An oldie but goodie… a video of Mio “dancing” — or flailing her arms and bobbing her head — to LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem with her Auntie Miwa and Uncle Ted, during Christmastime when we were visiting Virginia. (You can hear my mom’s worried shrieks in the background…)
Mio has actually loved Party Rock Anthem since her Auntie Miwa kept playing it for her when she was 3 months old when we visited in June. When she hears the song, she’ll stop what she’s doing and start bobbing her head to it and clapping!
Mio is looking less and less like a baby and more like a little girl these days. I’ve recently been wondering, “When does a baby become a toddler?”, and it seems like the general consensus among parents is that it’s either when the baby turns one or when they start walking, whichever comes sooner. Since she started taking her first steps a couple weeks ago, Mio has gotten better and better at walking and is now toddling everywhere — she is definitely walking more than she is crawling lately! So at 10 months old, it seems that our little Mio has already graduated to toddlerhood.
Here’s Mio this past week, at 45 weeks old.
Step by step...
Walking walking walking...
Taking a break.
Lately, when I turn on a children’s show (typically a Japanese sing-along) for Mio to watch, she’ll walk right up to the TV stand to get a closer look.
I wonder when she’ll realize that despite the fact that she’s right up against the television stand, she’s actually making it harder for herself to see from that angle… 😛
She love love loves exploring the bathroom! It’s the last frontier because I usually make sure to keep the door closed, but on the rare occasion that I forget, she’ll immediately make her way in to explore this as-yet relatively unknown territory.
She typically crashes around 5pm for an evening nap, after walking all over the house and causing mischief.
But then, by the time Daddy comes home, she’s up and about again and won’t go to sleep again until around 11pm or sometimes even midnight! 🙁
We think she resembles Piglet (from Winnie the Pooh) in this sleeper. Undoubtedly thanks to the pink stripes! Mama's nickname as a baby was "Piglet," too!
Mio is not even a year yet and she’s already become able to do so much! The journey of parenthood has been quite amazing, and we can’t wait to see what other adventures Mio will take us on…. 🙂
Here’s a video Dan took while watching Mio as I was writing up some emails and watching TV — she walked from the living room over to the hallway to him. (Please excuse the mess… we blame Hurricane Mio, who leaves everything in her path in disarray. Plus that I was folding our laundry.)
Today was Mio’s 10-month doctor’s visit — it was a regular checkup, with no vaccinations. As usual, her pediatrician was very impressed with how healthy and physically advanced Mio was in her development. Here are her latest stats!
We were surprised to see that Mio weighed 20 lbs 10 oz, because it’s slightly less than how much she weighed when we took her into the doctor when she was sick a few weeks ago. She’s in the 64th growth percentile based on weight-for-age, continuing to be very healthy!
Mio measured 28.5 inches long, in the 59th growth percentile based on length-for-age.
Her head circumference was 17.99 inches (45.7 cm) around, which is in the 82nd growth percentile based on head circumference-for-age.
Another memorable thing that happened today was that Mio signed her first word — “milk”! We’ve been teaching her baby sign language with a few basic ASL words, as we had heard from other parents that it becomes an effective tool for pre-verbal infants to communicate with gestures when they are ready to communicate but unable to verbally speak words yet. We’d been introducing her to a few signing words for a couple months (such as “more,” “milk,” “Mama,” “Dada,” “yummy,” and “bath”), and today was the first day she signed a word to us! She has been signing it a lot today, and I managed to capture it on video this afternoon:
Some more fun photos from today… Mio is getting better at walking every day, and is now waddling everywhere!
"I'm a superstar!" Walking everywere at only 10 months old.
