Current mood: chipper
All I can say is this week is the week her name was offically changed (by her Grandpa Pizano) from "Baby" Mia to "Amazin'" Mia! and with good reason too! She is 37 weeks old and never seems to stop Amazing us all in all the things she does! This week was very exciting!
The week started off strong like always. We recieved some WONDERFUL news last Friday that Mia is going to have a new baby first cousin! (Thank goodness I can finally talked about it, its been on the down low for a bit until certain family memebers were told) Thats right, my Bro and Sis-in-law are expecting their 4th! bundle of joy! We couldn't be happier for them! Maybe Mia will finally get her little boy cousin! (There is nothing but girls on the Pizano and Cardoso side right now). It is alittle sad that Mia was de-throned as "baby" of the family even before her first birthday! BUT I think she is ok with it. Especially how she shocked us all on what a big girl she is trying to be!
This past weekend we took yet another trip to Sunny San Diego for yet another little cousin's birthday party. Her big cousin Emily had her 4th birthday. We had lots of fun, she got to jump and play in her first jump for joy and she hit another pinata (and shes begining to get the hang of it, she actually holds the stick now and doesn't try to escape! haha). She didn't get any candy though but she got to show off her new crawling skills to some of her (Great) Aunties and Uncles, everyone was impressed how good she is at it especially for only being 8 months old. She even sat up for them and showed them how she likes to stand while holding something. Thats Mia, little hambone just like her Mama! After the party we checked out this nearby park (Sunset View) in the Eastlake area, by her Grandma Santo's house, to see if we want to hold her Cardoso side 1st birthday bash there. It was beautiful and even has a mini-play ground next to the gazebo. Its perfect so it was cool that we found a place for her party already. That big day will be here before we know it! After the park we stopped by her Grandma and Grandpa Santo's house for a quick visit. It is always a treat for them for her to come by and we always enjoy watching them go nuts with her. Especially Grandpa Santo's. He even bought her alittle ball to play with and she loved holding it and dropping it on the ground. It was really cute. Both big first cousins Natalia (4) and Brianna (3) were there too and as always Brianna went nuts over Mia. She always calls her "My baby! My baby Mia" Its really cute.
Thats pretty much how the weekend went. Pretty fast I think and I can hardly believe the weekend is almost upon us again! Anyways on to more shocking things.
Sunday Morning Mia woke up with a surprise for us all! She cut her first tooth!!!! I couldn't believe it! My little baby took a tiny step closer to toddler-hood!!! I don't know if its because she knows she won't be the baby of the family anymore once her baby cousin is born and she wants to act all grown up now or what! haha Anyways we were all shocked by her little chomper, but what amazed us all even more is after her morning nap she woke up with another tooth! Thats right she cut two teeth in one day! GO Mia! They are very tiny and almost un-noticable but they are definately there. Two little white teethies! So with that happening, Adrian and I took her out to Red Robin to celebrate. I know I know its more like a treat for Mama and Daddy but she got to get out too so it was fun for her. She played in her car seat while drinking water from her bottle like a big girl. Oh by the way she is FINALLY taken to water now. She actually likes it YAY! We been rotating tap water into her diet as well (I know.. YUK!) but it does have floride in it and it should be good for her teeth. I don't know how true that is, but I grew up with tap water and I didn't get my first cavity until last year! Now we brought back her sippy cup and she is finally using that alot more. She actually gets excited when she sees it and grabs it. Now I can finally now leave a sippy cup nearby her play area and she goes to it and drinks it whenever she gets thirsty.
Ok on to more amazing things. That ball that I mentioned about earlier, the one her Grandpa Fernando bought her, she loves to play with it. She chases it around and tries to get on top of it, but the real amazing thing she does with it is she likes to hit it back to you when you hit it to her. More like roll it on the ground back to you that is. At first I just thought she was hitting it to hit it but she acutally tries to roll it back to you when you roll it to her. She gets a huge kick out of it and laughs.
She also learned how to pull herself up to a standing position this week!!! She not only pulls herself up on this standing toy she has, but she does it to her octogan and couch!! This morning she even amazed me more by doing something new, she was standing and holding on to her feeding chair playing with the clips/straps when she let go with one hand turned to face me (on the couch) and turned around so she was holding on the couch and facing me! Then she decided she wanted to play with the straps/clips again and turned back around! All while standing and not falling down! WOW! She is slowly starting to learn to use her legs while standing and slowly adjusts herself while standing with tiny steps forward or back or to the side!
