Crazy girl

Mia is growing so fast and is all over the place now. We got her a walker and she absolutely LOVES it. She literally runs all over the kitchen in it now. When I'm trying to make dinner she runs at my feet. I've learned to wear socks and shoes when I'm working in the kitchen cuz it hurts when she runs over your feet in that thing. I swear she does it intentionally too.

She's also crawling all over the place now. She gets around the house pretty quick. She pulls herself up on all the furniture, door frames, walls, pretty much anything she can put her hands on and will walk along holding on. A couple of times I've gotten her to stand on her own for 15-20 seconds. Once she realizes she's standing alone she always sits down though. I think she could stand longer if I could just keep her distracted longer.

Gotta love that face.

We're also at the stage where she's trying to feed herself. Needless to say most days its a diaster. She really enjoyer her spaghetti and luckily I was smart enough to take her shirt off before she started eating.

Even when we're feeding her she fights us for the spoon or hits the spoon or does something else so her food ends up everywhere but in her mouth.

She's a crazy goofy girl but I guess that's why we love her so much.

Water Baby

So last week Mia FINALLY started crawling. Just before we went to Idaho last weekend she started moving just a little bit on her hands and knees and within about a week she was all over the place. She is constantly on the go now. She is growing like a weed and so much fun. She now finds all kinds of things to chew on. We are rapidly learning where and house needs further baby-proofing.

We went and picked up a pizza one night and they gave her a balloon. She absolutely loved it.

Today I took Mia swimming for the first time. We went with my mom, aunt, and a bunch of my cousins to their grandma's pool. For the first 45 min Mia just kind of hung out taking it all in. After that she started splashing and kicking and really enjoying herself. We kept her in some kind of floaty most of the time and she just loved it.

Swimming with Grandma. Even though she looks unhappy she really wasn't.

We just went back and forth across the pool with her.

The biggest problem was keeping her face out of the water. She loved putting her face in the water and kept trying to drink it.

Just relaxing

I think we truly have a water baby on our hands. Hopefully we'll get to go again this summer.

Happy 4th of July!

Summer Fun

So last week Mia and I ventured out for some summer fun with Friends. On Monday we went to lunch and then to the park with Marianne and Jackson. Mia had lots of fun on the slide and swings.

Poor girl got worn out and fell asleep on the swing

Then on Tuesday we went to the neighbors and played in the sprinkler and then with buckets of water. Mia was very brave and was walking around in the sprinkler for a little while but I think she had more fun dumping buckets of water on herself.

You can't see the sprinkler but it was a cute one that flipped water in all different directions.

Enjoying the bucket with her rubber ducks.

Mia and her friend Claire. Claire can always make Mia smile even when she's being a grump.One day while we were sitting outside last week Mia decided that my water was better than hers so she wanted my up. The funny thing was my cup was about as big as her head. She did pretty good drinking out of it (with some help of course) and then managed to dump out the ice water on herself. I don't know if she was more shocked because she'd drenched herself or because it was cold. It was really too bad we didn't get a picture of that because her face was priceless.

Growing Growing Growing

Then...And now...This is the last picture we have of Mia in her car seat. On Monday we swapped out her carrier for her new car seat. She's just growing too fast and got too heavy for her carrier and is now in a big girl car seat (don't have any pictures of that yet). Tuesday she had a doctor's appointment because I really thought she had an ear infection (grumpy grumpy girl lately) and she weighs 20lbs 6 oz. No wonder my arms are ready to fall off after carrying her around. So it turns out she doesn't have an ear infection it's just the 5 teeth that she is cutting and her pulling on her ears is just a coincidence. That's right 5. The 4 middle teeth on top have all finally broken through and the bottom one to the left of her two middle teeth. I'm hoping they all stay through and don't bob up and down anymore. I'm definitely ready for a break in the teething. One thing that seems to help is Popsicles. We have shared a few in recent days. I suck most of the flavor out and then give her the pieces of ice. She LOVES it. Then she enjoys chewing on the wrapper once the Popsicle is gone. We've been spending more time outside since we have had a few nice days and Mia loves it. She is definitely an outside kind of girl. If we could spend all day every day outside I think she would be in seventh heaven. She has also learned that when she's standing and holding onto ours hands that she can walk. I spend a good deal of time hunched over now so she can walk holding onto my hands. She definitely doesn't have the balance or stability to even begin to pull herself up or walk on her own but I'm sure it will come. She's rolling all over the place now but has no interest in crawling. I'm almost positive she'll walk before she crawls.

