Maya's Moving Moving Moving!

I seriously feel like it happened overnight... Maya went from sitting in one place playing with toys to being fully mobile and getting into anything and everything!! She started really crawling about 3 weeks ago (7 1/2 months), then just this past weekend she pulled herself to a standing position in her crib (and cried b/c she couldn't get down!) and now is going up the stairs (8 months)! She is into EVERYTHING and is loving it! It's a whole new world for her :) And mommy... I'm not used to shadowing someone like this anymore! Now we just have to teach the girls to keep little things off the ground and to shut the bathroom and basement doors.


This is the day Maya turned 8 months old... she was sick but that didn't keep her from trying to go up the stairs for the first time!


And just a week later... Success!! She made it up the stairs! She was so proud of herself! I was in the kitchen and came out to the living room and couldn't find her! She was sitting on the stairs giving me this goofy grin!


That proud, goofy grin I was mentioning above...


And one of the other awkward positions she gets herself into...


My roommate and friend from college, Anne, came to visit with her little girl Avery. Maya and Avery are only a month apart. It was fun to see them interact. They were both very intrigued by the other baby :) Avery's on the left, Maya's on the right.