Rolling Over!

By Friday night, the 26th... we're ALL sick. So we're just laying around and watching new movies. Maia is lying on her back on the ottoman (which she loves to do) and reaching for her toes (which she also loves to do). With her arms toward her toes, she leans to the side, and - quick as a wink! - she's over on her tummy doing push ups! We flip her over onto her back again... and she performs the same feat a few times. I put her on the floor to see if she will repeat this, and she's over it. She just grins at me. So today, we tried it again. It took her a while to get herself going when on a harder, flatter surface... But once she got it, I could hardly get the video up and rolling before she'd roll over.

Maia's First Christmas

Maia came down with a horrible cold during the night, and I was up with her every few hours to suction her out just so she could breathe. We ended up finishing up the wee hours asleep together, tummy to tummy with me sitting up on the love seat with my feet on the ottoman to keep her upright so her nasal passages didn't swell so much. We got up at about 7:30 to open presents. Her adorable Christmas Sweater... which she didn't end up wearing for long. And yes, she's licking the paper here, while showing off her plumber's crack. That's my girl! So here's the great story for this Christmas. Ray was opening this gift: (tell me that's not a perfect onesie for our daughter to have? Notice the KISS font?) Anyway. He had passed Maia back to me, from where she had been sitting on his chest. He looked down at his shirt (then gray) and it was covered by a trail of yellow poo. Oh boy, diaper blow-out! Not only had she gotten daddy's shirt, she got my pants and the back of her sweater too. So we took a break from all the gift opening to change all three of us, and burn through a LOT of wipes! So after we changed, we finally got around to getting this pic. And Ray is on the phone with everyone at Aunt Tara's house. Maia received this beautiful blanket, hand crocheted for her by Aunt Tara After all that unwrapping and pooping and all that other stuf... Maia was plumb tuckered out!

Christmas Eve

I've got LOTS of pics, and a fair amount of updating to do... I'm going to chunk these into days. We are so blessed! Look at all these presents! I think we will change how we do this next year. But in the mean time... she found the wrapping paper fascinating! We spent the afternoon and evening at my parents' house. Andrew made a FANTASTIC prime rib roast and we enjoyed our dinner very much! Maia sat in a high chair for the first time, but she was much too little for it, so we had to boost her up and surround her with towels. She did okay in it for about 20 minutes until she had enough. Maia opened some of her presents on Aunt Kathleen's lap. The paper was tasty! And she was all smiles and giggles while playing with Emily and Lydia