Bath Time!

Who doesn't love bath time?? Elise certainly does and Maya loves helping out. The trouble is, she wants to do too much and doesn't really understand why we can't let her. We do usually find things that she can do, though. Since these were taken, we've started putting Elise's tub into the big bath so that the two girls can have their baths together. Maya likes that even more!

This one's for you, Mum!

I doubt whether anyone else will get this, but I know Mum will ;)

Maya has several small toy bins on the bottom shelf of her bookshelves. They're receptacles for all the little bits and pieces - the finger puppets, plastic animals, card games etc. which would otherwise clutter up the house. She'd been playing with the contents of the bins this morning and they were scattered all over her floor.

I needed to go to the garage to put some laundry in and I asked Maya to put everything back in the bins while I was out there. When I came back in, she was sitting on the floor, picking up her toys one by one, shining a torch onto them and then putting them in the bins.

I asked her what she was doing and she said "I'm making sure my toys are OK before I put them away."

I guess there's more to genetics than you might at first think :D

Is there a hairdresser in the house?

In the spirit of practising for when she goes to school, here's what I came up with...



Oh dear.

What it's like having an older sister to bounce cows on your head...

The expression says it all ;)



More to come!

Nice mail, Mummy!

I opened the front door to get the post from the box.
Maya asked me where I was going...

Me: "Nowhere, sweetheart - I'm just checking the mail."

I grabbed the flyers/junk mail/fodder for the recycle bin and closed the door again.

Maya: "Nice mail, Mummy!"

I didn't respond, as I was flicking through on the off chance that there was something worth reading in there.

Maya: "What do you say, Mummy? What do you say when someone gives you a compliment?"

Tree Hugging!

Today we decided to go on an outing to Big Basin, which is a beautiful National Park full of Redwoods. Last time S and I went there, Maya was but a gleam in the eye. We both remembered a pleasant hike through the forest and up to some amazing views of the Pacific. Well, we didn't make it quite that far this time - Maya's legs are still little, but she's a bit heavy for carrying all the way in 90+ degree heat!

First things first - let's give the trees some love! Maya could hardly wait to finish her lunchtime sandwich so that she could go hug a tree.



The highlight for Maya was definitely finding an area of fallen trees and playing house in the roots and hollow trunks.





I vote that next time we go, we do it in somewhat cooler weather ;)

Burger King is the BEST!

I mentioned to Maya that we might think about convincing S to take us out for dinner. I asked her where she thought she'd like to go.

"Burger King!"
"Really? Is Burger King the best place you can think of to go out for dinner?"
"Yes! They have cheeeeeeeeeeezburgers at Burger King."
"Cheeseburgers, eh?"
"Yes! And fries too! And they have apple juice! Burger King has EVERYTHING!"

Oh me, oh my. And I've tried so hard to instil some sense of refinement...