The pictures tell it all....
Today my family came over for dinner and to celebrate Christmas. We had dinner and Mia entertained us with her giggles and yelling to be sure that everyone was paying all their attention to her . Then we opened up the presents. It was a good time had by all.
Ok am cheating a bit. I am back dating my posts, because I really want to share these pictures and story. So please forgive me.
I was making homemade noodles for Christmas Eve with Jenny's family. It takes a long time and because there are 9 people to feed for dinner I had to make A LOT of noodles. While I was making the noodles Mia was entertaining herself by stirring some make believe soup. She sat there stirring her imaginary soup for at least an hour. It was so cute. Then I gave her a strainer and she put it on her head and crawled around with it on her head! She is such a doll.
My baby girl is officially 15 months old! I keep telling Jenny that my baby is a toddler now. It is hard to let go of baby hood, but I know we have a lot of fun ahead of us. We had our first post placement visit with our social worker. It went really well and I think we passed. Jenny and I kept joking around and saying, "well she can't take her away from us." I suppose she could if something were really bad, but she seem to think Mia is attaching very well to us. On the 30th of this month Mia will be home with us for 6 moths. It is really hard to believe . It sometimes seems like she has always been here and other times it seems like she just came home.
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect little girl. She has such a silly sense of humor. She will imitate us if we cough and then we will all laugh. She laughs when she (or us) passes gas. I know , I know, but it is SO funny. I can't even express how much this little angel has changes our lives. She exhausts me at times, frustrates me at times, and even sometimes reduces me to tears, but I would not change a thing.
This time of the year I think of two people who I am most thankful for. First, Aura, Mia's birth mother. The pain this courageous woman must endure everyday not knowing how her baby girl is doing is something that I am sure is at times too much for her to bear. I hope one day we get to meet her and tell her that Mia is loved and the sunshine of our lives. I don't think the words thank you come close to describing the gratitude we have towards Aura, but thank you is the only word I can think of so thank you Aura for the opportunity to have this wonderful little girl in our lives.
Second is Maria, Mia's foster mother. She took such good care of Mia during the first 9 months of her life. We never had to worry about the care that she was receiving and not all families can say that. Not only did Maria take good care of Mia she loves Mia SO much. I don't think our adjustment would have went to smoothly if Maria didn't love Mia so much. We keep in touch with Maria and we hope to go see her next year, if I can talk Jenny into it.
Now onto some Mia cuteness...
We have had a busy weekend. We had our friends over for dinner on Friday and had a great time with them and their 2 Guatemalan darlings. Then Saturday we went to lunch with Grandpa and Sunday we had my nephews birthday party! Happy Birthday to Jimmy!
Mia was hanging onto something the other day standing up and let go for a second! She has also been great walking while assisted, I think she will be walking before we know it!
Now onto some Mia cuteness!
So we went the mall to play at the play land inside, because it is cold outside and Mia loves to play and watch the kids. Mia crawls all around and loves to go through the tunnels and especially sliding down the slide. Mama gets tired of lifting Mia up so the time on the slide is short lived. So we were minding our own business and having a good time. The play area started getting busy so we were going to get ready to go. Before we could leave a grandma comes in with 2 boys and a baby in a stroller. One of the little boys sits next to me and on Mia's coat. Then the grandma sits next to him. She then said to her grandson, "No. This kid ain't got it's shoes off. You can leave your shoes on." Referring to Mia. My oh My, some people are STUPID! First of all Mia is not an IT and she had Robeez on, which are soft soled shoes for babies, all the other kids had their shoes off!
So Mia has this stick that she loves. I swear the girl will play with anything that can poke her out. So we wrapped the stick in duck tape and she has been playing with it ever since. Then one day the stick broke, but because it was in duck tape it just bent a little. It is now known as Mia's sickle, you know that thing the grim reaper carries with him to touch people with, of course when you are touched with the sickle you die. I guess that is the whole point of the grim reaper is death. Sometimes it is called her whip, because she will whip the cats with it! We tell her to be nice, but she thinks she is playing with them.
Mia was taking a bath. She loves to take baths and she would stay in the tub all day if we would let her. We were trying a new bedtime routine so we starting giving her a bath before bed, which turned out to be a very bad idea! I guess instead of the bath relaxing her it gets her going and makes her hyper. I guess the pictures say it all!
So we attempted to take some Christmas photos. We had 3 changes of clothes for Mia, not us. She was a good sport, but towards the end she was not really wanting to participate in our photo shoot. She also wasn't crazy about the bows in her hair because they had little bells in them. As some of you may know if Mia knows her bows are in in her hair then she tries to take them out so we were also dealing with her yanking on them. All in all we got some really cute shots of her.
So we will be sending out our Christmas cards this weekend, all 16 of them!
So I have decided to start blogging. I don't know why, but I guess it seems like the thing to do. I read other peoples blogs, but I am not sure why anyone would want to to read mine. If I include enough pictures of Mia then someone will read it besides me.
Anyway onto the important stuff, Mia! I got her this shirt that says Mama's Little Sidekick and it is true. She is like my little sidekick she goes with me everywhere and keeps me company. So I took some pictures of her in her cute new shirt and while I was trying to get a cute picture I was burning the rice for dinner. You may ask how do you burn rice (Jenny did) well I was suppose to be browning the vernecilli and instead I was burning it. Oh well, it turned out ok, I suppose.
