Current mood: accomplished
Well this is Mia's last "twenties" week. Wow, she just keeps growing and growing. The weeks seem to be flying by faster and faster. I am so proud of my little munchkin this week. She not only did a couple of new things but accomplished a milestone too!!!
The week started off great. We took her to our favorite little resturant (Red Robin) for the first time. This was her first real sit down service resturant. She did awesome. At first she was alittle scared and wasn't sure to make of all the people and noise but she soon became comfortable and even joined in the noise by making noises of her own. She did her famous new found "Mia Scream of Joy" and kicked around. Daddy even gave her a balloon which she went crazy for, just pulling the string and watching the balloon bounce overhead. It was so much fun for all three of us. Eventually she pooped out and fell asleep despite all the noise, and we went home soon after. I really do enjoy bringing her out to places, shes always so well behaved and never fusses. I think she enjoys getting out of the house too.
As I wrote about in a previous blog she is also getting good at giving kisses. She always seems to give me a big wet drooly one when I get her up in the morning. It always melts my heart and she gets a kick out of it too. When I wipe my cheek clean she always has to lean over and give me another big wet one! haha Silly girl! Shes been doing this to Daddy too. He really gets a kick out of it because he was the one who taught her that!
We did have a diaper malfunction earlier this week too. It was due to her prune juice and the weird thing is, after that happened she is started to refuse to drink it anymore. Maybe she was embarassed by her blow out! haha Now its begining to become a struggle to get her to drink her prune juice. Normally I would never force her to do anything she really didn't like but whenever we stop giving it to her, her constipation comes back. So basically it comes down to which is the lesser evil. Forcing her to drink that stuff or watching in pain trying to "go". Of course I rather have her be forced to drink the juice, but it becoming increasenly difficult to persuade her to drink it. One thing she inherited from me for sure, is her stubborness. If she sets her mind to something, including refusing something she doesn't want, its nearly impossible to get her to do it. That is also why it is official I have officially stopped breastfeeding her this week. She finally said no! (hehe by doing her new "no" thing, shakin her head no and turning away) Ah well, at least we did it for 6 months, that better than I thought we'd do.
The HUGE milestone that she did this week was drinking from a sippy cup! And she did it all on her own. I would try to show her but she would want no part of it, however, when I gave it to her for her to try to figure it out, she got it right away and started drinking from it. What a big girl! Though I have no intention on breaking her from the bottle anytime soon (probably not till her 1st bday) I wanted to introduce the sippy cup to her so it wouldnt be so foregin to her when its time to use it. One thing I noticed was that she was making tons of faces with it, at first I thought because she didn't like it then I realized it wasn't that at all. Another thing she inherited from me is her sensitive "Gag" reflex. I have a hard time at the dentist because of this and whenever a doctor examins my throat with that popsical stick. I always gag and nearly throw up. When Mia went for her check up and the doctor went to check the inside of her mouth she too gagged really bad and started crying. Poor baby. So I watched her closely with the sippy cup. The spout is soft but still harder than she is used to, especially when compared to her soft nipples from her bottles. When she tries to drink from it, I notice she does gag alittle. I am wondering if her mouth is still too tiny for it... it doesn't happen all the time and once she gets to really drinking it, it stops. Its just mainly when she starts she has a hard time. Hmm.... I will have to look into that more. As for now she gets her sippy cup after he breakfast and thats it. Whenever she needs to get supplimented with formula its her bottle for the rest of the day. I also noticed she does gag a bit on her little rice puff graduate snacks. I have stopped giving this to her since I believe she is too young especially since she doesn't have teeth yet but Adrian really wanted to try again. I let him and she gagged on it again, so we both decided to hold off on that for awhile too. Poor little one.
As for food she is really doing good! She graduated to stage "2" because she was polishing off her stage 1 like nothing and still wanted tons of milk afterwards. Now that I graduated her to stage two she just eats that and doesn't need to be supplimented. I only feed her, her veggies for lunch and she gets a the bottle the rest of the day so she still gets what she needs from her formula. For breakfast shes on her banana cereal. She eats 3 scoops of it! (Avg. 3 ounces) and 4 oz of formula afterwards. I think she is really started to like eating now, hopefully this will contiune and she can start packing on that baby fat we have been waiting for. Yesterday she even had two servings of veggies!!! She ate her sweat potatos and carrots! Granted she didn't finish her carrots but she ate half of them! YAY! (and no it wasn't stage 2, both were stage 1, we need to get rid of those some how haha).
Thats about it for the week. Wow what an awesome week, I am so proud of my little one. She really brightens up everyones day.