We've also got things growing in the back yard now. We replaced our dead peach tree and planted a pear tree this spring too. They both seem to be doing pretty good.

I've got the garden planted too. There are tomato and pepper plants and then peas, radishes, and green beans. Hopefully we'll have a delicious crop this summer.

Not much else going on right now. Staying plenty busy with Little Miss Mia.

Happy Easter

So I know it's a little late but I have to blog about Mia's first Easter. She was really rather impartial to most of it but did really enjoy her Easter basket. I think she enjoyed the basket more than she did what was in it.
Mia sat ever so patiently while we colored eggs.Her egg ended up cracking but it said Miss MiaEaster morning. The Easter bunny brought her some new food, a tooth brush, toys, a bunny, and rubber bands for her hair.I have to say I was pretty impressed with myself putting pig tails in a baby for the first time. It's definitely not an easy task but I managed to get them pretty even.
We have started calling her Boo. Monty's family pointed out that she looks like Boo from Monsters Inc with her hair in pig tails and she really does. With just a pony tail it looks like a whale spout. Haven't gotten any of those on camera yet thoughMia's starting to stand really well and loves to stand. Notice her shirt...the other thing she's constantly doing now is drooling. She still only has 2 teeth but I swear there has to be a few more coming.

A couple pictures of Mia a few days after her blessing day. I was bright and didn't have the camera on that day so since Monty had to wear a suit to school one night I took advantage of it. My two favorite people.

AMAZING Weekend!

Two weeks ago, on Saturday, April 9, Mia became an eternal part of our family. She was sealed to us in the Bountiful Temple. It was a wonderful day and we had so much family there supporting us. We also had Mia's birth mom and birth grandparents there as well. It was so nice to be surrounded by so much love and support on such a special day. We were hoping to get some great pictures outside but as you can see from our background, we came out of the sealing and it was a blizzard so we had to settle for pictures in the atrium instead.Our first picture as an eternal family.

Us with Monty's parents. All of Monty's siblings were there as well but our camera died before we got pictures with them so I'll have to get those pictures from someone else.

Us and my parents (Monty is showing Mia her bracelet she got from her cousins.

We also got some pictures with Mia and her birth mom and grandparents but I decided not to put those on the web for privacy reasons but it was nice to see them again and have them there supporting us.

The following day on Sunday we blessed Mia. She is officially Mia Kay Borrowman. Well I guess she already was but it was nice to finally be able to bless her. You have to wait until the adoption is finalized. Mia's birth mom, parents, 3 of birth mom's sisters, and a niece attended her blessing and then came over to the house afterwards to meet more of Mia's family. Our house was a little crazy. After everyone left we counted up how many were there and we had 45 people in our house. We enjoyed fruit crepes and a yummy breakfast casserole. Mia even decided to give a small group of people who were there later a treat. She FINALLY ROLLED OVER! For the first time at 6 1/2 months she managed to roll from her belly to her back. But of course she hasn't done it since that Sunday. I try and get her to roll and she just plays for a few minutes and then gets mad. Sadly I don't have any pictures from Sunday. I'm going to blame it on the weather and the fact that all 45 people were in the house because it was cold and snowy outside and that put my stress level at an all time high for the weekend. However, thanks to wonderful family help it all went off without a hitch. Tomorrow I'm putting Mia back in her dress to get some pictures of just her and some pictures of her with Monty in his suit.

OK so I know this has nothing to do with our wonderful weekend but I just have to laugh at this picture of Mia just chilling in her tub. She loves bath time and doesn't even complain if I get water in her eyes while washing here hair. One of these days I'm going to have to take her to Aunt Trina's so we can try swimming in her pool. One final note. On my way to work tonight Monty text me to tell me that Mia rolled over. This time back to belly for the very first time. I guess she just doesn't want to show off for me and needs a better audience.