Wordless Wednesday: Sunday Fun

Buddies

Holly sent me some more pics of Mia and Harper having fun...

Beat the Heat

Even though soaring temperatures prevailed this weekend, we still had some fun.  On Friday, Wesley, Mia, and I went to our friendly neighborhood Mexican burger joint, Burguesa.  Talk about tasty.  Then, we went and milled around Home Goods for awhile.  Sometimes it's just fun to browse.

On Saturday, we met the Hanes family at Jump Zone so that the kids could play.  Mia LOVES playing with Harper.  She was so excited that morning that she couldn't take a nap.  Probably shouldn't have told her about it in advance I guess.  Mia's favorite was the giant inflatable slide with an elephant on it.  She kept shrieking that Dumbo was on the slide.  She was a little too short to climb onto it , so I had to give her a boost each time.  Then, she would climb up the rest of the way just fine.  After awhile, I noticed Harper trying to give her a boost.  Haha!  Harper is so sweet to Mia.  It's great to watch them because they get along so well.

We had a lazy day on Sunday.  Mia's outfit of choice was her ice cream shirt and pink/purple tutu.  She loves to spin and say, "I'm a ballerina!!"  That evening I told her that she could have some ice cream if she ate her dinner.  When she was finished, she asked for ice cream.  I told her that I would give her some in a minute when I finished my dinner.  She waited a minute and then said, "I want ice cream."  Trying to get her to add "please" onto the end I said, "Ice cream...what?"  Mia stood up on the dining chair and both clearly and loudly enunciated, "ICE...KA...REAM!"  It was difficult not to laugh.  I told her that I had heard her just fine but that she needed to remember to say please to which she replied, "Oh! Okay."  Silly goose.

Burguesa...yum.

Jump Zone fun

  Harper giving Mia a boost

 Had to get a pic with the cow at Chick fil A

Spic and Span

As much as I enjoy sunny summer days, I'm way past done with the heat.  We are on our 59th day of 100+ degree heat for the summer (not consecutive days.  I think there have only been two days under 100 degrees in the past couple of months).  I think it got up to 106 today.  That's just miserable heat.  It can be dangerous too.  We haven't taken Mia to the park in several weeks.  Almost all of our activities have been indoors.  I think I'm ready for fall.  It's my favorite season.

Case in point: Mia eating a chocolate Easter bunny that I had been saving for some reason.  This was quite an enjoyable indoor activity!

Yesterday when I went to pick Mia up from school, I asked her how her day had been.  She replied, "I wasn't bossy, Mommy!"  Mmmhmm.  Sure you weren't.  I'm glad that she has an outgoing personality, but we have to remind her to ask people for things rather than just telling them what to do.  The other evening at dinner, I told her to be still so that she wouldn't knock over her drink.  She said, "You need to be nice, Mommy."  I said, "I am being nice, but you need to listen."  Mia replied, "I'm trying, Mommy!  I'm trying!"  I'm sure that she does, but her little two-year-old attention span is too short to allow her to dwell on anything very long.  Another funny conversation came yesterday.  Mia was eating a breakfast quesadilla.  For some reason, she was walking around with it.  She sat it on the ottoman and walked off.  I picked it up and put it back on her plate.  When she returned to the living room, she said, "Where's my quesadilla?"  I told her that I had put it on the plate.  She got a little huffy and said, "I don't believe that you put my quesadilla on the plate!  I don't believe it, Mommy!"  She meant to say "can't believe it".  It was funny, but it warranted a reminder that she needs to remember to speak to people in a nice voice.  She's the sweetest little girl, but she's not shy about voicing her opinions.

She and I cleaned her room on Sunday.  I wanted to really scrub it good.  She helped me carry everything out into the hallway.  We wiped down all of her furniture and scrubbed the baseboards and her playmat.  Mia loves the cleaning supplies that Mimi and Pa Pa got her for Christmas.  I swept the floor, and she swept too with her little broom.  I swiffered the floor, and she swiffered too.  She still likes to scrub the hardwood floors with a baby wipe, so that kept her entertained for awhile.  We put all of her toys back in her room, and I went into the kitchen.  A few minutes later, I went to check on her, and she was taking all of her things out of her room again.  She said, "Mommy, we have to clean my room again!"  Haha!  I reminded her that it was clean, and we put her toys away again.  An hour later, it was the same thing.  I came around the corner, and her floor cushions were lined up in the hallway.  The girl likes to clean.

Ready to clean again...

 and again...

Listening Skills

Mia and I both have some changes ahead this week.  Tomorrow she is promoting to the next class at daycare.  This new class is down the hallway where the "big kid" classes are.  As usual, her friends will be promoting up too, so she'll still be with kids she knows.  New classes are usually no big deal to her.  One thing I'm excited about are the Easy Lunchboxes I ordered.  It seems like I always send three or four small containers to daycare to hold her lunch and snacks.  These new containers have compartments, so I can separate things if needed.  I hope that I'll be able to plan her lunches better and maybe get some new ideas of foods to send with her.

