Fun at the Park

We decided to take a walk to the park today. We all had fun!

So cool in her new shades.

It's hot out here...Daddy was nice and shared his water!

Hanging on for dear life

Sliding with Mommy!

Mommy, Daddy and Mia

Horrible Morning

We had what could rank as one of the worst mornings of our life...Mia had to have blood work done today. Just routine blood counts for her 9 month check up. I guess they figure the kids aren't getting shots at this visit...why not do blood work. We went in this morning, and of course had to wait a while to be seen. My stomach was turning flips just thinking about what was about to happen. When we finally were called back, the lady tried put the elastic band on both arms, but never seemed feel a good vein...but ended up sticking a freakin' huge needle in her arm anyway and "digging" around to get it positioned where she thought the vein was. Meanwhile, Mia is shrieking, I'm balling and Dale is on the verge of tears. Mia was so upset. She was hot and sweaty, and had those horrible "crying heaves" with huge tears running down her face. The lady finally stops searching and takes the needle out of her arm with no blood collected. I thought to myself..."There is no way I am letting her try the other arm...there has to be another way". The lady gave me a tissue and asked if we needed a minute to calm her down (and let me regain my composure). I told her no, we just wanted to get this over with. She then proceeds to put the elastic band around Mia's forearm, so she could look for a vein in her hand to draw from. Mia now knew what that meant, so she started to get upset again and fight back harder...she didn't want to be stuck again. For a 9 month old, she sure is strong. Not finding a good vein there either (thankfully she didn't try "digging" for one in her hand...I think I might of had to hurt her), she told us she was going to have to do a finger stick. I told her that was fine...what ever she had to do to just get it done. The finger stick was traumatic in it's own right. They don't use what you think of as a traditional finger stick. The device makes a long cut in the finger, not just a small hole like a blood sugar finger stick. Then they have to "milk" the finger to fill up two small tubes full of blood. It takes a couple of minutes of doing this milking to get enough blood for the tests they have to run. But she wasn't screaming near as loud as she was when the lady was "digging" around for a good vein.


By the time we got home, she was fine. She kept showing me the band-aid on her finger, but other than that, you would have never know it happened. It is amazing how rezilent kids are. Dale and I may be scared for life, but Mia's fine. :)

Bluebonnets!

Well, today we attempted to take picture in the pretty bluebonnets near my work. Mia wasn't a fan of the prickly grass and tall flowers. Here are some of the pictures we got. POOR BABY!

Maybe we will try again later this spring! Guess we need to practice sitting in grass to get her use to it before we attempt taking more pictures :)

She's crawling!

WOW! Strap everything down...Mia's mobile!!! We caught some crawling on the video camera this weekend when Fun Aunt Whitney was down here for a visit. ENJOY!

Easter 2009

We spent Easter in Wichita Falls with our families. We headed up there Saturday afternoon. Aunt Whitney had gotten her the cutest princess tiara, tutu and wand. Our families were so happy to see us. They are amazed every time we come home to visit how much Mia has changed. I can't believe she's already 8 months old.

The poor thing has been cutting teeth for weeks, but the 2 middle, bottom teeth finally broke through this weekend too, and Mia was a trooper. She stayed happy! The bottom right tooth broke through on Firday, then the bottom left tooth broke through on Sunday. We are so lucky...she's such a happy baby. She has tiny little "razor blades" cutting her gums, but she keeps a smile on her face.

Mia looked so cute in her pretty Easter dress. She is still a little young for Easter egg hunting, but mommy and daddy helped her.

A Busy Day!

Today has been a very busy day. Mia's Honey, Mamaw and Fun Aunt Whitney all came to see her today. She did so great with everyone, and she did great at lunch. She sat in her highchair the entire meal with no fussiness. Then she went with us to shop at the Gymboree near my work. We put the cutest hat and pair of sunglasses on her. She thought it was so funny, and she looked super cute. She then went with us to the Allen outlet mall. All the while staying pretty happy. When we got home she took a short nap. Then it was time for her 2nd photo shoot. We finally got around to getting her 6 month pictures taken now that the is 7+ months old :) I was really worried about what kind of a mood she would be in after being out all day and not having a very good nap. But she was GREAT! She was very happy and we got LOTS of great pictures. It was very hard to narrow them down. I wanted to get them all. I can't wait to see how the prints turn out. I was so proud of her. She's such a GREAT baby. We got really lucky with her. It was amazing looking back at her last set of photos and see how much she has changed in 3 months. She's getting to be such a big girl.

A lot has happened in the last month

Mia will be 7 months old on Wednesday. Can you believe it??


We had Mia baptized on March 1st in Wichita Falls. We had it done at First United Methodist in the chapel. John Dillard, the associate Paster, who has been there since I was a little kid was able to preform the baptism. Almost all of our family was able to attend. Sue and Coby's bunch were all sick, and they didn't want to spread it around (which was much appreciated) so they weren't able to come. Mia was so good. No tears, just smiles.






Since my last post she has tried most if not all of the 2nd foods. She is starting to become interested in trying to feed herself her bottle and meals. She hasn't quite mastered the bottle yet, and we got her some Gerber Yogurt Melts and Gerber Puffs to start getting her use to feeding herself. She hasn't quite taken to the Melts or Puffs yet, but we have only tried them once and there are lots of flavors to try. She likes to hold and chew on her sippy cup, but she hasn't figured out how to get the juice/water out of it yet.

She is trying very hard to crawl. She has started to "creep" slowly. She can push way up on her arms, and she can get up on her knees for a few seconds....but she hasn't figured out how to coordinate both movements into crawling.


We just hired a new nanny last week. I won't go into the long story about why the other one left. I am just excited because the new nanny is GREAT! Monday was her first day. She was so good with Mia, and Mia seemed to like her. She was on the floor with her ALL day playing. She read her a book. When Mia was down for a nap, she came downstairs to unload and reload the dishwasher. There was a large pan that didn't fit, so she hand washed it. Then she proceeded to wipe down all the counters. Dale told her that much work wasn't completely necessary, but she said she didn't mind. She picked up all of Mia's toys in the living room before she left. She's great! And super sweet! It's such a relief.