A Visit With Santa

 

Maya's gymnastics meet was in Coralville yesterday so we had to hit the mall afterwards and Santa happened to be there.  Maya wanted to go see him to let him know what she wants for Christmas.  Here's what she told him:  5 ipads, 15 iphones and 1 Mytab.  Who knows where she comes up with this stuff!  We weren't going to get a picture, but since it was Ciana's first trip to see Santa we decided to put her on his lap too.  She wasn't scared at all and the picture turned out pretty good. 

Great Meet Today!

Maya had a great gymnastics meet today!  Last week she was finally able to pull off a complete bar routine and improved upon it this week finishing in 5th place and taking home her first medal for bars.  She got a medal on floor, as well, for 3rd place.  Her vault was her best ever with an amazing score of 9.7, which meant she was the vault champion and got a 1st place medal!  After struggling for a few weeks at the beginning of the season to get an all-around score of 31 to qualify for state, she finally did it a couple of meets ago and this week she was able to improve upon it by a full 3 points.  Her all-around score was 34.3 and earned her a medal for 4th place! 

Update:  Wow, we just found out that Maya broke the Level 4 vault record at her gym!  We're so proud of her!

7 Months Old

Today Ciana turned 7 months old!  I can't believe it's been 7 weeks since we've been home with her.  It's been so busy.  I go back to work on Monday and she will start daycare on Tuesday.  She is still just as calm and laid back as ever.  She is getting around a little more though.  Technically, I wouldn't say she's crawling yet, but she can move.  She gets in the crawl position, but she straightens her legs out and sort of scoots.  She is sitting up on her own, most of the time.  She prefers to be on her feet, however, and can stand while holding onto something.  She is a tiny little peanut.  When we saw the doctor a few weeks ago for her 6 month appointment she was 14 lbs 8 oz and 26 1/2" long.  She is wearing mostly 6 month clothing, though some of those are still too big on her.  She likes to play peek-a-boo and her giggle is infectious.  Can't wait to see what she will be doing by this time next month!