New Class

Today was Mia's first day in her new class.  She doesn't usually mind changing classrooms, so I didn't expect her to have a problem.  I was right.  When we arrived, she ran over to the breakfast table and took a seat.  She said, "Bye Mommy!" just like she does every morning.  It was super easy.  When I picked her up this afternoon, she was telling me the names of all of the kids in her class.  Some of them she already knew, but she'd learned the names of the others as well.  She didn't want to leave, but I coaxed her out the door with promises of letting her help me look for buses.  It's an "I Spy" game we play on the way home.  Whenever Mia sees a vehicle she recognizes, she yells, "Bus, Mama! School bus!" or "Big truck!" or "Van!"  She's been calling the city transit buses "school buses" also.  I've been trying to tell her they are city buses.  I guess she misunderstood me because the next time she saw one she said, "Silly bus, Mommy! Silly bus!"  She wants to identify everything she sees.  She points out every blade of grass and speck of dust it seems.  She asked for a snack this evening, but it took me a few minutes to figure out what she wanted.  I guess she's decided to call Lucky Charms "Charlie Browns".  Too funny!

Here's Mia supervising while I cook dinner.

 

She got impatient for her dinner.  She climbed up on the side of the high chair, and started eating her veggies before I could put her in the seat.

 

Friend Makin' Monday

I saw a blog post from Wesley's cousin, Gwen, about Friend Makin' Monday.  It's where you answer a short survey from All the Weigh about yourself for others to read.  I think it's a really neat idea.  I always write about what Mia is doing.  Maybe someday she'll like to look back and see what I was up to. 

1) What is your favorite household chore?  And what is your least favorite?
My favorite chore is probably laundry.  I absolutely hate wrinkled clothes and I pretty much refuse to iron.  I just stick clothes back in the dryer if needed.  Usually, I'm nearby and hear the dryer stop, so I immediately fold them.  I love the smell of clean laundry!  Least favorite household chore: well, besides the aforementioned ironing, it would have to be dusting.  It's sooo time consuming, although I must admit that it does make a difference in the way a room looks.

2)What is your favorite city?
Hmmm, other than my home of Dallas, I'd have to say San Juan, Puerto Rico.  We vacationed there a few years ago.  Wesley was already talking about buying a condo there before we got back home.  Maybe someday!

3) Have you found real love yet?
Yes.  I found my forever love when I was 15 years old.  That was 13 years ago.  He's a great husband and father.  I'm one lucky girl!

4) What's one thing you eat almost everyday?
I eat a Smart Ones breakfast quesadilla almost every morning.  Now, if I could just control myself for the rest of the day and avoid the candy left over from Mia's birthday party!

5) What was your last thought before falling asleep last night?
Wesley thought that I was asleep already.  I thought about funny things I could pretend to say in my sleep to make him laugh.  Unfortunately, I fell asleep before I could put my plan into action.

6) What's the worst injury you had as a child?
A swing set fell on my foot when I was little.  I had a crescent shaped bruise on my foot for months.

7) Will you/have you worked out today?
Me? Work out?  Listen carefully and you'll be able to hear me laughing all of the way from Dallas.

8) Do you tweet? If so, what's your name?
Nope

9) List three things you wouldn't want to live without:
I agree with Gwen that family is a given, so let's see, three other things: laptop, a good book, and takeout from Gloria's (my favorite Salvadoran restaurant).

10) How old were you when you had your first kiss?
13, I think.  I've tried to block it.  An older boy french kissed me while I was at the lake with my cousins.  It was totally disgusting!

Hello Kitty Pizza Party

We had Mia's birthday party in Heavener on Saturday at Simple Simon's.  I decided on a Hello Kitty theme because she loves HK so much.  However, all of the decorations I found were pink, and I wanted to do a different color scheme.  I decided to make my own decorations and went with red, black, and white for the colors.  It was hard work but a lot of fun.  I made pennants with Hello Kitty faces and Mia's name on them.  I also made a name banner and ribbon topiaries that I fell in love with.  I'm thinking of putting the topiaries in Mia's room because they match her bedding pretty well.  I also used some chocolate molds to put chocolate flowers on pretzel rods.  The project that was the most difficult was the Hello Kitty cake pops.  I saw them on Bakerella's website and was totally hooked.  Wesley helped me to make them.  It took hours, but the result was awesome.  They actually looked like little Hello Kitties, and that was good enough for me!  My friend, Nikki, made Mia's HK birthday cake as well as a chocolate cake for my brother since Mia and Tyler share the same birthday.  The cakes were delicious as well as completely cute!  Thanks Nik!

I couldn't believe how many friends and family came by to celebrate Mia's birthday with us.  It was a big reminder to me of how blessed we are.  Everyone ate pizza, cake, and candy to their hearts content.  It made me so happy to get to visit with all of our amazing family and friends.  I loved seeing Mia enjoy herself surrounded by lots of people who love her.  It was a great party, and I'm so glad we had it in our hometown!

Mia was helping me with the topiaries but decided it was more fun to stuff the shredded paper in her snack cup!  Oh yeah, that was after she dumped the crackers in the floor.

 Mia and Zoey checking each other out.

 Cutie pie Zoey.  Can you tell that I bought her this onesie?

 Mia's dessert table

 Birthday girl chowing down on her favorite food

 Kennedy licking her giant lollipop!

 Looking at her book from Nana

 Kennedy and Papa

 My happy birthday girl!

