Maisy in her toy box, poor thing is starved for toys!

T ime again has rushed by. A lot has happened in the last month and a half. Maisy is still the happiest, sweetest and most expressive little wonder. She is using lots of words now. Some of her favorites are “butterfly- said buh-erh-by”, “barrette- said bahh-reh”, “up”, “uh-oh”, “bye”, “ni-nite” along with her favorite animal sounds of a roaring lion, impression of a gorilla and don’t forget the moooing cow! Maisy’s signing abilities continue to grow- she signs “more”, “milk”, “all done”, “hat”, “dog”, “cat”, “butterfly”, “open”, “food” and her new favorite past time “drawing”. In the biggest and greatest accomplishment she is WALKING!! Today she took her first few steps, which quickly turned into strolls. In just one day she has turned from a cruiser to a walker. What a difference a day makes. Video is on Facebook if you are my “friend”, you can also hear Maiy’s lion roar in a video on Facebook too.

Maisy asking for “more” umbrella that she never had in the first place

Drawing with Daddy in our fancy art smock

Daddy and Maisy cuddle on the beach near Uncle Steven’s house

Another really proud moment was us participating in the SF AIDS Walk 2009 on July 19. We walked with Uncle Steven. It was a great day for a 6 mile walk in the park! Maisy did really well even getting out of her stroller to walk with us. We felt great we were able to help raise 3.5 million for the foundation.

Half way through our walk

Maisy walkin’ the walk

Our fence was built and we are now working on landscaping. We are so thrilled to have a place to enjoy outside and for Maisy to have a place to play. Here are some pictures of our before and after.

Before the little white fence came down

After our fence was built with our addition of birdhouses

Other than those things, we are getting ready for our big trip to Montana this Sunday.

More later! Much love, Todd, Becky and Maisy

The Easter bunny visited!

M aisy was very interested in these baskets and the goodies they held. We didn’t dye Easter eggs this year, but hope to next year.

Egg Fan

Bow Fan

Then we had a heat wave for about 3 days and Maisy enjoyed our “pool” in the front yard.

Oh Wow!

Maisy’s skills seem to surprise us each day. She loves DOGS and gets very very excited when she sees one. She knows the sign for dog, which is slapping your leg like you are calling a dog and she’ll do that if you even say the word dog. She says, Mama and Dada, she’s said Ball, and “Oh Wow”. Her favorite rambling these days is “odie-odie-odie-odie”. She signs all done, and waves hello a lot- and I mean a lot. She waves to the pictures in the hallway, she waves to everyone while we are out, she waves to the cats, to the trees, to the windows, etc. The all done sign and the wave look very similar. She also does those signs if she wants something, so they are kind of difficult to interpret. Maisy loves flowers and gets super excited if we are walking by a pretty flower and makes us stop to admire-it’s so cute. She’s going to make a wonderful dog catching gardener some day… I thought she was going to blow a gasket at Michael’s today in the silk flower section!! She didn’t seem to get that the flowers were fake…. She sure made a scene. Too cute.

Pig Tails?

Maisy is working so hard on getting her top to teeth. She still only has her two bottom ones. She is a drooling queen and has had some cranky days, but other than that she’s doing great! Not walking or standing independently yet, but getting more and more confident in her cruising and standing with only one hand holding on. Cross our fingers Maisy has still yet to encounter her first cold- and she has been sleeping through the night consistently for 3 months now. Life is pretty good.

We have been pretty lucky in April. I am now working part time from home for a non profit doing clinical research and Todd found a full time job in the city for a company called Heroku. YAY!

Those are all of our updates for now!!

Much love and more later- Todd, Becky and Maisy

Todd and Maisy taking a walk down the grandparents’ street

W e headed east for Christmas on Dec. 23 and after 17 hours of travel we finally made it to our destination! Maisy handled the trip like a trooper with NO meltdowns. We did find out that Maisy is a food snob. I bought her some jarred baby food for the flight and she refused to eat even her favorites if they came out of a jar. This girl has quite the sensitive palate.

In Lake George we celebrated Christmas with Todd’s parents, brother and grandmother. It was nice and relaxing to all be home together. It’s rare that we are all there at the same time, so that made it extra special! Todd’s Grandmother came over on Christmas day for the festivities and a yummy Christmas turkey dinner prepared by Steven and Joan. Mmmmmm

Christmas Feast

We enjoyed a nice leisurely day of opening presents and enjoying everyone’s company taking time out for naps and playing with new toys. It was a beautiful snowy view of the mountains and Lake George through the living room windows.

Maisy reached the very exciting milestone of sitting on Christmas Day! She continues to add syllables to her babbling and now says, Da-da-da, Ma-ma-ma, La-la-la and raspberries.

A Maisy sitter

While we were visiting we were able to catch up with Uncle John, Aunt Dee, Thalia and Lonny for lunch. We were also lucky to see Uncle David several times as well as Chris and Aunt Rebecca. It’s so nice that we were able to see so many folks in such a short amount of time!

As always time passed quickly and we found ourselves back on a plane heading toward home. Our trip home was smooth and uneventful. The next day was new years eve and we celebrated with Mike and Angie over at their place. It was Maisy’s first night out passed bedtime. She went down for bed at their place without a problem. Todd and I made it just past midnight, rang in the new year with friends, gathered Maisy and headed home for bed!

Happy New Year!

We wish everyone love, peace, happiness and health in the new year. The past year has brought so many joys and wonderful firsts, we cannot wait to see what exciting adventures await in 2009!

Much love to all-

Todd, Becky and Maisy

people would often ask, “are you gonna find out if it’s a boy or a girl?” and i would reply, “i hope so!”

Well, today we went in for an end-of-the-year sonogram, second tri-mester style, and were asked by the nurses tech if we wanted to know the gender. “Of course!” Here’s how it went:

YouTube Video

%(caption)hick’s apple orchard, ny%

h ere we are in new york; enjoying the autumn air. nothing satisfies quite like a healthy dose of apple picking. pretty soon, our little package will be the size of an apple, and we’re looking forward to telling you all about it… and that’s exactly why we put this little blog up.

our hope is that we can commit to at least the seven more months of blogging before our baby arrives – that’s more than what we can say for our italy blog which sadly, dwindled off in late march. one day, we’ll update that, really. for now, we’re in baby land!

We can expect to meet the new addition June 3rd!