Mia Alana

Ever since Mia was born (19 March 2008, 2:59pm) especially the day she was placed on the delivery table, she was so alert! She was not even crying, and when I began speaking to her she looked in the direction of my voice and began staring in awe. The day Mia came home with Karina and I was a very special. It was so special because we began our new lives together. You get to continue the life you had but tack on a new life with you, and an even more complete family. All the books and magazines that you can read can be very useful, especially for the "what if's" and the "why's". With that said, Mia began doing everything before the scheduled time of when she was supposed to start doing those things. Things like lifting her head, following you when you move in any direction. At about 2.5 months we were up in our room and Mia was sitting on Karina's knees, and she was blowing kisses at Mia. Right after that Mia began to blow kisses right back at Karina. It wasn't exactly the same way, probably due to her mouth muslces not working the same, but she was definitley trying! It was so cute! Other things that we have discovered for things like really bad crying can be remedied by the sound of running water. When she tired and starts fussing, we had no idea what do to, so we just tried rocking and singing to her. It eventually worked, but it took a while. Well one day I stubled across doing slight bounces back and forth to each side to the sound of singing songs...my songs are limited, but anyting works. Songs like "Mary had a little lamb", "This old man", "I've been working on the railroad", and all the christmas songs I know. Karina does the same thing with all the songs she knows (el ratoncito Miguel, Mambru se fue a la guerra, dona semana, la pajara pinta, etc). It calms her down and she eventually falls asleep!!! Oh and OMG, when we began to give her baths in those plastic tubs you can buy from Baby's R Us, are terrible for infants or at least for Mia. It made Mia so cold, because the air made her skin cold, and it would cause her to go balistically crying. So Karina and I did some research and found the perfect bath to keep her warm and comfortable while bathing her. This is the link to the bath...it really is much better, until of course she gets big enough for the plastic one.. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2574102.