Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Maya


Maya is the dancing queen. young a sweet and silly as could be! she is always singing ummm anything. sometimes they are real songs (Grey Holiday mostly, but also Raffi and other kid songs, James Taylor and some country that daddy sings to her) but typically they are orginal Maya creations. She will sing with happiness or with her displeasure with you :-) either or! She is not afraid to show her true feelings about just about anything. She will tell you how it is and not beat around the bush. sounds like her mother! ahhhhhhhhhh! She is the princess in our house and won't let anyone forget it. She goes to bed telling me what she will dream about, typically that is whatever she wants for breakfest. Toast with butter and jelly and orange juice please! she wants to do her exersizes allll the time. running back and forth all over the house, the yard, everywhere! she loves her backyard playground, the green playground in our neighborhood park and Ema and Pop's playground. She wants to go for walks almost everynight. In our neighborhood or at the barn, and simulenously pick other people's flowers!! that's my girl! she loves to hug and kiss, tackle and play monkey in the middle with sammy. she will share with him 30 % of the time and the other 70% mommy must put her in timeout before she will say she is sorry and share with him. sometimes she won't even share with him his own toys!! she knows how to work it! she goes to school at UUMC day school and loves it! she loves all the interaction, singing, playing and creating things to bring home. the social butterfly of the Schoenfelds is she!

Sam


typical Sammy. silly, happy go lucky and the smiliest boy around! he has been loving the shell lais that Kristen gave Maya for Christmas. He puts them on and takes them off, puts them on and takes them off. giggling along the way. he is all boy but definately learning that Mommy means business when I say NO! which is often. :-) He adores his sister and loves to be "allowed" to play with her. with her permission of course! ha! His only words at 14 months are: dadadada, mamama, meeeee (for maya), the pthhh point that he does at everything is his usual form of communication as to what he wants. He understands soo much more than what he is saying, but all in good time he will be a chatter box like his sister. he is walking and running all around. getting into everything possible and absolutely loves to be dirty. he is for sure his father's son! he will eat anything we put before him and if he doesn't like it, he will simply drop if off his tray on to the floor for the awaiting dogs to devour! I love this boy!

As a part of our attempt at a healthy lifestyle, we have been walking, a LOT! the weather has been so mild so Sammy and I went on a long walk today, while Maya was at school. It was glorious! I got good and sweaty, and Sammy fell asleep in the stroller. good times!