Current mood: accomplished
Well she finally did it, she is officially a two digit month age! The big 10 is here! Wow, shes growing so fast. It definately is getting harder and harder to keep up with her! As always, this month was filled with tons of new things, adventures, and fun.
The month started off with another brand-new holiday, Easter! Mia got to experience what Easter is like in our family. She colored some eggs (more like plopped eggs into the dye as it splashed all over the place) while wearing her Daddy's black shirt, which make her look like a monk it was so big on her. She got a visit from the Easter Bunny who left her a big basket of goodies. She got baby food, snackies, toys and candy (which she gave to her Mama and Daddy to eat! haha). She even got to hunt for Easter eggs while wearing her puffy pink Easter Dress. She found her eggs and got to munch on the sweet treats hidden inside (yogart melts, her favorite). We even all went out for dinner at Red Robin where she got to play with another red balloon. She loves balloons.
She also got to go on a couple of walks to visit the Emu farm down the road from us. Once was just with her and Mama (in which she didn't care much for the giant birds) and the second time was with her Grandpa Pizano and Mama. This time she got more enjoyment out of the little animals. She got to see goats, llamas, Emu, Squirrels and all kinds of other cute creatures.
Then came a big day, her Mama's 29th birthday! It was great celebrating it with her and Adrian. Both spoiled me so much and showered me with treats and presents. One of the most speical presents of all was a cute little coffee mug with her picture on it (one of my favorites of all, her with her butterfly wings and wand). She also gave me a card which made me cry because it really hit me... wow I really am a Mom. The day was wonderful and it was alot of fun.
We did some changes to her diet this month as well. Due to her recurrent constipation we decided to start giving her barley oatmeal for breakfast and backed off on her banana flavored kind. It is helping alittle bit, but not as much as I would like it to. She doesn't mind the change to much though she does prefer her banana one better. Speaking of food I have also learned to make her own baby food from scratch using my steamer and baby food processor. She loves fresh sweet potatoes but isn't to keen on fresh squash. I haven't really had the time lately to make some more but it is actually kind of fun doing it. She also LOVES her popsicals! It is starting to warm up a bit here and we are all preparing for the HOT summer. She goes around the house in onesies now and sleeps in them as well. Daddy started giving her popsicals as a treat more consistantly but I wasn't to happy with the type he was giving her. I felt there was so much sugar in them, granted it was "natural sugar" and none of that corn syrup or fruitcose (whoever you spell it) I still didn't feel right giving her those. She was getting all sugared up afterwards, and though very cute, I want to get her on the right path of good healthy eating early in life. So we bought some plastic popsical holders so you can make your own at home and thats what I have been doing. So far we are using her baby juice (since she HATES drinking it) and freezing that. She seems to really like it now, eventually I would like to try to make my own juice fresh from the actual fruit. Not sure how that will turn out haha but I am always up for the experiment.
She started pulling herself up more this month and she also likes to sit on her feet. She bounces on her butt when she is happy and she also dances this way too when there is music on. She has also been trying to learn how to hop up into the standing position from sitting on the floor. She tries and tries but always falls. She is cruising a whole lot more now and goes from chair to chair, or couch to chair or where ever she is. She is even starting to let go and balance herself, standing up. A few times shes attempted to walk by herself but after a step she falls down. Oh, and speaking of walking, she started walking "assisted" this month as well. She LOVES when you hold her tiny hands and help her walk. She gets so giggly and excieted she takes off practically running. She might start walking in a couple of months now.. hopefully maybe before her first birthday!
