August 2010 Update

Wow, have I been slack on updating the blog or what?

Overview
Maeva is now 3 years and 3 months old. She loves talking, a lot. And playing with her ballerina, Ken, and two daughters Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. For this reason, she loves playing "mums and Dads" or "Mums and daughters" or "Dads and daughters".

We have had a homestay student for the past 5 weeks, her name is Momo - which also means "turd" in Samoan, hehe...She has been awesome, she loves playing with Maeva.

She was admitted to Starship overnight beginning of Aug for having high blood pressure and a very low pulse, but she is okay now, we just have to see a specialist to monitor her progress and make sure its nothing serious.
Cherelle

We had Aunty Cherelle for 2 lovely weeks. Maeva LOVED having her home. They roomed together, Relle on the matress and her on her bed. But on several nights, when I checked their room, she was glued to Cherelle on the matress, and it makes for very uncomfortable sleeping, so it was a bit of a task extracting her from the matress to her bed again.

Relle bought her a gorgeous skirt with many colours, and it has become the flavour of the year. She loves wearing it and doing the siva samoa/ballerina in it.

This is her thing she learnt from Relle "You dork!".

Hotel Stay
When Relle was here, she had the brilliant idea of checking into a hotel. Maeva LOVEd this idea so much, that on the day we checked out she pleaded with me "Mom, can I have another day please!!!".
Being the fob that she is, I left her with Relle so I could drop off Leilani and when I returned,. Relle shows me the child who is having the time of her life...she was stilling on a swirvel shair, in front of the heat pump, enjoying the heat blow in her hair. FOB alert!

We also ordered room service, Maeva got to have her dinner, then banana spilt, then dinner again - Brat!

She had a bubble bath with Relle and they managed to make large bubbles....i have photos....(coming this century).
Hospital Stay

Sadly, on the last day, my Maeva got sick and we ended up at Starship Hospital, we stayed the night while they monitored her heart, did xrays and various other tests. She was the most well mannered kid in the ward full of screaming kids. When we went up to xrays, she did everthing the nurse asked her to do, without a sound. I was so proud of my bubba!

The next day, we were allowed to go, but only to report to a specialist in the Waikato.
We also got to visit Sione, who is at Ronald McDonald house. He looks okay, strong and smiling. He is now wheelchair bound but still a cheerful child. Maeva loved playing with him.
Kindy
Kindy continues to be fun for Maeva, she's making lots of new friends and learning lots of new things,
From Gabriel, she learns to say "See you later alligator, don't forget the toilet paper!" and then laughs out loud. She also enjoys dancing with her friends, and of course drawing and scribling.
she can spell Gui. G-U-I!!!
 Favourites
Purple remains her favourite colour, followed closely by pink.
She wants to be a ballerina when she grows up, in Samoa..haha, that'll be a first!
SO the ultimate gift for her was a ballerina who wears a gorgeous purple tutu!
She still loved eating green beans, peas, carrots and cherry tomatoes.
Fruits are considered a fun treat.
When we go to the supermarket, she is allowed to choose ONE treat, this is usually a donut, or a Kinder choc egg or if she's feeling adventurous, dinosaur eggs (yoghurt balls).
She loves giving cuddles, and saying "I love you so so much" ...and it makes my heart sing to hear her say that, even though it is followed by "Can I have a cookie please?"
She loved to help. Especially when I'm in the kitchen. SHe loves mixing the flour, egg yolk, sugar etc for the pancakes or the crumble.

Bad habits
Maeva is no angel, that's for sure.
She still fights to the end to avoid sleeping at night. So the solution is either we read her 5 books and if she is not asleep and happy we just shut the door and let her howl until the neighbourhood is awake, and she falls asleep...while I read my book oblivious of the screams.
She forgets to wash her hands after going to the loo, so lately, I've had to get a bowl of water and her her to dip her hands int to clean them thoroughly.
She has a Marseille temper. That can flare out when you pushe her to her limits. She reminds me of her crazy father when she is angry. haha.

Samoa
We are going to Samoa 7th - 27th Sept. I have to do data collection and we need a holiday. Maeva is looking forward to seeing her roomie Auntty Relle again. She is already planned which doll is going and who isn't. I told her she will be seing relle again and she said "I miss her so so much" Gosh, is this girl a godsend or a real good kuluku????

Overall, she has been so much fun lately, she can engage in a conversation and say the most hilarious or the most interesting things.

This morning, we sang ABC in the car on the way to Kindy, we sang it in high soprano voices...funny version of course....after the song, she exclaimed "what good team work! we are such good singers aye!"
hahah....definitely Jackson genes shinning through!

okay, i gotta finish my proposal. and photos to come once our broken laptop is replaced.
when i win the lotto this weekend.
haha