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First sunburn
April 29, 2006
Poor Mia got her first sunburn! It is on her shoulders and down her arms. I've never had to worry much about sunburning, but Robert burns at the drop of a hat. So we were wondering which skin Mia got... It seems like she doesn't burn quite as easily as he does, but much more easily than me! Now we're hoping that she just wakes up tomorrow with a tan like I do on the rare occasions that I do get burnt instead of peeling like Robert does. It may be wishful thinking, but it looks like it is already turning toward a tan and doesn't feel hot anymore so this is good news!
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Another copycat trick
April 27, 2006
If you shut your mouth tight and then keep your lips kind of stiff when you open them over and over again it makes a pop pop pop sound. Mia couldn't do this yesterday. I was doing it at her and she would watch me intently. You could tell she was studying. Today, she started doing it back to me! I did it back to her and she thought it was a fun game! Now we have another trick she'll do on cue!
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Roseola Rash
April 26, 2006
Poor Miss Mia is on to the rash phase of her virus. The good news is that she feels better and the rash isn't itchy or anything. She just looks pitiful. This part is ony supposed to last 24-48 hours and it has already been a little over 24 hours, so hopefully it will be gone soon!
Posted by Kimberly at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)
The happy food dance
April 25, 2006
As you may know, Mia just loves spaghetti squash. I don't think I ever posted this video of her eating it. She likes to slurp it up. About halfway through, watch for a quick version of her "I love this food" Dance. She lifts her arms and twists while bouncing when she is particularly fond of her dinner!
Posted by Kimberly at 05:21 PM | Comments (0)
Mia on the mend
Well the fever was down this morning, and she seemed like she felt a lot better. Pretty much back to herself except that she still isn't eating. But then again, not eating is never a reliable symptom of anything when it comes to Mia. Interestingly enough, a rash looking amazingly like Roseola appeared just as her fever subsided. So, I guess we have our answer. One childhood illness down, only a couple thousand to go...
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It sure is windy in here!
April 24, 2006
We had a little flooding problem last weekend. I will save that story for Robert to tell. But aftrwards, we ended up with fans all over the house trying to dry things out. It sounded like an airport in here with all of them going, but Mia thought she had hit the jackpot with fun new toys!
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Sick baby
April 23, 2006
Poor Miss Mia is sick. For the past 2 days she hasn't wanted to eat and has been extra clingy. Then yesterday she seemd particularly cranky and by the evening had a fever of 101. We let her stay up with us and by 9:30pm it seemed to break and she acted happier than she had been for a couple days. We went to bed and then woke up at 3:45 am to a rainfall of vomit. She had projectile vomited straight up in the air so that it landed on herself, me, and all over the bed. Somehow, Robert narrowly escaped. Then this morning she felt super hot so I took her temperature again and it was 103.9. I called Robert and he agreed we should call her doctor. Dr. Miles said there is a stomach flu going around where they get high fevers for 3 days. She is still nursing well so there isn't much we can do besides some baby tylenol. Hopefully she'll get over this quickly, but we might be doing this for a few days.
Posted by Kimberly at 08:45 AM | Comments (1)
Balabalabalabalabala
April 22, 2006
If you stick your tongue out and then pull it back in your mouth really fast while making noise, you'll get a sound sort of like balabalabalabalabala. This is Mia's newest trick and she's often ready and willing to do it on command! If you do it at her she will do it back. If she is "mad" about something but really just wants some attention, then you can do it at her and she will want to do it back, but also want to continue crying. Since she can't do both, she has to choose one! Hopefully it won't be the crying!
Posted by Kimberly at 05:50 PM | Comments (0)
What a good baby she is!
April 17, 2006
Mia was very well behaved in church yesterday. She sat quietly the whole time until the trumpet started playing. Then she started singing along! She was clearly singing and it was pretty much in tune too! After that though she thought it was ok to keep singing even after the music stopped. I took her out right away and walked her around for a few minutes until she fell asleep. Since she was in the sling, I came back in and she slept through the rest of the service. Everyone thought she was such a good baby.
Then, we went to Olive Garden for lunch. We ordered her her very first kids meal there since she's taken to eating all of my food lately. She got a grilled chicken breast with ziti pasta and broccoli. Still not a fan of the broccoli, but she loves the chicken and pasta! She sat there the whole time we were eating feeding herself and being quiet and well mannered. About 3/4 of the way through our meal a table of older women got up to leave and on their way out they had to come over and tell us how good she was. "We have been watching her the whole time and she is such a good baby! She just sat there eating the whole time and not making a peep!" I said thank you to the women and then turned to Robert and groaned, "Oh no, now I have my mother's story.
Posted by Kimberly at 06:39 PM | Comments (0)
Happy Easter!
April 12, 2006
Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!
See more Easter pictures at Flickr
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Can you get her to do this?
April 11, 2006
Sometimes Mia is more fun than a pet monkey! We can get her to shake her head, blow raspberries, wave, talk... She has all sorts of tricks she can do. She loves to be a copy cat so if you do something she can do she lights up and does it back to you. If you do something she can't do, she tilts her head and gives you a quizzical look. Then, sometimes, she tries anyway and it comes out even funnier. They don't sell toys this fun at Toys R' Us!
