Current mood: accomplished
Happy Friday!!!! Its that time again for another weekly blog update and boy do I have ALOT to report! So lets get started before the little one wakes up and demands her breakfast.
Last Friday was another one of those "running around like a headless chicken" type days. It was the day before her big San Diego birthday bash and we still had tons to take care of. We spent the night at her Grandparent Santos' house for the first time and though they are very accomodating they don't have AC! It was unseasonably warm that day so Mia had a rough time going/staying asleep but after a quick room change, things got much better. She had been teething really bad (and continues to do so) so that didn't help. The day of her party she was NOT a happy camper and refused to take a nap. She screamed her little lungs out and we all were grateful when she finally did fall asleep. Only problem now was we had to hold up the whole party to wait for her to wake up! So her party was alittle late in getting started but overall was a giant success! She had tons of her family and friends turn out and got tons of presents. She did very well at the party, no melt downs or incidences. She even ate her first cupcake and boy did she tear into it after she got past the frosting! She had cupcake all over herself! Classic baby moment. She even fell asleep in her Big Cousin Robert's arms towards the end.. another rare thing. I was so happy that he let me hold her while she was sleeping because it has literally been months! since I have been able to do that. All in all, her birthday was great!
She added another couple of words to her vocabulary this week. One of them is "Up" and she knows what it means. She will go to you while on the couch and say "up, up" so you pick her up to sit with you! The other word is "Dog" not sure if she know exact what it means but she will repeat it and say it on her own. Her Grandma Santos can even verify this since she was saying it all over her house that one day.
She finally climbed on the couch all by herself yesterday! She has climbed on the couch before but only after climbing on a chair first. She has tried doing it on her own for awhile by lifting up her leg and trying to climb on but our couches are just too high and she couldn't However, yesterday she had a real incentive! Adrian came over and was eating a bowl of icecream.. BAD IDEA! I guess he forgot that when you eat in front of her she wants some too. I told him it was close to bedtime and not to give her to much but that didn't stop him from sneaking her a couple of little spoonfuls. She seemed to like it but would walk away then come back for more. I reminded Adrian again to stop giving her so much before bedtime (I was really tired and was looking forward to her going to sleep early) he said "Don't worry shes not going crazy over this" and just after he said that she walked up to him and struggled a bit but actually climbed on the couch and sat right in front of him, facing him, so she could get more! How could you not reward her for that! so she got her icecream anyways.
She is also trying to be helpful now too... alittle too helpful sometimes! haha Once I went to change her diaper and I handed her a wipee to play with and distract her while I did what I needed to do. Once I opened her diaper she instantly put the wipee on her little girly part and tried to clean herself! I guess Mama wasn't doing it right? haha Of course I had to take the wipee away from her but it was kind of amusing. Also, after every meal I wipe down her tray and she wants to take the wipee away from me so she can clean it. She takes it and wipes back and forth on her tray all happy. I guess she likes being Mama's little helper! =)
Ok onto a bad thing... she got her 1 year old shots this week! NOoooooo!!! It was bad enough she was teething but the shots just made it worse! She did good though, didn't cry long in the doctors office but she really made up for it that night. Luckily our cat Mew Mew managed to work her cat magic and calmed her down enough to sleep by meowing at her! Haha I know it was weird but really cute. She got 5 shots total poor baby. Then when coming home from the doctors office we got stuck in horrific traffic in 106 degree heat!!! That was aweful and poor Mia literally roasted in the back in her car seat. I later took her out and attempted to craddle and cool her off for the rest of the ride home.
Due to that horrible experience in the car we decided to graduate Mia to a big girl car seat. So after much researching we bought her a brand new car seat! Hopefully Daddy installed it in my car before he went to work today so I can take her out in a test run today.
Well thats about it to report. It will be another busy busy weekend for us. We are attempting to go back to Oxnard tomorrow to help celebrate her little cousin Gianna's 1st birthday. Hopefully we can make it, but things aren't looking so good due to her Daddy's schedule. Not only did he have a crazy work week but he also had to leave the house at 5am today just to get to San Diego early to pick up another Base parking pass (his expired) and military ID (again his expires soon) and the base's office that does all that only takes walks ins in the early morning... bleh. So we wont see him again till tomorrow morning when he comes home after work, he will get a couple of hours or rest then its on the road again to Oxnard. So we will see how we work it out. As for now its time to get Mia's breakfast going and to refill her Cheerio cup. She is OBESSED with Cheerios and eats them like if they were candy! I can't have a meal without them now or she gets FURIOUS! haha so I am off to set all that up. =)
