Maya the Toddler - 15 months

I returned from several weeks in E. Africa to find Maya completely grown up! She walks with great confidence, stoops, bend, runs, and is getting to be quite a climber. Now that she's mastered the walking, she's also getting much more verbal. She calls her buddy, Reed - "RahRah" and is increasingly naming things. The other day I picked her up from Kris and Billy's and she had a bubble blower in her hand and pointed to it saying "bubbah, bubbah!" She's got a strong "Mama" and even "Mom" now. Lots of new sounds too. The pictures here are from last weekend - my first weekend back home. We went up to the little farm in Tilden, where Maya was a bit startled by the big cows and fascinated by the chickens and geese. We should go up there more often. We also took a nice long walk. Maya slept on the first half and then was having none of the stroller and insisted on walking back with us on the way back. It was a slow and dusty journey but fun. John and I distracted her every once in while with songs, asking her to point out body parts and make animal noises while one of us picked her up to make some distance. Here are the pictures from that day.http://picasaweb.google.com/mollychristiansen/200910Maya15Months?authkey=Gv1sRgCJiF6IPU2-2FxgE&feat=directlink