Maevy Menu

You've always been a great eater, although sometimes you go on strikes. A couple weeks ago it was vegetables. Last week it was chicken. The trick is letting you watch mommy or daddy eat it first. Then we just ignore you a little and keep eating. You usually go ahead and try the new food on your tray and like it. Last night you ate and enjoyed (at for a little while) some turkey meatball with marinara sauce. But when you are done, you are done. You pick up the little piece of food and slowly, but dramatically drop it on the floor- always on the right side and always with your right hand.

I've always made the majority of your food or at the very least bought healthy/fresh ingredients. I wouldn't feed you anything that I wouldn't eat myself. No processed baby food for you.

Here's the full list of everything that I could think of that you've eaten-
Pureed foods-
asparagus
green beans
peas
broccoli
sweet potatoes
white pototoes
buttternut squash
zucchini
cauliflower
avocado
parsnips
ground turkey
apples
blueberry
black cherries
blackberries
raspberries
bananas
stock veggies (leaks, asparagus, sweet potatoes)
oatmeal
rice cereal

Recently, you've been eating more grown-up food-
Everything above just not pureed
tofu (you love tofu!)
pesto chicken
turkey meatball
beef brisket
carrots
lima beans
black beans
red pepper
cheese- lots of cheese (you love dairy)
cottage cheese
yogurt
ricotta cheese
cherrios
crackers
mini-grilled cheese sandwich

I hope we can add a lot more to this list!

Walking

Here's our first video upload. Maevy- You took your first steps before the holidays. Now you are up to 8-10 steps. Soon you'll be running...


(Background music- University A Cappella- Ben Folds, "You Don't Know Me")

Month 10

This month you switched to a 2-3-4 pattern. You wake up and are up for 2 hours, nap at 9am, then up for 3 hours, then nap at 2p, then up for 4 hours, and in bed at 6:45p. You are eating lots of great food- vegetables, chicken, tofu, fruit, and yogurt.

 

You've started to say nan-na and da-ddy. By the middle of the month you were walking all by yourself.

You had a couple snow days from school this month. Mommy stayed home with you one day and one day M and Pop came up.

 

One snowy weekend we took a fun trip to the library where we read, played with toys, and ran around.

My notes from the month say that you like to climb and bounce around in the playpen and throw things/balls.

Favorite books: "Pat the Bunny", "Wheels on the Bus", and any pop-up book. You love your activity garden, bathtime, and cuddling with Mommy/Daddy before bedtime.

Love you Maevy.

First Christmas

This past Christmas, you were hanging out at Grandpa and Grandma's house. You loved being pushed by your Aunt Lesley and I on this scooter. If you pressed a button, a song would play. You loved pushing this button. You never let the song play the whole way through without pushing it again. It was so funny! Soon you should be able to push yourself. Love you!

-Aunt Robyn

Month 9

Month 9 Stats - 21 lbs, 7 oz.

(I'm not really sure what happened to any or all of our Christmas photos, but this is the only I had on file.)

By this month you were taking a short morning nap, a short late afternoon nap, and a long nap from 12-1pm. You started feeding yourself and the big news this month was that you started walking (or at least taking a couple steps on your own)!

We finally baby proofed the house and installed locks on the cabinets and a gate at the bottom of the stairs. Our favorite songs were still "Maevy-Baby" and "I'm a Little Teapot".

We were also obsessed with the books "Peak-a-boo Who", "Pat the Bunny", and "Where is Baby's Belly Button?".

Your favorite toys this month were your push toy (you got for Christmas), any cell phone, toothbrush, and mommy's brush. And you would start laughing whenever Mommy or Daddy acted like they've been hurt.

Your dislikes were getting your nose wiped and getting in the car seat.

The big event this month was your trip to Memphis. We spent ten days in Memphis for Christmas, and you actually travelled to Memphis with Daddy while Mommy went to New Orleans for a couple days with Grandma, Aunt Lesley, and Aunt Robyn. You were great, of course.


Looking forward to watching you really walk next month!

Month 8

Month 8 Stats
Length?, 21 lbs 7 oz

This month you started standing really well - even walking around the ottoman.  Your sign language skills are coming along well, with "all done", "milk", "bottle", and "more" being the ones you've mastered so far.  Clapping is a big hit for you, as is throwing and slamming toys to the ground. 

We had these next several photos taken professionally to be used as our first Family Christmas Card.  You had some cute moments, but overall were not exactly pleased to be taking pictures instead of a nap.  Grandma & Grandpa were there to be in some, and you really didn't like Santa.  You just wailed when you saw him and this was the "best" of the shoot.

 

Here you are at the Grandparents house, hanging with a pumpkin.

This one is from Thanksgiving, spent with the Taylors, when we went to the park with your cousins and other family and you swung - and looked like a "pod-baby".

 

A trip to the zoo with the Wyckoff family was a good time.  Here Aunt Robyn is holding you while Grandpa's hat is on your head.

Here are Grandpa and you on a carousel at the Memphis Zoo.  You seem to like going around in circles and up & down

This tongue thing you do is interesting - it's like you're trying to keep your chin sufficiently moist, which is odd because of how much you drool.

 

Love you Maevy,

Daddy

Month 7

Month 7 Stats
Length?, 21 lbs

This month you started crawling. You held a spoon for the first time, and by the end of the month you were able to stand alone. We also started to teach you some sign language (hi and bye; all-done).


Your top two front teeth started to come and we had some professional pictures taken with M and Pop. My favorite was the "Baby in a Bucket"!

October was filled with lots of fun events. We visited Lucky Ladd Farms and you played in the corn pit, and on a tractor.



and we went over to Mommy and Daddy's friend's place (Justin) for Pumpkin Day!
You didn't help much, but we did take this cute picture of you "driving" on the way there.



Aunt Lesley visited the weekend of Halloween, and since you had so much hair, I thought Pebbles would be the perfect costume. Aunt Lesley made the bone hair clip on her "special engineering machine."

We noticed that you loved this garden toy at our church nursery. It let you play and pull up, and not get toppled by the bigger kids. I set out to find you the garden toy for the house. It took some major searching on the internet, but I found it. Oh and so did Grandpa. So you had 2! garden centers, 1 in Nashville and 1 in Memphis. Ridiculous, I know. Here you are in the garden center...all covered in toys.

Love you, Maevy.