Our little jetsetter

Maya has been busy planning trips and getting to know her surroundings. She's official now as she got her social security card and her passport so she's set to go to Uruguay in December (take that Sarah Palin!!). Taking her passport picture a the post office was not easy. The clerk handed the camera over to Brian so she could tend to the growing line while we tried to get a picture with eyes open and not screaming - it was a team effort with Grandma Lynn making faces while Brian steadied the camera and I played with her pacifier and tried to keep her arms down (we had just woken her up to take the picture which she clearly thought was incredibly unfair, so the screaming was very justified).

We also introduced Maya to the Hamptons this past weekend. A welcome change of scenery since we hadn't gone since early August. It was a beautiful sunny warm weekend which was perfect for strolling around and window shopping. The Hamptons' farms are bursting with fall produce, pumpkins everywhere, apple picking, corn mazes and roasted corn on the cob. A lot of fun to see stores get ready for Halloween and families pushing wheel barrels of pumpkins bigger than they could carry. A great time to be out there and clearly we weren't only ones who thought so as the towns were packed. Also on the agenda is a trip to Williams for homecoming weekend and Boston for Thanksgiving. We're going to become pros at nursing and changing diapers in the car.

Maya who will be 7 weeks on Saturday has also started to smile at us which is incredibly adorable. She spends longer periods of time awake now and demands to be entertained. She loves to be held in your lap so she can see you and will make lots of faces and stare and study your gestures. She pushes up with her legs and tries to stand and while she still doesn't have much control of her hands which occasionally whack her in the face she has had a couple of successes getting her hand to her mouth. She clearly wants to be on the move and makes a great effort to hold her head up and push her legs to creep forward. I think we already know this girl is going to keep us on the move.