Current mood: accomplished
Phew.... what a day! I am really tired (as always) my eyes burn and I am so ready to go to bed, BUT! I want to blog about our special and fun day today. I can't rest until I do! Besides, tomorrow we will be hitting up San Diego once again and I am sure I will have another blog instore to write haha
Today started great. It was Adrian's First Daddy's day and Mia and I wanted to make it as special as we could. I did manage to pick up two cards for him (one from me and one from her) but that was pretty much all I could afford. That didn't stop the creative juices in my brain from flowing. I decided to have Mia make a hand print in some of the left over home made play-dough I had, and that would be his present from her. So I rolled out the dough and prepared everything but Mia had other plans. She likes to squish the dough with her fingers so getting her to keep her hand straight and from squishing the dough was hard. Eventually we got a decent print and I baked it in the oven, while we played in the living room waiting for Daddy to wake up. Once it was done baking I took it out of the oven and ACK!!! It got all disorted and ugly!! NOooooooo!!!!! So I attempted to reshape it back as best as I could, but it didn't look as good as when I first put in the oven. I did get a marker and colored in her hand print so you could see it better and after all that, it finally didn't look so bad.. phew!!
A little while later Adrian finally woke up and came downstairs. We both greated him with a Happy Father's Day and Mia gave him her present. He LOVED it! and its now sitting right on the mantal.
We then did a first, we had breakfast (more like brunch) at Mc Donalds. If you know us, we HATE!!!!!! that place with every ounce of our being. The food is aweful and makes us sick. Then why did we go there? Well they are doing a promotional thing right now that if you buy an extra value meal you get a free coke glass. If you know me, I love collecting those sort of things so we forced ourselves to eat McDonalds. BIG MISTAKE! just like predicted we both got alittle sick, so we hung out at home alittle while. We had been planning to take the baby to the San Diego County Fair today, so once we finally started feeling better and after Mia go in a quick nap. We were off to the fair!!!! Oh wait something else big happened before that....
Just to jump off topic for a quick second. Mia attempted to feed herself with a spoon for the first time today!!! Thats right! While I was feeding her lunch, I gave her her very own baby spoon to hold. After watching me feed her, she would gentally tap the spoon into the food and once she even put it into her mouth afterwards! WOW! she is attempting to feed herself now! I can't wait to try it out again tomorrow, I will be sure to take pictures this time or maybe a video.
Ok back to our SD Trip. The trip down wasn't so bad. Mia played in the back seat with me and though never took a nap she was in good spirits. We finally made it to the fair! I was so happy. Going to the fair is like a little tradition for Adrian and I. We go every year (except last year, since I was to huge and pregnant and due any day we couldn't go), this year was going to be special. We were going to introduce Mia to that tradition. The weather was AWESOME! not hot at all! and just perfect. We got there after mid-day so the sun wasn't so brutal. I still lathered up Mia with TONS of sunblock anyways and made sure she wore her lucky SD Padres hat.
The crowd wasn't so bad, it was definately managable. We all had a blast! Mia seemed to enjoy herself except for when we saw the animals. If you know Mia, she is not scared or shys away from anything.... however we finally found her weakness..... barn animals! The first thing we did when we got there was take her to see the barn animals. They had this huge covered area where they kept their, cows, sheep, goats, etc The smell alone, in that place, could knock a person out cold! We still took her to see the animals. First it was the Cows. She didn't know what to make of them... and when we brought her close to one she just clinged onto Daddy like no bodies business. We figured.. hmm... maybe the cows were to big, lets go check out the goats. We showed her the goats and though she never cried, she would climb all over Adrian in such a frantic way he had to take her away from them. She did hesitently touch one goat and grab the eyes of another, but that was the extent of it. She looked so scared the whole time we just finally left. Ah well.... guess she isn't used to animals. We then took her next door to check out the petting zoo and the smaller animals. The petting zoo was PACKED and the animals were pretty much the same as the other place. We didn't want to torture her more, since her reaction was so bad at the other animal place, we didn't take her inside. We did show her a few chickens, but she could care less. She was still really uneasy. Then I took ahold of her. After talking to her and showing her the chickens she finally started to relax, she relaxed enough to start talking herself and would wave at people when I asked her to. Then they had a dog on display. It was a big black juvenile rotwieler. They were displaying it because it was up for adoption. We brought Mia over to meet the doggy. Again she gave the same reaction, wanted nothing to do with the dog and wouldn't even look at it. The dog tried to warm up to her by giving her kisses but she wanted to leave.. NOW! So we finally got the hint and left. Ah well.....
Then it was off to the game area. We walked all around (getting tempting by every carney there to play their game) until we finally found the game we wanted to play. It was a little fishing game where you fish with a pole and try to catch a duck or a fish. Once you caught one you check the bottom of it and it had a number. The higher the number the better the prize you get. So Daddy bought a chance at the game and took Mia out of her stroller so she could play. Once he handed her the fishing pole she pushed her hand away and didn't even want to touch it. So Adrian held her and fished with the other hand and wouldn't you know he fished up three prizes in total!! So she won a big flower, a teddy bear and a little red horse. YAY!
We walked around a bit more and Daddy held her alot. The cute thing was, if Mia and I ever made eye contact over Adrian's shoulder she would give me the BIGGEST smile ever! How cute! Then it was FOOD time!!! We bought a freshly made cini-bun and grubbed out on that after we found a bench to sit and eat. Mia even got a tiny taste of the cinni-roll. Afterwards, we fed Mia some snackies and a small meal. She got it all over Daddy and stained his shirt. (A Father's Day gift I guess! haha) We bought ourselves a few more treats and soon it was almost time to go.
I got my polish sausage and large pickle (a tradition my Dad and I used to do ever since I was a little girl and we used to go to the fair together) and Adrian got his icecream. As he munched his icecream I went into the suvenior shop and bought a magnet (another thing I collect) and a SD County Fair shirt for Mia. When I got back I caught Daddy giving Mia a taste of his icecream!!!! Of course I had to scold him alittle but let her get a few more licks in anyways haha. I then had to use the restroom (which had a HUGE line ARRGH!) and when I got back Adrian said some lady came up to him and said what a happy baby Mia was and how surprised she was that Mia was still in such a good mood dispite us being there all day. The lady said all she had been seeing all day was babies and kids melting down and blowing up all day, which is why she was so shocked to see Mia laughing and playing in her stroller. Thats my girl! We packed up and it was time to go home.
After a short walk to the car (yes we paid for premium parking haha) we went home. Mia knocked out mid way home and by the time we finally got home she woke up and was ready to go! Oh no! haha I let her play in the livingroom until she finall showed signs of slowing down and she got sleepy. Adrian fed her a bedtime bottle and she went right to sleep.
Wow talk about a busy fun filled day. I am so happy we were able to make it to the fair it is one of those family traditions I would like to see continue. Well with all that being said I am off to bed. My eyes are really burning now haha.
