Yes, another business in the front party in the back top.  So obsessed.  I’ve had this top for a few years (no, it’s not a new obsession :)), and I wear it every summer. It was so cute.  After this first shot, she turned around and held my hands and said “No, this way!”  Done 🙂We had gone down the beach earlier in the day with some friends.  We live about 10 minutes walking distance from this sandy beach, yet we rarely go.  I hate all the crowds, but during the week, it’s not so bad.  Maya LOVED it.  She was just running up and down the beach. I for sure will leave my selfishness behind and be bringing her down here more often.  Much better than just throwing rocks for an hour! Then back for some bubbles…All in all, a pretty good day! On me…

 I had a work meeting earlier in the day and brought Maya.  Let’s just pretend I had time to take these before the meeting when I wasn’t a wrinkled mess 😉 “I’m flying mommy!” Maya grabbed this top out of my dresser when I was getting dressed.

Maya- “Wear this!”

Me- “Well, it’s my shirt…”

Maya- “It’s a princess dress for Peanut!!” as she’s attempting to put it on…Um..ok.  And so she wore it as a dress haha. “The letter D!”

On me…

She’s quick that one… 🙂

 As the weather gets nicer, my “neighborhood shots” are going to get a little more embarrassing.  Thankfully, I’ve already had to explain “what I’m doing” to a lot of them already.  This day, we were playing with our neighbors, and I’m like “Don’t mind me…just going to bang out a few pictures”, whipped out my tripod and there we go.  haha 🙂  For the 3 of my friends and family that follow this blog, they will know that this shot is totally me.  Head back laugh… 🙂 I think we all know by now that an interesting back is my downfall… 🙂 Yup, that’s Maya’s “I’m going in for a hug” look.  This time it was my neighbor getting the hug, not me 🙂 I had to laugh when I saw this one.  This is so a me mannerism!  Littel foot twist.  So funny! “Mommy, I’m running in the grass!”  Yes, you are 🙂  Too bad it’s a neighbor that wasn’t present 😐 On me…

When you are shooting with your neighbors and Maya just wants to play…this is what we get 🙂  Especially when her favorite neighbor boy had a stick!!! 😉

 We have an annual pass to the zoo, so it’s someplace we go fairly often.  I was kind of on the fence about it, because it totally makes me sad to see all the animals caged up.  On the other hand, Maya absolutely loves it, so… I caved.And can we talk about these boots?  I’ve LOVED/OBSESSED about them from afar for sooooo long.  Someone I follow on Instagram was cleaning out her closet, and had these in my size for a quarter of the price!!  I’d call that fate.  haha 😉And they are comfy too-WIN!! We chilled at the park while we were waiting for our friends.  Am I the only mean mom that has found the only park near her without swings?  Maya would stay in them the entire time, and not run around..which is totally the point of going to the park, no??  Sadly, most parks have them.  It’s fun to see her so happy though…I told Maya she had to give one of the sticks to her friend.  She totally analyzed them before giving her the one she didn’t want haha.  Seriously, she has NO FEAR!  I told her she could go look at the peacock, and she totally wanted to pet it!  I may have very calmly grabbed her and then ran. :}My friend took this with my phone of us on a little break.  “Mommy sit?  Mommy cuddle?”  Done and done 🙂

On me…

I mean, who wants to take pictures when there’s a Zoo to go to?!  Obviously not Maya 🙂

 I know most people would wear dresses on Easter, but that’s really not me… No problems putting them on Maya though haha.  She’s totally in the “princess dress” phase.  Basically, if I call it a “Princess Dress” she will put it on 🙂  Her Aunt and cousin brought over this dress so that the cousins could match.  It was pretty cute 🙂 This is what she had on earlier for the neighborhood Easter egg hunt though… Successful egg gathering! Surveying the loot (in a private spot of course haha) On me…