meow meow needs a time out!

Since she was a baby, we have know that Maya is a sleep talker. I hear her at night (through the wall) say all sorts of stuff and never fully wake up. My mom told me that last time Maya stayed the night with her, she was asking for juice in the middle of the night so my mom rolled over to grab her cup only to turn over and find out Maya was fast asleep. I even heard her demanding someone 'share' in her sleep! Tonight Maya was calling 'Mommy, Mommy' about 20 minutes after I put her in bed, so I went up to see what was going on. She was half sitting up and tells me some gibberish I can't make out. Then she told me "There's trouble in my bed." I tried not to laugh and asked "what?" She then told me "meow meow was in trouble on my bed and needs time out." I couldn't help but laugh a little as I snuggled her back in. She was pretty much asleep by the time I shut her door again. It's totally obvious, however, that we have had some behavior issues around here lately with her half asleep reference to time out. She forgets nothing. I told her tonight as I was tucking her in that we will be making pancakes (her favorite) for breakfast in the morning. I would put money on the fact that it will absolutely be the first thing she says when I go to get her out of bed in the morning.

I Take Lots of Pictures

Today was spent trying to entertain Maya on her 3rd day confined to the house with a cold. She's feeling much better but her cough and runny nose are rather unappealing. Tonight I pulled out an old camera and she had a blast running around taking pictures and saying "I takes lots of pictures!" She even took a funny video of Cally BUT it's mostly upside down and I didn't want anyone to get sick watching it. Here is one pic she took of me, one of Owen and one of herself.

Swim

This summer we signed Maya up for a parent/toddler swim class to have something regular to do with just her while I was super preggo and while we had a newborn in the house. She has LOVED the classes! She even had a few 'private' lessons...OK so for 3 weeks we were the only ones there and Chris was horrified in the pool by himself and the teacher BUT we realized afterward how much Maya learned in those weeks. Here are a few pics of their fun! By the way, Maya looks so cute in the middle picture, I had to post it but Chris really NEVER looked this annoyed.

"Happy Birthday!"

Recently Maya discovered Halloween... we went to Target for our almost daily trip (I live way too close...) anyway, while we were there, the employees were putting together the Halloween displays so we took a trip through the costumes to check them out. She wanted to know what Halloween was so Chris explained that we dress up in costumes and go to parties and go trick-or-treating. SO she wanted to know what trick-or-treating was. He told her that we go to people's houses, like our neighbor Jody's house, and knock on the door and say 'Trick or Treat' and the person who opens the door gives you something like candy or a sticker. That satisfied her and she didn't ask anything else. The next day she looked at Chris and said "I go to Jody's and go 'knock knock' and say 'Happy Birthday!". So, she got it, sort of! I'm pretty sure she was just wanting to scout out some candy.