Maia Mi

As you can imagine, we are now way behind in Maia Mi blog land. It's been one thing after another, not least Maia herself just changing almost daily - we couldn't keep up!

So, "Tantrums" was where I left you. Ha ha. We are so used to those now. She doesn't thump her head on the floor anymore (must have learnt about that one) but she can still pull some corkers. They're fewer and further between though and tend to explode around a time of change and intense growing pains, so you kind of know when you need to stand back and let her vent.

Maia is now two years and four months old. And, in her own words, she's now a "Big Girl" and certainly knows her own mind, and everything EVERYTHING is 'do self'.

She's also (amazingly quickly) gone from being a baby in nappies to independent young lady on the potty. Just about a month ago she was refusing to use the potty at home - or, when she deemed it ok to, we would wait for half an hour for, er, absolutely NOTHING to appear. That's all fine though - we weren't worried - we just made it into a 'let's have a go' game. She got practise at nursery too - where she did pee pees on the toilet, here and there. But once we were in Sweden and I gave her the PINGU PANTS and said, here, would you like these or nappies, it was all over for soggy nappies and smelly bins. Yup. And pretty much dry, aside from the odd leak here and there. Including car journeys, naps and nearly most of the nights since then (which unfortunately means I need to wake up at whatever hour of the night she needs to do a wee - but it's a small sacrifice at this stage).

Just to watch her confidence grow as she mastered this particularly grown up activity is amazing.

Beyond that, her verbal reasoning is just developing so fast - she is very particular and likes to say whole full sentences with descriptions about colours and sizes - which means you do have to wait a while before the sentence comes. But then it comes in a sweet "Maia went on the big, ummmm, red slide, ummmm, in the park!"

She's also superblond, sticks her legs up in the air "I'm doing ballet", still hasn't quite mastered jumping (she takes off but lands on straight legs - ouch) and extremely loveable with us as well as her toys. Just the other day she picked up her baby doll and gently stroked her head and gave her a big smacker on the lips. awwwwwww.

There's so much I could tell - but for now, at least I've broken the ice...