We had a nice time celebrating Auntie Beth’s upcoming nuptials at Grandma’s last weekend (Maeve and her tissue paper!), and then had a busy week around town. Maeve and Mommy went to see Justin Roberts in Millennium Park on our way back into town Sunday and then Maeve had her first trip to our local library on Monday. She is too young to get her own card, but we read many books together and did some puzzles. She is entered in the summer reading challenge and will receive a t-shirt once I read 25 books to her (thanks Nikki for telling us about this!). We read together every day, but she usually only wants to read her favorites, so the trick will be reading 25 different books by the end of this week. We are more than halfway there though so I have no doubt we can achieve it!
Tuesday morning Maeve and Daddy spent time in a new park while Mommy took the rest of our family to the vet (both girls checked out great!). We enjoyed a Wiggleworms pajama party with many of our friends on Tuesday evening in another park. Wednesday and Thursday’s highlights were riding the train – downtown and then to music class. Maeve is such an enthusiastic traveler! Friday morning we had a fun playdate with Leilani and her daughter Olivia – who can beat chocolate ice cream at breakfast?!
This weekend is action-packed too with a trip to the Shedd Aquarium Saturday morning and our friend Mia’s 2nd birthday party in the afternoon. Sunday we are hoping to get back to the Skokie pool with the Steeves family! We are jealous that Nanna and Grandad are touring in Italy this week – I can just see them cruising around in a gondola now…
Maeve is getting more and more coordinated and is getting both feet off the ground when she jumps now. She loves to jump off the little ledges in our house and in doorways along the sidewalk when we are out walking. Unfortunately, when she gets tired she tends to fall down more and this week’s mishaps resulted in another bad knee scrape and a split lip (Daddy came to the rescue with a popsicle!). Our favorite new Maeve phrase is “oh gr-eat!” where great sounds like two words. She uses this a lot when pretending to talk on the phone or when she does something that she thinks was a great idea…hilarious! Maeve, our little artist, did a beautiful painting this week too. Photos are slowly but surely being added to the gallery.
Oh, Alex, I forgot to email you – we received somewhat unexpected houseguests this weekend and will be unable to get together tomorrow. Another weekend or Tuesday night – soon!