Maeve’s Blog

We conquered a major milestone this week – Maeve’s very first day of preschool!
There were no tears when we left – she asked “where are you going, mommy?” and I told her I’d be just outside. She told her teacher “daddy’s going to work.” She only asked her teacher about me once during snack time [...]

We had a wonderful trip to Michigan last week to visit Nanna, Grandad and Duffy on their boat, Outward Bound. Maeve had a few adventures in the dinghy, going with Daddy and Grandad to the Cheboygan State Park beach one day and riding with me to the park downtown another time. Grandad taught her how [...]

We had our last morning at the Devonshire Aquatic Center today. It has been such a great place to spend time this summer – Maeve has practiced jumping off the side (working up from 1 ft. to 2 ft. deep), floating on her ball and spiking it into the water, and kicking and splashing which [...]

Some great phrases of late:
“watch me do!”
“I can do it all myself!”
“come on – I show you something” (usually something she knows we won’t approve of!)
“it’s special?” (in response to any conversation about dessert)
“it almost rains”
“you go on the potty, I’m gonna hide”
she’s big on going first – out the door, down the stairs and [...]