Cute Mireya Photos

Ok, so all the photos we take of Mireya are adorable, but here are some particularly cute ones:

[caption id="attachment_1690" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya had a cold a few weeks ago and I wanted to suction out drainage from her nose, so she could breath better. This is what she did to prevent that."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1691" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="NO WAY Mom! Leave my nose alone!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1693" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya Fell Asleep on the Couch"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1696" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya playing with hair ties just like I did as a child."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1697" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="LOVE the pigtails!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1699" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Mireya wearing my boots."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1694" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Sweet Baby Girl!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1692" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya thought this was hilarious!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1695" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya and I had a tea party. She shared with her dolls. CUTE!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1698" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Mireya in her Christmas tutu!"][/caption]

Brush Brush Brush

That is the chant we say every night while Mireya brushes her teeth. She has gotten so good about doing it happily! She brushes them without a fight and she even lets me help her to get them really clean. HOORAY! I am so proud of her!

Good job baby Girl! Good Job!

Privacy

Thanks for the article from Laura Ryan I was recently looking online with a friend of mine. I had just switched to one of the CLEAR internet service providers, and I was checking to make sure the internet was up and running. What I stumbled onto while checking the internet was mind-blowing. My friend and I were looking up homes online, and I decided to look up my own address. It was scary to see that a satellite picture of my house is online. Not only that, but you can find a full shot of the front of our house. My husband’s truck is missing from the driveway, so the picture must have been taken while he was at work. I may sound a bit paranoid, but it was disconcerting to see my home and address online for the entire world to see. You hear stories all of the time about people using the internet to commit crimes of all different types. I do not like the fact that my home is available for anyone to see. With two small children, I want to make sure they are protected and safe at all times. Sometimes too much information can be dangerous.

The Museum of Ancient Life

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December 10th was our 3rd Wedding Anniversary. We decided to spend it celebrating as a family. We were in Lehi for the weekend, so we decided to go to The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. It was so much fun!!!! We spent hours and hours walking around staring at all the amazing fossils in complete awe. Mireya LOVED every bit of it. For the first 30 minutes, she was as excited about all the other kids as she was the actual fossils. She was shy and nervous being around so many people, but once she warmed up, she ran around screaming in delight. It was so funny to see her that excited and silly!

There were a lot of fossils and other things that you could interact with directly.





[caption id="attachment_1664" align="alignnone" width="3264" caption="We all put our hands on a dinosaur footprint."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1669" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya played for a long time at the Erosion Table. It was a blast!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1672" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya 'riding' a dinosaur."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1675" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya got to dig for fossils just like an archaeologist!"][/caption]

Mireya was so excited and she would run from one dinosaur fossil to the next pointing and saying, "Wow! Oooooo... Wow!" We know that she is still very young, and she probably won't remember the museum when she is older, but it was something that neither of us will ever forget. They joy on her little face as she went through the museum was priceless.

[caption id="attachment_1666" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya and Mommy having fun!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1668" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya and Daddy under a gigantic dinosaur!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1667" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mommy being eaten!"][/caption]

After we went to the museum, we wandered over to get lunch and in the main area of Thanksgiving Point, there was an ice sculpture and a couple of Santa's Reindeer!

[caption id="attachment_1677" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="Mireya chillin' with the reindeer."][/caption]

 

Healthy and Happy

Well, not quite, but close. Mireya is steadily improving now and that is a huge relief. Her fever broke last night and has not returned since. She still looks tired and pale, but her congestion and attitude are improving too.

Jason and I are wondering if she is just a kid that runs really high fevers every time she gets sick. It is really bizarre, but perhaps true? Regardless, I am so glad that she is getting better and I cannot wait to have my happy healthy girl back. Her sassy spunk had been back this morning and it is great!

Sick Mookie

Mireya starting running a low fever two days ago, but it was intermittent and she seemed fine. Unfortunately, each night she has had nightmare after nightmare and been miserable. By today her fever is getting more consistent and higher. She's also feeling much worse. She has no real symptoms of anything, so I don't know what she could be sick with.

Does this sound like deja-vu to you too? It wasn't too long ago that we had the fiasco where Mireya had a really bad fever for weeks and weeks and the doctors had no idea why. It eventually broke and she got better, but we never got an answer as to why she was sick in the first place. It was very traumatic for all three of us and we have a huge fear of history repeating itself.

What do we do? Add to that the debate of whether or not to give her something for the fever and the misery. We've been alternating ibuprofen and Tylenol, but I hate to medicate her and doctors don't recommend it. The alternative is worse though, because she clearly feels better after a dose of medication. Ugh.

I HATE this. I HATE that she is going to get sick as a child until she develops immunity to things. I HATE that she can't tell us exactly what's going on. I HATE that I'm her mother and I want to be able to fix everything and I can't always. I HATE worrying that I might be missing something or not doing enough. I HATE the unknown, the unexpected and what I cannot plan for. I just want my sweet baby girl to feel well and be happy always. :(

 

Slamming Doors

No, no one is angry or upset. The one slamming doors at our house is Mireya. She has decided that every door in the house needs to be shut at all times. She shuts the office door, no biggie. She shuts the pantry door with me in it, a little annoying. I open the pantry door, so that I can continue to get my baking ingredients set out on the counter and when I step away for two seconds, BANG, she shuts it again. I made cookies last night and she shut the door in between every ingredient until I put my foot in the door. That was the end of the world apparently, because then she threw herself onto the ground and screamed and wailed for five minutes! Joy.

She also likes to shut our two cats in various closets and rooms around the house. I will realize that I haven’t seen one of them in a few hours, which is highly unusual. I’ll look around and lo and behold, they are in the coat closet shredding my scarves out of frustration, because they’ve been locked in there for who-knows-how-long. I have also seen my daughter close doors on the cats. Poor Sparty will probably have a brain injury by the time Mireya grows out of this phase if she keeps slamming the door on his head. She even closed the shoe box he was sleeping in yesterday and then she SAT on top of it! It caved in and when I pulled her off, she threw a huge tantrum. Peachy. I opened the box and poor Sparty looked at me like, “What the hell just happened!? Are you trying to kill me!?” He avoided Mireya and the shoebox for quite a while.

Mireya also enjoys shutting the door on me and Jason. She shut it after he stepped outside and locked him out in the snow. He was thrilled, I tell you! She shut it on my barefoot recently too. OUCH! Oh, and she shuts herself in places and then FREAKS OUT when she can’t open the door again. If we put those handy little door stoppers for toddlers on the hinges, she tries to slam the door only to have it rebound back into her. They aren’t exactly a good baby proofing item when they smack into your child’s nose and knock them on their butt.

When will this phase end? Seriously people! I don’t know if I can take anymore doors slamming. She also throws them open and we have dents in the walls where the handles hit. She has really mastered the art of SCREEAAAMMING when we try to prevent her from slamming the doors.

IT

IS

WONDERFUL…

and FREQUENT.

I enjoy the screaming sooooo much. Speaking of which, I hear her now….