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Happy New Years Eve! Burrrrrrr......... its FREEZING out right now! Infact its 7:30am and the weather website says its 27 degrees! I believe it! I am frozen to this chair as we speak! haha It is definately winter!
This week was lots of fun. Not only did Mia get to celebrate her 3rd Christmas, she got to go see her Cardoso family for Christmas Eve in San Diego. She had lots of fun running around with her cousins, sneaking chocolate chip cookies and getting presents from her Auntie Rebecca and Grandma and Grandpa. We spent some time at her Grandparents house and she had lots of fun playing with Grandpa Fernando's instruments and coloring on the kitchen table. The next day (Christmas) she went NUTS opening all the presents under the tree. She opened hers, mine, Adrian's and even Alex's. She made out like a bandit too, there are new toys spread all over the house and we haven't even taken all of her gifts out of the boxes yet. I guess Santa thought she was a good girl all year... where has he been the last few months?!?!!? haha just kidding, she's always a good girl.
She has started doing a new annoying thing however. Ever since we played house with her doll house and toys she has learned how to knock on her bedroom door. She does this when she wants out or is mad. I say annoying because its not only her fist that she uses, she also bangs the door with her sippy cup! Its almost like shes in jail and trying to get our attention to get out! Its so loud and I am always afraid that she will wake up Adrian, so I get her pretty fast. I guess that is bad on my part since it is reinforcing us getting her when she does that.
She also insists on always having her bedroom light on during the night. I don't know how many times Adrian or myself have to go up there and turn it off when she falls asleep. It doesn't last long though because as soon as she wakes up and finds that its off she will whine then quickly jump out of bed, turn it back on and run back to bed. I literally hear "waaah... thump thump thump thump... CLICK... thump thump thump thump" at all hours of the night.
She also had another big outing with her Daddy this week. They went to Fry's Electronics (San Marcos) and Fat Burger in Escondido. She had lots of fun watching the fish they had in their aquarium and even cracked herself up by trying to scare them. I can't wait until we take her to Sea World so she can see what fish REALLY look like haha.
She has been becoming a handful more and more as the weeks go on. Its like she has all this bottled up energy and if you don't keep her from becoming bored or get her outside she explodes in the house! She acts up and is constantly getting into trouble. It is driving me NUTS! and for the first time I have been noticing that its driving Adrian nuts too! Thats big because he never loses patience with anything! So one night I tried to do something new with her to see if it would help stave off some of her bottled up energy. Since we didn't get to make Christmas cookies this year, I just made some dough out of flour, salt, and water and gave it to her to have fun with. I also gave her some cookie cutters I had and she went nuts for awhile. She snowmen and loved to smash the dough while saying "smashy!" haha It was fun and since she stayed on the table with it (which was a miracle since she never stays on the table with anything) the mess was minimal.
We also discovered this week that Mia likes Chilibeans!!!! I have no idea where that came from since she never likes to try new things. One day while Adrian and I were eating chili dogs at the table she insisted on "Trying it?". At first we just gave her beans. She would come to Adrian for a bean then me then Adrian. Finally we started giving her the whole chili (which wasn't very hot) and she liked it! She ate tons of it (for Mia's standards) and when it was all gone she kept asking for "Chili".. it was too cute!
Well that is about it for the week. Today is the final day of 2010! I can't wait to ring in the new year with my babies! 2011 is going to be GREAT!
