Mia loves paper. She LOVES it. I don't know why, she's had a taste and still wants more! Any kind will do, newspaper, magazine paper, letter paper, it's all good to her. So I was reading my magazine and Mia attempted to hurl her body over my leg to get to it. I scooted the magazine away and she was wiggling her way to it. I scooted further and she was so determined she scooted further, too. Then the camera came out and we were kind of mean by putting it just out of reach while she army crawled to it. And now, for our feature presentation:
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Mia's Nummers
Well, according to everyone except for myself and people who agree with me, I have been keeping Mia from starting solids for too long. First, let me say that I had very specific reasons to hold off and guidelines I was following for the best outcomes. Yes. We may have all started solids earlier and had a good outcome but I'm trying for an even better one for Mia.
The guidelines I was following from her pediatrician states that the following must be met before Mia can eat:
1. Double her birth weight (as of last Monday she was 1.5 lbs shy of that)
2. Sit up unassisted (I just found out, thanks to Bruce, that Mia can do this for bits of time)
3. Able to bring things to mouth consistently (she has been maneuvering her little pacifier in the dark into her mouth at night when she's not disoriented)
4. Loss of tongue thrust (I've been watching and seeing it gradually disappear)
5. Ability to let you know she is full (she's been doing this all along -what? some babies don't?)
6. Interest in food (the real reason everyone wants me to feed her - her constant attempts at getting our food and drinks!)
7. Good head control (from day one she has had good control for her age, it just got better)
Here's the reasons I was waiting:
1. Skip the puree stage (waaay less work for me to cook, puree, separate into ice cube trays, freeze, thaw bits at a time, heat & serve)
2. Breastmilk is all the nutrition she needed (Solids don't give her all the nutrients she needs. Babies don't even need to really add food to their diet until 9-12 months because breastmilk is a more balanced meal for babies)
3. Why spend all that time feeding her when she can just skip to learning to feed herself (Bruce and I have been giving her cups and spoons to play with since September as practice)
4. Waiting ensures her GI tract is more prepared to handle solid foods (less chance of gas, rashes, & allergies)
5. Kids who wait have a lower incidence of diabetes and obesity.
6. Because it gives me a couple more months of clean eating (selfish, I know, but the other reasons are the unselfish bigger reasons to wait)
That being said (and I can be long winded), we decided to have Mia make a go of oatmeal before we get into the real, real food at 5.5 months (I figure, she was 10 days late so it's like 6 months if we feed her 11 days before her sweet potato debut). I didn't really expect her to eat any. We were going to spoon feed her so she knows what to do but really let her play on her own gettting to know the food and how to feed herself. Soo, what you've really been dredging through all my wordiness for.....
Mia's first try at oatmeal!
Some stills as well, since she's so darn cute even with a messy face:
The next day we decided to make the oatmeal a little thicker and give it another go. This was the first time Mia sat with us while we ate dinner and got to eat dinner too! Forgive our chatter in the background, it was family meal time.
The guidelines I was following from her pediatrician states that the following must be met before Mia can eat:
1. Double her birth weight (as of last Monday she was 1.5 lbs shy of that)
2. Sit up unassisted (I just found out, thanks to Bruce, that Mia can do this for bits of time)
3. Able to bring things to mouth consistently (she has been maneuvering her little pacifier in the dark into her mouth at night when she's not disoriented)
4. Loss of tongue thrust (I've been watching and seeing it gradually disappear)
5. Ability to let you know she is full (she's been doing this all along -what? some babies don't?)
6. Interest in food (the real reason everyone wants me to feed her - her constant attempts at getting our food and drinks!)
