Current mood: exhausted
Mia won her pageant!!! YAY! We are so very proud of her! She was crowned "Queen" earlier in the day, and already she is acting like one!
I have been planning and working on getting her and myself ready for her big day for a couple of weeks now. I altered her dress countless times, bought myself a new outfit so I wouldn't look all bummy when I walked with her, and went to her rehearsal. I knew it would be a challenge but I thought I would be able to pull it all off.... WRONG!!! (as usual)
Mia went to sleep last night in the worst mood ever!!! I was hoping after a good night rest she would wake up perky and ready to go like her normal self. Well that didn't happen. She woke up in a horrible moody mood this morning and no matter what I did I couldn't snap her out of it.
If that wasn't bad enough, her pageant time was changed to 1:00pm. That is smack dab in the middle of her lunch/nap time. GRRRREEEAAT! So we were fighting a losing battle. Wait... there is more... As I was doing some last min. touch ups on her dress, and we were nearly out the door, my new little baby decided that they wanted to cause trouble too and sent me running to the bathroom to throw up. Yes, I got sick... AGAIN! It scared Mia and made the whole ride out to the Pageant scary because I wasn't sure if I was going to get sick again.
Once we arrived we checked in. We were a bit early so Adrian took Mia outside to kill some time since she was getting antsy inside the Country Club. I sat inside trying to calm my upset stomach. The good news was I was no longer nervous about the pageant since I was more scared that I would throw up again... I guess that really wasn't good news. Anyway when the pageant drew closer to starting I grabbed Mia and Adrian from outside. Unfortunately, their photographer was late so we had to wait again!!! Mia was really getting annoyed and antsy and by then started to yawn over and over. I knew she was tired and it was her nap time but we already had come this far... we were on a mission to complete this pageant!!!
Eventually the photographer showed up and the pageant began. Since Mia was in the youngest competing division (Toddler) she was first one up!!! I took her little hand, like we had practiced days earlier, and began walking her down the stage.
Everyone "Ooooh'd and Awwwww'd" at the first sight of my little princess. She was doing really good until about mid way down the stage when she looked up and realized all the people staring at her. She froze then sat on the ground and refused to walk!! Uh-Oh! It started, my worst nitemare was happening right before my eyes. So I picked her up and she began to squirm and cry!!! OH-NOOO!! I talked to her calmly, walked her to the front of the stage and made her wave at the judges and blow kisses. She wasn't to happy about this but she had stopped squirming and crying for a bit. I then put her back down in the middle of the stage so the judges could get a good look at her. When her time was up I tried to walk her off the stage but again she refused and I had to carry her off!!!
I walked her back to where Adrian was. She was definately not in a good mood by then. She didn't want me to hold her and only let Adrian hold her. They then told us we had to go back behind the curtain with the other girls until it was over. Dada came to the rescue and jumped right in and took over for me. After all the other little girls were done, they called everyone back on stage for an interview!!! (BTW they never told me we had to do this!!!)
Of course Mia was first up... again! Since she couldn't talk they asked Adrian to speak on her behalf. So he introduced her, mentioned what she liked to do (dance) and her favorite band, The Beatles! Everyone got a kick out of that one. Then they tried to get her to speak into the microphone but she just turned her head away.
After the rest of the little girls were interviewed they all left the stage. The judges were then introduced and some announcements were made. Then they brought everyone back up on stage... again! By then Mia was on borderline melt down mode. She fussed a bit but Adrian got her to calm down by giving her, her favorite Yo Gabba Gabba toy, Plex. She held onto Plex the rest of the time, squirming, figiting, and being upset.
Then it was crowing time... and again Mia went first! Dada helped walk her to the middle of the stage as they announced that she had won!!!!! They gave her a trophy, $1000 gift certificate for a photography place, and the current Miss Menifee crowned her tiny head with a Tierra and put on her sash! Mia stood motionless for about a second before trying to hand the crown back. Then she put her trophy down on the floor and began to walk off. As she walked off her sash fell off and landed at her feet! EVERYONE fell in love with her! It was very cute but stressful at the same time.
They crown the other Queens of their divisions and then attempted to take a group picture together. Of course Mia wanted no part of that and spent most of the time tearing off her sash, taking her crown off and running away. Sigh....
After the pageant was over we were invited back to be introduced again for the older girl part and we were free to leave. We couldn't get out of there fast enough. Mia was on melt-down mode, Dada was exhausted and Mama was stressed. We got back home and took a nice long rest!
Overall the pageant was definately an experience I will never forget. I am so happy and proud that she had won! Thats my little princess... not even 2 and already being crown a Queen!
All hail Queen Mia of Menifee!!!!
