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...

Tootsie Pop

Maya chose to be a kitty cat for Halloween and its been very fun to see her in her costume for a week + (she loves that thing). We went to a Halloween party at Washington park on Sat and "paraded" down Burlingame Ave with lots of families. We also did a little trick-or-treating on Monday. She ate one piece of candy and loved every lick- the girl was into her Tootsie Pop (that is the one piece she chose!)

Maya seems to be going through a fun social growth spurt. She wants more independence at the park when we are there- running alone to most of the kids introducing herself and checking back in with me once in a while to report their names. I even caught a moment of her introducing two kids to each other at a friends house ( "Ethan, this is Gigi") It's so fun watching her grow.

Maya & Elise at the park


Love this picture of Maya that Sandy took recently

Jaron is here!

Jaron Wesley Green was born on 10/9. He was so ready to come join his big sister Romi and his Mom & Dad that he ended up being born at home! Everyone is healthy and happy (and tired) but hanging in. Here is a shot of Maya and her new little cousin:

It's Oct!

We made it to Tahoe for a few days to hang with the Heitman clan (thanks guys!)


We also got to celebrate Romi's 3rd birthday ( Maya's first go at a pinata!)


Maya is often found these days tapping around house (inspired by the Fresh Beat Band, of course) and that piano is one of her favorite toys right now


We are ready to welcome new baby Green any day now.....

1st week of preschool

We had a New Family Breakfast an Open House Day (parents and kids in the classroom) and then Maya's 1st official day of preschool at the PJCC this week. She did great! They got to a little outside play, movement, circle time, Shabbat and they even got to make challah. It was great to be working close by. I didnt peek in but the teachers would come by and let me know updates. The whole class did a good job and really had fun. Josh and I took her for ice cream as a treat that day too. We can hardly believe she's getting so big. Our hearts are proud, happy and full.

new baby boy friends

Seems like we have a lot of new baby boy friends this year. Almost everyone I know who's had a child in the last months- or will in the coming months, is having a boy (although Matt & Heather dont know the gender of their soon-arrival....if they are along with the trend- my bet is boy!) I've recently been able to visit a couple of them.

Here I am with little Taj (just 1 day old!)

And this past week Sarah and I met up to go visit little Wyatt in Eugene, OR (thanks for all the help everyone with Maya while I was gone!)

Maya is talking about starting school soon (this next week!) and we've been trying to play with a couple kids who will be in her class- hopefully they will be a nice familiar faces for those first days. I'm pretty sure she's gonna love it- just hard to believe she's starting preschool (3 days/wk) Here she is playing at (new friend) Evan's house - with (new pal) Olivia. She loves the trampoline they have- as you can imagine (check out her hair! and the skirt she has worn every day for 8 days straight!) :