7 months!

Our girl is 7 months old now! This last month she has grown like crazy. A few things about 7 month old Maza:

--She has two bottom teeth! They came in about a week after her 6 month mark and she loves using those teeth to bite into anything she can get her hands on
--She can sit up all on her own and loves to sit and play. She doesn't really like being on her belly and we have been working with her wanting to put any weight on her legs.
--She squeals and can be quite loud at times.
--She has been trying lots of new foods, her favorites as of right now are apples, sweet potato and little pieces of mom's grilled cheese sandwich.
--She loooves baths--especially the splashing water part. Who ever knew baths could be so much fun when you can finally sit up?? :)

latest family picture

I have been working on crocheting a sweater (with lots of help from my friend Melanie) for Maza and have finally completed it!! I love it!!! And I think Maza looks so cute with it on!(do you see the little teeth?)

Finally getting big enough to wear some of her new cute clothes!

Maza Christmas Video

Maza Christmas 2011 from Richard Bradshaw on Vimeo.

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Christmas!

This Christmas we decided to head up to Toronto to spend the holidays with Rich's family. Before we left, we had a pre-Christmas and opened presents from the Romero's. Maza was spoiled from her Grandma and Aunt Halli and loved opening presents--especially the eating wrapping paper part. :)

On the 21st we drove up to Toronto. Maza loved being at Grandma Bradshaw's house. She loved playing in the front room with Grandma and Jack and especially loved taking her first big girl bath complete with bubble bath and toys. It is so fun she can sit up now!

Christmas Eve was very nice. Maza and Evelyn had matching outfits and looked so cute together! Evelyn wasn't really interested in taking pictures, but that's okay. They are such cute cousins. Maza loves Evelyn and is always smiling and laughing at everything she does. And I think Evelyn likes her too--most of the time anyways. :)

We had quite the crowd this year, so we decided to act out the Nativity story. Maza and I were angels, and I have to say I think Maza is the cutest angel I have ever seen!

Delicious Christmas Eve food.

Christmas morning I unfortunately was not feeling well. What the heck? Who feels sick on Christmas?! So, I didn't get many pictures of actual Christmas. But Maza loved opening presents and she looked so cute in her matching dress with Evelyn.
Spending time with the Bradshaws was lovely. We played lots of games, ate great food, went to the temple, saw a movie and lots of other things. We had a great time. On our way back down to Pittsburgh we made a little stop at Niagra falls. I was happy just driving by and looking and decided to stay in the warm car. But here are some pictures of the few brave souls that got out of the car.

We stayed the night in a hotel in Erie, PA and enjoyed swimming in our big indoor pool and hot tub. Maza and Evelyn were just too cute together (Can you tell we love having them match??)

And the Christmas fun finally ended when we got home and opened up more presents! Maza loves her new book from Great-Grandma Wirrick!

Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful friends and family! We love you.

Florida

For Thanksgiving break this year, we were able to join my family down in Orlando and check out the new Harry Potter theme park!! (technically we went to Universal Studios, but Harry Potter was what we were really looking forward to). And we were definitely not disappointed! We felt like we were really in Hogsmeade. We drank butterbeer at three broomsticks, and got wands at Ollivanders. We even heard Moaning Myrtle while we went to the bathroom. :)

The rest of the theme park was really fun too. We got to ride some roller coasters. This one was particularly cool because you got to pick music to listen to as you went along!

We went on a boat ride and almost got attacked by jaws. We also got to try to shoot some aliens at MIB.

We visited Jurassic park and ate at a cute 50's diner. We also got talked into going on the water rides with dad on our last evening there. Right in time for the sun to set, and us to be wet the rest of the night. You can tell we are really happy about it too. :)

We were having fun all day long, that by the end of the day we were so tuckered out! Maza was a champion the whole time. I really can't believe how well she did.

For Thanksgiving dinner we did something a little different this year. We went to a dinner theater at Al Capone's. It was a little cheesy, but we had a good time!

After we went on The Mummy ride I just had to buy everyone tatoos. So here we are sporting our Egyptain tatoos--even Maza got one :). We had a great time hanging out together in our condo too. We watched 3 of the Harry Potter movies, played games and ate food. Vacations can't get much better then that!

And, if you can believe it or not Maza is now 6 months old!!
A few things about 6 month old Maza:
She has decided to not sleep through the night anymore. bah.
She has started eating solid foods--mostly just rice cereal
As an early Christmas present my mom got her a high chair. She loves to sit in it!