Spring into summer

Here's a quick re-cap of the last couple months!

Maya loves to count, and she is learning her alphabet now. Her favorite letter is "W". Here she is counting and throwing her blocks:



We went to Aunt Laurie's house for Easter. Maya had a fun time playing with her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.







Probably should have used the zoom on this one. The family!



Back home, the indoor rice box helps to keep Maya occupied.

Oops, am I in trouble?





Finally the weather started getting nicer. We spent a day at FDR state park with some friends. Maya did pretty well, considering she only had a 20 minute nap beforehand.



One of her friends let Maya play with her four wheeler!



We took a day during the nice weather and went to Cold Spring. Maya had fun playing near the water.










Maya's grandparents from Buffalo came out for a visit in April. We went to Muscoot Farm and hung out with the animals. It was a rare 90 degree day! The poor animals seemed to be melting.









While it was still 90 degrees outside, we found some fun activities to do indoors, including finger painting with vanilla pudding + food coloring. At first Maya was not happy since she'd just finished lunch and didn't want to be in her high chair anymore.



Then she got over it.







Fun!

Maya likes to make faces:



And here are a lot of finger painting videos:





She REALLY liked the finger paints.



Playing peek a boo in the kitchen cabinet:





On Mother's day we went back to the farm to see the animals and explore the farmer's market. Maya was loving on the chickens.









Hi chickens!!



In May we also went to cousin Kyle's house for his 6th birthday party. At first Maya was a little more interested in the balloons than in Kyle.






Kyle's house is like one big playground, indoors and out.






Fun in the sand box!





Yum, sand!






She really loved this baseball toy.



Totally flirting with Kyle!





Guitar Hero!



She digs on Bon Jovi:


And finally, we took Maya to a friend's birthday party on a party boat in NYC. It was billed as "kid-friendly" so we were willing to risk being stuck on a boat for 3 hours! Maya found a friend in Eela, who was only 2 months older than Maya.

Spring update

We've had a busy time lately trying to stay occupied during the cold winter months.

Maya had a weekly music class that she grew to like. Her favorite times were playing with the instruments and clean up time!




We also took a day and met up with the Kahns at an indoor play spot so Maya and Owen could burn off some steam. I think they had a blast.



I just love how she looks around after she dumps the cart out to see if she's going to be told "uh oh!"



Little break for snack time. I just love the look on Owen's face:





Going through the car wash!





Here's a cute one of Owen:







This balloon had just the right amount of helium left!







We also had to create our own indoor fun when it was too cold/snowy out.

Just talking:



This was when Jon discovered that Maya could be lulled asleep by some guitar playing!



Dancing to NKOTB:



Playing with our rice sandbox:



The exciting video:



Wearing hats indoors is always entertaining.



With her Cookie Monster book:



Eating yogurt = very time consuming and messy, but fun.



Maya reading to daddy:



Just talking and reading books:



At the beginning of March we took a trip with Aunt Mary to Virginia to see Phish. Maya did pretty well considering she was confined to hotel room much of the time. Thankfully it was pretty nice out so Maya went for tons of walks.



McDonald's Play Place! Good to burn off some energy.









It was nice enough for us to hang out at the beach for a little while with our friends Jenn, Troy and Jude. And Jenn's nephew Jake!





Now that it's getting nicer out at home, we're able to get out and explore. Maya loves to play with rocks, sticks, and leaves! And she loves to dig in the dirt.









In mid-March we also spent a lovely weekend in NYC to celebrate Maya's grandma's birthday. Maya got to watch lots of Elmo videos, hang out with mama's friend Bonnie on Saturday, and even have brunch at the Waldorf Astoria!







Saved the best for last. Maya doing the parrot polka: