crawler

Yes, Maya is mobile. It's not the 100% on hands and knees crawl, it's more like the pull with hands and push with feet crawl, especially if she really wants something. It is very fun, but a new challenge.

Maya's first thanksgiving

We had a great thanksgiving! We actually had two big meals. One with our small group, were we all pitched in a brought many of the thanksgiving traditionals, and the other with Brett's family.

Being with Brett's family was so much fun! Maya got to be with 3 of her cousins and many aunts and uncles. Cousin Coby loved Maya! He always wanted to hold her, feed her, and just play with her. We also had Noelle's family (my sister-n-law) join us for the big Thanksgiving meal, altogether there were 18 people! We had 2 turkeys, a ham and about 8 million sides.

Dan smoked a turkey, which was a huge ordeal, because it was his first time doing it and we were convinced it was going to take forever to cook, and he thought it would only take a few hours..... so we made him get up really early in the morning to start cooking. Then just a few hours into cooking the turkey the outside of it was black, not good...... It did turn out really good though and had a unique flavor I never experienced with a turkey before.

The main downfall, Maya was sick, she had diarrehea and had thrown up. She definetely wasn't herself, just really quite, tired, and not hungry. It was a bummer to not have Maya in normal happy spirits when the family was there. She was sick for 6 days, it was sad. I went in her bedroom one morning to find diarrehea vietnam! It was everywhere, all over her, her pj's, the crib and blankets. I just had to throw her in the bath, I even ended up throwing away one of her pairs of Pj's because the were destroyed! I am so glad she is better now.

Noelle and her delicious apple pie!

The burnt turkey skin

the cousins: Maya, Ella, Coby & Garrek

It snowed on thanksgiving!

Maya and cousin Coby


Brett playing with the kids

Maya and aunt Shanna (30 weeks pregnant, cousin Chloe is on the way!)

Brothers!
Jacob, Brett, Travis, & Tim

bouncing

What can I say, my daughter loves to bounce!

Maya doesn't like cars

Maya loves watching her baby signs video, but when the little toy car revs its engine Maya does this...

October fun!

Maya had her first Halloween event this year. First was the annual Hinkle/Goodlin pumpkin carving extravaganza. We enjoyed carving pumpkins and eating taco soup. Maya even had her own little pumpkin that she played with. I didn't have time for the smancy carvings with intricate detail, I kept it simple. It was a fun night we ended by watching the amazing race and eating a pumpkin ice cream pie.









On Halloween we went to the Fall Festival at Church. Maya was a hot dog and we were the hot dog vendors. It was fun, Maya loved the petting zoo, she squeezed the bunny like a stuffed animal. Several people approached Brett wanted to really buy a hot dog. HA! We tried to let Maya play a few of the games, like putting the bean bag threw the elephant mouth, but she just wanted to eat the bean bag.