We took her out shopping a few times. Once to San Diego to buy a baptism dress for her. It only took one store before we found the PERFECT dress! Its EXACTLY what I wanted for her. Its long, white and has tiny embrodered flowers on it. Its very similar to my wedding dress which I didn't even realize until I got home. I can't wait for her big day... May 17th! She also went to the mall one day and of course Babies R Us a few times. Oh at the mall, we took a break and sat on the bench together as a family. It was so cute, Mia sat down in between us and we all had snackies to eat. It would have been an awesome picture moment for sure! She also would always get TONS and I mean TOOOONS of compliments everywhere we went from all the people on how cute she is. That is always a treat for Adrian and I, we both are such proud parents. She also went to BestBuy with just her Daddy once and though they were only gone a couple of hours I missed her so much! I couldn't wait for them to get home so I could hold her again. I think I have a bad case of seperation anxiety, I HATE not being around my little one. We also visited her Grandparents Santos while in San Diego which is always a treat for us all.
A big visit also happened this month was when her Grandpa Pizano came to visit and babysit her for a whole week!!! I had lots of spring cleaning to do and he offered to come watch Mia so I can do my cleaning. I quickly jumped at the opprotunity and though I didn't get all the cleaning I wanted done, it sure was fun having him down. In between my cleaning breaks we would go out shopping together, take walks and went to the park (she went down her first slide AND got her first baby tan!) and all sorts of things. He really got to spend some quaility time with Mia and they played together ALL the time. She even started doing her new "spider crawl" while he was down. We all got a kick out of that. He was always so proud to push her around in the shopping cart or stroller and we took TONS of pictures and videos during the whole visit. It was alot of fun, hopefully we can do it again real soon.
A BIG thing that happened this month was she started taking baths in the big persons tub!!! It was tons of fun to watch her explore, splash around and have fun. She did really well for about a week until the bad things started to happen. She fell and had her first big ouchie where she bled. Ya, she hit her mouth on the tub as she fell down and that was sooo not fun for any of us. Though she only cried alittle bit, I felt so bad. The very next day she started fussing in the tub and went to put her head down to cry and she put her face right in the water and inhaled. Of course she started to choke and scream and it was the end of bathtime. I calmed her down and she was fine, however, after having two bad bath days in a row I decided to bring out old blue. Her blue baby bathtub for the next few baths. I am not quite sure if she is officially ready for a full transition to the big girl bath just yet.
Another not so fun thing happened this month is she had another diaper malfunction and BOOOOY it was horrible!!!! I wrote a whole blog about it already and I really don't feel like getting into the details again, especially since its lunch time right now. Just know it got EVERYWHERES and it was a disaster, but we survived and it taught me some more valuable lessons.. one of them being make sure to always have spare clothes in her diaper bag at all times! Haha
This month also had the return of Ms Fuss Fuss again. Not sure what brought this on but she seems to come to visit more and more now. We have also noticed that she is begining to become more attached to me. She cries whenever I leave the room or put her down before shes ready to get down. This even happens while Daddy holds her! I find it sweet but still, its kind of trouble-some for me for the times Daddy is babysitting her and I am trying to get things done around the house. As soon as she sees me its all over, she wants Mama. She even calls out to me "Mama!!!!" Not really sure how to remedy this, I am sure it is just a phase.. hopefully.
She is also starting to "test" us now to see how much she needs to scream and cry before she gets her way. At first we catered to her, because she never really cries like that.. but as soon as I started to realize and recongize why she is doing it I have become alittle more hardened. I will let her cry if I know she is ok... and I no longer run and rush to her aid when she throws her little fits. Daddy on the other hand still needs to learn she is just testing us and not to rescue her all the time. She is getting real good at the crying bit too... she will scream and cry, turn red faced, do the silent cry and there goes the tears! if she realizes she can't get what she wants eventually she will stop and go play. That is why I know shes testing us and isn't really hurt or anything.
Another not so fun thing happened this morning. I believe she had her first real nitemare. Poor baby. It happened about a quarter after 6am. Adrian had just crawled into bed for the night and I was half awake. Then a blood curddling scream came through the Baby monitor! I sat up like an arrow.. the scream followed by another scream and cry, I ran (literally) into the babies room to see waht happened. I looked over her crib at her and she was on her side, eyes clothes and asleep while holding her blankey.. then she started screaming and crying again this time she rolled over to her stomach, opened her eyes and was just crying really hard. Not the hurt kind of cry but the scared kind. I quickly picked her up and calmed her down she was still upset. Daddy then came into the room to check on her as well and right away she practically jumped into his arms. He carried her downstairs as I prepared a warm bottle for her. It was too early for her to get up for the day and was hoping she would fall back to sleep after the bottle. Sure enough after Daddy fed her the bottle she went right back to bed for another couple of hours. Poor baby.... I think she inherited my nitemares.. I always have them. I am just glad she was ok.
