Mia is five months old

Mia is changing so much! I think back to just a few weeks ago and it amazes me how much she has changed even since then! It's so much fun, but sometimes very sad because those innocent, sweet times are gone.
She is still on a crazy sleeping schedule, but we hope that will change soon, she still wakes up once or twice at night to eat and goes right back to sleep. However she learned how to go to sleep on her on, we put her on her bassinet gives her the pacifier and her little giraffe (stuffed animal) and after 5 minutes she is a sleep.

She also sat up by herself for about 10 minutes while playing with her toys while I stood at a distance watching her, but I made sure that there was a Boppy-type pillow behind her to break her fall. Also in the last couple of weeks she has really started to squeal. It is this high, loud happy scream, it is so funny and now she is doing it at the daycare while the others babies are sleeping. Mia is just a happy baby in general.
She still hates tummy time- who knows if she will ever learn to crawl :)

She also loves reading time, when reading a book, she tries to scratch it, and it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to me when she does it! It makes turning the pages very difficult!
Also when she gets excited that flaps hers arms up and down and squeals! It's so cute! Often the legs go with the arms. She touches and looks at her hands and feet a lot; I’m waiting for the moment that she is going to start to put her feet in her mouth. She wants to bounce or jump all the time. I think that may be the reason behind the constant leg kicking. If you stand her up, more than likely she will try to jump.

Also over the weekend Mia had her first apples and we think she likes them.

Mia laughing and showing she is hungry

BUT I WANT TO SIT UP

When we go to lay Mia down, she instantly demands to sit up, and she tries with all her might to do it. She can sometimes balance on her own, and other times plops over...it so cute. she love story time! When we read to here she kicks her legs like she is trying to run somewhere...she gets so excited! She love it when you gobble at her neck...she strts giggling so much :)

Eating solids!!!!

Mia has begun eating solids. The first thing she ate was rice cereal. At first she made the face like "eww what are you giving me" to oh ok, this is defferent then the milk I have been given the past 4.5 months. We don't think she really likes the cereal, but we'll keep trying. We have to give her something for 3 days in a row, and then we can try something else. So Mia has tried green peas, , carrots, peaches, pears, and sweet potatos. She loved the peaches, pears, and sweet potatos. Oh my goodness, she gulped those down so quickly, I thought she was in a race :)

Your firts 4th of July Celebration.

For the 4th of July weekend we got you a beautiful outfit, you look so cute in it, it wasn’t a patriotic one, but it had the red, white and blue, with the little hat and the cutest sandals ever. We took you to FT. Meade for the celebration and you had a great time, it was the first time that we took you out to a park.
You were all smile and you were talking a storm that is one of the things that I like about you, you talk so much (sometimes I wondering when you are going to say your first word and what is going to be).
We stay there for a couple of hours, we had lunch and walk around. I was a little worry about the sun and I admit, I was a little paranoid that you were going to get sunburn, so We try to be on the shade must of the time. Unfortunately we forgot to bring a blanket or the camping chairs and we had to seat on the grass.
We decorated your stroller for the occasion and took lots of pictures of you. Since you are so little we couldn’t go in any of he rides.

First Day at the daycare 06/30

My little baby today was your first day at the daycare, it was a hectic morning, and Mommy and Daddy were going all over the house trying to get all your stuffs together. Mommy was feeling a little anxious trying to pump that last ½ oz of milk to complete your bottle, while daddy was getting you dress. You seen a little suspicious that something was going on and you didn’t want to smile for the camera when Mommy was trying to take the pictures for your first day at the daycare. As always you fall a sleep on our way there, but when we got there you woke up and start looking around. We stayed with you for about 20 minutes trying to see you reaction with the providers, but you was fine when the held you and you even smile at one of them. It was hard to leave you there and I feel a little guilty that I can’t stay home with you. But I know you will be fine and you going to make lots of friends and that this is going to help you with your social skills. When I call around 2 ½ hours later I spoke to miss Linda and she said that you were fine, that you took a couple of naps, you had your bottle and at that moment you were sleeping. They were waiting for you to wake up and feed you your second bottle and they will go to read you a book. She said that you were a little fuzzy and cried a little but you were really good for your fist day. The second time that I called I spoke with miss Amy and she told me that you were fine, a little gassy, but your were playing fine. Daddy is picking you around 4:30 and I can wait to see you.

Mia slept through the night last night

Last night 06.25.08 Mia went to bed around 7:30 pm and for the first time in 14 weeks she slept for 8 full hours straight. I don't know if she will continue doing this or if it is just a one-time thing for now, but I needed that night of full rest so much! I was thrilled to wake up at 4 am and realize that she slept for so long. I attribute it to following the bed routing that Shaun and I have implemented, we bathe her by 7:30, then I feed her and put her down for the night by about 8:00. Almost immediately after starting this she stopped waking up every 2-3 hours at night and started sleeping until 2:30am! It was wonderful having a pretty predictable schedule at night. She would wake up again around 4:00 am for another feeding and them at 5:30 am and we would start our day. I really think it was because of the feeding schedule and bedtime routine that she was able to establish her own sleeping schedule.
Let’s hope that this will continue.

Mia (First time with formula)

Dear Mia,
Today 06.25.2008 we started giving you formula. For the last couple of weeks I’ve being trying to express as much breast milk as I could, but with the stress of being at work and taking breaks to do it, it was hard to fulfill your demands. Also we were trying to figure out how much milk you were drinking, since we never measured how much milk you needed when I was home with you. You are 3 month and 6 days old and you are now drinking 3.5 oz every two hours. So I called your doctor and he told me to give you Enfamil Lipil, it’s supposed to be the closest formula to breast milk. Daddy said that at first when he tried to give you the formula you rejected it, maybe because we also changed your bottles nipples to stage #2 (3 to 6 month). So he gave you breast milk instead, then for you next feeding he changed the bottle nipple to the old one, he said that it took you a little time but at the end you drank it. Apparently you digested well since you didn’t have any bad reaction to it. If this works it’ll be so much easier for us to take you out and to take you to the day care. I’ll continue pumping everyday as much as I can so you can keep having Mommy’s milk.