She is NO Newborn

I was just watching a video of a friend's baby on youtube (how do you put video on there anyway?). And of course on the side bar, a million other baby videos lined up to trick me into wasting time watching cute little videos of strangers' babies. But it led me to this realization--maya is NO newborn! She no longer stares at nothing (at least not normally). Her eyes work in unison most of the time. She doesn't do those weird herky-jerky movements (except when she pokes herself in the eye because she's mad because she's hungry). She looks at us when we talk to her (most of the time). She smiles and does something very close to a laugh. She tries to stand up and looks around with this very proud of herself look. She kicks her legs like crazy. She scoots down in the crib so that when we go to get her she's all catty-wampus. She makes a little yelp sound that i'm pretty sure will turn into a, "NO!" at some point. I had already forgotten what newborns even look and act like. This girl is growing and changing so fast! She is NO newborn!

Busy with Grammie

We have been busy! Maya's Grammie has been here with us so we've been doing lots of fun things like:

making Valentines

eating out at our favorite restaurants

visiting with friends going for walks

having parties

going on road trips

We took Grammie to the grocery store where she got in trouble for taking pictures (not before she snapped a few). And then she got in trouble with the police for taking pictures near the police station. People are kind of sensitive about taking pictures here. But lucky for us, they didn't throw her in jail.

New Skill

Maya has been working on a new skill. Thumb sucking. We are thrilled by this new development because it means she can soothe herself when she wakes up and wants her pacifier, and doesn't know how to get it. She doesn't have the whole thing figured out yet (she still pokes herself in the eye a lot), but she's making good progress, as you can see!

Grammie is Here!

Grammie (a.k.a. my sweet mother in law) arrived safely on Friday afternoon. It was so fun to pick her up at the airport--she did this cute little hop jump thing when she saw us. It has been something like 2 1/2 years since we'd seen her. She says she's a little rusty at dealing with babies, but Maya seems to be taking to her just fine. Pretty sure they'll be inseparable for the next two and a half weeks or so.

How do I go to the store?

Just wondering today: how do I go to the store? If my child is too small to sit up in a grocery cart she has to be in her car seat. If she's in her car seat, where do I put her? The carts at my grocery store won't hold a car seat in the small section that is for little people, so basically, she goes down into the main section of the cart but then where do I put the groceries. (Not to mention that my grocery store is 2 stories and there's a strange lift thing that takes the cart up and down like a cart escalator while the people ride up on the people escalator, so you'd have to take her out of the cart for the trip both ways b/c it's not safe to leave the baby in the cart while taking the cart up the cart escalator). This is all assuming, of course, that whatever matt has going on doesn't require that he take the car. If he has the car, I can walk to the grocery store, but then what do I do with the stroller once I get there? There should be a manual for this kind of stuff. And once I figure out how to go to the store, can someone please tell me how to exercise? . . .