Recent activities

I wrote a while back about Maisie and my daily activities. Well as she grows, we add new activities to the list. Here are a few recent favorites:

Chillin' with our "sweet" sunglasses. How cool is she???

Sitting pretty in our new "Bumbo" chair Maisie can't fully sit up by herself, but with this magical little chair - voila!

Accessorizing! One of Maisie's outfits came with this headband - I couldn't resist making her wear it for just a little while

Tummy time - The adventure continues. Now Maisie can lift her head quite a bit more. But she still doesn't like it very much.

Riding around. I finally figured out this contraption called the "Baby Bjorn". Its like a backpack you wear on your front and Maisie can ride in it. So far, I've only carried her around the house...but maybe we'll take it out on the town one day soon.

Flying high! Maisie LOVES playing airplane with her dad. Look at that huge grin.
Snoozing. Maisie is a champion sleeper. Keep you fingers crossed - we are down to one waking at night (and every once in a while she sleeps straight through). She's conked out in the recliner here.

Standing (well sort of...)

Maisie's favorite recent activity for the last few weeks is exercising her legs. She loves pushing up into a standing position and putting her weight on those long legs. She doesn't have any balance what-so-ever and she can only bear her weight for a few seconds before going back to a seated position, but she thinks its a fun game. And we like it too - she looks much older/grown up when she's up like that. Plus, when she's fussy, its one thing that's almost guaranteed to get a smile. We are hoping she holds off on the walking for a while though. We're not ready to chase her around everywhere :)

Check her out:


All the pictures and more are here:

June and July 2008