Posted by Kimberly at 09:36 AM | Comments (1)
The 3 levels of fullness
April 09, 2006
Level 1 - Getting full
Mia will quit eating regular food but suddenly finds room for cheerios and puffs.
Level 2 - Pretty full
Mia will still eat cheerios, but will pick them and leave the puffs.
Level 3 - So full she will explode
Mia actually turns down cheerios.
Posted by Kimberly at 09:41 PM | Comments (0)
Found a new favorite food
April 08, 2006
Mia loves spaghetti squash. And watching her eat it was hilarious. I started giving her short individual strings, but I kept making them longer and longer because the longer they were, the funnier she was. Eventually I just gave her small piles of it and she handled it just fine. She'd eat a pile but have a string hanging out of her mouth and have fun slurping it in. Then sometimes the strings would wrap around her fingers and she'd have to untangle it before she ate it. She was eating this for a solid hour tonight!
Posted by Kimberly at 10:08 PM | Comments (0)
Is it because we dressed her as a chicken on halloween?
April 07, 2006
Mia seems to only like eating chicken. If you give her beef she will eat some. If you give her fish she might decide to eat a bite or two. If you give her pork you can go ahead and just get out the broom. But, if you give her chicken she will eat mountains of the stuff and the floor is remarkably clean afterwards. She doesn't want to let any of the good stuff get away. Keep in mind that this rule only applies on a day when she has decided that she is going to eat any solids at all. Some days she figures nursing is easier and more fun so she'll have nothing to do with any food at all. But, on other days the girl can eat a whole chicken breast!
Posted by Kimberly at 09:06 PM | Comments (0)
Happy Easter
April 06, 2006
We've recently found all sorts of things for Mia to be afraid of. Dogs, grass, sand, bubble baths, and now Easter Bunnies.
We wandered up to the Easter Bunny this afternoon and Mia wanted nothing to do with him. There was no one else waiting so I decided to take a few minutes to get her used to him slowly. She seemed brave enough when I was holding her and we were at a good distance from him. But as we inched closer she held on tighter. When he reached out to touch her she pulled back as if he were trying to burn her with acid! We tried a couple different approaches, but the bottom line was that she had no intention of sitting on his lap. I had almost given up on the Easter Bunny idea when I decided to sit her next to him on the bench and stand just to the side. The photographer had pretty much figured it was a lost cause so when I yelled, "Hey, get a picture!" she had to race back to her camera. Luckily, she got this one in just seconds before Mia burst into tears.
Posted by Kimberly at 07:35 PM | Comments (0)
Just hanging out
Just some video of Mia doing her thing.
Posted by Kimberly at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)
Playing with her new walker
April 05, 2006
In the spirit of encouraging her to want to try walking, we got her a push toy that she can use to walk around the house. She's really good at it actually. She can start and stop and is zipping around by herself. She can't actually turn it around though so you still have to follow her and turn her around every time she hits a wall.
Posted by Kimberly at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)
Will she walk, the saga continues
After her first steps 2 weeks ago, Mia has shown little interest in standing or walking by herself. That first day she seemed so proud of herself, so it surprises me that she's lost interest. Then again, her personality has been to wait until she can do something well before she shows us she can do it.
For the whole following week, whenever you'd try to stand her on the ground she'd collapse her legs like gumby and crumple to the floor. This was quite a change for her since she's always wanted to "stand" when you'd try to sit her down since she was 3 months old!
This week she's let us stand her up again, but holds on for dear life and doesn't want us to let go. However, if you hand her one end of your key chain and hold the key, she will stand just fine. Clearly there is no support offered by a key sliding on a ring. Or, if you hold onto her shirt-- just a small pinch between my thumb and index finger. She was obviously not leaning on anything, but she thought I was still holding her. I'm convinced this is a confidence problem now. Now, we just have to figure out how to convince her she can do it!
Posted by Kimberly at 09:05 AM | Comments (0)
Scared of dogs
April 04, 2006
Apparently, Mia is scared of dogs. We were over at someone's house the other day and Mia was standing next to my leg. Their large dog came in and sat in front of her. He seemed really calm and had some kids living in his own house so shouldn't have been a danger. Suddenly, I hear Mia let out a scared yell and cling to my leg for dear life. I picked her up and it was fine.
A few days later we were visiting someone else with a dog and the same thing happened. This time I was expecting it so I was watching her. She had a petrified look on her face when she was standing on the ground, but seemed ok if I held her.
We decided to go visit Gavin's dog who was behind a fence to see if she could get used to a dog that couldn't get to her. We went outside to visit the dog, but the same thing happened again. She just really doesn't like dogs!
Posted by Kimberly at 09:32 PM | Comments (0)
Big girl chair
April 02, 2006
Although we love the Bumbo, it is time to retire it. It is still in my top 5 best baby gear products list, but Mia is just getting too big! It let her sit right at the table with us since she was 3 months old. In the last few weeks though, she has shown us that she can just crawl right out of it. I had been focusing on the weight limit of it when considering how long it would last us. I didn't count on her figuring out how to squirm her way loose. But, this is precisely what has happened, so it's time to move on to something I can strap her into. I decided to skip the highchair and go right to the booster. After all, we've made it this far without having yet another large baby item clutter up the house. Plus, she's used to sitting with us at the table. So, here she is, sitting at the table like a big girl!
Now, if we could only get her to start eating there...
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