Mireya's First Stroll

Now that Mireya took her first steps, we have been encouraging and working with her to walk more. Today, she took her first stroll around the house. She walked all around the kitchen by herself, with us just guarding her so she doesn't fall and hurt herself on the hard tile. She's catching on so fast! I'm sure she'll be zooming around the house in no time.

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New bedside table for the guest room

Guest post written by Penny Leazer

Whenever I'm thinking about changing up something in our master bedroom, most of the time I'll go to the trouble of doing it in the guest bedroom and see if I like it there. Besides, if I don't like it after trying it out there, I don't have to worry about not liking it in our master bedroom, where I'd have to look at whatever it is all the time.

Right now I'm thinking about getting new bedside tables for our bedroom and want to try it out in the guest room first. I went looking for it online the other day and when I was doing that I came across some comparisons between wireless internet providers and after I looked through all of them I decided to switch over to a new internet provider.

I found the directions to make a decorative bedside table and I can't wait to try to put it together myself. It doesn't seem like it should be too hard and I love doing stuff like that, so I think it won't be too much trouble if I end up hating it.

 

First Steps!

Mireya took her first steps last night! She has been walking around while holding onto our hands for ages. She had even gotten to the point of holding tight to just one finger. Until yesterday, she just couldn't quite seem to find the courage to venture off on her own. It's obvious that she is still afraid of falling, but at least she's finally trying.

I am so excited and scared to death. I know she is going to love being able to go get the things she wants instead of relying on us. I'm scared of her falling on the tile, which we have a lot of. Plus, I suddenly realized how many things we still have to baby proof! Jason and I just kept putting it off, thinking that she isn't walking yet, so we have time. Well, time has definitely run out!

We tried to catch it all on film, but of course by the time the shock wore off she didn't really want to do it anymore. Here's what we were able to get:

Mireya's First Steps

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Mireya's 1st Valentine's Day

Today was Mireya's 1st Valentine's Day! She is absolutely a little spit fire! We wanted to get photos of her in her Valentine's outfits and it took a lot of work. She wanted to run around, not pose for a photo shoot. Luckily we got some great photos anyway. The first few are an example of our initial attempt in her "My 1st Valentine's Day" onesie. The little cutie pants wouldn't hold still at all!! The second set is her in her Valentine's Day dress. Isn't she the most beautiful baby you've ever seen!?

 

What We Did This Morning

Mireya LOVES books. She reads her board books all the time. Now that she is nearly walking, she loves to go over to her bookcase, pull them all out and look at them. I think she gets half the fun from actually pulling them out of the bookcase and making a big mess. All she wanted to do this morning was exactly that. I also keep a lot of her toys in her bookcase and those were the first to go...



Then she moved on to her changing table...



The swath of destruction and chaos...

Hey Mama, Look What I've Got!

Mireya has discovered her tongue! She sticks it out all the time. It cracks us up. At first, we were worried about it, because she seemed to only do it when she was eating. Apparently she is just being her sassy little self! I'm usually not fast enough to get a picture, but I did manage to get a few.

Here's the video of her showing off her tongue:

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Look What I've Got!

Baby Sign Language

We have been trying to teach Mireya sign language. We are hoping that it will help with some of the frustration that we are starting to see from her when she can't communicate what she wants. We decided to start with "milk" for a bottle and "more." Within two days, she was signing "milk." At first she was using it both when she wanted a bottle and when she was waving. By now though, she only really uses it when she wants a bottle or some other kind of drink. As of two days ago, she can sign "more" as well. She doesn't quite have the hand movement down. She has one hand correct and the other is very close, but it is still very clear what she means. I can't believe how quickly she is picking this up! We have shown her a few other signs: cat, mommy, daddy, eat, please, and thank you, but for now I think we will focus on "eat" and "finished." Sometimes it's hard to tell if she is just being a pill when she won't finish her bottle or if she is full and it would be nice to know when she wants to eat.