Pumpkins Everywhere

Maya likes to sleep on her belly so sometimes during the day when I can watch her she takes a little snooze. I love how her face gets all smushed and she sucks in her bottom lip.

Mia and Maya like to snooze together.

My little D pumpkin at the pumpkin patch at her church daycare. Delaney picked out one big and two small pumpkins for us.

I had a brilliant idea (toot toot my horn) to do Maya's announcement picture while we were visiting the pumpkin patch. This pic was the winner but we ended up getting a million cute shots while Maya was the perfect supermodel.

My birthday at the SC State Fair

Randy asked what I wanted to do to celebrate my birthday and of course I wanted to go to the SC State Fair! We dropped Maya to hang out with Grammy and brought Delaney to see the fair in all of its glory. We had to take a pic in front of the "Deep Fried Butter" stand. We did not purchase anything from this stand (our heart is thanking us) but moved on to the Fiske fries with vinegar.

Delaney's first ride was the train.

Delaney rides her first ride at the State Fair.

Delaney and I ride the little zooming cars that actually moved quite fast. Delaney had no fear. We are in the green car.

The petting zoo always has some interesting animals/creatures. Delaney liked the baby donkey.

Delaney picked to ride the pony this year versus the elephant that she rode last year. She felt like such a big girl and kept saying "I love my horse".





The helicopters were another big hit. Delaney definitely loved the rides and was disappointed she wasn't tall enough to ride the "big kid" rides.

Playing with her shadow was almost as much fun as riding the rides.

Delaney and Randy chill for a minute at the "Footsie Wootsie" foot massage stations.



Food Count:
1) Randy, Juliet, and Delaney: all 3 of us split a large fry and elephant ear
2) Randy: items mentioned above plus corn dog, fried mushrooms, and chicken on a stick. I don't want to say piggie but.........

Maya gets her black dress onesie on to party with her giraffe and elephant.

Just a regular week

When little Maya gets tuckered out, she gets real tuckered out.

Not tuckered out here---she is wide awake and staring at her mommy. She definitely is a mommy's girl right now. Because of some sleep/feeding issues at night, I have been letting her sleep on my chest at night. This is a habit that I want to break very soon but the little pumpking just falls fast asleep when I put here there. Then the two of us can sleep peacefully.

Mia, Maya.....Maya, Mia



These pics just break my heart because my dear Mia is now 15 years old and not doing as well. She is still eating well, as you can see from her size, but she has a hard time jumping up on to our bed and kind of limps/waddles around. She also drinks and eats while lying down which could be because she is the laziest cat in the world. But...I love her so and know that we don't have forever with her. Mia loves the girls when they are Maya's size because they just lie next to her and don't poke at her and drive her crazy--I wonder who does that?? I love my sweet Mee-Mee.

Maya is becoming much more alert and really responds to Delaney. When Delaney is around Maya turns to head to look for her and opens her eyes even wider when she hears her voice.



Maya loves the play mat, especially the monkey toy. It is interesting to see the differences between the two girls already. Delaney could swing in the swing for HOURS and Maya only likes it for short intervals at night time. Maya prefers to be snuggled and enjoys stretching out on her back.



Here it is---the moment all of us breastfeeding mothers with another child knew would come---Delaney attempting to "feed" one of her animals. Delaney has pretty much ignored or is disinterested in me feeding Maya or pumping. She says "You need to pump now?" or "Maya is hungry--feed her mommy" or something along those lines and then just leaves us alone. Until this one day where she got my Boppy nursing pillow and Maya's new pink teddy bear and got on the floor, pulled up her shirt, and asked the bear if he was hungry. I didn't stop her, I just quietly got the camera and took a pic. I figured, it's not hurting anything...she fed the bear and then moved on her merry way.

The Day that will Go Down in Carolina History

This was the second version of the gorilla story but I didn't have the camera to capture the first. Delaney likes to tell stories and make up characters and all of their favorite things. On the first version, Delaney expanded the story into a fantastic version of the "alphabet song". It was quite amazing.



