A Quick Visit!

Mya's Grandma Pat and Cousin Nadya came down for a quick visit recently.  Nod had picked out a special dress just for the occasion!  Mya LOVES Nadya and thinks she's pretty funny!

And the independent stage starts....NOW!  Here she is trying to put her shoe on.  I'm amazed at how she can balance with one leg up, even I have trouble with that one!  :)

She's a quick little walker.  I'll step away to do something, come back and she'll be in another room...usually up to no good, like taking all the wipes out of the box or removing a nightlight from a socket.

Mya continues to eat lots of things!  On this particular night she had tator tot hotdish and even ate the green beans!  She isn't the biggest fan of vegetables, yet, but she'll try them.  She loves fruit, especially bananas, strawberries, peaches and mandarin oranges.  Oh, and she doesn't like tabasco sauce much.  Greg thought it would be funny to give her a small lick.  Well, her face scrunched right up because it was too hot.  Poor kid!

A Walking We Will Go...

Mya can officially be called a walker!  Up until this weekend she would take just a few steps and be done.  But over the weekend, something clicked and she took OFF!  She toddles those little legs and will walk across the room.  It's so much fun to watch her!  We had  a feeling that she was going to be an early walker and now we really need to batten down the hatches in our house.  Nothing is off limits to Mya, at least in her mind!  This kid wants to be into everything, especially cords and doors.

I love this picture, as it was taken in the midst of her falling on her behind!  She's such a little ham!  A little walking ham, that is!

Our Muse

Since we spend so much time taking pictures of little miss Mya, we decided to upgrade our camera!  We took the short roadtrip to LaCrosse yesterday and bought our new Nikon camera.  LOVE it!  So, Mya better get used to us literally always having a camera in her face.  We've got a lot of learning to do with this new camera and she's the best subject we have to take pictures of!  Already, it's fun to see how much clearer the photos are.  

Giddy Up, Cowgirl!

Don't you just love jammies for little kids?

Airing Out Her Dirty Laundry

Well, I had a dilemma on Sunday.  There was a very important Packer game that HAD to be watched, but it can hard to keep Mya contained/entertained sometimes.  So, I had the idea to bring the tv in her room, shut the door, watch the game and play with Mya.  It worked like a charm!  At halftime I brought her out to have a snack and then we holed ourselves up in her room again following halftime!  We had such a good time!  We played with toys, read books, and I even cleaned/organized a little bit!

The most entertaining part of our time came when she kept insisting to go into her laundry basket and pull out all of her dirty clothes.  She took each thing out and tried to place it on her head...even the socks.  It kept her thoroughly entertained for a good 20-30 minutes!

Here is the sequence of events!

Why Do Weekends Always Have to End?

This weekend my mom came down to hang out with Mya and me while both my dad and Greg had to work.  We did some scrapbooking, but mostly we hung out and played with Mya!  On Saturday we rooted on the Badgers by wearing our Bucky red shirts.  It was such a nice weekend!  I'm always so thankful when she comes to stay with us!  We don't always end up doing much, but we always end up having fun!

I'm pretty sure that Mya would gladly eat macaroni and cheese with hot dogs for every single meal!  The kid LOVES it!  I personally love when the macaroni gets stuck to every body part!  Into the tub she goes!

While we watched the Badger game, Mya played in between the couches.  It's cute when a kid does it, but if I were to do it, people would start to wonder.  She played so well while we watched football!  She played with toys and read some of her books.  What a great kid she is!

She's also a little funny.  Like when she snuggled up to my mom's slippers.  So strange, but funny enough to snap a picture of!

Hodge Podge of Pictures

A while back we installed the baby jail gate at the top of the stairs.  Great investment!  One of Mya's favorite things to do is to wait at the top of the stairs when someone is coming in the door.  She gets so excited, bounces up and down, and screeches.  She's also been known to throw things down the stairs, but not too often!

Any feeding time is messy, when it comes to Mya!  The area on which her chair sits usually needs to be mopped and her bibs last only one feeding.  However, it's nice that she is able to feed herself so that we can all eat dinner together.  I think the cleaning of her takes up the most part, though!

Mya loves her ladybug beanbag!  She loves laying on it and rolling off.  She especially loves when Daddy picks her up on it and swings her in the air.  No fear for this child!

Bath time is also another favorite of Mya's.  She got a super fun tub toy from Aidan for Christmas.  She's had a lot of fun playing with it!  Just one more excuse for her to stay in the tub all night long!

While up at my parent's house over Christmas, Mya scooted herself underneath one of their end tables.  I looked down and there she was looking up at me!  It reminded me of being in Hawaii and being on a glass bottomed boat.  I'm surprised she didn't try to "clean" the class while she was down there!