7. Good head control (from day one she has had good control for her age, it just got better)
Here's the reasons I was waiting:
1. Skip the puree stage (waaay less work for me to cook, puree, separate into ice cube trays, freeze, thaw bits at a time, heat & serve)
2. Breastmilk is all the nutrition she needed (Solids don't give her all the nutrients she needs. Babies don't even need to really add food to their diet until 9-12 months because breastmilk is a more balanced meal for babies)
3. Why spend all that time feeding her when she can just skip to learning to feed herself (Bruce and I have been giving her cups and spoons to play with since September as practice)
4. Waiting ensures her GI tract is more prepared to handle solid foods (less chance of gas, rashes, & allergies)
5. Kids who wait have a lower incidence of diabetes and obesity.
6. Because it gives me a couple more months of clean eating (selfish, I know, but the other reasons are the unselfish bigger reasons to wait)
That being said (and I can be long winded), we decided to have Mia make a go of oatmeal before we get into the real, real food at 5.5 months (I figure, she was 10 days late so it's like 6 months if we feed her 11 days before her sweet potato debut). I didn't really expect her to eat any. We were going to spoon feed her so she knows what to do but really let her play on her own gettting to know the food and how to feed herself. Soo, what you've really been dredging through all my wordiness for.....
Mia's first try at oatmeal!
Some stills as well, since she's so darn cute even with a messy face:
Friday, November 9, 2012
A Miracle
Ok, so Bruce and I hate Fuji cameras with a passion because on our anniversary trip to Hawaii it broke while we were in the water (it was a waterproof camera). We tried to retrieve the photos but water and salt had gotten in and we couldn't do anything to get the pictures off. I scoured the internet for hours looking for a way to retrieve them. Brittany had a friend try - someone who had a program or something that should have done the job. We had given up and Bruce was very upset since we had some great photos. If you cant' guess what happened, well, let me tell you.
14 months after our vacation Bruce just randomly pops the SD card in our Canon (which we LOVE) and he saw THE LONG LOST PHOTOS. He was cautiously optimistic and gently took the card out and popped it into the computer and voila! started to download the 1003 photos we had on the SD card!
Soo, I love to share some our first anniversary memories that we could only tell people about:
This turtle kept coming after Bruce. We don't know why. There were a ton of people after this turtle and Bruce and I wouldn't harass it, but we didn't have to. He kept chasing Bruce. I had the same flippers as Bruce so I'm not sure what else it could have been. The barely sun-kissed skin? Did he pee in the ocean & the turtle was attracted to that? Who knows.
14 months after our vacation Bruce just randomly pops the SD card in our Canon (which we LOVE) and he saw THE LONG LOST PHOTOS. He was cautiously optimistic and gently took the card out and popped it into the computer and voila! started to download the 1003 photos we had on the SD card!
Soo, I love to share some our first anniversary memories that we could only tell people about:
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Fall Fun
5 Months Old!!! Can you believe it!!!???
Ok, so I was told I haven't been updating my blog enough. Well, people, some one went back to work and conveniently had a baby stop sleeping through the night and this someone doesn't see an end in sight since daycare won't listen to me about feeding her and she needs to get her calories in somehow!!
Anywho, here are some pictures that may or may not have been on facebook from the pumpkin patch. Mia, of course, loved it. You get to look at new people what fun! She was amazing, as usual.
Aren't we a cute little family
Ryan getting ready to ride the MonStEr TrUck
It went in a mud pit but didnt' make anyone muddy
Mia thinks we're shipping him off for good.
"Where's he going, daddy?"
"What?! He's coming back? Yay!"
What's a day at the pumpkin patch without a little race?
Our little pumpkin found a big ole' pumpkin. Isn't she cute?
Ryan bringing our pumpkins to the car
Cutest pumkin I've ever seen!
We love this little girl!Well, I was getting all crafty this season and made Mia a candy corn onesie. It last all of 10 seconds before she poooped all over it. The dye was getting everywhere when I tried to clean it, so I threw it out. Better luck next time, I guess. I got one terrible photo of her in it though:
Do you like how her leg is stuck too. She just won't stop moving!!I made Mia a pumpkin for her first Halloween. Here are photos of her with the onesie I ordered her and in her handmedown costume that I kind of feel bad for not picking one out for her but oh well, that ship has sailed:
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