We went out to Trey and Kelli's house to watch the Carolina/Alabama game. I hadn't seen Baby Carson in so long and she was such a big girl sitting up---all beautiful in her Clemson gear!

The two little cheerleaders supporting their teams.

A friendly hug between the rivals.

Maya looking a little ghetto with her USC hat.

Trey and Kelli's friends, Matt and Christy, came over with their daughter Belle who is Delaney's age. The three girls pose in the chair.

Kelli and Maya

Maya didn't wake up for the entire ~4 hours that we were there. I wanted to take a pic of her though so everyone knows she was there to support her team.



Drum Roll Please: For those of you underneath a rock that don't know the end result of the football game---just say the words "35-21". Yes---the Gamecocks beat the #1 team in the country. Who knew? I sure didn't.

2 weeks old

Maya had her 2 week checkup today and here are her stats:
Height: 19 3/4 inches (44th percentile)
Weisht: 7 pounds 12 ounces (37th percentile)
Head Circumference: 65th percentile
So far she is a petite little peanut and Dr. Moore says she is doing great. I, like the first time around, am "The Dairy Queen" which is great for feeding Miss Piggy Wiggy, but quite painful for Momma Cow. I have had a harder time but it is slowly but surely getting better.



Once again a stupid sideways pic that I can't fix but I took this one so you could see the world's most perfect round head. I just love it.


People have sent and brought the most wonderful presents for Maya and also for Delaney. I think it is so sweet that people are giving presents to Delaney too because then she doesn't feel left out or jealous. Audrey came into town and brought this adorable kitty cat backpack for the D-bug which she absolutely loves. She models it quite well.





A little happy face.

I don't have many clothes for a fall baby in the newborn size so little Maya resembles Beetlejuice here with a little peanut head and big 'ol drawers on. Since this pic was taken, Nutty went shopping for my deprived child who now has a fall wardrobe she can be proud of.

The Italian Festival

The Roberts fam met up with my mom and Jackie at the Italian Festival on Main St. There were lots of people but there really wasn't a lot of food.....which I found strange for an Italian festival. The weather was gourgeous and the music was good so we had a great time. An interesting part of the day: Feeding Maya (meaning breastfeeding) in the bar of the Sheraton hotel that is an old bank vault. Twas an interesting moment. Mom and I were the only ones in there thank God.

The first of many festivals that Maya will attend.

This video doesn't do her dancing justice. She really broke it down jumping and spinning and her dumb mother (a.k.a. me) didn't think to turn the camera back on.



A little Maya witch getting ready for Halloween.

The rest of September with The Roberts

Our two little Gamecock girls. Maya was wearing her gear but wasn't really happy because Auburn won.

We had a little birthday celebration with the fam for Randy's birthday. For one of his presents, I got him a 2010 College World Series baseball signed personally to him for his birthday by Ray Tanner. It turns out that Coach Tanner goes to the same hairdresser as me, the infamous Troy. Troy bumped my appointment time back one day and it turns out it was for Coach Tanner. Coach Tanner is the nicest man and didn't mind at all signing the baseball for Randy. Randy was SO happy and loved his present.

Grammy and her new love.

The girls just love their daddy.

A little smile.

Waving hello.


Sleeping during our daily walk.

Close up with Maya.


Here is a series of close-up Maya pics. I love capturing all of her facial expressions.















Happy after a diaper change.

My comedian child with a pair of underwear on her head.

My friend Jessica came by to visit and meet Maya. She brought both of the girls snuggly blankies that she had knitted with their initials knitted into them. They are so soft and gourgeous!!



The shit-eating grin and the Stones girl. Gosh I love them both.

**This first week has been amazing. Delaney is doing remarkably well with her little sister and besides the typical 2-year old normal tantrums, is acting even better than usual. Maya is a good baby, but definitely needier than Delaney ever was. She likes to be snuggled and carried a lot which is sweet, but sometimes hard. We are still trying to figure out her sleeping. Maya is not particularly fond of her bassinett right now and prefers to sleep either in her swing, bouncy seat, or mommy or daddy's chest. Hopefully we will have her on a good sleeping schedule soon!!!