Well, boy, did Mia make some major changes these past 2 weeks since her 5 month birthday. She is 5.5 months now and Giacomo, his parents and I, see that Mia is really getting her own personality and doing more things.
Some of it feels difficult to explain on how she has changed. She is just more animated and more coordinated. Her personality has fortified and she has little moody episodes and cranky moments that pass quickly which she really didn't have before. Her hands are quicker and reach for everything that comes in front of her. Of course she did this before, but those little hands are just quicker and overall she is just more observant and alert to every sound she hears and everything/one she sees. She holds both her feet at the same time when she is on her back. This is cute to see. She started this at about 5 months, but now has mastered it. Her babbles started to change about a week after we came back from Provincetown. She has added, "dada" to her repertoire of sounds now, and she sure likes this one. She gets very serious when singing this and repeats it over and over. She sounds like a broken record, but the cutest broken record we have ever heard :) She sits up like a pro now. We do not give her support at all now. I read to her all the time and she is intrigued by Sesame Street and the French cartoons we receive through my French channel. What else....oh, we put her in a little pool I bought for my mother in law the other day. She enjoyed it for the most part. It was the deepest water she has been in, about 1/2 a foot or more and she was fascinated by how her extremities felt moving in the water. I didn't get picture of her in it unfortunatly because I was the one holding her in it and my camera was not accessible at that moment! I'm falling behind! But, we will soon give her another dip, and I will make sure I get some good shots of her pool time.
One other thing I noticed yesteray- I gave Mia a pretzel, just to hold! I was holding her at the time. She was studying it and then I took it away. She began to cry. I don't know if she was a bit cranky and tired at the time, or she is starting to object now if something is taken away from her. This is another milestone. (one I'm not looking forward to!) I am not sure if this was a fluke or she understood that I took it away. I will see soon enough if it happens again! Also, if you leave her in a room alone, she notices right away most of the time and will fuss until she sees a familiar face near her. If she is occupied, she doesn't care and can play now independently for a while. It's so nice. It's only if she actually sees you leave does she do this. She did it to Giacomo yesterday at his mom's house. I wasn't there, but he told be about it later. I was laughing. He couldn't go outside and BBQ because she would cry when he left!
Father's Day is tomorrow and I already gave Giacomo his first father's day gift already! I have no patience! It came in the mail yesterday. I made him a photo book with all pictures of him and Mia from the time she was born until now. Most of the photos have captions under them spoken from Mia's point of view on why she loves her daddy. He was so touched, and it came out beautiful. I was qutie pleased. I wanted to get him something memorable that he could cherish forever. I am excited to show it to Mia someday too. We do not have any special plans tomorrow. My parents may come up to Morristown to visit depending on if my mother has to work or not. If she cannot, it is possible my father will come up alone and spend the day with us. I am happy about this. We will probably go to my in-laws for dinner...yada yada. It should be a very nice day. Also, tomorrow night we are heading down to Wildwood to our beach condo.
Giacomo's cousin Frank who does air conditioning is putting in central air for us. IT NEEDS IT! We are so happy to get this done. Once this is finsished, the condo really is complete. It looks great after all our hard work we put into it last year. I painted the entire thing pregnant! I think we will stay to about Tuesday or Wednesday depending on certain things. I am going too and Mia of course. I hope to find time to take her to the beach with Giacomo and his cousin.
I have been working about 2 days a week. I worked yesterday. I am still loving it. I couldn't ask for better hours and they are so flexible. I work from 9-530! What nurse could ask for better. What I like about it too is the fact that now that I have been through the emotions of giving birth and having a baby, I have a different perspective now when I am helping and talking with my new moms. I am a lactation counselor and will get my certification in lactation to be a lactation consultant if I really like it in the near future. Right now that is on the back burner for me. As soon as I get some time, I'll start studying. I am definitely not worrying about it this summer. I want to enjoy my Mia. I also take ballroom dance lessons! I have been for the past month. I forgot to mention this in my last post. I just wanted a hobby and one that I would love and BOY, do I love it. I take a lesson about 1-2x/week. Giaocmo or his mom watch Mia. I am going to be in competition in November! Yes, I am a dancing witht the stars diva! ha ha When I am there, it relaxes me and I am loving every minute of it. I plan to keep it up.
Enough about me, I guess that is about all for now with Mia. Some things I cannot put into words, but she sure has changed so much these past 2 weeks. I feel like her milestones come in spurts. She has big changes in like a week or two, then not too much, then big changes.
It is so amazing, as always, to see her grow and develop into a person. It's simply the best. The camera NEVER stops. EVERY moment seems to be a photo-op! I have so many great pics! Giacomo just backed up all my digitial pics on my hardrive to this external hardrive he bought not long ago. I feel much more relieved that this is done. It is impossible to make hardcopies of every pic. I'd be broke. At the end of the year, I am going to make an beautiful album celebrating Mia's first year of life. I have been saving pics in files weekly, from the first week she was born. It is a bit tedious, but SO WORTH IT. I can make a album of her in chronolgical order week by week and we can see how she grew every week. It should be really nice. I'll tackly that in the winter, after her 1st birthday.
One more thing, we started apples about a week ago. I feed her a fruit and her rice cereal together. I bought the rice cereal with bananas just to add some more flavor. She had bananas as her first fruit and loved them, so they are safe and why I decided to buy the flavored cereal instead of the plain this time. Most of the time she is a great eater and the mouth is open waiting for the spoon to arrive. She's a pleasure to feed.
I have her 6 month appt. On July 1st, 3 days after her 6 month birthday. I am excited to see her stats. She did not have a 5 month appt. so my last height and weight on her is from 4 months. On her 5 month birthday, I weighed myself and then weighed myself with her and she was 17 pounds! I am sure this pretty accurate. She is in 6-9 month clothes already and merging out of size 2 diapers soon to be in size 3. She fits into both actually. There is I believe a 2 pound overlap with these 2 sizes and 17 pounds fits both of them. I am finishing up the size 2's I have before I start using the 3's. I am SO happy to FINALLY be putting her in her summer outfits. It's such a pleasure to just take her out of the house w/o a blanket, and all that stuff I needed during the winter months. I got so used to that that this seems like a breeze. I love the summer!
ANYWAY, I'm going to go now. I have posted pics from this past week. Hope you enjoy them. I will try to add a cute video I took as well. Hopefully my computer will have no problems with the download. If not, I'll add it in another post. Ciao to you all and talk to you very soon with I am sure will be a lot more changes!
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