Maya - June

It's finally summer and we are so excited. Little Maya loves being outside especially when there is a little breeze.

Maya is so curious about the world. She wakes up in the morning smiling. She is so excited about everything new.

Maya is so peaceful, she is a quite and smiley baby. She normally cries only when hungry and her default mood is happy. We are trying to teach her sign language and her abue (abuelita) speaks to her in spanish and sign language at the same time.

NEW THINGS:

• Our favorite new thing that Maya does this month is giggles. She smiles a lot, but it is exceptionally fun to hear her laugh.
• She loves when we touch her chubby cheeks.
• She really likes to hold fabrics. Any blanket or burp cloth that is placed in front of her she will grab onto and hold them up to her face.
• She has started also grabbing hair.
• She has the cutest double chin.
• Because she likes kicking so much we bought a little play gym where she lays on her back and kicks a little butterfly that sounds like a chime. She love it and can do it for more than an hour.
  
  

  
   

  Maya playing on the computer

   

  Cousions

    

  Clara Alicia and Maya

   

  Poor little clara, she got stung by a bee right next to her left eye. Occupational hazard. She's such a trooper! 

  
  

  

  
  

June fun...

This month was again filled with lots of firsts...

First time helping Mommy in the yard...

Sitting in the big girl chair... (trying)

Nayell feeding Maya...

And for Dan's birthday, getting faces smashed in the cake..

First laugh...

Maya laughed for the first time yesterday.  She has the cutest little laugh. I have video on my phone, and am trying to figure out how to get it from my phone to here...

I'll do it, but it may take me a day or so.

May - cute thing she does

Second installment of the cutest things Maya does.

• She has found her mouth, and can put almost her whole fist into it. She likes discovering things to put into her mouth.
• She has a strong grip and loves to hold our fingers, especially when she is eating.
• We went to the Dr this week for her 2 month check-up, she got her first shots (so sad). The Dr. says she’s healthy, and looks happy. He said “you have a perfect baby”. We agreed.
• She now weighs 11 lbs 6 oz (75th percentile), and is 22.5” long (91^st percentile).
• She is starting to recognize when we are in the room, and will turn towards us when we talk to her.
• She will focus on objects. She loves staring at the lights and will follow them when we are walking around with her.
• She has started sleeping more through the night and actually slept 5 hours straight last night (we are very happy about that).
• My Favorite, she has started responding to us with a smile. You can tell when she is happy and loving life.
• She also love to kick and she will spend 30 min to a hour just kicking and kicking in the air. Sure to be a great soccer player.

Shots...  Not her favorite thing.  But we got cute my little pony band-aid's.

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6 weeks... new photo equpt

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Happy Birthday Brianna!

We want to wish you a very happy 2nd birthday.

Aubrey, Dan and Maya

Cute things Maya does...

Each month we get to write a letter to our birth mom.  These are some of the cute things Maya does that were included in the letter:

• Maya is a sneezer, but when she sneezes, it is always twice, and only like once a day.
• She makes the cutest sounds. Sounds like a sheep sometimes, and squeals like a piglet.
• She is learning to use her legs, I used to call this her diaper dance, where she would kick her legs as I was changing her diapers. Now she kicks her legs whenever she is laying flat on her back. She also moves her hands with it.
• She still sleeps most of the day. And wakes every 2-3 hours at night.
• She will only take a binkey sometimes, but doesn't seem to need it.
• When she is sound asleep she sometimes cries out, and then goes right back to sleep.
• She has bright big eyes (kind of like Brianna), and is starting to focus on things around her.
• She is a gassy baby, which makes her smile ALL the time. She sometimes also laughs.
• She LOVES the water. Wether we are soaking her feet, taking a bath, or a shower. She actually cries when she has to leave the water or if she hears the shower and doesn't get into the water.
• She likes to hold her hands, closed tight, with her thumb under her forefinger (like “got your nose”)
• She holds her head up, her neck is really strong.
• She gets Hiccups almost every time she eats.
• At her 2 week checkup she weighed 7 pounds 1 once and was 20 inches and was perfectly healthy
• Her favorite place to sleep is on my or Dan's chest (especially at 5:00 AM)