Current mood: accomplished
Happy Friday! Its that time again... time for "A week in review of little Mia!!" haha Can you tell I am in a good mood this morning? Well I should be, I got up at 5:30 this morning to hit the gym early for once but instead I just ended up walking around the track at the park across the street for 2 miles!! I am so happy and proud of myself. So I decided to use that positive energy and write about Mia, my little ray of sunshine!
This week has been fun, and I am glad because I really needed that. It started off with her little friend Abby's first birthday party in San Diego. It was great seeing the little ones together again and they even played nice! Abby shared some of her toys with Mia and Mia tried to gives Kisses to Abby. The only bad thing Mia did was run away from Abby when she tired to hug her... sigh... Mia needs to get used to hugs!!! She doesn't like them but we are working with her on that. Mia got to play at the playground but she didn't like it much. I don't know if it was because there were alot of screaming kids around or if she was just tired but she panicked and almost cried on everything we put her on except for this bouncy spring horse. She loved that and had lots of fun. At the party she got to eat alot of good food and of course Daddy gave her iceceam, cake and candy. She did throw up alittle but I think it was because she was running around so much after eating. Overall the party was great!
Mia also tried to tickle Daddy for the first time this week. She not only reached out with her hands to tickle him but also attempted to say "Ticke tickle tickle" like we do to her. I wish I could have seen it but Adrian said it was the cutest thing ever!!!
She also learned to say "No" and says it ALOT. Granted it sounds more like "Na" than actually No, but she says it all the time when she doesn't want something to happen. Usually she says it while running away from you, or when you try to feed her something she doesn't like.
Speaking of feeding, that has turned into a HUGE battle with her now. Its driving me completely INSANE!!!! She is getting so picky now and always throws her food off the side of her high chair onto the floor. I can't walk away or she will end up dumping all her food on the floor one piece at a time. And she doesn't stop it even if you are right there. Sometimes I have to force her to eat by placing a piece of food in her mouth but she will just keep her mouth open, squirm, take the food out with her hand and dump it on the ground! Talk about frusterating! I have been trying all kinds of tactics to minimize this, even Adrian gets the same results. I don't understand, she used to eat what I fed her really good. Then it hit me, she doesn't do that when its something new. For instance at the birthday party this past weekend we gave her some new food and she ate it like nothing. It even got to the point where she was stealing food off of Adrian's plate. Then last night I fed her some zuchinni/corn soup type dish (a recipe I got from my Mother-in-law) and she LOVED it! Infact she was grabbing my hand to give her more because I wasn't feeding her fast enough! So I think the solution is to start giving her a variety. This sort of stinks because it was easier just making her the same thing everyday and now I will have to cook more and prepare different dishes which isn't always easy due to the lack of time during the day. I also noticed she doesn't like processed food and only likes fresh home cooked food. She won't eat at restaurants but she will eat it if you cook it fresh. I only cook fresh, nothing from cans or frozen so I guess she is getting spoiled with that. At the party this past weekend it was all home cooked food as well. I also noticed she will only eat my beans and not beans from a fast food joint either. Hmmm... well looks like I will need to fire up the stove more often.
Mia also grew a new tooth this week. Another Molar to add to her collection. Her tooth count is up to 9 now!! I can't believe it! She is growing up so fast. This tooth was on the bottom (a nice change) on the left hand side.
She also killed her favorite Elmo toy yesterday. She got an "Elmo Live" toy from her Great Uncle Anthony and Aunt Ilenna for her birthday. She LOVES her Elmo and goes nuts when hes on. She always carries him to you so you can turn him on and she gets the biggest smile on her face when he talks to her, kisses, her or dances. Anyways, she has been getting really rough with it and she broke his mouth. It now always ticks really loud when he talks or moves. Then yesterday Adrian said she threw him off the couch and broke his arm. I thought maybe his arm wouldn't move right or got stuck but no when I looked at it, the poor little guy's arm was completely broken off from his shoulder!!! Now he only moves a nub!!! There is no way of reattaching his arm unless we take off his skin (which I don't really want to do since I can't sow worth beans!) so looks like we need to buy her a new Elmo buddy, maybe one that is more Mia resiliant! haha
She also has a new show, Elmo's World. She LOVES this show and will completely stay frozen watching it the whole time! Adrian downloaded a couple of episodes and she loves them. I like them only because it will give me some time to clean or do something really fast as she is glued to the TV. She still loves her Gabba! but her Elmo is a close second!
Well thats about it for today, I need to start getting ready to get Mia up from bed to start our day together. All in all this week has been lots of fun!
