Drinking from a cup

Maeve has mastered a new and very important skill – drinking from a cup! We bought a couple of plastic tumblers this week with bugs and flowers on them and she has a hard time choosing which one to use. She is very proud (as are we!) and says, “I love it” when she has one of the cups.

We had a nice visit last weekend with Grandma, Auntie Beth and Uncle Matt, where Maeve got to sing her new favorite song (Happy Birthday!) and even got to see her first snowfall of the year. This week has been busy with a little friend’s birthday party (“I want cake” is Maeve’s new constant phrase), our last Lil Kickers and Lincoln Park Zoo classes, and a trip downtown on the train today (“Look Mommy look!” every time we saw another train). We also had a wonderful family dinner at Zlatka’s house tonight and are looking forward to music and art classes tomorrow after playgroup! All of this will be topped off with a pre-Thanksgiving cousins’ gathering at Katie and Ben’s on Saturday with Megan and Pat, before we finish packing to head out west for Thanksgiving next week! I’m exhausted just reading this and now really need to go to bed…

I will try to get more pictures up before we leave, but likely will not post again until we return from Colorado. Hopefully we will have “Maeve on skis” pics to share!?!? Until then, Happy Thanksgiving and welcome winter…the holidays are officially upon us.