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On Sunday, we made a day trip to Boone and then over to Grandfather Mountain. We picked up Uncle Justin on the way and had a great day. We saw a bunch of cool animals, some great views, and some quality time with Uncle Justin.
Here is a look at our adventures.
Well, the 7th month started with a new tooth! Maya got her first tooth on Oct 11th (bottom middle) and her 2nd tooth 2 days later. No wonder the week prior had some pretty rough nights! As far as accomplishments, she is getting up on her hands and knees and rocking, eating 2 meals a day of solid food, saying "mama," "nana," and "baba" occasionally, but "dada is by far her favorite! We have always known that she likes music, but we have found 2 songs that she absolutely loves! "Meltdown" by Rob Thomas, and "Rock and Roll" by Eric Hutchinson. It never fails, if she is crying or unhappy, we can play either of these songs and immediately we go from tears to smiling and dancing! It is pretty amazing!
On Oct 1st the Egan 3, plus 2 dogs headed to Mt Pleasant to celebrate my Mom's birthday. We went to Pawley's Island and had lunch with Grand mama and Grandaddy O'Shields, Berny, Wendy, Becky, and Mike at a wonderful marina to from my Mom's birthday celebration. We ate outside, under a huge oak tree, looking out over the intercostal waterway; it was beautiful! We had a great time, including, checking out the new waterfront park in Mt Pleasant, going to the farmers market, kayaked on Shem creek and in the charleston harbor, had lunch at Groucho's on King street, and I was even about to visit with one of my college roommates, Ashely Gruber, who now lives on James Island.
On 9/11/09 Maya turned 6 months old! This was a big weekend for us, because it was Maya's Baptism weekend. We had a house full of family and friends to celebrate! She was Baptized on Sept 13th at Myers Park UMC, it was such a beautiful service and celebration. My parents were able to baptize her and participate in the service along with Dr. Howell (the minister of MPUMC). After the service we had lunch at our house; it was a wonderful time with family and friends.
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.
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.
Maya had her 4 month check up on July 22nd. She weighed in at 15lbs 11 oz and was 25 inches long. She is now 90th percentile in weight and length and 95th percentile in head circumference. As soon as we walked into the exam room she started showing off to the nurse by smiling, blowing bubbles, and squealing. Then when the doctor walked in she kicked it up a notch and became VERY vocal-to the point we could barely hear each other. The doctor's response was "is she always like this?"..... That would be a yes, yes she is! Four month accomplishments include: finding her feet (and now she plays with them all the time!), rolling from back to stomach and "Blowing bubbles" AKA spitting loudly if you are Maya!
