Mio loves getting baby massages from Mommy! Can’t get enough of those smiles… 🙂
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New Tummy Time Mat
Mio has been having a rough time with tummy time lately. Although when she first started out, she did pretty well with it and started being able to lift her head up a little, the past few weeks have been difficult. Within the first couple minutes of putting her face down on her playmat, she will start screaming and crying. It’s hard to watch, and she won’t even try to do tummy time anymore, so I tend to give up too and just pick her up again.
In hopes to improve Mio’s tummy time experience, I ordered a “tummy time mat” and had it delivered to my parents’ house in Virginia. It’s a mat with a pillow for Mio to rest her head and arms on, to make tummy time a little easier with less of the face-plant aspect.
The road to successful tummy time still feels long, but the new mat seems to be helping a little. At least there are no more tears and screams. We’ll just take it slowly day by day, at a pace Mio is comfortable with. 🙂
Mio Arrives in Virginia
Mio and I arrived in Virginia early Thursday morning, exhausted. Mio cried inconsolably for about fifteen minutes towards the beginning of the overnight flight, and although it was only fifteen minutes, it was the longest fifteen minutes of my life. I’m still uncertain about what was wrong with her, since I made sure to nurse her during takeoff and landing to make sure she didn’t get ear pressure problems. She slept for the last three hours of the flight, though, but I couldn’t sleep because I was afraid she’d slide off of my lap. The cabin of the plane was really hot, too, which made for a very uncomfortable five hours. Boy, was I relieved when we finally landed at Dulles Airport…. When we got to my parents’ house in Vienna, we just slept for several hours through the morning.
Mio got to meet some new members of Mommy’s family this time — my father, sister Miwa, and brother Kosei were all seeing her for the first time.
I’m really happy to be back home in Virginia and am looking forward to the next two weeks that we’ll be spending here. We hope to spend a lot of time with family and friends, and just relax and enjoy our time here. It’s definitely summer here — hot and humid! I actually kind of missed the humidity of the Mid-Atlantic region, since this is the type of summer weather I grew up with!
An Early Father’s Day
We celebrated Father’s Day early on Wednesday, since Mio and I will be back on the East Coast this weekend on Dan’s first Father’s Day. I cooked some yummy barbecued baby back ribs in the slow cooker, and Mio and I presented Dan with this handsome blazer from Gap. Doesn’t he look sharp? 🙂
An Afternoon at Lake Chabot
Last Sunday, we spent the afternoon strolling around Lake Chabot with Dan’s parents. It was a beautiful, sunny day and we enjoyed some quality time with the family and got some exercise while walking for about four miles around the lake. (I couldn’t handle the full seven mile trek around the lake, even in flats….)
Now that it’s summer, we’re looking forward to getting out more and enjoying the outdoors with our little Mio!