Pictures from the Weekend

I love when my daddy picks me up from day care!

Hanging out with grandma and grandpa

No Daisy, don't lick grandma's hand! Oh, that tongue is big....let me grab on to it.

We start them on Starbucks at a young age in Seattle

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Rogers and Rosenblum families had a great Thanksgiving! Rachel's parents were in town to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. We even pulled out Maya's high chair so she could join us at the table.

Maya's "My First Thanksgiving" onesie. And Ken's "namesake" Mr. Rogers' shirt. Now Rachel just needs a special shirt and she can fit in with the rest of the crowd.

The "3 Butterballs"....kinda like the "3 Amigos," only one of the Butterballs got eaten!

Wow! Check out all of this food!

What do you mean all I get is a bottle????

I like Thanksgiving...and I'm looking forward to the black olives next year.

There are more pictures of the big holiday weekend to come, so stay posted.

Maya's First Urgent Care Visit

Yesterday, we received a phone call from Day Care that Maya had a temperature of 101.8. We went and picked her up, brought her home, and called our 24-hour consulting nurse. Her verdict was that Rachel was bad for giving Maya baby Tylenol and that we should bring Maya in to Urgent Care. So off we went (and the nurses there told Rachel that the baby Tylenol was the right thing to do.) Maya was traumatized with a urine catheter, a blood draw, and the worst of them all, a chest x-ray. The way they do baby chest x-rays is interesting....they sit the baby on a little seat and ask the parent to raise the baby's arms in the air. They then enclose the baby in this plastic tube to keep them upright. It looked like one of those tubes you put your bank deposit in at a bank drive-thru. (Rachel kept telling Maya that she wasn't a bank deposit, but it didn't seem to reassure Maya or stop the crying.) The result of all the poking and prodding was that they couldn't find any reason that she had a fever, but gave her a shot of 24-hour antibiotics just in case and told us to bring her back to her doctor today.

This morning, Maya had no fever. We took her to her doctor and, after he made fun of her hair, he said she is fine. While we know it won't be her last visit to Urgent Care, it certainly was an eventful first visit.

Maya's war wounds...her "blood bracelet" on her arm and shot band-aid on her leg. Poor baby!

Daisy supervising bath time

Maya's First Play Date

Saturday night was the first meeting of the USS Alaska Gold 2008 Babies' Club. This is the submarine Ken was on and there were 9 babies (that we know of) either already born or will be born to Junior Officers from the boat this year. A crazy number, considering that everyone is in different places now....some are still in the Navy, some are out, one couple's in Italy, etc.

Last night, our friends Moe and Carmen came over for dinner with their daughter Lexi. Lexi's about 1 month younger than Maya and absolutely adorable. The girls weren't all that interested in each other, but they did manage to not be crying at the same time. We're looking forward for the girls being friends as they get older. Ken is convinced that Maya will be sneaking over to meet Lexi in Seattle when they're teenagers.

Maya is wondering when the second meeting is going to be so she can meet her boyfriend Jackson, our friends Kyle and Nicole's little boy. Ken just reminds her that she can't date until she's 18 or Jackson presents a really good dowry.

Happy Veterans' Day!

Happy Veterans' Day to all! We celebrated by not going to work or daycare. Oh, and Daisy celebrated by going in for a very expensive teeth cleaning....and we're not sure "celebrated" is quite the word she'd use, but it's a celebration for the people in the household who have to smell her breath.

Rachel went back to work on Monday (and then had Tuesday off!), so Maya is in daycare full-time now. The poor baby spent four days there last week and came home with a cold, but she's handling it like a real trooper and seems to be on the mend.

Since she's in daycare and we don't want her to be the smelly kid (like Julian in Big Daddy), she's getting baths every day. She was particularly cute today, so we thought we'd share the pictures.

A Week of Firsts

Maya's First Day of Daycare

Maya watching Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

Maya has had a big week. She started daycare on Monday and is adjusting well. When I dropped her off today, her teacher, who wasn't there yesterday, said she had heard all about Maya and her big blue eyes and all of her hair.

Tonight, we watched the election coverage and cheered at Barack Obama's victory. Maya slept through Charles Gibson's momentous announcement that Obama had won, but she was awake for his acceptance speech and paid close attention to his words. (And no, we don't normally let her sit that close to the television!) She thinks that we selected a good name for her because Barack has a sister named Maya.

On a final note, we were happy to see that this election was won before Florida had a chance to "influence" the outcome.