack and she flies the coop. The rest of the book is largely about Stuart's journey to look for her, and Alex and I wondered aloud several times if he would find her. We would finish a chapter and muse, "I wonder if Stuart will find Margalo."
Well, at the end of the book, Stuart asks a man sitting by the side of the road which way he should travel, and they decide that the best course is for him to go North. The book then abruptly ends with the notion that he was going to travel North and that he felt confident he was "going in the right direction."
Well, the lack of resolution did not sit well with Alex at all; in fact it brought him to tears. He had become so emotionally involved with the characters, which, at 5 and a half is a bit of a marvel (this is exactly what I'm studying as I'm obtaining my masters degree at Kutztown). He could not accept that there is not a "Stuart Little 2" (There's a "Little Mermaid 2" and "The Land Before Time 290129," after all). He cried and mourned the end of the book for about 10 minutes until I suggested that we write our own ending.
So, that is what we did today. The words are Alex's, as is the illustration. It is below.
Seems like a perfect first entry, so I'll leave it at that. And, so as it is not forgotten, here is the link to the LiveJournal blog, which will always have been my first:
http://littleone2005.livejournal.com/
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