Catching Up

We have been so busy the last few days getting to know our little girl better!  I wanted to share with you how well things are going…

Maya is super bright she knows tons of Chinese words (we wish we knew more than just 4 words!).  She has already picked up some English.  She knows, “more”, “bow” (for her hair of course!), “bye-bye” (which she loves to say as we flush the toilet for her), and she has even just started to say “Maya”.  It seems that she can understand many things we tell her with hand motions and she can repeat words when I ask her to. 

She loves to pick out her clothes and hair bows and have us put them on and check herself out in the mirror.

Maya is pretty shy and quiet when we are with our travel group, but she has been opening up to us more and more when we are alone.  Unfortunately, she is pretty camera shy.  As soon as the camera or camcorder come out the smiles disappear. 

She loves the bath and has just discovered color wonder markers (what an awesome invention!). 

Our little girl has hardly gotten fussy with us – really only a couple of times – when she is having a fashion crisis (which I totally can understand) or when it is bedtime.  I haven’t figured out what works for her to get settled in at night.

I am very thankful that she is happy to go to either of us and seems to enjoy playing with both of us as well. 

Everywhere we go, we are constantly told how beautiful she is – we may be in big trouble when she is in her teens.

Below are a bunch of pictures from the last couple of days…

Ready to take a walk.

I'm Stylin (Thanks for the coat Duartes!)

Wheeee!

At the Aquarium

Checking out the Fish

At the Pool

Out-Cold