M is for Maya and Molars!

Our babies are quite possibly the most precocious teethers ever - Maya's first two molars broke through today at the ripe young age of not quite 11 months - and an adjusted age that is 9.5 months. It doesn't even seem possible that my baby is now the proud owner of 10 brand new teeth. She's been doing a lot of exploring of her newfound chompers and can frequently be found with her finger in her mouth pressing on the molars. I don't blame her, it must be confusing and exciting to wake up one morning and discover two new and giant teeth sprouted overnight. This means that Kate should have molars by her first birthday as she seems about a month behind Maya in the teething department.

The girls have been doing so well on the eating and napping front. I am sometimes flabbergasted at how much the girls will eat if I give them something they are really into. I made a beef stew yesterday and Maya was literally shovelling the food in double fisted while making growling sounds. Between the four of us we ate 2 pounds of stewing beef, 1 pound of potatoes and several carrots and celery sticks in two meals. And, a lot of that was consumed by our ravenous babies...

Video, take II

I decided to post the vidoe on Vimeo instead of Youtube because the Youtube security settings are just too annoying. So, here it is.

Here's a new video of Maya talking. I'm posting it on Youtube because the resolution is so much better than when I upload it to the blog directly.

Let me know if you can't view the video for any reason - I'm new to Youtube and am still playing around with the privacy settings.

Click here to view video...

The Swine Flu has left the building

Thank goodness I think Josh has finally sucessfully fought off the flu and is on the mend. And, based on conversations with other moms in our area whoses babies had the flu (it's been going around Truckee), I think that Kate and Maya actually had it last weekend, too. I guess the babies who have had it haven't gotten as sick as the adults are getting. That's a good thing.

Not only have we vanquished the swine flu, I also found both my camera battery charger and our lost video camera. So, we're back in business.

After noticing that Maya's been trying to pick up the dog water bowl and drink the water, I thought it was time for her to practice with a real, non-sippy cup. She thinks it's the coolest thing ever - even if it brings the levels of dinner-time messiness to record heights.

And, both Kate and Maya love pulling our CDs out of the shelf. It's one of the first things they do every morning.

Finally a video...

And we don't even eat pork...

Josh has gotten knocked out by the "nothing to worry about, it's just a mild flu" swine flu with high fevers, chills, body aches and all the other typical flu symptoms. He's been sick for five days already and is still running a high fever and still feeling like crap.

I'm not actually sick with the flu (knock on wood), but I've been sick with worry over whether Kate and Maya are going to come down with the version of the flu that Josh has. It's not clear because it's possible that they already had the flu over last weekend when they had a fever, runny noses and trouble sleeping. But, what they had was so mild compared to what Josh has that it's hard to believe it's the same virus. So, we're basically quarantined to the house and waiting and watching to see if the girls or I come down with the flu.

Well, that's been our life for the past week or so. Sorry I don't have any cute pictures. My lame excuse is that my camera batteries are dead and I can't find the charger.

Morning fun

I know this blog kind of has a "what I did with my summer vacation" feel to it. I have ideas for meatier posts floating through my head during the day, but my ambition to write them fizzles out by the evening. This leaves me with easy to write baby milestones and "what we did today" posts. It's kind of like the other half finished (or not even started) projects I'm working on - the security blankets I've been working on for Kate and Maya, the wall hangings I started months ago that just need a binding, the gifts I want to sew for birthdays and Christmas, the craft project I want to try, the unfinished rug hooking project, etc. But, the dishes are done, the floor is swept and ready for more baby crawling and the girls are clean, fed and tucked into bed - and that's got to be good enough for now.

So - on to more "what I did with my summer"...

Today Kate, Maya and I met up with my friend, Laurel (hi Laurel!) and her three year old son, Liam at a beautiful beach. I was a little hesitant to take Kate and Maya back to a beach after the rather miserable previous beach experiences I had with them. The past few times we've tried the beach it's been too hot or too sunny or too windy - and there is always way too much sand eating and crying. We did much better at the beach today, though there was still quite a bit of sand eating and a bit of fussing. After the beach we hit the nearby baby pool which was much more fun. I was feeling very spoiled and lucky to be able to hang out at a private Tahoe beach and then swim in a luxury baby pool.

Maya playing with buckets of water


Note the identical twins on the lounge chairs behind us. I hope Kate and Maya are still hanging out on a beach together when they are that age, too!