Very Belated Thanksgiving Day Post

We had a nice Thanksgiving and went to G.B's house and then to Dave's aunt and uncle's house.  Maya had fun playing with her cousins!

Santa

I really should do my Thanksgiving post before anything Christmas related, but I just had to get this picture up.

It's been really hard to fit Santa in this year.  Between all of the winter germs, the busy schedule, and well just life we just hadn't gotten there.  Today Maya was with my mom so I figured we'd just stop at the mall on the way home- easy right??!!  Nope, of course Maya was still asleep when I got to my mom's- which is totally fine, but then we got to the mall right after Santa went on break.  Maya was in good spirits and seemed bummed that she didn't see Santa and I was bound and determined to get this done!  So we went to the food court and ate junk, well I ate junk and Maya mostly played with her milk cup.  Then we left early to go wait in line because it was brought to our attention that I picked of all nights, the last pet night.  So the line would go like this- 3 pets, 1 kid, 3 pets, 1 kid... so we waited in line for over 90 minutes sans stroller with a fidgety Maya who wanted to get all of those fun dogs that were around.

Then as we approached bedtime, and were beginning to lose patience anyway, I sat her on the big guy's lap and this was the result:

Who am I kidding, Maya's end result would have been this anyway.  Remember last year?

Happy Early Thanksgiving

Maya's Daycare

I mentioned long ago that I'd blur some of the kids' faces and post some pictures of Maya at daycare.  Her daycare sends us a TON of pictures each month and I love getting them.   I hope you enjoy them too.

Maya's teachers like to dress her up.  A princess above and the cutest giraffe I've ever seen below!

"Woah, we watched trees come down in the yard to open up our play area."

"Let me check the oil."

"Hmm... these cotton balls have a soft texture."

"I love snack time!"

The preschool group made this house for a Western Theme.  They donated it to the toddlers and they LOVED it!  They even added fabric scraps to play "peek a boo" with them!

Another picture from the Western week.  The preschoolers all made something out of cardboard boxes.  This little girl made a salon and pretended to cut Maya's hair.  I can only hope she'll sit so still for her first haircut!  I love that the 2 age groups interact!

"We're all ready, what's next?"

Proud Momma

From her daycare's newsletter:


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Happy Halloween

"Look- it' ELMO on my shirt.  Thanks Mimi & Granddad!"

I'm officially the worst blogger ever.  I never have time to blog anymore!  I have lots of updates but tonight we'll just do Halloween. I just imported over 100 photos from my camera and was thinking "Oh yea, we did this... and that, oh that was fun, I forgot we even took pictures of that!"  I'm still finding a balance... but conferences and report cards are coming up, so don't waste any time waiting around for a blog update.  It might take another month and a half!!

Maya was an elephant for Halloween this year.  She was supposed to be a cow to look like her beloved "Moo Baby" cow cabbage patch doll, but the cow costume I found at a children's sale was mislabeled and was very small.  A trip to Macy's YESTERDAY led me to the elephant costume- thankfully it was only $4.97- amazing huh!  She looked super cute!

"I'll just help myself to this candy right here- then I don't even need to go trick-or-treating."

"Chocolate- yummy, I got some!"

"Hehehe, I'm covered in chocolate and hyper!"

"Maybe this jack-o-lantern wants some chocolate too, it makes you go CrAzY!"

Maya went trick-or-treating at daycare too.  They went to a neighbor's house.  I can't wait to see the pictures of all of her little friends dressed up.  From what I hear they were all animals so I'm sure it was a zoo today!

On a more serious note- we survived the hurricane without any damage and kept our electricity the whole time.  We're very blessed. Others, especially those in NJ & NY, were not as fortunate.  We're keeping them in our thoughts and prayers.  We have been relieved to hear that some of the shore houses we love so dearly survived the storm without any damage!

Happy Halloween!

Long Overdue Blog Update

Wow, I haven't updated the blog in over a month!!  Sorry!  Life has been... busy.  Very busy.  Adjusting to life as a working mom after living in a fantasy world for 16 months has been quite the adjustment.  We're finally starting to settle into a routine.  My house isn't as clean as I'd like it to be, laundry isn't done as frequently, and there's always a large pile of ironing to be done (oh wait- the ironing situation was always like that) but those things don't really matter anyway- right?

Maya sadly had a tough time adjusting to daycare- many hours of crying, not eating at daycare, waiting at the door for "mamma" to return.  Asking to go "night, night" in her pack n play because she saw it as her safe zone.  Fortunately, she now seems adjusted and is starting to show her true personality and is acting silly for them.  She's eating up a storm and dancing for them!  She has new friends and walks around saying "Hi ____" to them!

Here are her official "back to school" pictures.  This was before she was well adjusted to daycare...

                              

                                         "Uh oh- you're leaving me here again aren't you!?"
                              

Her teachers have been beyond accommodating- allowing her to take more than 1 nap if she asks for one,  dropping whatever their doing when she enters to help her transition into the room, giving her lots of one on one time, making any food modifications or adjustments that I request, and just being patient.  It's really an amazing little home based daycare.  She's still super clingy to me at night and on the weekends, and seems to worry that we'll leave her most places we go, but that too shall pass I'm sure.  We think daycare is actually bringing her out of her shell a bit more which is very fun to see as she's a super sweet and fun little girl!  They e-mail pictures out every month and the ones from August are amazing.  Once I edit out the other children's faces, I'll post them!

Onto another topic- last month we went to Longwood Garden's with my mom and my neice and nephew.  We had a blast.  Here are some pics!

"Bird, bird, bird"