So Fun

It has been so fun having my sister and her girls in town to play! My mom and dad flew in last night as well and the girls are busy loving on grandma and grandpa.  :)  It has been so fun seeing our daughters interact and play together. We only wish our other siblings could have made it out as well and that ALL the cousins could have been her to play together!

Sara loves holding Mia, even though they are getting closer and closer to being the same size.  lol

Mia, my cute little bug, trying to keep up with her cousins.

Hard at work on Halloween decorations for the house.

It is, apparently, VERY serious business.

This morning we got up, ate breakfast and put on our Halloween costumes to go trick-or-treating at a nursing home for a play group activity. Nothing like a little candy first thing in the morning!  :)  It made me think of a bib I saw at the store the other day that said, "The sugar made me do it!"  I think we'll have to get three of those shirts for these three cute candy-loving girls for the next few days.

My little pink caterpillar playing with mom's sunglasses before getting into her butterfly costume.  :)

Sofia, Mia and Sara - 3 little beauties! Mia's loving sitting like a big girl with her cousins.  :)

This little Butterfly is read to Trick-or-Treat rock-and-roll!

My niece Sara did NOT want to smile for the camera. I decided to use reverse psychology by telling her I wanted to take an "ugly senorita" photo so she should show me her ugly senorita face. It worked, and Sara smiled. However, Sofia took me seriously and this was the resulting photo:

Ugly senorita photo.  lol

Aren't they the cutest things ever!

Ready for trick or treating.  :)

Trick-or-Treat!

Uhm, mommy, is that MY piece of candy in YOUR mouth??? Whoopsie!

LOVE this smile! I just have to say how great her lip repair surgery has healed. We are almost a year out and her lip is so smooth that you'd never guess it was open on both sides of her sweet little mouth/nose when she was born.

And a few last photos of the girls with grandma and grandpa:

Mia getting some grandma loves.  :)

Fia chilling with grandpa...

...while grandma reads to Sara.

Still Alive

I'm still alive. It's been busy and and I've been tired on top of all the business, so that pretty much sums it up.  :)  


Last week Mia and I went to a play date that was Halloween themed. She has a darling butterfly costume and also a pumpkin costume that we got on clearance last year after Halloween for this year. Our friend that we invited didn't have a costume yet, so we let them borrow the butterfly and Mia went as a pumpkin. She looked SO cute!

Standing with mama and checking out the scene. She was actually dragging me all over by the finger since she's STILL not walking on her own.  Argh!

Mia was really interested in checking out the sand box, but not actually playing in it!

Luckily she's so dainty or she wouldn't have fit in this one!  :)

With her "stem" hat on.  :)

Afterwards Mia and I dropped our friends back off at their apartment and headed up north to meet papa for lunch at Olive Garden. YUM!

Mia has started being interested in coloring and it's so fun to watch her!

Hey dad, you can color, but stay outta my way!  :)

My sister Nikki, who is just younger than me, is in town with her girls from Germany and we've been having so much fun! Grandma and grandpa fly in tomorrow night and their papa flies in on Sunday so we'll have an even MORE full house soon. Yay!


So here's a quick sneak peek so far from cell phone photos:

Mia and Sofia checking each other out while Sara checks her watch.

We have the coolest "cows" outside the airport.  :)

Too bad there was a sign saying not to sit on them.  :(

Mia going down the slide with Fia.

Swinging on the hammock at Giddeon's house - Sara, Fia, Gid, Nik and Mia.

Mia getting ready to knock down Sara's tower.  :)

On the old fire truck that's part of the playground down town.

Getting their "crawl" on.  :)

3 months old!!!

Oh my goodness - our baby girl is ALREADY three months old and it's time for three month pictures!  :)

She's getting SO long and is still such a happy little girl!

She can sit up more on her own now.  Growing up so fast!

At three months old, Mia:

• smiles and smiles and SMILES
• did I mention she was smiley?  :)  even when she's tired and fussy you can usually still coax a smile out of her
• coos at you when you talk to her
• coos at the elephant on her car seat and at the ladybug on her bouncer
• turns onto her side
• likes to be read to and sung to
• does NOT like you to stop feeding her in the middle of a bottle, even if it's to wipe up some drool - she'll start whimpering and fussing to let you know she is NOT done yet  :)
• likes to help with feedings by trying to help hold the bottle - which makes it really tricky to feed her sometimes!
• drools like crazy
• is gaining better head control
• loves to snuggle
• has noticed the TV and gets distracted by it - which is nice for when I put in the NAM and have to wait for the denture cream to set  lol
• reaches for things with greater accuracy
• pulls whatever she can reach straight into her mouth
• is content to play on the floor
• loves the Mia song, and will calm down when it's sung to her
• loves the Eensy Weensy Spider song and will usually smile as we do the actions
• sleeps through the night most nights 8-10 hours
• enjoys showers and baths
• is so mild and relaxed
• fusses when she gets tired, but if you throw a blanket over her and pat her bum while saying "sh, sh, shhhh" she will be out cold in less than a minute  :)
• is such a joy and is the love of our lives!

The week before she turned three months old we finally decided to get her ears pierced.  I got sick to my stomach while we waited to get them done and I almost changed my mind.  Mia CRIED when they pierced her little ears, but we had a warm bottle ready to help calm her down.

Thank goodness it worked!

Such a pretty little lady with her pierced ears!

Couldn't resist snapping a picture of her with the bag they gave us that was almost as big as her!  lol

Man I love this little girl!

She must not have minded too much because once we got home she promptly passed out.

Halloween is rapidly approaching and I've been wondering if/what Mia was going to dress up as for Halloween.  With her cousins Sara and Sofia coming and being excited about Halloween, we decided to do costume after all so we could get pictures.  I found this little kitty outfit first, but ended up finding something else later that I liked better so this one got returned.  However, we tried it on first before deciding and had to get a few pics.  :)

Such a cute little kitty with those skinny, skinny legs!

I LOVE this one of her little face peeking out from under the hoodie.

As noted before, Mia now LOVES to try and help us feed her by "holding" her bottle.  It makes it very difficult to feed her at times and also sometimes makes it so she gets a milk shower when she bumps it out of her mouth.  lol 

It's kind of hard to see, but that's a burp rag wrapped around her arms to keep her little hands from "helping".  Silly goose!

Because of the clefting of her palate, Mia's not able to keep a pacifier in her mouth.  We saw these things called WubbaNubs online and I ordered one for Mia.  They have a stuffed animal attached so that as they get older they can hold onto the animal to keep it in their mouth.  So far, it only works occasionally, but she also enjoys just chewing and drooling on it.  :)

 

Aha!  Caught a pic of her hugging Raffi with the pacifier actually IN her mouth.