Splish Splash - First Bath

(from Baby Maya blog)

We survived our first bath, lots of splish splash singing and everyone came out clean and smiling!

We also took our FIRST SHOPPING TRIP! We went across the street from the hotel to a small marketplace. There are such beautiful fabrics here and impressive workmanship.

Maya is Mommy's little sunshine. We are definitely having BIG fun!!

Tomorrow is the all important trip to the embassy. Wayne is saying, "Do you know what time it is?" since we have to be up and ready to go by 6:45 am. Good thing Maya is such a good sleeper.

We're getting more and more in tune with baby rhythyms. (If not spelling champs!), we're starting to be able to predict the bottle, diaper, nap cycle. We can even recognize the baby toot that signals the BIG STINKY and has daddy running for the hills. Thank you to all the forum friends who told us about the diaper duck scented bags - Whew!

Maya is having a few fussy minutes, I think she wants to make sure mommy and daddy love her even when she's not miss sunshine and happiness. We're passing her tests with flying colors and the baby smiles come out pretty fast. What an angel.....

Also the forum friends who said that eight month olds like toys with music and lights were SO right. "Mr. Crunchy" the little toy that lights up and plays rock-a-bye baby is a BIG favorite and the "keys" that work as a teething toy are favorites, too.

Well, I think baby needs mommy back....or is that mommy needs baby back? I miss holding her every minute I'm not!

Love to all....three more days and daddy's girls will be home forever.