Tooth number four (top center left) has FINALLY made its breakthrough today. As a result (no teething pain), Maya is bouncing off the walls today.

At the moment, she’s playing tug with a bleached prefold diaper (I don’t mind that — they’re not as soft as unbleached, so I doubt I’ll use them anyway) with Clay, and LAUGHING her head off. The dogs keep going back and forth between playing with her and each other. Either way, Maya is delighted.

For Halloween this year, we joined a group of other parents and young kids for a potluck in the Old North End. Maya loved the rocking chair, but *really* loved the menagerie of critters — bunny, guinea pigs, crickets, turtle, frog, bird, God only knows what else.

Skipping her afternoon nap meant I had a sleepy, sleepy monkey on my hands after the party. By the time we were a block away from the party, little miss had conked out. I waited to remove the monkey suit until the first wake-up of the night.