Later in the week it was yard work day for Daddy. It was such a nice day out I decided to take Mia outside to get some freshair in her walker. She doesn't quite understand how to go forward in it yet but she does go backwards alot! I spent alot of time readjusting her so she wouldn't back up into the dirt or bushes! haha She liked watching Daddy mow the lawn and even got a quick visit from one of our close neighbors. After playing in the grass on a sheet it was time to go inside.
We finally lowered Mia's crib too! That was not an easy task since the crib was giving us grief! to say the least. But its finally down and at its lowest setting. We were constantly finding Mia standing against something in her crib and was afriad she would take a nose dive out so down the crib went. It took her alittle time to get used to the new setting and she didn't like it much at first but shes getting used to it slowly. She still manages to hold on to the rail and stand and now shes doing a new thing. If she wakes up and gets bord with playing with her toys she starts to call either by whining or yelling "Da-da!" (yea she retired saying Mama for now.. how sad) We leave her door open a crack and she actually sits up in the crib, faces the door and watches that crack. She waits to see if you will walk by or get her. Both Adrian and I noticed that if we walk by her door to either use the restroom or go downstairs she is quick to notice and starts really getting fussy or crying until we come back and get her. That little sneaky girl, she is spying on us already! Haha
Well with her new chompers we finally officially graduated to solid snackies! We introduced them to her a couple of months back but she didn't take to them very well. So we decided to wait a bit. Now we feel she is old enough for them and she LOVES them! She is even learning how to feed herself the snacks. She picks them up with her tiny thumb and forefinger and attempts to put them in her mouth. Granted the coordination is now quite there yet, she still drops them or they get stuck to her wet drooly hand but she tries. Its nice now, if we are out and about we can give her some snackies and her sippy cup to hold her over until we can feed her a real meal. Also, the day we introduced them she did the cutest thing. Daddy is trying to teach her to associate the word "num num" with food and for the first time she repeated it while eating her snackies! I wish so much I had my camera recording it but I didn't. She was holding her snackie and Daddy said "mmmm.... num nums" and she looked at me with the cutest smile and with a puff in her mouth she said "num num num". We both got a huge kick out of that!
Speaking of cute stuff I just have to add this little story real quick. Mia woke up this morning in such a good mood. I got her up from her crib and was saying good morning to her. I brought her over to her window to say good morning to Mr. Sun while I opened her blinds (a daily morning ritual for us) then walked her over to her picture frame that holds 1 picture for every month she is. We errr more like I always count the number of months she is and tap her on the nose for the month she currently is. She gets a kick out of this, but what really melted me is after we did that I gave her a kiss on the cheek and was ready to leave the room with her when she leaned over and gave me the biggest kissy on the cheek! She hasn't done that in months to me and just like hot butter I just melted!! She was all proud of herself and kissed me again. Such a sweet girl!
Ok back to the week, yesterday we got to meet with her Pastor at her new church regarding her upcoming baptism. Everyone fell in love with her and Daddy and I were beaming with pride. She was a good girl and let us have our grown up meeting while she played in her car seat with her toys, ate snacks and drank from her sippy cup. We later took a tour of the church and she made sure to show off to her Pastor on what a big girl she was by standing up while Adrian was holding her. She smiled shyly at Pastor as if to say "Look at me I'm a big girl I can stand up" and he got a huge kick out of it. He said "Look at her, she is all proud of herself!" haha Both he and the receptionist couldn't believe how inquisitive she is and both commented on seperate times how "smart" of a baby she is. She is always checking things out and analizing her envirnoment and people. Again Adrian and I were beaming with pride. Anyways the meeting went great and her big day to be baptized will be May 17th if everything goes well... speaking of which I need to call the church to reserve that day. I will have to do that after this blog entry.
Well thats about it for the week. Tomorrow and this weekend is going to be another big adventure for us. We are off to Oxnard for my cousins babyshower. We haven't been to Oxnard since early Feb. for Mia's cousin April's 2nd birthday so its going to be a treat for us. Especially since she may finally be able to see some family memebers that she hasn't met yet. I am so excited I can't wait to show her off and show everyone how many new things shes doing. I even bought her a new summer dress for the occasion and can't wait to put on those cute little strawberry sandels again! I am sure I will write again, so see you tomorrow or Sunday!
