Miss Independent

Our little girl has become miss independent, when we took her to the Enchanted Forest/ petting zoo on Saturday she realized that she can climb up the stairs for the Mother goose slide and go down all by herself and from them she doesn’t want anybody to help her. The Mother goose slide was perfect for her size and age, but went we took her to the park the slides are a little more difficult to climb and to go down, but she keep telling us no, no, no don’t help me. She wanted to walk around and tried to climb running away form us.

Random pictures

Here are a few pictures from Father's day at home and at The Melting Pot

Amare' siempre

Having Mia by our side is the greatest gift. I enjoy her presence all the time, but especially on my days off from work. We get to hang out together and do what ever she wants to do. It gives me time to communicate with her in every aspect. She is 15 months now, and I can't believe how much she understands. She loves to be involved with everything I do, and it feels really good that she has such an interest. When I am cooking, she likes me to hold her so she can see what I am doing. Just the other day I was cooking something, and I was holding her, and she grabbed my ear, and let out a cute sound, so I looked at her and said what it was, then she touched my nose, then eyes, head , and hair. The best part is after she got done asking me what everything was I asked her what everything was in Spanish. I said oreja, boca, ojo, pelo, and even mano, and she knew each one of them. Mommy must be speaking in Spanish more often then I thought. Her teacher in the morning at daycare is also from Dominican Republic, so I believe that helps too. She says dada for me and for mommy, but when you say where is mommy she goes right to her. The best part is when I look at her and ask her to say momma she does say dada, so I get really close to her and say mama really slowly, and she cracks up laughing. So eventually she will get that down. We have this little game we play...basically she will mummble a whole bunch of gibber-jabber, and I will do the same back to her as if we both know what we are talking about, and she and I both crack up laughing. It's great! She love going outside, in the jogger. It's like a 3 wheel stroller but the from wheel does not move, so that you can jog with it if you want to. I think she is going to be an animal lover, because she loves to see the birds, and squirrels. She gets so excited when she gets to see them. She makes the fishy lips when you ask her "How does a fishy go". She also motions her hand when you ask how a bird goes. When I was growing up, I always wondered how it would be to have a child of my own. I was never sure how that could be except try and visualize, but I still couldn't find the answer. So now I finally know what it is to have a child, and I must say it is the best feeling in the world. Mia is such a blessing, and I will always love my baby girl.

A few new words that mia says:
agua - water
gato - cat
balloon
bubble
leche - milk
hippopotamus - just kidding

Mia is 15th months old

Dear Mia,
Today you are 15th months old and you are like a sponge, it seems like you really understand what we are saying, even though you don’t say many words. Eating is an adventure some days you eat everything - others you only want chesses and crackers. We are trying to give you a well rounded meal with a couple things we know you will eat.
You love books; we’ve progressed to where you will let me read a page or two before flipping too fast for any words. Maybe I can truly read a book to you soon. You love you card set with animals too. I think those are your two favorite indoor activities now. You favorites books are: Tails by Matthew Van Fleet. http://www.amazon.com/Tails-Matthew-Van-Fleet/dp/0152167730
Baby Einstein Discover the Day http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Discover-Lift-Flap-Sound/dp/141278655X/ref=pd_sim_b_5

We can finally say you are a true toddler since you started walking, it went from one to two steps very quickly to just walking. You don’t have your Frankenstein walk any more, is so amazing how you can just walk down the hall and turn into a room, you also starting to run too, I’m in a bit of shock about it actually.
You are still loving and happy and friendly - maybe a little shy in new situations but otherwise you seem to enjoy life fully and I hope that is a trend throughout your life.
When we ask you where your ears, nose, eyes and head are you will point to them (or pat your head). You are learning belly now; you give kisses, hugs, fives, wave bye bye and dancing when we ask you to. I've also noticed that when we give you simple commands like "go get the ball”, “press the button" “trash the garbage” or “give this to Daddy” you will respond appropriately.
You are climbing up on things like the table and the chairs of your table set that we got you at IKEA. You are not climbing on the couch yet, but its coming.
You know how to do a fish mouth and like a bird with your hand and you recognized the sound of a plane.

And one last note, this month has brought a new teeth you cutting your top left one.

WE HAVE A WALKER

Unfortunately I haven’t gotten great video of it yet, but she is really starting to walk more and more. Let’s see - two weeks ago she finally took about 8 steps without help. She was standing quite a bit, getting herself to standing and walking a tiny bit.
Well she is walking with some Frankenstein arms, but I think she will manage this whole thing soon. She walked for the first time at the daycare on Friday and Miss Tracy told Shaun that she was walking doing her miss congeniality walk like “look at me” kind of walk. It’s amazing how much better she is getting. So far she still wants us to hold her and caring her every where, I don’t think she realized what she is doing J
Our lives will never be the same now - chaos will ensue with our true toddling toddler.
Love,
Mommy.