Ok back to fun stuff. She learned how to climb into her blue chair and from that she learned to to climb on the couch! We were so surprised and happy by this but not its getting kind of scary because she is doing it all the time and we are so afriand she will fall of the couch so we constantly have to be right on her to make sure she doesn't fall.
She learned a new word too, "Hat". Daddy showed her how to say it and she can recongize a hat too if you ask her "wheres the hat?!" she will look at it. And sometimes she will repeat "H-at".
She made a new game out of throwing our boxed DVDs all over the place. She is constantly in the box and throwing DVDs out and carrying them everywhere. Thats also a new thing, she carries her toys with her as she crawls around. Mostly her blankey like Linus from the Peanuts. She drags that blankey all over the gound and picks it up as she cruises the furniture.
She has also learned to wave "Hello" to people and to blow kisses. We love having her do this to people in the store and they just fall in love with her. She can also wave hello if you just tell her to do it without even showing her. She is recongizing the command.
She also celebrated her first "Cinco De Mayo" as I dressed her up in the little Mexican dress her Grandpa Pizano bought her from Juarez. I took tons of pictures and we had alot of fun. She also helped celebrate my first Mother's Day too! It was my first official one since she was born and I had TONS of fun. Both Mia and Adrian spoiled me tons and I felt so loved and appreciated. I got flowers and a card from my parents, a card from my Mother and Father-in-law, a call from my Sister-in-law Lauren, and tons of treats, goodies and two cards from Adrian and Mia. It was a very special day and I am glad to be a Mama!
Overall the month has been wonderful. Every day she seems to start doing something new and there is always new adventures happening. I have to cut this alittle short since she woke up from her nap and its lunch time for her. I can't wait to see what next month brings since we are nearing her 1st year birthday!!! ACK!!! I can't believe she will be 1 soon!!!
Summary:
Feedings:
Not much has changed from last month. She is still eating 10oz for bed and 6oz for breakfast along with a big bowl of oatmeal. She gets her veggies for lunch and just recently started eatting "dinner" meals such as baby mac and cheese, spaghetti and meatsauce etc. She gets a popsical snack some days and she also gets her regular snackies as well. She is drinking TONS of water now and seems to really like it.
New Things: First Easter, Mother's Day, Cinco De Mayo and celebrated her Mama's brithday. Colored eggs, hunted for eggs, visited the Emu farm, ate a few new foods, pull herself on furniture more, sits and bounces on feet, dances to music more, tries to stand up unassisted, attempted to take steps by herself, Grandpa Pizano visited for a week, assisted walking, first tan, letting go of furniture, big girl bath, ate her first home-made babyfood, climb into her chair and climbed onto couch, says "Hat", throws toys, carries toys as she crawls, waves "hello" and blows kisses, and unfortunately first big ouchie where she bled.
Weight: 18 per bathroom scale
Goals met from last month?! Yes we have met every one of our monthly goals. She does use her walker more and finally goes forward! She has learned to like "dinner" meals (something other than veggies and fruit) like mac and cheese, spaghetti and meatsauce, and chicken and noodles etc. and though she doesn't wave "byebye" she does wave "hello" close enough haha
***UPDATE****
Since I finished this blog some time this afternoon another new thing just happened. Mia sprouted two new teeth!!!!! Thats right, shes now the proud owner of two top middle teeth! The go well with her previous two bottom middle teeth. She seems to pop them out two at a time! haha I am so proud of her!
Goals for next month:
Have her stand alone unassisted, take a few steps, and point to things.
