Cruisin' for a bruisin' . . . wait, that's an innappropriate title

Maya is cruising! Notice our new lovely living room set-up. Maya crawls over to the table, stands up, throws everything that she can find on the table onto the floor, and then cruises along to the couch, as you see below:



Then she throws more stuff onto the floor, wiggles her tush for about 3 minutes, slides into a split and plops onto the ground. Progress :)


In case my earlier post made you woner what a rice bin is, here it is. It's a bin of rice (literally) with toys in it. Now that you know, we won't be using it anymore because today she picked up a handful of rice and shoved it into her mouth. Hysteria ensued (on my part) followed my sneaky giggling attemped repetitions (her part). And now that's done.


Mommy, this is not the time for pictures. Look at me. Honestly.

These are Maya's TheraTogs. She (usually) has them on under her clothes, so if you wonder why her belly looks smurfy the next time you see her, that's why.

We fought a brave battle against the acquisition of giant inflatable toys . . . but we've lost the war. Maya's OT (occupational therapist) brought over a big pool/bouncer thing, which I finished inflating this morning:

Hey, mom, I can stand in this!


It's dual purpose---we can put her in there with her rice bin, because she enjoys picking up and throwing the rice more than digging in it. Also, it can be filled with balls & beanbags so that she can "feel her body in space" (that's therapy talk for roll around in it). :)

And here are the furry, eyes-open, hopping-around, 9-pack of rat pups:

More updates hopefully to come soon. Here's a mini-update in the form of a giant run-on sentence. The content is what's been going on, and the writing style expresses my mental state :)

Maya learns more words everyday and is still trying to sign a lot but is tough to understand, starting to vocalize more which I'm trying to encourage, playing in a rice bin (boy that's messy) to desensitive her hands and feet, working on eating more textured foods (involves some crying and protesting), working on chewing solids, still doesn't like to stand up . . .I'm still working on painting #2, have made almost no headway in putting the 1300 pictures into albums, doing projects around the house (which has resulted in 2 weird photo galleries), also I'm the cat whisperer, and the rat babies have fur and are cute and their eyes should open any day now.

Oh, and Maya got a headband: