Current mood: accomplished
Happy Friday! Yep, yep, yep Mia is 31 weeks today! This week was very busy but lots of fun.
It started off with the trip to Oxnard for her baby cousin April's 2nd bday. I wrote about this a couple of times already so I won't repeat myself to much. Overall it was a great trip and we all had tons of fun. I can't wait to go up there again. She did awesome in the car and didn't even fuss once which gives me more confidence that she might do well with future trips as well.
A bad thing that happened this week which later turned to good is my Kodak camera broke. =( I was devistated because I didn't think I would be able to get it fixed or replaced and I would be missing out on all the cute pictures I could be taking of Mia. However, it was Daddy to the resuce. Adrian and I went to Bestbuy to check out their cameras and he ended up buying me the one I really wanted! YAY! So Mia and I are back in business of her posing and me being the Mama-poparazzi!
Two HUGE things happened this week as well. One of them being she turned 7months old! WOW! and on her month "birthday" she decided she would officially finally start using her knees to crawl forward!!!! She has been getting around "Crawling" for awhile now, but mostly by dragging herself with her arms and rarely using her back legs and mainly turning in circles and going backwards. Then she started trying to learn to use her knees, but she was alittle off on the timing of her arms and legs. Then it happened! On her 7th month b-day she finally got the hang of it! Granted she doesn't tuck in her knees all the way up her tummy but she now goes forward and uses her legs to kick out. The only way I can describe it is, its like a army man crawling under barbed wire. Hey it works! So now shes all over the place. Thank goodness her Auntie Lauren and Uncle Jimmy lent us April's "baby jail" (a fenced in play area) because now she is using it all the time. It lets me be able to walk away for a second to fix her meals or use the restroom without being scared she is getting into something she shouldn't be. I used to use her blue toy chair but ever since she learned to sit up straight shes constantly trying to get out of it and I am afriad she will fall over in the chair!
Despite what I said earlier about not feeding her, the graduate rice puffs until she got older, Daddy decided he wanted to try it again. (I don't know why he keeps wanting her to eat those little things) but yesterday she finally got the hang of eating them! She no longer gags on them and has even attempted to feed herself one at a time! She licks them until they get soggy then pops them in her mouth! After the little snacks she drank from her sippy cup again. What a big girl!
Ack she is getting fussy now, its nap time. Be right back I need to go lay her down....
Ok back. Lets see what else, she has started "playing" with her bottles now too. Once she gets pretty full and she still has some formula in her bottle she takes it out of her mouth, looks at it, spins it around and talks to it then drinks from it again. Mostly she does her classic little "mer-baby" thing (mer-baby is our term for this gurggly/purring noise she makes when she holds her saliva or milk in her mouth) Its really cute to see her playing and talking to her bottle but boy its messy too and milk gets all over the place! haha
Another thing she has started doing this week is not waking up for a early morning meal (5am). Well she does wake up but she just plays alittle in her crib until she falls asleep again, but she doesn't cry for food anymore. However with this also started her poopy in the morning. I don't know when she does it, I assume sometime before I get her because her bootie isn't irritated or red, but every morning now when I get her I am greeted with that surprise! Haha
Well thats about it for the week. Today Adrian and I are celebrating Valentines day early and we are going out to eat with the baby. I am sure I will have new stories to write about after that since it will be her second time in a sit-down restaurant!
