She does listen to me, now I need to listen to me!

Recently Maya has been pulling on my shirt. She does it to get my attention but also in fun. When she is playing with me she practically hangs from the back of my shirt. I have been telling not to do that because she is stretching my shirts. Also when she does this she almost pulls me down to the floor. Yesterday I was trying to comb her hair to leave the house. She was goofing around and started to run from me. I reached to grab her and ended up grabbing her shirt and pulling her back with her shirt. She got so mad at me. She yelled "MY SHIRT! MY SHIRT! MY SHIRT!" She hit her hip where I had grabbed her shirt. She was right, I was pulling her shirt. It shocked me. Now I just need her to stand still to brush her hair and teeth....

Popcorn and Movie night

Maya loves popcorn. She would eat it daily if I let her. I did not really like her eating the microwave stuff, even though I was buying the 'natural' one. Then I spotted an air popper at Target. It was $14, and I was sold. I bought the air popper and some popping corn and made popcorn on our next movie night. Maya LOVED it! She got so excited to see it pop. Now we have a little popcorn chant and Maya dances on the chair watching the popcorn. We have movie night every week and it is fun for the whole family, looking forward to Pinocchio this weekend!

Maya Mayhem

I forgot to post this and it makes me laugh...

A while back Maya was watching 'Little Einsteins' and they were looking for a big ship. All of a sudden I hear her shout "Where's the big shit, where's the big shit!"

Maya Mayhem

Maya calls Cheerios, "yeerios" and I think it is too cute.

Last week she told me "Pretty dress mommy, you look pretty." I never want to forget that feeling when she said that, I felt so pretty. :)

From 2 to 12, the other day Maya yelled "Mom! Come here now!" Where did my baby go? Luckily she only said Mom, once. After that I was Mommy again.

Bead for Life

Over the past year I have changed how I shop for gifts. I want gifts that are meaningful to the receiver. But I also want gifts that make a difference. A gift that improves the life of the maker. Or a gift that can be recycled, gifts that won't just be disposed. Bead for Life falls into the 'improves the life of the maker' category. I am in love with the concept and the beads. Basically in 2004 the founders connected women in deep poverty who make paper beads with a market for them. This has dramatically changed the life for these bead makers. The bead makers live in Uganda. Many of the bead makers were homeless before bead for life. They worked, they just did not have a place to live. Some lived under trees, and when it rained they would run for shelter with their children. Now with Bead for Life they are building their own homes. http://www.beadforlife.org/index.html