14 Months Old

Today you are fourteen months old. You are a sponge right now, absorbing everything around you so it’s really enjoyable to help you along the way.
You still love your morning and evening bottles - love them. Hold them like they are your baby, We want it to break it before we go back and see Dr. Youn for the 15 month appointment, but we’ll see, I really don’t want you to stop drinking your milk, during the day you are all zippy cups and you are a pro using the straw. Right now not even considering breaking the paci habit - though you mainly only have them at night/naps unless you are extremely cranky.
You love your babies and your stuffed animals, and really any toy can substitute. You hug them and pat them and mother them before tossing them aside. There is not one toy that has stood out yet as your favorite, you still love them all for minutes at a time before moving on to another. Another thing is you love to dance, every time that you hear music or we told you to dance you are right on it.
You love the outside and pointing to everything you see. You give the best kisses and you blow kisses as well. You still don’t want to walk alone more than a couple steps, but you cruise and turbo crawl with the best of them (and can walk just fine holding onto one of our hands so I think you are just too stubborn to let go).
They say it just keeps getting better, and I can truly say I am loving how fast you learn things and how much more you can interact with us. It doesn’t mean I didn’t think the baby stage was wonderful - I loved the baby stage, having my head lying against yours and that baby smell. But it’s also exciting to see you becoming a true toddler and developing your personality which appears to be fairly independent and strong willed. Don’t know where you get that from… ;) But you are loving and happy and friendly as well, things I hope stay with you always.
I love you baby girl. I am looking forward to a great summer.
Love,
Mommy.

Mother's Day

For Sunday May 10 Mother’s day we stared the day going for breakfast at Friendly’s after breakfast we took Mia to the Clark’s Elioak Farm in Ellicott City, they have a petting zoo, a fairy tale forest and a enchanted forest pine tree maze. We has such a great time, Mia enjoyed all the figures from the enchanted Forest (the old women in a shoe, the 3 bears house, the 3 pigs house, Alice in wonderland, sleeping beauty, etc) the slides and all the animals at the farm, they have goats, sheep, donkeys, pigs, cows, ponies, turkeys, ducks, chickens, bunnies. It was the first time at the farm for all of us and it was more that I was expecting. It took about two hours to do all the displays and see all the animals. We also took a hayride around the farm.
After that we went out to lunch and to Patricia’s house to see Aiden and we ended the day with a great BBQ that daddy make for us.
It was a great day and a perfect mother’s day.

Thank you Shaun and Mia for make that they so special, I hope you had as much fun as I had.

Love,
Mommy

Mia is 13 month old

My gosh Mia, you are 13 months old now. First you are one and a ‘toddler’, according to baby center, and now another month has gone by. I’m in shock at how fast the time passes. There is so many cute things that you do each day that it's impossible to keep up with them all.
You are talking more and more but I am apparently not very good at picking out the words. One that you use now is ‘up’, so that adds to the list of mama, dada, hi and teddy (missing at the moment) and more in Spanish (ma’). I know you have to be saying more than that, but I just can’t distinguish them yet. You are still great at answering questions and having conversations with us - you know what tone to use to answer, and are so adorable while you do it. As most toddlers, you learned how to shake yes and no and you use it particularly when telling us stories.
You are an amazing eater though there are a few things you don’t like - you don’t like bananas (weird for a baby), you are not crazy about pasta with tomato sauce. You have a sweet tooth like Mommy, you love Ice cream. You love meats from chicken to meatballs you love chesses, potatoes and strawberries. Bread and crackers are always favorites and you can’t get enough of the crunchies. We basically feed you whatever we are eating no more baby food. It amazes me what those gums are capable of chewing! She still only has hers two bottoms front teeth. That's it, two teeth! We even fed her chili last week.
You are so active I think you need every calorie of what you eat to get around every day. It’s great to introduce more foods and figure out your likes and dislikes - who know what this month will bring.
Non-toy favorite items include car keys, anything she can manage to grab out of my diaper bag before I take it away (wallets, cell phones, diapers, etc) remote control, bottles of water.
She also loves to open and close drawers, cabinets, and doors. This is not so much fun for us. You like the vacuum cleaner and help mommy and daddy to clean (you are very good with the swiffer).
You clap when you are happy our when we are singing to you, you point at things that you want, you say no with you finger, you wave bye bye. You sing ABC’s with daddy (well you try). You know were you eyes and nose are and you like to see at ours.
Mia - you are my baby girl even though you are growing up fast. Your daddy and I love you so much and are happy that we are moving into the stage when we can be affectionate with you. There is nothing better than a hug or kiss from our Mia.

