Joey is 30 and Maya is 5 months!

On August 11th, we celebrated Joey's 30th birthday and Maya's 5 month birthday. We had a great day starting off with breakfast in bed prepared by yours truly, including scrambled eggs and English muffins. Then after Joey got done with work we took Maya over to our good friend Adrienne's house and we headed to the movies. We saw "The Hangover" which Joey had been dying to see. It was quite funny and we both really enjoyed it. Then, we went to dinner at Cantina 1511, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. They have THE BEST guacamole dip! After picking Maya up from Adrienne's we headed home and I sang happy birthday over a ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins (mint chocolate chip of course). For Joey's birthday I got him a zoom lens for our camera; he has been wanting one of these for quite some time and was very excited to finally have one.

As for Maya, she continues to do awesome. I'm know that every mom thinks this, but I'm pretty sure that Maya is the BEST baby ever! She is so much fun and has such a cute personality. It seems like everyday she is changing and learning new things. She loves to play in her exersaucer now and can hit the little animals to make them play music, she continues to play with her feet and can now get them in her mouth (which she thinks is a really cool trick), she is starting to sit up on her on- still pretty wobbly, but she is getting there, and she can shake her toys to make them rattle and LOVES to do that- the bad part is I've looked at her a couple of times and her little forehead will be bright red from her hitting herself in the head with the toy; at least she doesn't seem to mind! She had her first rice cereal experience on August 10th (actually we had tried a couple of weeks prior, but she wasn't ready- she just spit it all back out!). She was very impressed at first, thinking it was pretty cool, but still making a mess. Then after a few days she got bored with the plain rice. So, last night I mixed in some pears for her. (I know I'm not suppose to give fruit first, but that's what I had at home.) She liked them ok, but made some really impressive faces a few time- you would have thought I was giving her a lemon! She also started saying "DaDa" on August 15. This was after I got home from a 24 hour shift, so I am pretty sure Joey has been doing some serious practicing with her while I've been at work!

JT's Baptism

On August 9th we celebrated JT's, my nephew, baptism. Joey, Maya and I headed to Spartenburg on Saturday to begin the festivities. We stopped by the Gaffney outlets, forgetting that it was tax free weekend- wow it was crowed, to look for Maya a baptism gown. We didn't have any luck with Maya, but Joey and I each found a couple of shirts. Then it was on to Erin and Chris's for an awesome dinner prepared by Chris with his family and ours. JT had a wonderful baptism ceremony at church on Sunday and then we had a great lunch to celebrate, again prepared by Chris. It was a great time with family and friends.