Nicknames: Gracie, Grace, My My, Maya Baya, Boo
Weight & Height: 23 lbs 12 oz., 33 inches tall
Hair: Anyone have any hair they want to loan Maya? This child will not grow hair! People assume she is a boy (even while wearing pink and purple) more often than they assume she is a girl :( It's starting to frustrate me.
Favorite foods: Oh food. That's an issue. We discovered in June that Maya is allergic to milk. This has obviously completely transformed her diet. Add this to the fact that she's anemic and needs to eat a diet high in iron and needs a high fat diet (from not being able to drink whole milk) and things get a little complicated when trying to feed her. We had to take away some of her favorite foods when we found out about her allergy... pizza/any Italian food, goldfish crackers, and M&Ms (since there is milk in chocolate). M&Ms minis were one of the only treats we let her have and now it is gone :( It is amazing the amount of food products that have milk in them. Almost everything has margarine or butter in it which won't work. It is so sad to see her cry for her goldfish crackers or any other food that she can't have :( It breaks my heart. Luckily we have found alternatives for just about everything else, but it takes lots of time and effort to stay on top of it. I have to make a homemade pizza that is safe for her for whenever we order out for pizza. I've learned to start freezing individual portions of her pizza to still try and make pizza a "convenience" food. Last night we were having lasagna and we had to make a dairy-free version just for her. Otherwise she looks at our plates and cries to eat what we have :( Most meals we basically end up making two of everything :( Some things we can work with, but it's hard. I did finally find a dairy-free margarine at the health food store that should help with some recipes. BUT with all that said, her absolute favorite food right now is... SALSA!!! The child LOVES it and will stand at the frig and yell "Salsa! Salsa! Salsa!" She prefers to eat it plain with a spoon or dip something in it! Hot or mild, sweet or spicy, she likes them all :)
Here she is loving her salsa with tortilla chips! Good snack for her... no dairy and lots of "good" fats in the tortilla chips.
Favorite Drink: Rice milk 3 times a day (but I have to time it when she's not consuming iron since calcium inhibits absorption of iron) and water with a little bit of apple juice for flavor.
Favorite toys: Balls, swings, getting rides in her cars outside, pretending to talk on phones, anything that makes noise or plays music
Favorite books: Any book. All books. This child loves to be read to.
Favorite stuffed animal: Teddy!
Favorite Person: She loves her big sister Nenny! If Makenna has been gone for awhile she will run up and hug her and scream "Nenny!" It's really endearing. Otherwise she doesn't want me to leave her side or put her down. Mama's girl!
Bedtime: Pretty consistently 7:30
Wake-up time: Ugh! Lately she's been an early riser... 6:00 am seems to be her wake-up time of choice :( Not good news for mommy or daddy. I'm still trying to figure out how I can get it to go back to 7:00! I was spoiled over the summer!
Naps: One nap in the afternoon. Typically goes down around 1:00 and sleeps anywhere from 2 - 3 hours.
What she's saying: Oh my goodness can this child talk! She will repeat anything you say to her and is already using a few common sentences/phrases on a regular basis. She says hundreds of words, too many to even start to list. The amazing thing that Josh and I have noticed is that she is easier to understand at this early age than our other two girls were. Or maybe we're just better at deciphering baby babble!
Latest Accomplishment: She is working hard at running right now :) Talking brings something new almost every day. We recently put the high chair away and she's joined as the dinner table in her booster seat as well! She also can correctly point to her hair, ears, eyes, nose, belly button and toes!
1st day in her booster seat at the big table, eating dairy-free organic chicken nuggets and a plum for lunch! Who knew chicken nuggets had milk in them??? I sure didn't before this!
Doesn't she look so proud!
Likes: her likes don't change as often as the other girls... she is still very much liking cotton balls, toothbrushes, taking baths, being outside, going to the park, listening to music with Daddy and anything that has to do with playing in water
Dislikes: getting her diaper changed (9 out of 10 times she will fight us on this), meal times (so often we have to feed her stuff she doesn't care for so I think she has come to dislike eating :(, when we don't let her play with the itty-bitty toys she so desperately wants to play with (think Polly Pockets here)
Best known for: Unfortunately for the last three months I'd have to say being clingy and whiny :( Between the milk allergy making her sick, the iron drops upsetting her stomach, hand foot and mouth disease, teething two molars and a bad cold, she's been a pretty miserable child this summer. Poor baby.
Health: I will find out at her 18 month appointment how her iron levels are doing. I stopped giving her the iron drops since they were giving her such horrible stomach cramps. Hopefully a diet high in iron was enough to bring her levels up. Maya also had hand foot and mouth in June and is currently battling a bad chest cold. She has a runny nose and a cough that sounds absolutely horrid. Luckily she only coughs a few times a day and is still able to sleep.
Interesting Tidbits: She has two more teeth now, bringing the grand total to eight! She is JUST like her sisters... skipped over her canines and went straight to the molars! She now has two molars on the top. Both Makenna and Maryn had the same pattern with their teeth. I've heard this atypical "skipping" of teeth is genetic.
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