Cuteness update: Maya

Maya's a few weeks from turning two. Wow.
Last night and this morning she did something that made her mama very proud. She shared! Last night we were visiting our upstairs neighbors, one of whom is a giggly little 10-month-old named Leilani, and Maya created a task for herself of presenting Leilani with several toys to play with. "Here go, 'lani!" she announced, while dragging over Leilani's toy piano. "Here go, 'lani!" she chirped again, while pushing a little wooden car gently between Leilani's feet. And on it went until Leilani was literally surrounded in a pile of toys. I was really pleased to see Maya focusing on her little friend that way.

This morning, as I was leaving Maya at school, I saw her spot a particular toy firetruck across the room, retrieve it, walk it over to a little boy named Benji, and offer it to him. "Here go, Benji!" The teachers were impressed and praised Maya accordingly, noting that the truck she'd given Benji was, in fact, his favorite toy in the room. Well-played, Maya! (Unfortunately, though, Maya was further rewarded for her efforts by an inadvertant push from Benji as he barreled by with the firetruck she'd just given him. Sigh.)

I'm really eager for Maya to make friends. She seems to like (and be somewhat mesmerized by) other children at school and at the playground, and I want her to feel comfortable interacting with them. So this desire to share toys is a neat development and a step in the right direction, it seems.

Go Maya, go!