Mireya Playing with Daddy Video

Mireya always wants to learn how to do new things. I decided to teach her how to do a somersault yesterday morning. She wanted to show her Daddy, but she can't quite do it as you'll see in the video. Super cute though!!

Diaper Change, Please

Guess what Mireya just did. She brought Lane a diaper and said "please." She had a poopy diaper and needed to be changed, and she knew it, and wanted it! It was so cute!

Mireya Should Not Use Pens

Mireya LOVES to color. I once posted about how she colors on EVERYTHING. Anyway, she has figured out that pens and pencils exist in the world of making art, not just washable, non-toxic Crayola crayons. UGH. Now she can color on herself too. How exciting! At least she thinks so. I'm not personally sold on the idea.

Where did she get a pen? I gave it to her. Why? She said, "PEESE!" and she signed please too. How could I refuse that cuteness? After all, she does really well with them when she is under constant adult supervision, so I figured, why not? How did she manage to color on her arm while under adult (my) supervision? Hey! Mommies have to go potty too! I thought maybe, just once, I could go into the bathroom without a toddler and a cat trying to help me. (They ALWAYS follow me in.) Apparently I am not going to ever get privacy in the bathroom again or I have to be ok with stuff like this happening in the two minutes I'm gone. Peachy.

***Update! Ok, you aren't going to believe me, but two seconds after I posted this, I went to leave the office and I caught Mireya writing on her legs! I didn't give her the pen this time. This one I can blame on Jason...

18 Month Wellness

Mireya had her 18 month wellness visit yesterday. She was pretty good overall, but she still cried a lot. She is way ahead on her cognitive development, no surprise there. The doctor said she is exceptionally tall and skinny... we knew that too. He had us fill out an autism questionnaire and she aced it. Here are her stats:

• Weight: 18 pounds 13 ounces, 1 percentile


• Height: 32 1/2 inches, 69th percentile


• Head Circumference: 17 3/4 inches, 14th percentile

She got more immunizations and she was so upset. She tried to grab the needle and pull it out of her thigh. :( Poor baby. She had two bright orange bandaids after the shots, and all day she pointed at them and said, "Owie!" Here's a video of her doing just that:

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She Bit Me!

Tonight, I had a first. I was changing Mireya into her pajamas and she was being less than cooperative. I had her standing up as I finished doing up her snaps, when out of nowhere, she bit me on the shoulder...hard! I let out a yell and Lane came to check it out. Instantly, you could tell that Mireya felt sorry and wanted me to hold her. For the rest of the evening, she kept snuggling up to me and wanting to be with me. Right as we were putting her to bed, she did the cutest thing. She kissed my shoulder, the one that she had bitten, and then poked it and said "owie." You could tell that she felt really bad for it, which is an awesome development - her knowing that she caused me pain and that that wasn't okay, and that she was sorry for it.

Mireya Photos

I thought I would post a bunch of photos of Mireya. Some of them are older and some of them are new, but they are all cute!

Is there a problem?

Cheesy grin!

CUTENESS!

Sleeping Angel

I LOVE Mireya's bed-head!

I don't think she EVER stops moving.

Could She Get Any Smarter!?

As all of you that read my posts know, I ADORE Mireya. I am always saying how cute she is and how much I love her. I have probably bragged about how she is the best baby ever nine hundred times, but it's TRUE! Just when I think that she really can't get any more amazing and adorable, she does.

I really need to get some new videos up of her talking. She says a lot of words that other toddlers say, but it's the way Mireya says them that makes them so incredibly cute. In my last post I mentioned that Mireya says "NO" a lot more. She says it with this little sassy attitude, which almost always makes me laugh. My favorite right now though, has to be what she calls bunnies. They are currently her favorite thing in the entire world and the few stuffed bunnies she has, she takes with her everywhere. She sees a bunny, points to it and says, "BUN!" She says it with so much enthusiasm. "Mama, BUN!" Not bunny, just bun.

Mireya has finally learned how to climb onto things. Jason and I have done our best to prolong that specific milestone, because it just opens up a whole new can of worms and challenges for us. Mireya, of course, couldn't be more excited. Now she can climb up onto the couches whenever she wants, he can try to climb up our cat castle thing, she tries to climb everything now. There are two major problems with that. One, she can now reach even more things that she shouldn't be playing with, and two, she doesn't get the danger of falling off of something. She keeps trying to jump off the couches and she is oblivious to the fact that she will get hurt if she does.

Mireya has gotten really good at drinking out of a cup. She still spills one out of every five glasses, but heck, so do I. :) However, she now wants to have a drink out of every glass she sees. I remember how she stole other people's lemonades at her friends birthday party. Today, she got a hold of my coffee. No, she didn't drink any, she just spilled it all over me and the couch.

At least her potty training is going pretty well. She still doesn't really ask to go potty, we just have to catch her in the act, but it's getting better. I am so happy that it isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. It's still frustrating sometimes, but it's not too bad.

Mireya surprises me all the time. I took her for a walk down to get the mail the other day and I let her hold my keys on the way back. We got back to the front door and she tried to stick a key in the lock! She has been paying attention when I do it, I guess. After we got inside she ran into the kitchen and started to throw a fit. I was like, "What? What's wrong? Why are you freaking out?" I asked if she was hungry and got an emphatic, "NO" and then she yelled, "DEESHES! DEESHES!" I couldn't believe it, but my one and a half year old was asking me if she could do the dishes. Sure enough, when I opened the dishwasher, she jumped up and down and yelled, "YAY! DEESHES!" I can only hope her enthusiasm for doing dishes lasts through her teenage years.

Now can you honestly tell me that this isn't the face of the cutest kid ever? She's marvelous and boy does she LOVE her dark chocolate!