mischief

 

Mayana went for an explore today. We were in the loungeroom and then suddenly she wasn’t. Papa followed her down the hallway with the camera just in case… She crawled into her bedroom where she proceeded to empty a basket of clothes I had just folded and drag them around the room. Then she decided to check out what was going on under her changetable. Where she got stuck.

Angelic, no? Well, no. Today, for the fourth day in a row, our cheeky daughter’s bath came to an abrupt end when she did a great big number two in it. Yes, four days in a row! Let’s just say Pete’s quite happy he is no longer bathing with her.

standing, snuggles & swimming

 Mayana spends at least half her day in this exact position. She is obsessed with standing up at the couch, and walking up and down along it (I think they call it cruising). Now instead of holding onto the couch and to stand up, she launches herself to standing and then grabs the couch to balance. I can’t say I’d be surprised if I end up with an early walker.

My new favourite thing that the Mayana-Berry has learned. When I say, “Can Mama have a snuggle please, Mayana?”, this is how she responds. It’s so lovely to be getting little cuddles from my precious! (Oh and the other gorgeous thing she does now is clap! If we say, “Hooray!” she starts bouncing on her little bottom and clapping and laughing. She saw people clapping on the TV the other day and stopped what she was doing and started her bouncing/clapping routine. It was beyond adorable.) 

Today it was really quite hot, and we all know Miss Mayana does not approve of hot days. So we decided she could have her first ever ‘swim’ in her ‘pool’. In her cutsie bikini. She LOVED it. She kept trying to stand up though, she just can’t help herself. Landed herself head-first in the grass a time or two- you think you’d learn, but no… In any case, she loved it, and cooled down!

long

Mayana is looking so long lately! She isn’t particularly long in real measurements I suppose, (less than 65cm) but man she is so much bigger than when she was born! I’ve been looking at some of her little baby clothes (00000’s) and thinking about how huge they used to be on her. At her knee socks, and how they used to come up to the tops of her thighs. At her little pink button up top that we used to put on her as a dress. My little girl is getting bigger!

avocado baby

Yeah, so I’m thinking the whole vegemite and avocado toast for breakfast thing is a total winner… (and I can’t wait until Mayana is tall enough for us to use the highchair tray!!!)

garden fun

 It’s such fun to play in the dirt…

…even if you do get a little grubby

This is Mayana’s contribution… when Papa told her it was time to plant the seeds, she promptly popped the entire packet into the dirt.

Then Mayana discovered the bucket of water … and decided it was much more fun than helping Papa. I don’t think Papa minded too much though. She splashed around for ages… got herself thoroughly wet and has an absolute ball!

She even got to jump into the bucket so Papa could wash off all the mud she had created.

Chillaxing after a hard day in the garden. This is the first time she fed herself a bottle completely independently. I wasn’t allowed to help at all. She’s getting much too clever!

the hugest adventure

Mayana had the most massive day yesterday. We went to Brisbane on a train. We left before 7am and got home close to 11pm. She was such a trouper and coped so much better than I could have imagined.

You can read more about our big adventure here!

   Enjoying the train ride! “Look Mama, it’s my cousin…”

Kisses and cuddles for Hannah…

Watching fireworks with Mama…

All I want is Loving You and Music…

I am enjoying discovering that a love of music is something that apparently exists intrinsically. Well in my little daughter at least. You gotta admit, it’s in her genes. She has listened to music (a lot of music) every day since the day she was born. I sing to her all the time. Lately, whenever she hears music she starts to dance. She sits up on her bottom and bounces and flaps her arms and laughs. It’s incredibly cute. I have some video of it but don’t have time to get it internet-ready at this moment.

I really hope to encourage her love of music as she gets older. I can’t wait to see which instrument(s) she wants to learn, if she’ll let me teach her the keyboard. If she’ll be part of our little family band! In the meantime, we’ll just practice clapping and singing Twinkly Twinkle and Jesus Loves Me.

We’ve been playing a bit of keyboard together each day. Mayana especially loves it when I put it on the percussion or special effects settings.

Mayana also enjoys banging various containers together. Loudly. You can see her little eyes wincing in anticipation of the fierce noise she is about to make.

Oh bless. She’s too precious!