More from LegoLand

I realized that most of these videos are action shots and that you can't hear her cute little voice, so in this clip you can hear Maya and Sean talking about the Maiasaurus mommy and babies at LegoLand.

It's Called A....

One of the many things she experienced on her first trip to the Mall Of America last weekend. This was at LegoLand.

Birthday Dance Party

Now that you've seen her Turbo moves I think you're ready to see her freestyle. This was at her birthday a few weeks ago when Adam and Amanda set up a toddler style dance club. Maya'a dream come true.

TurboBaby

After 4 months without officially exercising (I did a whole lot of carrying a 40 lb cutie around though!) I decided to get back in the saddle again and pulled out my TurboJam videos this morning. Knowing Maya loves dancing more than anything I thought this could be a good family activity and was really disappointed when she was not into it at all. I finished it up, turned the tv off, and five minutes later she was requesting "the dancing movie". I turned it back on and this is what happened next.

Happy Birthday Maya!

For the last two years, October 18 was a day I dreaded, knowing that it would mark another significant milestone in Maya's life that we were missing. For her first birthday Sean and I made a little cake and I bought her the little elephant that you saw her carry around in the Haiti pictures. The second year I think we pretended it wasn't actually that day. So you can only imagine how wonderful it was to have her HERE WITH US on her third birthday last Sunday! It brought back all of the initial feelings of disbelief that she is actually here, actually ours.

We celebrated by going to her Uncle Adam and Aunt Amanda's house. They had created a dance party in their spare room, complete with streamers, twinkling lights, and rhythm instruments. She had a blast dancing the night away.

And, of course, we had cake.
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SNOW!

Last weekend my mom came to town and the four of us went up north to our cottage on Lake Superior (want to rent it? check out lakesuperiorgetaway.blogspot.com!). We were thrilled to wake up Saturday morning to the first snow of the season. We bunded Maya up the best we could and sent her out. She has quite the vocabulary these days, but could only say, "Cold, Cold, Cold". After she came in, she had hot chocolate for the first time and clutched that mug like her little frozen hands depended on it.

Maya Updates

Maya is finishing up her third week in child care and is loving it there! She's in a family child care setting and she loves that there are little babies as well as kids her age to play with. It's been tough to be away from her for so many hours each week but I've adjusted my work schedule to be home every Friday, so we still get some great Mommy/Maya time. She's also getting more quality Daddy time since he's the morning guy who gets her out the door and drives her to child care each morning. It's pretty adorable watching her walk out the door with her backpack on, holding her Daddy's hand. Yesterday I caught her blowing a kiss to our cat, Izzy, who was on the porch watching them leave.

She's getting more grown up every day and this week has made us very happy by dressing herself each morning! She's totally obsessed with the piano and plays it at least once each day (not always with the sunglasses seen in the latest video). She's trying to figure out to how to navigate a scooter that a very generous neighbor at the park gave her and still loves cruising around the block on her tricycle. She actually loves any kind of transportation and spends most of our car rides explaining to us that she doesn't like the car anymore, she wants to ride in a bus or a truck. We're trying to work a bus or Lightrail ride into her upcoming birthday plans!

We continue to be so grateful that she's actually here with us AND that she's such a delightful little buddy. Life is good! :)