Well this is Mia's last "twenties" week. Wow, she just keeps growing and growing. The weeks seem to be flying by faster and faster. I am so proud of my little munchkin this week. She not only did a couple of new things but accomplished a milestone too!!!
The week started off great. We took her to our favorite little resturant (Red Robin) for the first time. This was her first real sit down service resturant. She did awesome. At first she was alittle scared and wasn't sure to make of all the people and noise but she soon became comfortable and even joined in the noise by making noises of her own. She did her famous new found "Mia Scream of Joy" and kicked around. Daddy even gave her a balloon which she went crazy for, just pulling the string and watching the balloon bounce overhead. It was so much fun for all three of us. Eventually she pooped out and fell asleep despite all the noise, and we went home soon after. I really do enjoy bringing her out to places, shes always so well behaved and never fusses. I think she enjoys getting out of the house too.
As I wrote about in a previous blog she is also getting good at giving kisses. She always seems to give me a big wet drooly one when I get her up in the morning. It always melts my heart and she gets a kick out of it too. When I wipe my cheek clean she always has to lean over and give me another big wet one! haha Silly girl! Shes been doing this to Daddy too. He really gets a kick out of it because he was the one who taught her that!
We did have a diaper malfunction earlier this week too. It was due to her prune juice and the weird thing is, after that happened she is started to refuse to drink it anymore. Maybe she was embarassed by her blow out! haha Now its begining to become a struggle to get her to drink her prune juice. Normally I would never force her to do anything she really didn't like but whenever we stop giving it to her, her constipation comes back. So basically it comes down to which is the lesser evil. Forcing her to drink that stuff or watching in pain trying to "go". Of course I rather have her be forced to drink the juice, but it becoming increasenly difficult to persuade her to drink it. One thing she inherited from me for sure, is her stubborness. If she sets her mind to something, including refusing something she doesn't want, its nearly impossible to get her to do it. That is also why it is official I have officially stopped breastfeeding her this week. She finally said no! (hehe by doing her new "no" thing, shakin her head no and turning away) Ah well, at least we did it for 6 months, that better than I thought we'd do.
The HUGE milestone that she did this week was drinking from a sippy cup! And she did it all on her own. I would try to show her but she would want no part of it, however, when I gave it to her for her to try to figure it out, she got it right away and started drinking from it. What a big girl! Though I have no intention on breaking her from the bottle anytime soon (probably not till her 1st bday) I wanted to introduce the sippy cup to her so it wouldnt be so foregin to her when its time to use it. One thing I noticed was that she was making tons of faces with it, at first I thought because she didn't like it then I realized it wasn't that at all. Another thing she inherited from me is her sensitive "Gag" reflex. I have a hard time at the dentist because of this and whenever a doctor examins my throat with that popsical stick. I always gag and nearly throw up. When Mia went for her check up and the doctor went to check the inside of her mouth she too gagged really bad and started crying. Poor baby. So I watched her closely with the sippy cup. The spout is soft but still harder than she is used to, especially when compared to her soft nipples from her bottles. When she tries to drink from it, I notice she does gag alittle. I am wondering if her mouth is still too tiny for it... it doesn't happen all the time and once she gets to really drinking it, it stops. Its just mainly when she starts she has a hard time. Hmm.... I will have to look into that more. As for now she gets her sippy cup after he breakfast and thats it. Whenever she needs to get supplimented with formula its her bottle for the rest of the day. I also noticed she does gag a bit on her little rice puff graduate snacks. I have stopped giving this to her since I believe she is too young especially since she doesn't have teeth yet but Adrian really wanted to try again. I let him and she gagged on it again, so we both decided to hold off on that for awhile too. Poor little one.
As for food she is really doing good! She graduated to stage "2" because she was polishing off her stage 1 like nothing and still wanted tons of milk afterwards. Now that I graduated her to stage two she just eats that and doesn't need to be supplimented. I only feed her, her veggies for lunch and she gets a the bottle the rest of the day so she still gets what she needs from her formula. For breakfast shes on her banana cereal. She eats 3 scoops of it! (Avg. 3 ounces) and 4 oz of formula afterwards. I think she is really started to like eating now, hopefully this will contiune and she can start packing on that baby fat we have been waiting for. Yesterday she even had two servings of veggies!!! She ate her sweat potatos and carrots! Granted she didn't finish her carrots but she ate half of them! YAY! (and no it wasn't stage 2, both were stage 1, we need to get rid of those some how haha).
Thats about it for the week. Wow what an awesome week, I am so proud of my little one. She really brightens up everyones day.
