Favorite foods: eggs with cheese (every morning!), pasta with Alfredo sauce and on occasion mommy's lasagna, any type of enchiladas, burritos, spinach dishes, lentils, grilled chicken (and any other white meat that we can pass off as chicken), some kinds of beans and black eyed peas, almost every kind of soup, cheese sandwiches. Maya eats really well some days and tries new things. Other days we are stuck with pasta and cheese sandwiches.
Favorite toys: any kind of dollhouse. She has Dora, Polly Pocket, Barbie, The family grand dollhouse. So many! Her next favorite thing to play with is her kitchen. She loves to serve you coffee and cupcakes! It is quite fun to play this game with her. She gets SO excited when you sip your coffee and ask her for some more. She says "sure" when you ask her for more. Uncle Sunny bought Maya an iPad this year. She loves it and so does mommy! the iPad has been amazing for her and really makes her work on her hand control and lots of applications that will help with memory. She also still likes watching Dora DVDs as well as Sponge Bob. Barney is still wanted DVD-wise, but nothing else about him!
Maya just loves to sing! She and I sing-talk to each other all day. Christmas was a hit with her this year mainly because of all the singing you do. I am so impressed with how many songs she can fully sing now. Earlier this year and even just a few months ago she would miss several lines at a time, but now she is keeping up with us. Her favorite this year was Silent Night. This one is a bit hard so she does tend to skip the end fairly quickly. I am glad I sung all these songs to her early on because it made Christmas that much more fun.
On the medical front here is what we have been doing with Maya. She's been doing her cough machine treatments twice a day, stretching her arms and legs and ankles twice a day, we work on her reaching and sitting during her playtimes, she gets in her stander at least 2 hours a day and now we are making the goal 3 hours a day, she wears her knee brace at night, her ankles braces all day except naps and her Benick back brace when she is in her wheelchair or sitting on the floor. She goes to phyical therapy twice a week and receives home occupational therapy twice a week. We got her fitted for her BiPap machine, but we are so bad and haven't put her on it yet. We are just now introducing the mask to her. She is so very scared about it but we have to start it sometime!
Maya has such a great personality. We just can't get enough of her! I just want to be with her all the time but its been a little more tough now that baby brother is here. I hope she knows how much we care about her and love her. She is just a great little girl. This coming year Maya will get exposed to (hopefully) preschool, a horseback riding class, maybe some piano lessons.
For her birthday celebration (and later her actual party) we took Maya to ITZ. All her cousins were on Christmas break so they were able to join in on the fun! Here are some pics from the fun day.
For her birthday celebration (and later her actual party) we took Maya to ITZ. All her cousins were on Christmas break so they were able to join in on the fun! Here are some pics from the fun day.
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Sweet girl. Happy Birthday, Maya!!!
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