It's a BOY!

That's right, the scales are tipping a bit in the Maynard household and Nate won't be as outnumbered anymore! We're super excited to have a little boy - Cate was right all along! :)

Happy Everything!

Click the link below to see our belated holiday card (and to discover a fun little announcement)!

The Maynard Family Happy Everything Card

Much love to all!

Cute stuff they say

This morning Anna, our supper cuddler, was snuggling with me in bed. She popped her thumb out of her mouth and said, "Oh, mama. I always want to be with you." What a way to start the day.

Cate just told me how at school she used a yellow Kleenex. A few minutes later she said, "Mom, have you ever heard of a yellow Kleenex?" I told her I wasn't sure, to which she replied, "Well, now you have." I love that she thinks she discovered colored Kleenexes...and that a yellow Kleenex is a discovery to begin with.

a little fact about princesses

so, anna has started referring to herself as "princess" about half of the time. "mom! princess is awake!" "princess wants cereal." it's really funny and cute.

when nate got home today, I started to tell him about another of the cute princess anecdotes. here's exactly what I told nate:

so, today anna said to me, "princesses don't wear diapers." and I said {with a bit of attitude}, "oh really? well, what does it look like I'm doing here?"

nate looked and me and said, "you wear diapers? AND you're a princess? well, that's TWO things I learned about you today that I never knew!"

yeah, I neglected to mention at the start of my story that I was changing Anna's diaper at the time of my conversation with her. it was ANNA'S diaper I was referring to. I swear!

all night long, whenever I think about the line "what does it look like I'm doing here?" I start laughing uncontrollably. I wonder how long it will take for me to get over it...

A Winter Walk on the Beach

love these girls

Anna burps. Says to Nate, "Oh! I wasn't expecting that!"

Nate comes and tells Jane and Cate. Cate starts laughing really hard and says, "That was the silliest thing I could ever heard."

cute 2-year-old talk

I just pulled some corn muffins out of the oven. anna walked into the kitchen, smelled the air and said, "mmm, the muffins smell good. I can almost taste them!"

Happy Birthday to Mom!

Could I ask for anything more for my birthday? Two beautiful daughters and a chocolate cake? Nope, I couldn't.

kid talk

cate told me in the car yesterday that she can "snip" and then showed me how to snap. I love that she still says snip. and she also stills says "stirsty" instead of "thirsty" - I'll be sad when she starts pronouncing everything correctly, which will probably be pretty soon...

anna and I got out of the car the other day and a dog barked across the parking lot. anna exclaimed, "oooohhh! the doggie burped!" which is when I discovered that she thinks the word "bark" is "burp" - love it.

little things

little thing #1:

I'm cleaning up the apartment right now. picked up a piece of artwork from school. on the back it says "the cate." totally made me laugh.

little thing #2:

a little factoid so the "punch line" of this story makes sense: anna and cate each have a 'my little pony' toy car given to them by my mom this summer....that they LOVE. okay, on to the story.

anna has bad dreams maybe 1 or 2 times a month. I have always wondered what a 2-year-old nightmare is made of. this morning she woke up crying and upset super early. I went in to get her and in her half-asleep state she was saying over and over again, "I want my blue pony car! I want my blue pony car!" I loved that little insight into her scary dreams. what a sweet, innocent little mind.