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October 26, 2013 ~ A little Ethiopian girl dancing to Jamaican music performed by a group called "The Ethiopians"!!!!

"Mommy, do you want to hear some beautiful, sweet music while I play the piano?" ~ Maya K. Where did she ever hear the expression "sweet music"????? :-)

Here is another one of her dancing this evening. It's got some FUNNY moments!!!

October 27, 2013 ~ Making caramel apples and watching some Sunday football = a great time with friends!!

She is sooooooo excited to get to eat her caramel apple!!!! (But I'm making her wait until tomorrow.)

She has never really seen football before (we are not a "sports" family), so I thought it was hilarious when I went into the living room and saw this!!!!

October 28, 2013 ~ Maya K wanted to talk to her Daddy on the phone during his lunch break today. Here is the end of her side of the conversation. "Goodbye. I love you.....May I talk a little bit more, please??.....What are you eating today?.....I like chili......What are you doing at work?.....Okay.....May I ask just one more question?......Okay......I'll give you back to Mommy.......I love you!!!!!" I think someone is going to be a "phone person" just like her Daddy (NOT like her mommy!!!!!).

October 29, 2013 ~ My parents are visiting this week so my sister and I decided that it was a good time to go visit a free pumpkin patch that we had found out about in our area. It was a lot of fun and we were the only ones there!!!

Maya K loved the baby lamb, but was hesitant about getting very close at first. 

Ben and Maya K with their Grandpa!!!

This girl is a runner!!!

She loves her pumpkins!!!

She's all MINE!!!

I'm looking at this picture and am AMAZED at how BIG Maya K has gotten!! She cannot be this big already!!!

The Box. I went inside with my dad and the kids the first time and this thing was HARD!! Pitch black inside and kids hanging on to all parts of my body!!! They went back inside a second time with Grandpa and finished it!!! The last time the kids all went inside themselves and had a ton of fun!!!

Maya K and Grandpa

Grandpa and Grandma with the grandkids

Silly picture :-)

Smile, Pretty Girl!!!

Yay!!! She did it!!!

Cousins!!!

Apparently, Maya K loves pigs!! Who knew?!?!

Haha!!!

October 30, 2013 ~ I love it!!! The girls are eating their mixed veggies SUPER fast so that they can have MUSHROOMS!!!! There is so much healthy eating going on right now!!!!

Maya K go to go "Trick or Treating" tonight. We didn't do it last year (she had only been home for a month) so she has been looking forward to it for a while!!! It was VERY funny at the first few houses because she would tell them a joke and then they would tell her to choose a piece of candy from the dish and she would ask "What's this?" about EVERYTHING!!! They all looked at me like "Why doesn't this girl know what a peanut butter cup is????!!!!" We came home, she excitedly looked at the candy she had gotten, chose a sucker for herself, gave candy to her grandparents and daddy and I, and then snuggled in next to her Grandpa for a Bible story :-).

November 1, 2013 ~ "She knows she is a princess, but she is just being a ballerina....one of those ballerinas who throw the pom-poms (a cheerleader)." ~ Maya K (showing me one of her My Little Ponies who she has put hair ties in the tail and mane). What do you think??? Is she a girly-girl???!!!!

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October 19, 2013 ~ Maya K's new experience for today was having a car "run into"/scrape the side of our car as we were passing a gas station. Everyone was/is fine and our car just has scratches on the paint and hubcap and we are very grateful that it was minor. Maya K has been getting lessons on what insurance is and how they are going to "fix" the car, etc.

October 21, 2013 ~ We had a great time going with the HUGS home school group to the Center Grove Orchard today. We went on a hour and a quarter tour and then had an hour to "play." Maya K did a FANTASTIC job of listening and we had a TON of fun!!

Excited and ready to get started!!

Just hangin' around :-).

She has a hard time waiting and staying still, so climbing the fence was a GREAT way to wait!!

Her first hay ride!!

It took her a little while to find the perfect three apples to pick, but she finally made her choice.

Me and my little girl!!!

Petting the goat.

One of Maya K's FAVORITE stories is "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". She was sooooooo excited to get to "trip, trap" over their bridge :-).

AND, she even got to be the troll!!!!

The baby Billy Goat Gruff is her favorite!!

She wouldn't go in the straw house or the twig house. She insisted on finding the "rock" house and would only go inside that one. "Oh no!! The wolf is coming!! Get inside quickly, Mommy!!!"

We are happy and safe inside the house made of bricks.

"Let's look scared, Mommy!!!"

"Let's look sad, Mommy!!! Let me see the picture. Hahahahaha!!! I tricked you, Mommy!!!!"

"I tricked you AGAIN!!!!"

She's "hiding" from the wolf :-).

I love kissing this little pig!!!

And Maya K loves it when I let her use my camera!!

I didn't know if she would be brave enough to go up and then come down the slide all by herself the first time......

......but she DID!!!! And then she did it over and over again!!!

Jumping on the "pillow".

I can't even put into words how much I love this little girl that God gave me!!!

She melts my heart....

.....every time I see her smile!!!

She was VERY insistent that SHE get to carry the pumpkin!!! That's my STRONG little girl!!!

It was a FANTASTIC trip and we had a TON of fun!!!

What a difference a year makes!!

October 23, 2012

October 21, 2013

October 22, 2013 ~ I need a hug.

It was "Trick or Read" night at our local library. Maya K had a lot of fun making a craft, listening to stories, picking up little treats from the librarians, eating popcorn, and watching part of a movie.

We do NOT do vampire teeth in our house, but these were one of the "treats" that she picked up. I figured she could enjoy them for a day or two. She was THRILLED when she discovered that she could sick her tongue out through the middle!!! Silly girl!!!!

She ASKED me to take her picture with the owl :-). I guess she isn't afraid of dressed up "characters" . Whoooooo knew :-) :-).

October 23, 2013 ~ Last night, Maya K discovered that one of her bottom teeth is a tiny bit wiggly (very tiny bit). She was VERY excited!!! Then, this came out of her mouth - "Mommy, when I am asleep, will you please come in a wiggle my tooth out?!?!" I started LAUGHING!!! She just asked me to wiggle her tooth for her while SHE IS SLEEPING!!!!

We have had an emotionally draining evening with Maya K. Would you please join me in praying that she sleeps in tomorrow morning? She didn't get to bed until almost 10 p.m. and she didn't have a nap today :-(. Also, we desperately need prayers for wisdom in a parenting situation that we are trying to work our way through. Thanks!!!!

October 24, 2013 ~ Nathan has been working 10 hour days this week because he company has to "close down" on Friday for something. With things going on in the evenings, Maya K and I have been gone when he gets home and then we get home just in time for Maya K to go to bed. So she hasn't been seeing her daddy very much this week. Last night, as Nathan was putting her in bed, he told her that his work was closing on Friday and he would get to see her a lot that day because he doesn't have to go to work. She got VERY excited and said "Yay!!! So you never have to go to work again since it is closing!!!!!" Poor girl was very disappointed when he had to tell her that he DOES have to go to work again and that his work was only closing for that one day :-(.

Maya K was supposed to have 15 minutes of sitting on her bed at the start of her quiet time today as a consequence for something that happened yesterday. Well, I went upstairs after 15 minutes and she was asleep!!!! So much for the consequence, but I'm VERY glad that she is getting a little nap today since she went to bed so late last night!!!

Maya K, aka "Tinkerbell", with her cousin Joseph, aka "Peter Pan". Aren't they just the cutest EVER?!?!

October 25, 2013 ~ Nathan and Maya K got to go out on a combine this afternoon (thanks to some friends from church who invited them)!!!!