Hanukkah!

Maya is saying some cute things lately; she often tells us "today my name is Julia," and she told us today that one of Josh's dance moves looked like a turkey. She ran into the office at school last week and yelled out "Look at my pumped up kicks" while showing my coworkers her sneakers.
She often mentions her many brothers and sisters that she has and how old they are (mostly 4 and 5) and she even mentioned that they lived "really far away in Seattle" not long ago.
She is definitely picking out her outfits each day, she is learning new games on her Leapster2 that she got for Hanukkah and is excited about lighting the menorah each night and practicing the blessings. She's about to be 3 and is excited! Fun stuff. XX

Happy Birds visited her school this last week- her hand shot up to volunteer:

Maya and Elise at the zoo (they look so serious but they were having, as always, lots of fun)

She is into playing tic tac toe these days

Maya and I went to the zoo 12/25 in the morning and were the 1st ones in. We had a great morning:

Munchkin and the blessing:

12.3..11

There is a lot of growing up happening here. We are turning the corner on birthday #3 and Miss Maya Rose is certainly seeming older.

Maya did really well at her first trip to the dentist, she is wearing underpants and is very into her sticker pages in the bathroom for doing such a great job, she had her 1st little class performance at school where they sang about 3 songs and we had lunch together and she is asking "WHY?" all the time. Her favorite game right now is hide and seek and my best little giggle from this last week:

- We've been saying things like "see ya later alligator" or "see ya soon baboon." Another one we recently learned is "chop chop lollipop" which of course is a big hit.
We were saying goodbye to Josh the other day and Maya said "chop chop sucker"

Here is one of the pics from her school photos taken in Nov...