Food, Feet, and Other Adventures

So last Monday we took on the adventure of rice cereal. It did not go over well and I admit I was ready to throw in the towel and try again in a few weeks. She got good at doing raspberries with her lips while her mouth was full of cereal and I was getting tired of wearing it and washing my glasses. Luckily yesterday a light bulb seemed to turn on and we have now had 2 days of successful cereal eating.
Here is the before picture of the first cereal attempt
She definitely didn't know what to think of it.

I don't think any was swallowed that night. It just kept running back out.

And our end result. A very mad very sticky girl. I'm so glad it got better. We can now even clean up with just a wash cloth and not a bath.

The day before our cereal adventure Mia found her feet. (At least it was the first time we noticed her grabbing on to her feet.) She loves playing with her feet now and has figured out how to take her socks off.

Sometimes she even gets her foot in her mouth.

We also pulled her exer-saucer out this week. She can just barely reach the bottom of it and today kept kicking so she was throwing herself around in her little seat. She's still a little small for it but she likes it for short periods of time.
Tummy time has been the evil word at our house. Mia hates it and starts screaming so we aren't big fans of it and probably don't put her on her tummy as much as she should be. Things are getting better though. Sometimes we can get 3 or 4 minutes now before she's screaming.

I'm hoping if I can get her to spend a little more time on her belly she might roll over finally.

This is just a random picture that I thought was just way too cute. I figured it was a good one to put in for her cousin Lucy.

Crazy she's already 5 months old!

Finally it's girlie

So it may have taken me 4 1/2 months, but Mia's room finally looks like a girl lives in it. When we first started setting up a baby's room, we made it very gender neutral. I was having a hard time deciding what to do because I couldn't come up with anything I liked that matched the bedding we had. Lucky for me my wonderful neighbor told me about the super clearance on baby bedding at Target so I was able to replace the bedding for only $12.50! We went with flowers and butterflies. I figured it's girlie but not baby so it can grow with her for awhile. I also love the ribbon board so I can keep all kinds of pictures up in her room and change them as often I I want.

I got the idea for this frame from Michael McLean's song "From God's Arms to My Arms to Yours." It's a song about an adoption and I thought it was just so fitting. Mia's birth mom was so nice to help us in doing this.

Her cute new bedding with all her bed time friends.

This wall will still be rearranged a bit. I want to get a picture of the Bountiful Temple to put on this wall. That is the temple we are having Mia sealed to us in so it will be her temple.

This is one of those little growth charts. Because I did all the decorating by myself to surprise Monty when he came home from work, it's not at the exact right height. It's about 1/2 inch to low but I figured that was close enough. Hopefully Mia will be standing good by her first birthday so we can mark how tall she is.

We had a few warmer days (it hit low 40s for a high) and we were tired of being cooped up in the house so we decided to bundle up and go for a walk. It was really rather nice being outside and getting some fresh air. Mia seemed to enjoy it too.

This was how I found Mia the other day when we were getting ready for church. She loves to chew on fabric (particularly burp cloths). I had laid her down to change her diaper when I realized the wipes were in the other room. When I came back to her room, she was happily chewing away at the sheet she was laying on.

Getting cuter by the day!