Current mood: excited
Happy New Year! Yep its 2009 and Mia's first weekly blog entry! She had a couple of firsts happen this week!
The week started great, as usual. It was the last few days of the year and still wheeling from the holidays, we just bummed around the house mostly. Unfortunately, my car (the only car we have now) decided to break down! Nothing to horribly bad, just turned out to be the battery. So since we didn't have another car to jump it with and with the car still under warranty we had the dealership tow it to them and fix it. However, since it was the holiday week (with new years and all) they said they wouldn't get to it till Friday. (Which is today!) They gave us a loaner car but there is no baby seat hooked up so Mia and I have pretty much been hermits! haha
We did have a at home photo session, and I dressed her up in all the pretty clothes she got for Christmas. I decided to send thank you note to everyone who got her clothes by sending them a pic of Mia wearing them. That was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed that. Mia didn't mind pretending to be a Baby Model. She did real good and smiled in every picture!
A huge event happened this week too. She ate her first semi-solid food! Granted it was rice cereal and mostly liquid it was still food! I set up her baby seat that connects to a chair (a high chair equivalent), put on a new bib, and used her new bowl she got for Xmas from Santa. Things didn't go as well as I hoped. She just tasted the food and spit it out. I never did see her swallow. Eventually she just made a big mess and I ended up giving her, her bottle. I have been practicing with her everyday, but everyday is a challenge. She still refuses to swallow and once she does she screams and cries!!! Hmm... But I have her opening her mouth to receive the food, but soon after she pushes it out with her tongue. Sigh.... guess we need more practice! I have tried all sorts of things to make it easier for her. I stopped using her baby highchair like seat and started using her foamy soft bumbo seat. She seems to like that more but she still won’t eat. I have also mixed the food with her formula but that still doesn't seem to help. Well, we will see how the future feeding go, hopefully they will get better.
She really likes her papsan seat again. Though she is pretty much to big for it now, she still loves to play with the little bee attached. So I make it point to put her in it right before her bath so the vibrations of the little seat can give her a massage. How spoiled is that! haha she likes it though, and I enjoy playing the "bee game" with her.
I also noticed this week that she is starting to use both hands independently. Sometimes she will hold two different toys, one in each hand. I have also seen her bash them together! Its really cute. Her hand-eye coordination is really good! I am so proud of her.
She rediscovered her fishy aquarium tank in her crib. She has learned to kick it on but it was quickly turning off due to a low battery. I decided to give her a treat and replaced the batteries... big mistake! now she’s always kicking it on and screaming with joy and excitement and laughing. Normally this would be good but not when I lay her down for a nap or for bed. Now she stays awake longer just playing with her fishy tank and when she wakes up she starts kicking it hard and going nuts. It causes a big bang too! Just now I finally had to turn it off because she wasn't taking her nap. She would play with it, doze off, wake up and kick it some more. She wasn't getting any rest!! haha I will see how I will incorporate play time with her fishy tank in the future!
Well another big event happened this week too. She celebrated her first New Years!!! Granted she slepted thru midnight, we still had some time to play before bed. Daddy bought some new years stuff, ie. party hats, leys, horns, etc. So I didn't hesitate in taking the opportunity to dress her up and take tons of pictures. She seemed to know what to do with the horn right away. She wouldn't blow in it but she would put it to her mouth like she wanted to! Haha It was a lot of fun. After Mia went to bed, Adrian and I brought in the new year quietly with some sparkling cider and my favorite fudge cake!!! It was nice!
Her eczema is still here and we are still constantly battling it, though some days are better than others. I still find her all scratched up in the face in the mornings from itching. Poor baby. I use her medicine everyday but that stubborn rash always comes back! Grrr! Also, we thought we had the constipation situation taken care of but it too has returned! Poor baby had a rough past two days so it looks like its back to prune juice for her!
That’s about it. What a week. Its been really fun though, with every holiday she experiences brings new things and stories. I love it!
