Happy birthday Maya ...

Maya turns 4 today. Wow, time does fly quite fast and its amazing how quickly your small baby grows up into this walking talking person that you can have a pretty good conversation with :). Once again, we've managed to spend Maya's birthday in another country. She spent her first three birthdays with my family in India, and this year its a relatively small affair with just Cecile and us.

Cecile was kind enough to bake a wonderful Devil's chocolate cake (recipe from tartine book). The cake turned out very nice and we had it for breakfast!. We also had gougiere's for breakfast but they were largely ignored in favor of the yummy cake. In true Kiwi style maya wants to go for a picnic for her birthday. We are off to Kaiteriteri beach later this morning. She also wanted PBJ sandwiches in her lunch box for the picnic. Kinda cute that she likes the simple stuff :)

Maya and PJ are getting along extremely well and play together quite nicely. They currently are entertaining and having a performance for 4 bears all of whom spent time with PJ at St. Catherine's. Cake is being served after each performance. We've been doing a fair amount of reading from adoptions books to Maya and PJ and this seems to be incorporated into the play. PJ is quite proud to be from St. Catherine's while Maya proclaims she is a Kaiser baby