January 16, 2006
Mia Monday
First of all, you all rock. Thank you to everyone who delurked and said hello last week (and thanks also to everyone who did not have to delurk to say hello). I am working on getting around to see everyone who left a site, but it is likely to take me a while. Have I mentioned that my child does not sleep? You probably think I am exaggerating, but let me assure you I am not. Mia and sleep are not acquainted. I have run into a couple of bad links, although I realize you may have done that on purpose so I wouldn't bother you. Anyway, if I don't get around to say hello by the end of this week or so, wouldya leave me another comment so I can find your site?
I also wanted to thank you all for saying such nice things about my baby, and even asking for more pictures of her when I didn't pay you to say that. Sandy even recommended that I start doing Mia Monday to compete with Haiku Monday over at that guy's place. I think that is an excellent idea! So here you go, Mia Monday #1: Mia Meets Rice Cereal.
Took me forever to clean the cereal out of her nose.
Posted by Beth at January 16, 2006 05:11 PMHI! I'm a little late at delurking..but hey, it's better late than never?! :) So, I come here to lurk via Veronicasmind's blog...and I just have to say I enjoy reading your blog and of course...looking at pics of your sweet baby girl! lol..I remember the cereal up the nose :)
Posted by: Margaret at January 16, 2006 05:24 PMLOL. If Mina could, I think she would eat everything through her nose first :-D
Posted by: Ginny at January 16, 2006 05:31 PMhave I told you lately that you have a beautiful baby?
Posted by: Speckledpup at January 16, 2006 05:33 PMMia's hair ROCKS!! She is going to have awesome hair when she gets old enough to care!
Posted by: Magnolia Mom at January 16, 2006 05:37 PMThat looks like a Fisher Price Healthy Start Highchair! I have one and love it, especially that easy recline behind their head.
Cute pics! Such a cutie. Love the swoosh of hair on the side in that first one. Does she try to feed herself already?
Posted by: Sabrina at January 16, 2006 05:43 PMSuch a beautiful baby. I started reading you right at a time when you were desperate for a child (well, I started reading you about the time you got pregnant, I think), and I remember how thrilled I was for you when you told us you were going to have her!
I still can't believe there was ever a time, though, when you didn't.
Posted by: jenorama at January 16, 2006 05:47 PMDe-lurking. I live in Virginia and came to your site from Princess and johnsy's site.
Posted by: Jen at January 16, 2006 06:11 PMSeriously, you're killing me with the cuteness. The way she looks right at me, with the hair, and the cereal ... I want to eat her up. (Well, not the cereal so much as her cheeks.)
Posted by: shelley at January 16, 2006 06:18 PMThis is not an official De-lurk as I have commented here before. Would it be called De-lurking once removed? Or Step-De-lurking, maybe? Hell, I don't know.
Anyway! I'm completely jealous that Mia has Good Hair. My baby girl was as bald as a baby eagle (but much, much cuter) until she was about three. (Okay, maybe not cuter, but certainly every bit as cute. Bald eagle babies are very cute, y'all).
I had to rely on those little baby headbands for infant ornamentation.
Until I took to taping bows to her head. What? Oh, like nobody else ever did that. Pshaw.
Posted by: Contrary at January 16, 2006 06:30 PM
I used to give my kids a wet baby wash cloth to play with while they were eating. Helps with at least some of the mess! LOL!
Posted by: momma2mingbu at January 16, 2006 06:37 PMI swear to gawd Mia is the cutest baby on the internet.
Posted by: Anne at January 16, 2006 08:04 PMJust wanted to sympathise with you on the no sleeping thing. My blog entry today is all about that very issue. Many of my entries are. I am critically sleep-deprived. Despite thier not sleeping, though, our kids sure are adorable. Love the pics of Mia.
Posted by: Tree at January 16, 2006 08:04 PMCereal in the nose can never be a good thing.
Posted by: Isabel at January 16, 2006 08:19 PMSO cute.
Also, I get a strange white intro page to your site now and have to click on your archives to see the actual pretty purple site. What is up with that?
Posted by: DeAnn at January 16, 2006 09:03 PMMIA MONDAY! YIIPPEEEE! i swear. i love pictures of babies eating. and sleeping. my son is almost five now, and i'm still taking pictures of him sleeping...
i missed delurking week last week (first week on a new job...) but i've been reading for a while now, and i'm so bad and am just now saying hi!
Posted by: mamafrog at January 16, 2006 09:27 PMHey- you combed Mia's hair!
Now I feel guilty about not combing my baby's full head of hair and letting it stick up and be all crazy.
I hope she doesnt get a complex of something.
Mia's beautiful btw.
=)
Posted by: J at January 16, 2006 10:06 PMI TOTALLY think that Mia Mondays should be a regular post to compete with Haiku Mondays over at That Guy's blog.
I mean, seriously. Poem vs. Baby.
Baby's gonna win. Even with rice up her nose.
Posted by: Emily at January 16, 2006 10:07 PMWait until she tries starts sticking full-sized peas up her nose! ha!
Cheers,
N.
Adorable as ever! She looks like she liked the cereal! (Mine pulled a face like I was feeding her smelly socks when she tried cereal for the forst time!)
Posted by: Nynke at January 17, 2006 02:39 AMAh, that's what that URL box is for. I'm rather new at this whole commenting-on-people's-blogs dealie. Oh, and you see that little number down there? That little number that says something like 1:32? As much as I love afternoon shifts at ze plant, I tend to come home zombified. I'm very, very bad at updating my blog, however; it's more of a monthly than a daily.
