Current mood: breezy
Thats right, Mia has hit the big 5-0 mark in weeks! A couple of more under her belt and she will be one!!! YIKES! My baby girl is growing up way to fast. I am so glad I have kept up with her blogs this whole time because I can reminse and go back to any time period in her young little life and read about it. Not sure how I will contiune this or even if I will once she hits 1. I really only wanted to do this for a year because it is alot of work and takes up alot of time to keep them updated, but I think in the end its worth it. We will see what happens.
Anyways, this week was loads of fun. We got to go to many new places and do new things. The first new thing is she got to play with "finger paints" for the first time. Granted it was more dye (made out of a jello and water mix) she still had fun smacking and smearing it all over the paper. I even framed one of her creations and put it on the fireplace mantal. I am so proud of my little artist.
We also celebrated Adrian's first father's day this week. Mia and I don't have much money so instead of buying a gift, Mia made a special one just for her Daddy. I got some of the left over playdough I made the week before, and we made a hand print of Mia's hand. It didn't come out quite as I hoped it would but we made it work. I colored in her hand with a blue marker to bring it out more and she gave it to her Daddy. He LOVED it! and right away put it on the mantal. He had tons of fun with her that day and we even made it to her very first San Diego County Fair!
The fair was fun and Mia did great. She did so well that she even got a compliment from a stranger towards the end of our time there. The lady said she was so impressed and shocked by how happy Mia was, esepcially since she had seen crying fussy kids all day. Mia had fun, she didn't get any fair food this year but she did get to taste her first cinimon roll and a lick of Daddy's icecream drumstick. While at the fair she had her first close encounter with barn animals (cows, sheep, goats, chicken etc) and she didn't like them at all!!! She would cling to Daddy like no body's business, and though she never cried, you can tell in her face she was scared. She did pet 1 goat and grabbed the face of 1 sheep and that was the extent of it. Ah well, just means we have to expose her to more animals inorder for her to feel comfortable with them. I mean our cat is as fat as a cow, but that is just not cutting it anymore.
Another new thing that happened this week, is Mia attempting to use a spoon. For some odd reason while I was feeding her she started to always put her fingers in her mouth and touch the food or attempt to act like she was feeding herself with her hand. Needless to say that got really messy, so I started giving her a spoon to hold while I fed her. She loves the feeling of participating during meal time. She often puts the spoon in her mouth and now even reaches out with the spoon to tap the food. What a big girl!
I have been trying to become more creative with meals and adding new things here and there. I noticed the less and less she eats of baby food the more "regular" her poopies are. When she does eat her processed baby food she starts skipping days or going really hard balls again. So I make it a point more now than ever to feed her home cooked meals and giving her tons of fresh fruits. She still eats her homemade beans and pasta (with cheese sprinkled on it), chicken and pasta and potatoes but now I've learned to balance low fat plain yogart with bananas and strawberries to add to her diet. She still eats blueberries, strawberries, mangos and of course avocados but now I've added a fresh banana as well. I previously omitted bananas from her diet due to her constant constipation but with the introduction of table food that hasn't been a problem lately and I have slowly started experiementing with bananas again. I am always on the look out for more recipes on the internet and experimenting. So far shes been a great eater and I have yet to find something she doesn't like. (Other than fruit juice)
She made her first trip to Frys this week but what was more fun was what happened afterwards. We went to the Temecula Duck Pond. We had not taken her there in MONTHS so it was a fun treat for us all. We got to relax, play and have tons of fun. Daddy and Mia had TONS of bonding time and I took TONS of pictures of them. He even ran her around a bit while balancing her on his shoulders. She didn't seem much interested in the ducks but she LOVED the grass and couldn't get enough of it. She still didn't like walking on it but she loved pulling it out of the ground.
As for her walking, she is getting better and better at it everyday. She is slowly starting to learn how to bend her knees so her walk isn't so stiff. Her balance also getting better and she can walk alot longer before tripping or falling. She now prefers to walk rather than crawl, and the only time she crawls is when she really wants to go somewhere fast and she falls from walking. I am going to miss her cute little crawl but I am way excited about her walking. You can now put her on the ground in the standing position and she will walk away. She can also stand up from the ground now like a pro. Oh and another thing she started doing is attempting to do summer-salts!!! She is always trying to stand on her head and roll over though she hasn't quite done it yet. This drives me insane with worry, I keep feeling she will snap her neck! I try to stop her but she always does it anyways... sigh little Mia so stubborn.
A big event happened in the world this week as well. Micheal Jackson died, granted we haven't really followed his music since the 80s it is still a sad thing to happen. Mia still likes dancing to his music though! haha
Another HUGE thing that happened, and it just started happening this morning, is she is saying another new word!!! Thats right, you can now add "Bye-bye" to her vocabulary! At first I didn't really catch it but then I started listening and sure enough she says it. If you say "byebye" to her she will wave at you and say "baab-baee" It isn't as clear as her current three favorite words, hat, mama and dada.. but you can definately tell shes saying it. Such a cutiepie pie.
Well that about covers it for the week. Wow lots of stuff. I am sure I will add more this coming weekend since we are off to San Diego yet again for another birthday party and to shop for her birthday party. Lets see if we have any adventures.. I am sure we will.
