Leo the Mover

He's really trying to figure out the crawling forward thing! He's almost there!







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Maya's Collarbone 0: kitchen chair/floor 1

Broken clavicle :(. This occurred immediately following me insisting that she eat at least one pea before getting up to watch Doc McStuffins. I may never ask her to eat a vegetable again...

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Leo's First Experience Eating Solids

He ended up grabbing the spoon and trying to feed himself!


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Leo the Rolling Machine

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Dave's Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Dave's birthday. To jumpstart the weekend I ventured into Philadelphia with the kids to take Dave out to lunch!










Maya liked these mannequins at the Comcast Center.

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Halloween 2013

Happy Halloween!

This year we were a superhero family!  Maya was Batgirl.  Leo was Superman.  Dave was Batman and I was Wonder Woman.  We had fun trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood and were pleasantly surprised to find out there are more young kids around than we realized.  Maya seemed to have fun, except for when she declared that she wanted to stop trick-or-treating mid neighborhood because she wanted to go home and eat her candy!

You can see last year's Halloween pictures here and Maya's first Halloween pictures here.

Maya is 2 and a half!

The terrible twos really haven't been terrible.  Dave and I are both loving Maya's age.  She's such a little person now.  She's funny, inquisitive and sweet.  She's a fabulous big sister and acts like a little mommy.  She loves to bring Leo his toys and pacifier when he's upset.  She tells him to not cry and to not worry and that "Mommy and Daddy will take care of him."  She asks to hug and hold him all of the time!  She also enjoys helping with his bath time!

Recently at a restaurant the waitress brought her a pancake with a smiley face on it.  I looked at it and said "Look, your pancake is happy!" and Maya said "I want everyone to be happy!" Our waitress seriously had tears in her eyes.  

She loves to ask questions and recently asked me what was sweet.  I started naming sweet foods and then she said, "And Maya, I'M sweet!"   :)

Maya was a trooper at her doctor's appointment.  She got her flu shot without even batting an eye during a sick appointment for Leo.  Then at her check up she asked for a shot.  Her pediatrician said that was a first!  

Right now she loves to play with her Doctor kit, her baby dolls, her dollhouse, and play instruments.  She loves going to her KinderMusik class and makes me so proud as she's such a good little listener there!  She also enjoys attending story time at the local library!

She seems to have a great visual memory and really takes our conversations to heart.  She even knows almost all of her letters now and can tell you things that begin with most letters and can count to 30!  She's also almost fully potty trained!!!