Posted on :
3/23/2011
| By :
Joanna
Now that I'm over my nearly 2.5 week long sinus infection, we happily took
Maeve to a big park near our house last weekend. The weather was
gorgeous...dare I say "hot".. and the park was packed.
We played some ball (gotta have the tongue out).
Got to pet a dog, that she thought was a cat since it was so small :)
Picked flowers that tickled her chin.
Went down the slide a lot.
After all that, had some serious chill out time with Sesame Street.
Posted on :
3/16/2011
| By :
Joanna
First of all, Happy Saint Patrick's Day,
from our Irish/American/Ethiopian family to yours!
Maeve is now 17 months old and doing really well. Her
Montessori school is starting to transition her to the 18-24 month class. They usually don't do this for about another 6 weeks, but agree with me that she's ready and will really enjoy what the other class is doing (ABC's, numbers, songs...basically stuff she's been doing for a while now). We know, she's brilliant! :)
We also moved into our new house a few weeks ago. We've been taking the transition slowly and opting for spending time with
Maeve rather than feeling the need to be
completely unpacked and all sorted
right away. She and I have both been sick (me much worse than her, thank the Lord), so that hasn't been much fun...but hubby has been doing an awesome job working double duty while I got some much needed rest.
We also had the great joy and honor of baptizing our daughter at the end of February. It was wonderful to have family in from Ireland, Chicago, and South Texas. It was a bit hectic, but we all had a great time.
Maeve in her traditional Ethiopian dress.
Reading with
PaPa 'dine
Bubbles with Daddy and cousin Georgia.
Posted on :
2/27/2011
| By :
Joanna
We didn't really need much help in this department when Maeve first arrived home, but boy are we gonna need it during the next few weeks.
I'm starting back to work on Monday and Maeve will be going to Montessori school full time. If that weren't enough of an upheaval...we're moving to our new house Thursday.
So, if any of you would like to make us dinner (casseroles, soups, etc...frozen or not) or would like to order food in for us (pizza, Chinese, etc). We would really appreciate the help.
We'd like to be able to spend the evening hours after work and before Maeve's bed time focusing solely on her as much as possible, trying to make her feel as secure as possible during yet another transition for this little girl.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Posted on :
2/16/2011
| By :
Joanna
She eats pretty much anything we eat. No mush for this girl!...
and she's gettting really good at using her fork.
She found this little sponge, tore in into two pieces, and pretened to put on makeup.
You'd think she learned it by watching me, but I try to wear makeup as little as possible :)
We've heard recently from family that Maeve just looks so happy in all of her pictures.
I thought, "Well of course, we only share the good ones" LOL.
So, just so you all know, she does get upset, but that face is still pretty irresistable.
Posted on :
2/05/2011
| By :
Joanna
Although we got flurries a few weeks ago, this is Maeve's first real snow...almost 6 inches!
She loved walking in it, thought it was hiliarious, but didn't like falling in it or getting it on her face.
Pretty stinkin' cute!
Posted on :
1/30/2011
| By :
Joanna
Posted on :
1/29/2011
| By :
Joanna
We had another great day at the park and met these sweet Ethiopian boys.
I was wondering if they were Ethiopian and they were wondering the same about Maeve. When it came up in conversation, one of them ran to the other boys saying, "See, I told you so!" He'd heard us tell her, "Nay" (come)...and said she looked Ethiopian.They were very sweet to play ball with her, and we were happy to talk about Ethiopia. It turns out they had friends/family at the park...two male all-Ethiopian soccer teams!
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