Valentine's Day

Well Josh, Mia and I had a great Valentine's Day on Wednesday. We got to see her at daycare for a little bit while they had their V-day lunch party...we were the only parents there visiting their kid but it was cool to see Mia for a bit. :) She did not like it when we left though!! I even got to take home a little V-day card of the imprints of Mia's feet which was really cute!

Later that night, we had Mia open her gifts from us and her grandparents. She got a very cute shirt and jacket from my mom along with stickers, a coloring book and a stuffed bunny rabbit....Mia loved the stickers and little bunny! She also got a stuffed angel piggy from us and a cute purse with a mini poodle inside of it from Josh's parents. Mia loves the poodle! She just has a thing for puppies. :)

Josh and I also got to open up our gifts to each other (we set a spending limit since we were going out to eat). I got Josh a cute pic frame with Mia's pic inside...it says "Smiles for Daddy". I loved it! I also got Josh a "Dad Coupon Book" with coupons that say things like "A day without any chores" and "A day for Dad to sleep in late", which I don't know if it was a good idea to get Josh...haha! :) He loved them though. Josh got me very pretty red roses along with the Terminal DVD which I've been wanting to see...I loved my gifts too! Then Josh and I went out to eat at a Sushi place where we had an awesome, yummy dinner. Afterwards, we went to a nearby restaurant to have this dessert called Pzookie, which was sooo good! It was a choc chip cookie practically with ice cream and whipped cream on top....so tasty! We arrived home stuffed and had a great V-day date night!

Hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day too!

New things

Within these past few weeks, Mia has done many things! Here are some of them:

Said:
Cookie
Elmo
Three
Tissue
Flower
Pizza
Meow
Bah
Moo
Please
Bean
Peas

She also did the book and change baby sign which she learned from daycare. It's so cute to see her sign. :) Anywho, she is probably saying around 40 words or so. :) She is like a sponge!

Mia's 1 1/2 year old appt.

Mia had her 1 1/2 year old appt. today (or yesterday depending on when you read this) which wasn't too bad (shot wise that is). Mia got weighed and measured and did perfectly well on the scale where she lays down (hated it last time) and had one hand behind her head while she was getting weighed...it was cute. She did fine laying down too when they were measuring her which was a surprise b/c the last time she just screamed. Mia did not like it when our doc was listening to her breathing, but didn't mind when she looked in her ears. Speaking of ears, the doctor said Mia's ears look very well w/ no fluid. She said Mia's not a candidate for ear tubes b/c she's only had 3 sets (I counted them seperately but they count them as one). Plus she said if her ears clear up well with the antibiotics then that's usually a good sign. It's when they don't clear up that would be a cause for concern. Luckily, Mia's ears are just fine. I just hope our next flight is better than this last one. I really thought it could have been her ears which made her miserable...maybe not. Who knows.

Mia had to get 2 shots today, one of them being a follow up flu shot. She got one in each leg and screammmmedddd a lot (while Josh was holding her arms down) but def not as badly as last time. The assistant giving her the shot could have and should have been quicker with the 2nd shot but she def was not. It may have been only 20 seconds or so b/t the 1st and 2nd shot, but it seemed like forever before the 2nd shot went in. I was like "Come on!" Mia got the 2nd shot and screammmmmed again while Josh held and hugged her. She only cried for maybe 1 minute b/c the assistant gave us a basket full stickers for Mia to choose from which caused Mia to INSTANTLY stop crying!! Mia LOVES stickers so this was heaven to her. She chose two stickers and said "NEMO" when she picked a nemo one out. It was cute! PHEWWWWWWWW!


WEIGHT 25 lbs 10 oz 70% tile (same as her 15 month checkup)
HEIGHT 33 3/4 in 97% tile (always been this high...she's lengthy!)\n
HEAD Our doc said they don't measure the head circumference once babies turn 1 year old.

Mia's next appt. isn't until she is 2 years old which is right around the corner in July...already!