Maeve’s Blog

We’re off today for our MI tour - first stop, Grandma’s house! Then it’s off to Nanna and Grandad’s boat which is stationed up in Cheboygan. It will be interesting to see how Maeve and Duffy navigate that space together… Then we’ll head back down to Grandma’s before coming home next weekend. Mommy will even get a night off when she celebrates at Auntie Beth’s bachelorette party!

We had some really fun playdates this past week, at our house and at our friends’ houses… We also finished up our music class with a picnic in the park. We hope you are enjoying what’s left of the summer too! I am so excited that the Olympics are underway - the opening ceremonies were breathtaking - but I haven’t been able to do anything with my videos since they require some type of conversion before I can edit them on my Mac. Stay tuned…

We had a fun week to close out July with more swimming, trips to the Brookfield and Lincoln Park Zoos, and Maeve even won her very first raffle - a free book from our local library! She picked a boardbook entitled “Eco Babies Wear Green,” which Daddy particularly liked. Aunt Peggy was passing through town, so it was a highlight to see her and Aunt Katie this week too!

Maeve’s new phrase is “me too!” which is simply priceless. She loves riding on the carousels at the zoos and running through the sprinkler - either in our yard or at the park. I got some new pictures posted and will continue to make attempts to get videos up. This coming week I will be consumed with excitement about the Olympics though, so I might not be able to focus on anything but that!

We had a nice time celebrating Auntie Beth’s upcoming nuptials at Grandma’s last weekend (Maeve and her tissue paper!), and then had a busy week around town. Maeve and Mommy went to see Justin Roberts in Millennium Park on our way back into town Sunday and then Maeve had her first trip to our local library on Monday. She is too young to get her own card, but we read many books together and did some puzzles. She is entered in the summer reading challenge and will receive a t-shirt once I read 25 books to her (thanks Nikki for telling us about this!). We read together every day, but she usually only wants to read her favorites, so the trick will be reading 25 different books by the end of this week. We are more than halfway there though so I have no doubt we can achieve it!

Tuesday morning Maeve and Daddy spent time in a new park while Mommy took the rest of our family to the vet (both girls checked out great!). We enjoyed a Wiggleworms pajama party with many of our friends on Tuesday evening in another park. Wednesday and Thursday’s highlights were riding the train - downtown and then to music class. Maeve is such an enthusiastic traveler! Friday morning we had a fun playdate with Leilani and her daughter Olivia - who can beat chocolate ice cream at breakfast?!

This weekend is action-packed too with a trip to the Shedd Aquarium Saturday morning and our friend Mia’s 2nd birthday party in the afternoon. Sunday we are hoping to get back to the Skokie pool with the Steeves family! We are jealous that Nanna and Grandad are touring in Italy this week - I can just see them cruising around in a gondola now…

Maeve is getting more and more coordinated and is getting both feet off the ground when she jumps now. She loves to jump off the little ledges in our house and in doorways along the sidewalk when we are out walking. Unfortunately, when she gets tired she tends to fall down more and this week’s mishaps resulted in another bad knee scrape and a split lip (Daddy came to the rescue with a popsicle!). Our favorite new Maeve phrase is “oh gr-eat!” where great sounds like two words. She uses this a lot when pretending to talk on the phone or when she does something that she thinks was a great idea…hilarious! Maeve, our little artist, did a beautiful painting this week too. Photos are slowly but surely being added to the gallery.