 Giggling with Nana and Uncle Darvey

 

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Today is Mia's second birthday.  She had a fun day, I think.  The only negative to the day was that she had to have a shot at her two year checkup.  Her pediatrician said that everything looks perfect.  She is 27 1/2 lb. (60%) and 37 1/2 inches long (96%).  The girl is really tall.  She got a big birthday sticker from the nurse, so she was excited.  We've been trying to teach her how to hold up two fingers.  She says, "I'm two!" and then holds up some combination of fingers that remotely looks like a gang sign.  She can do it if someone helps her, though.  Her favorite phrases right now are "Come on!", "Come here!", and "Let's go!"  She's a bossy little thing. Hehe! 

I've mentioned on here before that Mia loves to clean.  She posed this morning for a picture while holding her dust mop.  As soon as the picture was over, she continued with her cleaning.  She cleaned her way over to me, and said, "Moo mees (excuse me), Mommy."  I moved out of her way, and she continued cleaning the floor.  I told her the other day that she looked like Cinderella because she was down on her hands and knees on the floor scrubbing it with a baby wipe!

Mia took cupcakes, cookies, and apple juice to daycare today to celebrate her birthday with her friends.  She had a good time, and her chin was still faintly blue from the icing when she came home this afternoon.  Her teachers told me that Mia and her friend who is a couple of weeks older than her will be promoted to the next classroom on Monday.  I'm sad that she'll be leaving her friends and teachers in Toddler I, but change is a part of life I guess.  We'll still see all of them because her new classroom is right next door.  I'm excited for Toddler II because I know that she will be learning new things from the kids who are older than her.  Sometimes I think that change is harder for me than it is for her.  She just goes with the flow. 

Mia has a pink pair of Converse high top sneakers.  They are so stinkin' cute.  Hands down my favorites of her shoes.  The teachers at daycare have gotten her to call them her Chuck Taylor's.  When you ask her what kind of shoes she is wearing, she says, "Tuck Taylor's!"  She's getting picky about what she wants to wear.  Sometimes she vetoes my choices, but so far I can still talk her into wearing matching clothes.

The birthday girl when she first woke up this morning

  Posing for mommy before school in her bday shirt and "Tuck Taylor's"

Cutest Christmas Tree Ever

As Mia approaches her second birthday, I've been thinking of how much she's changed since this time last year.  She was barely walking at her first birthday.  Now, she tears around the house like a wild child.  Her vocabulary is outrageous.  She's putting sentences together well, and she's even learning a few abc's and numbers.  Until this last month, she hasn't been too interested in tv.  Now, she wants to watch Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse every five minutes.  She likes to dance, so Mickey's Hot Dog Dance is a particular favorite of her's.  She's becoming such a big girl.  For example, right now she's hollering at the Dallas Stars game with her daddy.

We had our first crib escape the other night.  Wesley and I were awakened at 2:30 in the morning to Mia's hysterical crying on the baby monitor.  She almost never wakes up at night, so that combined with her panic got us out of bed quickly.  Before we could get to her room, we heard a thump.  We quickly opened her door to find her on all fours on the floor.  She wasn't hurt, but I think it really surprised her that she fell out.  We think she had a bad dream because there was nothing wrong with her.  She refused to sleep in her room, so she slept in our bed for the rest of the night.  She hasn't tried to climb out again, but we've been putting cushions on the floor in front of her crib just in case.

She was helping me take the garland off of the tree.  This is how she helped.

 

Lucky Cupcakes Strike Again

Last night was the Fiesta Bowl: OU vs. UConn.  OU was heavily favored for the game, but Mia and I made our lucky cupcakes again like we did for the Big 12 Championship.  You know, just in case.  I thought Mia would have fun if I let her "help" me make them.  We got her a dining chair to stand on at the counter.  Mimi was recruited to document Mia's first foray into baking with lots of pictures.  After dumping the cupcake mix into the bowl with the eggs, oil, and water, Mia just couldn't resist.  She immediately dunked both hands into the mixing bowl before I could stop her.  Mimi and I were laughing while Daddy cleaned off Mia's hands.  We gave Mia a mixing spoon hoping it would act as a deterrent against any more sticky fingers.  Naturally, as soon as her hands were clean she submerged them again.  Daddy cleaned her hands off again, and she went back to mixing.  I was fairly positive that Mia was going to flip a big spoonful of cupcake mix in the floor, so we switched to the electric mixer.  I helped Mia hold it, and she really liked it!  We got a late start on the cupcakes, so Mia had to go to bed before she could have one.  She had a cupcake today to celebrate OU's 48-20 victory over Connecticut! Go Sooners!

Dumping cupcake mix onto her left hand as she pours it with her right hand

Curious little fingers had to see what was in the bowl

 Clean fingers

 Stirring it up

 There she goes again

 This is more like it!

 The best part- licking the mixers!

 Enjoying the finished product

 

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Mia stayed at our house with Mimi on Thursday so that Wesley and I could go to work.  They had a fun day.  Since Mia was a good girl for Mimi, we all went to Espumoso for ice cream after dinner.  Mia wanted to feed it to herself, so we let her have at it.  It's funny to see all of the places she gets food on herself.

Getting some help from Daddy

Washing down the ice cream with a drink of Daddy's Dublin Dr. Pepper

Two of a Kind

Mia got a baby doll for Christmas that she can play with in the bath.  The baby came with accessories, one of which is a hooded bath towel with a duck on it.  It just so happens that Mia has a towel just like it.  It's double the cute-ness!  Mia enjoyed playing with the baby.  She got to wash it and dry it off.  She loves getting to play at being a mommy.

Mia said she was cold after getting out of the bath.  She traded in her duckie towel for the hooded deer blanket she got from Papaw.  It's super soft and warm.