sentences

Maya is now talking in sentences and its so fun to hear (ok- they are short sentences- but three or sometimes four words together). I'm just amazed at the language & social development happening right now. She talks about her friends often, she has a great memory for details, and is expressing herself really well. We've been frequenting the park - as usual, have made some recent trips to the zoo and it seems like we are in the birthday party cycle. She loves the jumpy house and has been in one the last 3 weekends in a row!

Maya and her pal Elise (holding hands) at the park:



JD and Maya Rose ("Daddy soccer"):

harmonica

Maya had fun learning this while Oma and Papa were here...

fun, busy week!

Sarah has been in town and I've been lucky enough to spend a bunch of time with her this week. Maya and I went up the coast to Jenner for a day to hang out with Sarah, her parents and fun little Parker. It makes my soul happy to see Maya and Parker together and they had a blast running naked out in nature for a day filled with snacks, art projects and a kiddie pool. I also lucked out with an evening with the college gals and then a full day with just me and Sarah on Thursday (thank goodness for girl time!)

Oma and Papa came into town this week, too, since its Romi's 2nd birthday. We spent the day playing and singing to cutie Romi. It was a fun family day and its been a full, busy but great week.

Maya's language continues to be such fun development. She is really into saying "Oh yeah" and is starting to sing along with songs in the car. She specifically asked for "More Donna (Madonna) and More Usher" the other day and she is so into an English/Hebrew CD we have and often asks for "Song Hebrew." She's funny and spunky and growing like a weed!

Maya and Parker- art project (Maya's 1st pigtails this week):

Maya and Uncle Matt ("Uncle Mack")

Birthday Girl Romi:


Maya practicing her last name:

recent photos

Maya and her pal Elise ("Ees") having snack at the zoo


Cheers Auntie Leah (Happy Bday!)


Happy #99 Grandma!


Daddy's Girl

time off

Thank goodness I work for a Jewish Organization. Not only is Labor Day this Monday, but Rosh Hashanah hits mid week. This means that I am taking 2 days of vacation and score 5 days off! The new school year just started at the preschool and thus, my work load has about quadrupled. I put in over 80 hours this pay period and I'm tired! Working over full time and getting to Maya and having the afternoons with her has been more than exhausting. Needless to say, I am ready for a week of down-time. I'll be getting up at a more reasonable Mommy-hour (about 7 thank goodness) We'll be hitting the zoo, seeing friends and also heading to OC to visit TlovesT and my Grandma who turns 99 this month!

Every day Maya is saying new words and we find ourselves thinking things like "When did you learn the word 'feather'?" My new favorite Maya phrase though is "Oh Boy!"- said in moments of excitement but also times when she has a big task at hand (lifting all the blocks or something of the sort). And appropriately, she told us in the car yesterday that it was foggy and said "Hi fog" a ton on the way to the zoo!

Here are a couple recent pics. Our little girl is rounding the corner here on 20 months- that's ALMOST 2!

Here she is trying out her friend Samantha's bike:
You can see Monkey and her other monkey she calls "Haircut" here:

some pics

Its hard to get a picture of Maya at the Little Gym but here she is this past week on the low beam:
Not a fab photo- but me with tired Maya and Niece/Cousin Romi

Rock & Roll Romi

19 months (today!)

In these last couple weeks, Maya's language is just so fun to hear - Its a little word explosion. She is repeating almost everything now and is putting multiple words together- SO fun! "Mo airpo" (more airport) "dow peas" (down please) "elp sit" (help sit). She is still adding more signs, too- this weeks favorite of mine is the sign for 'snail'. She is really into Elmo (no surprise), the "ouwweee" she has on her knee and playing with Josh's coaching cones. She's also really into drawing and often says "wow" after looking at her picture, jumping and playing with the magnetic letters on the fridge.

Here is a happy picture from our time this evening at the park (I could barely pull her away from spinning on that thing!) :