Maia Mi

I'm proud to say I've joined the "Kids say the funniest things" club - already at the age of 13 months Maia is making me laugh at her child's view logic. the other day we were on a bus, and there was a 2 year old or something like that sitting in a pram, obviously way older than maia anyway, but she was sitting with me in the sling, and she looked at him, pointed and said quite clearly 'BABY'. ha ha. think it might be the other way around, maia.

Maia keeps suffering from bouts of colds mixed with teething symptoms, doctors deny there's any link, but every time she has a cold she also dribbles, chews on anything and everything (my house keys seem to be the best), keeps us awake at night with crying & moaning every two hours or so. It's so hard to hear her in pain and not be able to do much beyond calpol and teething gel. She's in the middle of a teething/cold bout at the moment and I've caught the cold, which is just lovely. Not only that, when she teeths she also has the most stinky pooey nappies imaginable. It really must all be linked - surely?

Wow! Maia did it! She walked unaided on Sunday 29th April 2007! We were in the living room when she took her first fumbling steps towards me - I counted about five (although it has to be said I was so excited I wasn't really counting, but holding my breath for when she'd fall, but she didn't! Not until she landed in my lap anyway). We practised a few times after that but she only managed two or three at a time. And she got tired and wanted to hold my hand again. She walks, sometimes almost runs, very well now with two handed support and quite well with one handed support - but the five steps towards me were amazing - we both were ecstatic, she seemed so proud of herself!

It's pretty obvious that she's a bit nervous about this new 'thing' but that she's also really excited about it, cos once she can walk, nothing will be able to keep her out of things - she can climb the stairs now really well on her own, too, so she can't be left out of sight AT ALL at the moment. it's a really dangerous age actually - she's capable of so much but has absolutely NO IDEA about danger! doesn't understand that you can't just walk off the bed for instance, the idea of 'height' and 'fall' hasn't quite got there yet - and i guess the only way is to learn through mistakes - OUCH!

For pictures of Maia up to October 2006 go to The Gallery. Must update this with more recent pictures!

I was going to write a list for nursery listing the Norwegian words she uses which they might not realise were 'real' words. And I thought, why not make this the first post on Maia's new blog? Huh? Why not indeed. So as of 23 April 2007, at just a year and three weeks....


MAIA SAYS...



Ball (ball) --- > sounds like “dull” because she can’t say ‘b’ yet

Papir (paper) -- > sounds like “puppy”

Kiki (kiwi, or perhaps any fruit)

Bie (bee) ---> sounds like “beeyah”

Bye bye

Hello (especially when pretending to use a telephone)

Nana (banana)

Bade (bath) --> sounds like “barder”

Pappa (daddy)

Mamma (mummy)

Nam Nam (yum yum)--> sounds like NummNumm

Doggie

No



MAIA UNDERSTANDS...

Nei (no)

Ikke spis (don’t eat)

Vann (water)

Melk (milk)

Hei (hello) --> sounds like "Hay"