Starting this blog....

I am starting this blog to record the cute/funny things that Maia (and our new daughter) say or do. I think a lot of these memories would just fade with time. These are things that I want to remember and share. I am also recording these things for our daughters to read in the future, too.

The first blog entry will be playing “catch up” to record some of the things that have happened so far. After this entry, I will add things as they happen. This is sort of going to be a stream of consciousness at first, just because there are memories that I just want to get documented.

Maia is very loved. She has wonderful Grandparents. Grandpa Scheuren, Grandma and Grandpa Fisher, Grandma Carolyn and Grandpa Martin; all of them are just great and very involved in her life. Her Aunt Sarah is the best Aunt ever (and Marker, too). Maia has yet to meet Uncle Jeff and Aunt Sara, as they live in Seattle. They, too, love her very much. Hopefully we will see them soon!

Maia also has a lot of “aunts” and “uncles” among Holly and Steve’s friends. Brian, Jesse, Trevor, Kim, Steph, Pam, Robin, are all people who see Maia a lot. They love her very much.

Maia will have a sister soon! Hopefully before summer. We are adopting a baby girl from Ethiopia. We haven’t yet received a “referral”, but we expect to very soon. We talk to Maia about having a sister, but she doesn’t quite “get it” yet.

Maia said her very first “word” in May, 2007 at botanical gardens in Minneapolis. We were visiting Aunt Sarah and Maia was in her stroller and her sippy cup fell off and Maia clearly said “uh oh”. We’re not sure if that counts as a word, but it was the first time Maia said something like that. She was 9 months old.

We can’t remember what her REAL first word was, but it was probably “milk” or “dada” because when she first started to use words, she said those two words a lot.

By the time Maia was 2, she was talking a lot. For the first 2 years of her life, she went to daycare at Keri Buri’s house. Keri had 2 kids at the time, Roy, Hannah, and then later Baby Sarah, all redheads. Maia loves all of them a lot. They love her, too. Keri stopped doing home daycare at the end of August, 2008. It was good timing, because we had been talking about putting Maia in a regular daycare/preschool. We felt that she needed more interaction with other kids and that she needed structured activities, like art, playground, music, etc…