Current mood: fascinated
Like I mentioned in the previous blog, when Mia starts doing new stuff it comes in spurts. She did two new things today!
I have been teaching her how to wave "hello" for awhile now. As a morning routine, when I get her up from her crib I always make it a point to go to the window and wave hello/good morning to "mr. Sun" (or "Mr. Rain Cloud.. if its cloudy), then I take her to her 12 month picture frame and we say /wave "Hello, Me" haha. Anyways, she recently started waving "hello/good Morning" to things. If you show her to wave she will wave. However, today for the first time she waved "hello" by just a verbal command. I didn't have to show her to wave!!
We were in Target picking up some stuff, just the two of us. I really have been craving my favorite StarBucks drink (Chai Tea Latte) (oh and there is a Starbucks in Target). I became additcted to them when I used to work at the District Attorney's office. However, once I got pregnant with Mia I stopped drinking them and haven't had once since!!! Yep almost a year and a half! So today I decided I deserved an early Mother's Day treat. There wasn't a line so that encouraged me more to get a Chai Tea Latte. So after we paid for our things (which included a cute little pink baseball hat for Mia) I went over to the Starbucks section of the store. As I waited for my drink to be made, I noticed two older women sitting at a table nearby. Mia was sitting in the cart being her charming cute self.. and I could over hear the women saying "look at the baby, aww how cute" I then leaned over to Mia and told her "say Hi Mia!" I really didn't think she would do anything but to my amazement she turned to the ladies and waved at them!!! I was so proud of my little one. She waved "Hello" all by herself without me couching her! The ladies got a huge kick out of it. It was a fun moment.
Ok onto the other new thing. For anyone who knows Adrian, he is notorious for wearing baseball hats. Thats all he ever wears (except for work that is or if hes dressed up). Ever since I met him, its amost like a baseball hat is attached to his head surgically. He is never without one. Anyways, he has been working with Mia everyday for the past few weeks, in showing her how to identify and say "Hat". I think its cute he works with her, but thought she was way to young to understand the concept of naming an object let alone say the word. I was proven wrong once again! She started to associate what a hat was and when Daddy would ask "Wheres the hat?!" he would always look to his head, even if his hat wasn't on or grab it if its nearby. I thought that was pretty cool but she amazed me more today! Actually it started yesterday... She started saying "H-at". I thought it was fluke thing but she kept saying it. I figured it was just a word she learned but didn't know the meaning of ... that is until today! I put Mia's new pink hat on to show Adrian how cute she looked and he said "Wheres the Hat?!" and right away she said "H-at" We both were shocked, so she did say it. Then what sealed the deal came later. She was playing in our DVDs again and I showed her, her new pink hat again and I said "Say Hat!", "H-at" she did it! Everytime I said Hat she would look at the hat and say "H-at". I even got it on video (which I will upload later). I am so proud of her! Now she can add another word to her vocabulary right next to , Ma-ma, Da-da, and Num-num! YAY!!
Well she is in bed now so no more new things today, I can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring.