"Mia Monday" is a great idea (although I fail to see how it is different than any other day in practise ;) ), but Mia pictures AND a haiku, all at once? Hmm. Now, I like those haikus, but "Mia Monday" rolls off the tongue better, so maybe a little bedroom embargo could persuade the hubby to move the poetry to another day -- perhaps "Haikus for Hwednesday" (bit of a "Hanukkah" sound at the beginning there) --, and let the bean shine in all her drooly glory to our undivided adulation.
Posted by: Gavin at January 17, 2006 04:32 AMi absolutely love the little 'surprised' expression she sometimes has. sooooo CUTE!!!
Posted by: aurelia at January 17, 2006 06:30 AMJust wanted to let you know that the sleeping thing DOES get better. My first didn't sleep through the night until he was 2. Seriously. And at one point he was getting up something like 7 times in an 8 hour period. But he's 4 1/2 now and sleeps like a rock from 9 until 6. And the little one is 2 1/2 now, and has been sleeping excellently since he was 7 months old.
My point is, looking back on it now, it wasn't that long. It seemed awful at the time, but really it wasn't so bad.
Posted by: Alissa at January 17, 2006 07:35 AMLove the idea. Thanks for the pics
Posted by: ktjrdn at January 17, 2006 09:09 AMAAGH! I just died from the cuteness! We have that same high chair.
Posted by: erika at January 17, 2006 09:10 AMADORABLE.
(Of course, my kids are WAY CUTER. (Oh wait. That kind of talk will get me kicked off the island, right?))
I love it! Mia Monday is Magnificent!!!! Oh, and your daughters eyes are so pretty!
Posted by: linda at January 17, 2006 09:41 AMAwwwww!
Posted by: Brian at January 17, 2006 09:54 AMSeriously, CUTEST.BABY.EVER. And that's a hard thing for another mother to say!
On the lack of sleep - my first was like that. We finally had to Ferberize at 6 months... and it worked. Also, it may not seem like it, but this time is going to go by so fast. Hold your baby tight while you can!
Posted by: Jodi at January 17, 2006 10:10 AMawww. mia's hair isn't doing the crazy mohawk thing anymore. i miss the crazy mohawk.
but she's still gorgeous as always :)
Posted by: suze at January 17, 2006 10:13 AMHow cute. Mia Monday is going to rock!!! What a great idea. I normally read your blog while I am at work. When I am having a bad day seeing Mia brightens my day. She is too cute!
Posted by: Mindy at January 17, 2006 10:37 AMShe's so munchable!
Posted by: Queen of Ass at January 17, 2006 11:32 AMI just leave the cereal in there. Eventually it comes out in little rice noodles (like playdoh through one of those toys I never had when I was small and wanting one), then you have an entire new meal!
Posted by: HollyRhea at January 17, 2006 11:57 AMI LOVE Mia Monday!
Posted by: Julie at January 17, 2006 01:08 PMWait'll she tries grits... Sweet Pea loved 'em and I swear you CANNOT get rid of all the grits. 8 hours later you'll find a random grit in her hair, or in her diaper...
Posted by: Stacy at January 17, 2006 03:33 PMYou're supposed to clean the cereal out of their noses? Now you tell me.
Posted by: Lori at January 17, 2006 04:04 PMShe's getting so big! Mia's simply beautiful.
Posted by: Lujza at January 17, 2006 06:43 PMSorry I didn't get a chance to delurk last week. I love your blog. I have been stopping by for so long that you were still pg when I arrived. Sorry it took me so long to say hello.
Posted by: Marsha at January 17, 2006 06:55 PMlooks tast-teeee!
Posted by: lizabetty at January 17, 2006 07:16 PMI was just wondering if she has started real food yet...
Baby, no sleep could = hungry!
I know the boobs are doing good, but some times real food before bed makes a baby sleep! : ) an old Gypsy trick! My kids slept ALL night! Just saying.
Posted by: Gypsy at January 18, 2006 12:38 AMDelurking to say cute baby pics. Do the monday thing, whatever you call it.
Posted by: Jim at January 18, 2006 01:24 AMWhat a cutie! Just wait til she starts the green peas and carrots...lol
Posted by: Dana at January 18, 2006 07:07 AMLove the idea of Mia Mondays!
Posted by: Fraulein N at January 18, 2006 09:11 AMwhat an adorable baby!!!! too cute really!!!!
love reading your posts
Posted by: Lise at January 18, 2006 11:50 AMJust another Mia Monday...whoa-oh - don't wish it were Sunday...no-oh - Mia means a fun day...
I apologize for dorkily adjusting the Manic Monday lyrics, but I couldn't resist. Yay for cereal! And yay for Mia with her Elvis hair!
Posted by: samantha at January 18, 2006 03:19 PMI LOVE THE MIA MONDAY IDEA! The pictures are always great!
Thank you!
Posted by: witchy_puppy at January 18, 2006 04:27 PMWAY too cute.
Posted by: carrster at January 18, 2006 05:58 PMAnd even with a nose filled with cereal she is still terribly cute!
I am happy I did not have to get it out though...
Posted by: kim at January 18, 2006 06:38 PMThank you for Mia Mondays. Your baby has the most beautiful BIG Green eyes. Do either you or Chris have green eyes? Your daughters gonna just grow more beautiful each day I think. Lotsa love to Mia.
Posted by: Dee at January 19, 2006 10:52 AMThat gypsy thing made me laugh, nice one.
Posted by: Matt at January 21, 2006 11:30 PM
