IS SANTA PICTURE TIME.

We went to see Santa yesterday and it was a lot of fun. I’m really happy that we found a really looking Santa, cause I don’t like the ones with fake beard. Mia wasn’t afraid of him, she was more curious, as you can see on the pictures, she was like oh! What is this fluffy thing that you have. It was like they knew each other.We are really please of the way that the pictures came out.

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving week was kind of crazy for us, Mia got a stomach virus that lasted almost a week, because of that we decide to stay home and not to go to NJ to spend it with our families. On Thanksgiving Day we went to Boston Market to get our dinner, (we did cook however we send the food to my sister Josie’s house since we cook for 25 people we didn’t want to stay with all that food at home). It was actually a really nice dinner any for only 31 dollars and some change we got a turkey breast, stream beans, sweet potato casserole, stuffing and pumpkin pie. When we get out of the parking lot Mia got sick and start vomiting, again. Shaun had to pullover to take her out of the car seat. We went home to do laundry, bathed Mia and get comfortable and watch Harry Potter movies. Poor little baby what a first thanksgiving day. Thank God that was the end of it, after that she got better, on Friday we went out to look at a couple of stores and grab some lunch at Qdoba Mexican food, them we went home a put up the Christmas tree and Christmas decorations. Even that didn’t have the chance to spent the day with our families, we had a good time cause we spent our first Thanksgiving as a family together the three of us and that is better than any dinner in the whole world.
We are so grateful for our little angel, she makes us so happy, and she filled our lives with love and Joy. It doesn’t matter how bad was our day at work or all the problems that we have, Mia makes everything much better and she is that reason for us to rush home just to be with her, she make our love stronger, she complete us.We love you mama.

Mia got a stomach virus

Mia turned 9 month old on Wednesday and poor little one what a bad weekend she had, She got a stomach virus on Friday, when I got home from work she stared to vomit, we had to take her to nighttime pediatrics a 11:00 pm and didn’t came back until almost 1:00am on Saturday, them she got diarrhea. We took her back to her doctor on Saturday morning.
On Sunday she was a little better but on Monday she start vomiting again. We had to stop feeding you milk for 12 hours and Dad had to stay home with you, he said that you are doing much better today and you are able to keep you milk in your stomach.
I’m so very proud of you, you are such a trooper, you’ve been so good during all this. You haven’t cried and you are drinking your pedialyte (don’t know how cause it taste really bad). We are trying to follow the BRAT diet — bananas, rice, applesauce, and dry toast, but you only seen more interesting in only the toast. You still smiles and laugh at us, I can’t believe that you are always in a good mood. We need to you to get better soon mama, I hate to see you sick.

Where does the time go?

Where does the time go? Mia is almost 8 months old.
Here are some updates on how Mia is doing, she still not crawling yet, but we think she is getting there, even that she doesn’t like tummy time she is moving a lot, when she is her crib she always end it side ways, how does she get like that I have not idea.
She leans forward to get her toys and roll over form back to tummy, she likes to jump and also she likes to be up, if you hold her arms she will stay up for a while.
Yesterday Daddy was making chili for a fundraiser at the DOIM (were he works) and she was so in the thinks that he was doing we think that she is going to like to cook.
She loves to eat our faces, she pull or hair and start sucking our face.
She is getting better at eating her cookies (Gerber Biter Biscuits) she seems to like them a lot.
Mia is so good in the nursery. She is usually the only baby that doesn't cry. I am so blessed! Usually the providers tell us that there are taking Mia home with them cause she is such a sweet baby.
She just watches everything going on around her. It's so much fun to see her in there with the other babies! She's a little social butterfly too! She's never met a stranger she didn't like!
She smiles at anyone who pays attention to her and squeals with delight! People are always stopping to comment on our "happy baby." We are more in love with her everyday!

Halloween

In my last post I told you that Mia was Tinkerbelle for Halloween, but actually on Halloween day OCT. 31st she wore her Babies 1st Halloween outfit, I thought it was going to be too uncomfortable to be wearing those wings all day and too cold for her. I did bring it to the day care just in case, but she did not wear it.The daycare had a parade around the building and the big kids walked around it all dressed up.They did take the babies out for a little bit. We didn’t go trick or treating cause Mia is too small for that and we didn’t need more candy in the house and we didn’t have any kids coming to our house anyway, like every year we end it up taking the candies to work. Overall Halloween was a regular day for us.

RennFest, Pumpkin Picking and Photo shoot

Yes, all that in one weekend.
On Saturday we got all ready to go to the renaissance festival in Crownsville Maryland, it was a little cold weather, usually we don’t wait until the last weekend of the festival, but since we were in DR on vacation we have not choice, there were a lot of people, I like it better when there is not that many people, you have more chance to walk freely. Overall we had a good day we walked around, ate some turkey legs, cheesecake in a stick, watch some shows and take some pictures. We only stayed for around 4 hours; we didn’t want Mia to get sick.
On Sunday we took Mia for her first photo shoot at picture people, it was a lot of fun and a lot of work, we have 3 different outfits for her and trust me, try to change a 7-month-old baby it’s a lot of work. We dressed her a Tinkerbelle, in a pumpkin onesies and also with a beautiful pink dress that she used for Patricia’s weeding. After that we got lunch and them we went to Queen Anne Farm in Mitchellville, MD. We want to take Mia for more pictures (poor baby) in the pumpkin patch picking our first pumpkin for Halloween as a family. We were there for about two hours.
Here are a couples of pictures, enjoy!!!

Mia's Firts trip to Dominican Republic

We just came back from our first trip to DR with Mia, and I can say that she was a perfect little traveler; she did really well on the plane. She was EASY to travel with. We just took turns bouncing her and keeping her asleep.
It was a 3 ½ hours flight, she slept for about an hour as soon as we got in the plane before we took off, so that worked well then she woke up and we feed her and change her diaper and cloth and she fall asleep again.
When we got to Puerto Plata we had to go through customs and immigration and get a tourist card for Shaun and Mia. As soon we walk out we saw Francis, Nicole and Rafa they were waiting for us and Francis got Mia a Hello Kitty balloon. We loaded up on and made about a two hours journey from the airport to Santiago.
When we got to Santiago everybody was so happy and exacting to see Mia. It was a lot of fun to finally get to show her off to the rest of the family!
On Friday we head up to Puerto Plata for the wedding, we had a really nice time and during our stay at the hotel Mia started to consistently sleep through the night! Little did I know that was all about to change once we when back to my parent’s house.
I don’t know it was because of the AC in the room or because of the water (ocean and pool) that she got so tired that she needed to sleep so much, but whatever the reason was it was heaven to had a nice and relaxing couples of nights. With the cleaning bottles part it was a little uncomfortable, we didn’t have a microwave or stove to sterilize them, so we had to use gallons of water to clean her nipples and bottles. The hotel was really nice, the food was good, but the best part was watching Mia for the first time in the water, she loved it (both the pool and the ocean) even the sand, we are so blessed to have such a good baby.Here are a couple of pictures of Mia, enjoy!!!