8 months old and loving it!

I can't believe it but Mia turned 8 months old last week. The time is flying by and before we know it we will be planning a 1st birthday party. Last week we had a fairly busy week, we went to story time at the library of course where Mia is obviously jealous of the other babies crawling around and gets up on her hands and knees to rock back and forth as to say "see I can do that too" but the second we get home she is like "crawling? mother I don't know what you are talking about." We also had two play groups, one with our DT friends and the other with the neighborhood babies.

Not to mention all of the shopping that we did for our upcoming Boston trip. I keep looking at the weather in Boston and I seem to think that Mia will be an ice cube even inside my parents house! But we now have an appropriate winter coat, mittens, a hat, and new shoes so we should be good to go.

Mia is becoming an expert "puller upper". She is pulling up on to whatever is within reach and now is cruising around her activity cube on her own. One day you could just see in her brain...oh if I put my hand here and move my feet like this I could get over there...hmmm let's try it. I have a feeling she will crawl and walk in the same week.

I leave you with this picture of Mia sitting in the grass for the first time. She ripped grass out of the ground and studied it and tried to put leaves in her mouth. Just a reminder to stop and appreciate your surroundings every once in a while. We are off to Boston on Friday....wish us luck this time!

I Love Mondays

I will profess that I love Mondays! Monday is one of the best days of the week primarily because of library story time. It's something which I look forward to very much because Mia enjoys herself so much. She loves watching the other little kids some which are younger than she is and others who are crawling around and pulling up on things. She sits and listens intently to the story teller and her favorite part is the bubbles signaling the end of the half hour. It gives me great joy to see her so happy and interested.

That being said last week, we went to a Halloween party at daddies work. Mia loved saying hello to everyone in her pumpkin suit (which I think she might actually miss going forward) and waiving twizzlers and mini m&m's in her hands. She also met up with her good friend Meredith sporting her lovely bee costume. My father commented that I had called it "daddies work" for the first time ever. And it was true, I had reached a real turning point of separation. I proudly walked in with my daughter on one hip and wearing jeans as to say "this is where my priorities lie and you can't take that away from me." It was a very liberating experience to be able to just not care at all about anyone's "busy season", etc, etc, etc. So hence, "I LOVE MONDAYS". I love being with Mia at home with her as my priority. It's a great feeling and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Updates: We are now saying "ma ma" when we want to get up and do something different or get out of her crib... I think she talked to Nick who told her this worked really well with his mom since he does the same thing. :-) She is now pulling up on her toys which is crazy given that she still wants nothing to do with crawling. And we are eating peaches and cheerios. She is growing up!!!

PS- Sam will upload the Halloween pictures tonight so look out for them on york photo soon.

Have a good week!