Maya wants her milk and she wants it NOW!

Maya loves Sadie. Sadie still isn't sure about Maya.

Maya always tries to crawl to Sadie. I took this video earlier tonight:

Cutest teeth I've ever seen...

Maya loves books!

Today I realized that it had been a while since my last blog post. This also made me remember the times that Grandpa Ken would remind me to post an update if it had been a while and it made me a little sad that he is no longer here to do that. So in honor of Ken, and any of you who have been checking for an update, please enjoy the following blog.

Maya loves books, as you may know if you read the title of this blog. Every day I set a big blanket in the living room along with a few of her toys that she got for Christmas. Today I noticed that it was very quiet so I checked to make sure that everything was okay and found her laying on her belly and turning the pages of her new favorite book, Goodnight Gorilla. I had to get some pictures of it because I thought it was so cute. 

I also got some cute pictures of Maya and my mom reading a book while we were visiting her house on Sunday.

When Maya isn't flipping through books she is trying her hardest to start crawling. As most of you know she is so close and it seems like it will be any day now. She tends to get frustrated after a while with no success but it is so much fun to watch. 

Christmas 2010

Due to my complete lack of energy I will only be posting photos. I may or may not post an update later. As you can probably tell, Christmas has taken it out of me yet again.

Maya meets her great-great-grandma.

Hi all! I just wanted to share some photos that were taken yesterday when Maya, my dad, Pat and I visited my dad's grandma (who we call Gam). I have really been wanting to take Maya to meet her great-great grandma and I'm so glad that we finally made it over to see her. She is 94 years old and is doing relatively well although her memory is starting to fade a little bit. Although she didn't like the way that I spelled Maya's name (she thinks it should be Mya), she did tell me a few times that I did a good job and made a beautiful baby. I have to agree with her. 

Aside from seeing Gam, I have always enjoyed going to her house because she still has so many of the things there from when I was a little girl. (She also has a lot of things from when my dad and my grandma were both kids.) When I was young my favorite thing at her house was her 1970's lava lamp. She turned it on for me again today after I told her how much I loved it as a little girl. 

I'm so happy that we got these pictures.

 Maya was so sweet, like usual, and so curious.  

I was watching closely to make sure Maya didn't pinch Gam. Maya loves to grab mouths. 

"You should have named her Verbena." - Gam, whose name is obviously Verbena.

Maya, Me, Gam, my dad. My dad is Gam's first grandchild, my brother is her first great-grandchild, but Maya is probably her 6th  or 7th great-great grandchild (I'm not sure, there may be more than that).