This child cracks me up!

We were getting lunch sorted and Maya started eating some of her little bunny crackers. I said "Hey! Don't start eating them yet, Missy!" and she replied "I was just holding them in my mouth because there wasn't enough room in my hands. I only have two hands."

Yesterday, I was in the middle of making dinner, Maya was sitting at the table drinking some milk through a straw.

Talking to it.

So I ask her why she's talking to a straw.

"Well, you see, some straws have wings and some straws don't. This one is growing its wings so it can be like its Mama."

"Okaaaaaay. But why are you talking to a straw?"

"I'm not talking to a straw. That's silly.

*phew*

"It's talking to me."

She's too clever for her own good :D

What a cutie!

Theme of the week: Bubbles!

Maya and I discovered the wonder of bubbles last week - bubble bombs with baking soda and vinegar (only 1 of the 3 actually exploded but never mind!), bubble art using food colouring in the bubble mixture and, of course, lots and lots of bubble blowing! We tried different mixtures and blowers and found that the very best bubbles come from a mix of 3 parts Johnson's baby shampoo to 1 part water with a bit of glycerin thrown in for good measure, blown through a paper cone. The bubbles were so strong that Maya could even catch and hold them, and they were absolutely huge!

Took Maya to the movies

Maya and I went to the movies today! We had originally thought of going to see "Where the Wild Things Are", but after A and I read the reviews, we realized it wasn't really appropriate for Maya yet. So we decided to go to "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs".

It went really well, although Maya did fall out in the parking lot and scrape her knee a little. We had popcorn and she was a good little girl, sharing her popcorn with me, whispering in hushed tones to not disturb others and in general being overall adorable. So much so that at some point during the movie, the lady next to her offered her some chocolate and whispered to me "I've never seen a little girl so well behaved" :) Maya does me proud, if I may say so myself.

At the end of the movie, Maya said to me "These were different wild things, daddy". Ooops. I guess we forgot to update her that we were going to a dfferent movie!

Slightly later than promised

But here nonetheless!

Games...

Maya was shaking the bars on Elise's baby gym and I asked her what she was doing (why do parents always ask questions to which they know the answer, anyway?).

"I'm playing a game"
"Oh, what's the game called?"
"It's called 'Pin The Tail'"
"It's not called 'Annoy Elise As Much As You Can", then?"
"No; that's a different game, but I have that one too. Maybe I'll play it tomorrow."

Theme of the week: Transport!

Quite a timely choice for our TOTW, being as how we bought a new car today!! Pictures of that to come tomorrow (hopefully...). We had a lot of fun this week - I hope that comes across in the pictures :)





Maya and Elise also loved opening their parcel :D

Welcome to a new feature!

I thought it would be nice to post a weekly 'round-up' of all the things we've enjoyed doing during the week. Nothing special, just a peek into our daily activities :)

This week: pressed flower pictures, jelly bean sorting and counting (and eating!) and sunflower seed harvesting...

I swear I didn't teach her this!

But still, never a truer word was spoken...

Conversation overhead while Maya was playing with a toy carriage and some small toy dogs.
"This is the Mummy doggie and she's going to drive because the Daddy doggie doesn't drive properly, so Mummy doggie needs to drive the car so it drives properly."

Ah, the wisdom of youth!