Fisrt day

Mia started to go to the new daycare on FT. Meade Tuesday March 24. She was looking around and trying to figure out what we were doing there, she had this fake smile and she was waving to the caregivers. Shaun and I dropped her of around 7:05. She wanted to start to cry but Miss Carmen got her attention and distracted her while we were leaving.
When I called the center around 10:00 am they said that she was doing fine, that she cried a little but that her paci helped.
When Shaun picked her up in the afternoon they said that she had a great first day, she enjoyed water play with stuffed toys.
She had applesauce, French toast and milk for breakfast.
Hamburger patties, cheese, bum, tater tots, applesauce and milk for lunch.
And she had strawberry bars and juice for afternoon snack.
I can’t believe how things change when you are becoming a toddler, what happened to the baby food?

Mia Baptism and 1st Birthday party

Yesterday March 22nd 2009 we had Mia baptized and we also celebrate her 1st birthday party with our families and friends.
It was a busy morning we get up at 7:00 am to make sure that we got everything ready before mass, Mia was a doll, she did very well at church she even sang along the chorus.
After mass the Baptism started and she was on a talking mode it was so funny she was so into it. The ceremony last for about 30 to 40 minutes and them we took pictures, I had these two beautiful headbands that I wanted her to ware but it was impossible to put it on her head.
After the church we head up to La Fointane Bleue for the party. The decoration or theme for the party was candy land, so we had lost, lost of candies.
It was so nice to have everybody there celebrating with us such a special occasion. From 2:30 to 6 we celebrated Mia’s baptism and 1st birthday. There were lots of foods, cake, and candy, everything was delicious, we are so happy that everything came out as we imagine.
I think my favorite part was when we sat Mia on her highchair so she can enjoy her smashing cake; it was so much fun watching her.

A big thank you to everyone who could come celebrates Mia’s birthday - it was so much fun, and Mia seemed to really enjoy everything going on.
We didn’t open the presents until we got home and she did well with the gift opening. It’s hard to tell what her favorite thing to play with is, and there were lots of fun clothes to look fashionable in this summer too.
Thank you everyone for your generosity - we appreciate your friendship and hope you had a good time at the party as well.

It’s been such a great wonderful year and it wouldn’t have been the same without all our wonderful friends and family.

Love,

The Cronks.

Mia is one year old

My little girl, my baby, is one and becoming a toddler more and more each day. How did that happen? How did the time fly by so fast?
Flash back a year ago – Mia was due fro March 12th, but she wasn’t ready to come out to the world so it took her 7 more days. The bad contractions started at 5 am, we got to the hospital around 7:00 am and at 2:59 pm on March 19th 2008 our little bundle was delivered by c-section. She was a precious tiny little thing, only 6 lbs 1 oz and 18 ¾ inches. She seemed so tiny and delicate.
Baby daddy and I are so blessed to have Mia in our lives. We can’t remember what it was like without her, and don’t want to - it’s too great with her in it. I am in shock she is one today, but also happy we’ve made this milestone. I’ll try not to tear up too much as I go through the day, remembering all the great things about this past year and all the emotions from this day last year. I know I’ve forgotten to write things I wanted to write, but I have many more years to blog about all the cute and wonderful things as Mia Takes on the World.
Happy 1st birthday Mia!!!

Is official we are in.

After 14 month on the waiting list for the CDC (Child development Center) at FT. Meade we got Mia in. We put Mia’s name on the list for the day care when she wasn’t even born on December 26 2007, and only until yesterday we were able to get in.
Getting into the Ft. Meade day care is a long process and a long waiting. There facilities are big and clean, we love the playground it is big with white fine sand a lots of toys (swing, slides, etc.) we are sure that Mia is going to have lots of fun.
Even that we are exacting I’m a little nervous, I hope Mia get use to the new place and the new people, I know that she is being at the daycare since she was 3 month old, but this is a different place. Another issue that worries me is the food, we are not allowed to bring any food, they provide the meals according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) so this is going to be new for Mia as well, I know this is free of charge but I really hoping that Mia likes the food, maybe since all the kids are eating the same food she’ll get into it.
Wednesday is orientation day and they will give us more details of what we have to do.
I’ll keep you posted.