5 o'clock in the morning

Isn't it almost funny how some of the most irritating things happen at the same time as the most pleasant. Last night Amanda and I fell asleep in our bed, just the two of us. Maya was in baba Dora's room, Julian in his. Somehow during the night Julian had snuck in and fallen asleep on my right and Maya had ended up between me and Amanda on the other side. I never noticed a thing, that is until Maya woke up at 5 a.m. and decided it was time for all of us to wake up. First she tried to get our attention. She unzipped her pajamas a little bit to show us she was wearing a t-shirt underneath. Then she said: "Look mamma, look dadda, a pretty princess. Good night pretty princess, time to go to sleep". Then she zipped her pajamas back up and let the little princes on her t-shirt sleep. But not the rest of us. Then she started to sing. She sang "Row row row boat, jently donw da streem, merrly merrly, dream". Over and over again. I was thinking, man that is a really nice song and she sings it so well. Of course I was also thinking "man, it's freeking 5 a.m. and I've gotta go to work soon, I need my sleep, why won't she go to sleep? whose kid is this and how did she end up in our bed?" But the song was really sweet. Then baba came in and rescued us by taking Maya downstairs to play. She leaves back for Colorado on Saturday. She's been terrific but we can tell she's getting tired.

So my question to all of you is ... who's coming out next to help give us an extra hour of sleep at 5 a.m. in the morning ? Can't wait for your visit.

Sesame Street: Potty Time

I thought the little ones might get a laugh out of this:

Charge it !

Maya went up to Amanda yesterday carrying a credit card she found from Amanda's purse.

She told Amanda : "Buy Candy " and handed her the credit card.

Maya the Chipmunk

Baba Dora is with us and we've been to the coast the last three weekends in a row. The first weekend was really nice and sunny, the second we had the worst hamburgers (can't really call it that) on the planet, and today we had the best fish and chips on the planet. It's extreme on the coast. And today very cold.

We just got home, and we took the long way around (thanks to the new GPS unit that never allows us to get lost). We just hit "Detour" and it helps to get us back on track wherever we are. So we drove up and down the coast, saw a lighthouse on an island that has a road leading to it. The road was under water since the tide was high. Man that North Sea is cold. Then we stopped by our big grocery store and Momma and Baba went shopping while Julian, Maya and I napped in the car.

You may be wondering why I'm telling you all of this while the topic of today's blog is about chipmunks. Well it took us about 2 hours after the fish and chips place to get home. We just found out that Maya has been keeping fish and chips in her cheeks. She'll do that with nuts and just about anything. We've never heard of anything like it, have you ? So we call her Chipmunk Maya. Storing her fish and chips in her cheeks for winter.

The people voted and they said : "WE WANT OBAMA AND MORE MOVIES ON THE JULIAN AND MAYA BLOGSITE". Yay Obama and here are some recent movies.

One is Julian singing along with a Weird Al video "White and Nerdy". You can see the real video below on the blog site "The kid's favorite You Tube Videos"

Then there is one of Maya eating ice cream.

Sorry about the poor video quality but our camera is starting to tell us it wants to go to camera heaven. (That's a hint for anyone wanting to get us a Christmas Present :-).

The picture we're really proud of. Julian is teaching Maya how to go to the potty. (I can't believe the diaper days are coming to a close !).