My changes this week are about moving as well.  I've been transferred to a hospital that is right by our house.  It's the hospital where Mia was born, and it's only five minutes away.  I love the clinic I've been at for the last (almost) five years, but I guess nothing can stay the same forever.  Change can be good.  I'm excited about learning new things and getting to know people better.  I'm very happy to be closer to Mia's daycare.  If she needs me, I'm literally down the street.  I think this change will impact our family in a positive way, so I'm ready for it.

We've been having talks with Mia lately about listening.  Too many times we try to tell her not to do something, and she flashes that adorable grin at us.  It's hard not to smile back.  The other day, Mia took half of the clothes in her closet off of the hangers, and made two piles in the floor: one of hangers, and one of clothes (not to mention the fact that she had made a total mess of her room in general).  When I walked in her room, I started to tell her she shouldn't do that, but then I busted out laughing.  She helped me put them back on the hangers, and we talked about how she is not allowed to do that.  A couple of days later, she did it again.  I was more stern this time when I talked to her.  Yesterday, she did it again, so she had to sit on her bed in time out while I put all of the clothes away myself.  She cried and sniffled and wailed like it was the end of the world.  I know that time out doesn't work for all children, but Mia hates it.  It's usually effective.  I don't expect to have any more problems with her throwing clothes in the floor.

This pic is from the first day when it was actually funny.

Yesterday, Mia decided to climb up on the dining room table to play with her toys.  I told her that we don't sit on the table because that's where we eat.  She ignored me at first and pretended to talk on her cell phone.  This was another instance where I had to have a talk with my strong-willed girl about listening.

Today we tried to go outside and play, but it's still too hot.  After ten minutes, Mia said, "Mommy, I'm done."  I was, too.  I do better when it's in the 80s outside.  We played inside instead.  We did the usual:  reading books, playing with toys, watching a movie.  Mia likes to play with these stackable cups.  She's always really proud of herself when she's finished.  She says, "Look!  I made a tower!  It's like Perunzal's tower!"

Wordless Wednesday: "I'm Sitting Like Mommy"

Interview with Mia

I saw an interview like this on another blog, and I thought I'd like to try it with Mia.  Here are the results:

1. What is your name?  Mia McGee

2.  How old are you?  Two! (She said this while holding up two fingers.)

3.  What is your favorite color?  Blue (I think a more accurate answer would be pink, though.)

4.  Who is your best friend?  Cati (friend from daycare)

5.  What is your favorite animal?  Horsey

6.  What is your favorite movie?  Princess Ora (Aurora from Sleeping Beauty)

7.  What makes you happy?  Dumbo

8.  What makes you sad?  Dumbo

9.  What is your favorite book?  Pinkalicious

10.  What is your favorite food?  Chicken (If I asked this 20 times, I'd get 20 different answers.)

11.  What is your favorite song?  Twinkle (Mia's shorthand for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

12.  What is your favorite shape?  A triangle

I feel like I should explain the Dumbo answers.  When we decided to take Mia to the circus a couple of weeks ago, I thought she should have some idea of what a circus was.  We already owned Dumbo on DVD, but she'd never seen it.  I sat down to watch it with her one day, and she was really excited because I told her that it was about one of her favorite animals-an elephant.  She was enjoying the movie up until the part where Dumbo's mommy got locked up.  They were singing the Baby Mine song, Dumbo was crying, and his mommy was rocking him with her trunk.  Mia turned to look at me and burst into tears!  She was SO upset.  We had to stop the movie.  When she was able to talk again, she sniffed, "I want to watch Mickey.  It will make me happy."  Poor, sensitive girl.  We had a talk about how Dumbo would be happy soon, so after a little Mickey, we turned Dumbo back on.  She finished watching it, and decided that she liked it.  Since then, she has watched it about a dozen times.  Maybe she's making sure that Dumbo ends up happy every time!

Wanted to sleep with her circus elephant!

 

Under the Big Top

Barnum & Bailey AND Ringling Bros. came to Dallas with one big circus.  I thought Mia would enjoy it because she loves animals.  Wesley got a discount on tickets through the city he works for, so we decided to go.  I felt sure that she would love it, but Wes was worried that she would have a meltdown because the show we chose was right around naptime.  In reality, her reaction was somewhere in between, although I feel sure that she enjoyed it.  The tigers and elephants were fun to watch, but there just weren't as many animals as I thought there would be.  I was feeling pretty confident in Mia's potty training abilities, so I decided to take her out in public for the first time without a Pull-Up.  She did great, but we had to go to the bathroom four times while we were at the circus.  Mia loves elephants due to her current Dumbo craze, so of course her keepsake from the circus had to be a pachyderm.  Side note:  Mia took her first escalator ride (well, the first one that she wasn't carried on).  I love documenting "firsts", so I wanted to put that one on here.

Pointing to the elephants-her fave

 This elephant was carrying a dog in a basket

 I guess you can't have a circus in Texas without a longhorn cow and a couple of goats.

 We barely got a few blocks and she was out!