Current mood: awake
Happy Friday everyone! Like her favorite football team, Mia is now 49 weeks old! We all had a busy week, but not as busy as Mia's!
It started off with a trip to San Diego for her second Cousins' HS graduation parties. It was great seeing the family again and many of them haven't seen her in months. So of course we loved showing her off as always but she refused to walk for anyone. Sigh.. little Mia always doing things HER way. We did manage to get her to walk for her Grandma and Grandpa Santos (at their house after the party), but only after much coaxing. She also got some gifts from her Grandma and Grandpa! A few new books and a two puzzles! She has never had puzzles before but LOVES them. It doesn't matter where in the house I put them, she always seems to find them and demand that I let her play with them. With each day we play puzzles she is getting better and better at it. Though she has only put one piece back to the spot it is supposed to go once, she is learning to put the pieces in the vicinity that they are supposed to go. So shes slowly getting there.
We also took alot of Mama/Baby trips around town this week. Mostly to do some Mia Birthday Party shopping but it was still really fun. We went to the outlets, a couple 99 cent stores, and of course grocery stores with Daddy. She started to eat Avocado this week and she LOVES IT! so she ate all of Daddy's stash of avocados and we had to stock up on them again. I give her one at least once a day. She is getting really good with table food and I rarely feed her baby food anymore. I mostly feed her that if we are out and about since its too hard to store home-made foods that need to be refrigerated in her diaper bag. I now cook her a big pot of beans, some pasta, and chicken to last her the week. I mix it up a bit so she doesn't get stuck eating the same thing over and over again. I like cooking for her but man it is alot more work than just opening a jar of baby food. I guess I better get used to it, I will be cooking for her for a long LONG time now... all I know is Daddy is really enjoying the homecooked meals haha.
We did our first art project this week too! I made some home-made eatable playdough for her to play with. She loved squishing it between her fingers and of course attempting to eat it (which I wouldn't let her). She made her first squished art sculpture and we even got some hand and feet prints. It was alittle messy but tons of fun. I can't wait to do it again.
As for her walking, she is getting better and better everyday. She is starting to learn to bend her knees while she walks so she doesn't look so stiff. The real big thing that happened is she finally learned how to stand up from the ground consistantly. This was another big milestone for her since before she could hardly and rarely stand up from the ground. She would often times use us, or furniture to pull herself up then walk. Now she can just stand up and walk from anywhere in the living room! She even started dancing more. She will swing her hips back and forth, and move her arms either like shes trying to fly or just back and forth. Its really cute. She will mimic you too if you show her yourself, but she mainly does it to music and of course Yo Gabba Gabba.
I have to include this little story in this blog since I thought it was really cute. I was woken up early by Adrian (as he climbed into bed for the night) and he told me that he fed the baby at 4am this morning. I asked him why? and he told me this....
He said that he was working from home upstairs and wasn't making much noise. It has been really warm and humid lately so Mia's bedroom door was slightly opened. Then all of a sudden he heard "Da-da... Da-da" so he got up and peeked around the corner into her room. She was sitting up in her crib calling for him. Of course he melted and just HAD to get her. (Not really sure why she was up so early) So he got her up, took her downstairs to change her diaper. He gave her a diaper to play with as he changed her and she was all excited to see him. She took that diaper and started fanning herself with it and made herself laugh. They played alittle while before he fed her a bottle and put her back in bed. Alittle Daddy/daughter bonding time. It was a cute story I had to include in today's blog.
Well that about covers the week. We plan on doing more shopping for her bday this weekend in San Diego and maybe even hit up the county fair! I can't wait for that and I hope we can find time for it. I am sure if we do go I will have tons of new stories and of course pictures to post. Till then I am going to grab some breakfast before the little one wakes up.
