Craft time

Since she still eats crayons, we don't break them out often but every now and then she manages to use them the right way :)

Valentine's Day preview

Brace yourself for the sweetness

PJ storytime at the library

This morning the girls got to wear their PJs to a special storytime at the library where the Llama from "Llama Llama red pajama" visited. Maja was pretty excited to see Llama come in but wanted nothing to do with being close to her. Of course I manage to forget my camera but a friend had hers and I was able to snap a quick shot of Daddy with his girls

Somewhat decent family picture

It doesn't happen very often that we all make into the same picture these days so I had to share... it was on Jeff's birthday.

Maja got tired of picking her own nose...

Almost 18 months

So many times I have to stop and remember Maja isn't even 1.5 years old yet! She just seems so big and "with it".

Lately she has been into all sorts of fun things... forts and flashlights, putting cream on her face and jumping on the couch. She also can say "Go" as in "Go away" and we hear that quite often... it's kind of cute actually. Remember her pinching comfort thing? well now she does it to herself which is nice when we are driving and I can't reach her.
She loves to take us by the hand to show us what she wants and still eats crayons so we don't venture out into craft world much. She breaks into a dance every time she hears music and climbs on just about anything she possibly can.

She is just fun all around :)

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

We love you!!!

Dinner time is party time

What kind of Mom would I be if I couldn't hold my baby, dance with my toddler and make dinner all at the same time???

Maja and Isla's first show

This morning we went to see a really neat puppet show with black lights. Really cute. Maja sat through the entire thing and it was an hour long. Even Isla seemed to be watching it (I guess the lights were just easy to track for her). It helped that we had great seats and were right in the second row by the aisle so full view of the stage.

They have a few other shows coming up in the future so I think I'll look into getting more tickets

Maja loves her some Gaga

It takes less then a minute

to go from this:

to this:

Big eyes

Getting there...

She is making progress with feeding herself

Here we go...

Maja has learned to say "Go" as in "go away". Every time you attempt to do something to her she doesn't agree with like wiping her face, she will tell you to "Go". I'm not surprised... that's what we use a lot... we tell the dog to "go" when he starts begging for food (and he does that A LOT) and we tell Maja "go" when she is getting into places she shouldn't be.
It's actually kinds cute hearing her say it... she also gets that little angry look on her face where she scrunches her nose and just looks adorable.

In the last few days she has also been heard saying "no, no, no"... she doesn't seem to be saying it in the right context though. We rarely say "No" to her and keep that for when she is really about to do something bad like pull a knife out of an open dishwasher, otherwise we just say "ah-ah" and redirect her which really seems to be working well in terms of her behaving and listening to us when it really matters. But we do sometimes say "no, no, no" when we are playing around and I think she picked up on that one because when she says it now, it's when she is just goofing off on her own.

Right now she is being super cute but I bet it will soon become one of those "terrible 2s-please stop it" kind of things

Bubbles

Little Gym graduation

Maja is moving from being a Birdie to being a Beastie next semester. I took these pics on Wednesday but we went again today to see her friend Heatley get his medal and I have some videos coming but I'll leave that for another post :)

Maja's new favorite toys

These are so cute, aren't they?? when I came around them online, I couldn't not get the bee. Here's where I got them from.

Paci addict

Maja never really took to her paci until she was about 8 months old or so... at that point it really became a necessity for her since it was right around that time when I stopped nursing her until she was fully asleep. We pretty much only used it for nights/naps and the very occasional meltdown while out and about. And then we went to Spain... while on vacation, we really pushed her... we were up and out the door fairly early and rarely made it back for nap which means she had to snooze on the go and we also stayed out late because dinner time is usually around 9pm. Of course we ate out every single night too and poor Maja wasn't too fond of that. However, we quickly realized that is she had her paci, she was good to go. So she pretty much spent the entire trip with a paci in her mouth... so much for trying hard on keeping up the limits.
When we got back to the US we started working on weaning her off it and managed to get back to the night/nap only routine but then Isla arrived and started using paci so Maja regressed back to square one. We didn't even try to fight it... it didn't seem fair so we let her have it.
Now that Isla is a bit older and Maja understands which pacis belong to her (they each use a different kind) we are able to make progress again. For nights she gets one paci for her and then her bunny who sleeps with her gets to hold the two extra ones. It's really cute to see her go up to him and give him her pacis. Also at night when she wakes up, she knows exactly where to go (we have a video monitor so i can see her looking around for her bunny).
At times we still let her have it at home but we try not to and she is pretty good about understanding it's only for occasional use. It looks like we are on the right road and won't end up with a 4 year old who still takes a paci :)

Isla smiling

Isla's 2 months stats

Weight 12lbs 6oz
Height 24.5 inches

Big girl :)