It’s no secret that I love jeggings, but I had no idea that they make them for babies, too! My dear friend Yoon (and former college roomie at the infamous 501-A!) sent Mio some adorable clothes this week — as usual, she has impeccable taste! 🙂 Check out this little fashionista!
Mio looking oh-so-hip in her first pair of jeggings!
Stylin'! Mio in the jeggings and top that were gifted to her from Auntie Yoon. (Sunglasses are borrowed from Mommy.)
"Do these jeans make my butt look big?"
Excuse both mother and daughter’s thunder thighs, but we’d like to introduce you to our very own edition of Who Wore It Better?, in which we are both wearing white tops and jeggings. Do I even stand a chance? I think not….
Mio wins!
"Aww, shucks..." says a blushing Mio.
And to top the outfit off, Yoon also sent this lovely ribbon hat. I can’t make up my mind on whether it’s more a sailor cap or a beret, but one thing is for sure — it’s totally adorable!
Bonjour, mademoiselle. Comme tu es belle!
Oh. Em. Gee. Picture perfect. ♥
Thank you so much, Yoon, for your thoughtful and generous gift of all the clothes! We can’t get over how cute they are. We hope that you can meet Mio someday soon… 🙂
Stats: You weigh about 17 lbs 9 oz now! Although you’re just turning five months old, you’ve outgrown your 6-month size clothing and are now wearing 9-month clothes. In the past couple weeks, you’ve grown your first two teeth — right in the middle of your bottom gums!
Things You’re Doing Now: You are making our heads spin with how fast you’re growing! You’re really strong these days, and you love using your leg strength to bounce up and down in your doorway jumper, as well as push against the floor in an effort to stand when we hold you up. You’re not quite ready to sit up on your own yet, and so any efforts to do so always end in a faceplant. Your pediatrician told us that you may be late in becoming able to sit up, because you’re so heavy for your age! We’re totally fine with that, and just want to watch you grow and develop at your own pace. You are constantly reaching for things, especially our food. Just the other day during dinner, you grabbed a lemon wedge on Mommy’s plate and before she could stop you, you stuck it in your mouth! (You didn’t cry, but your face definitely showed the shock at how sour your prize was!) You’re chomping down on anything you can get your hands on, and your favorite toys to chew on are Sophie the Giraffe, your Winkel, and peacock Jacques (or as your Daddy likes to call him, “Jacques, Le Peacock!” with a heavy emphasis on the French accent. :P). You sleep approximately ten hours every night, and are awake for much of the daytime, only napping for thirty minutes to an hour a couple times a day. You definitely know who we are, and your eyes always follow me around the room, especially when I’m getting ready to go to work (which makes it that much harder for me to leave you!). You love going on walks with Grandma in the stroller and with Mommy in the BabyBjorn carrier, and you always stare about in wonder at the world around you. Dearest Mio, we want to show you everything that’s beautiful in this world… although in our eyes, you top all of those things!
Last winter, I bought this adorable winged onesie in hopes that Mio could wear it the following December as our little Christmas angel. Estimating that she’d be close to nine months by then, I bought it in the 9-month size, naively unaware that babies rarely follow the month-sizing that’s on baby clothing. Mio is not even five months old now, and she barely fits in 9-month sized clothes! And so here I am, cursing myself that I should have gotten the 12-month size. The angel outfit is definitely going to be too small for her come the holiday season, but I still wanted to get some cute photos out of the outfit.
So here is our angel Mio with her cute little golden wings…
Our little photo session ended with a faceplant. ::sigh:: ….
No worries, Mio — we’ll totally be the wind beneath your wings! 😉
It finally felt like summer here in the East Bay this weekend, so we decided to get out and enjoy the nice weather with an impromptu family picnic over in Tilden Park in Berkeley. We set a blanket down on the field and ate the sandwiches and fruit we brought, and just soaked up the sun for a couple hours….
I created a makeshift canopy to shade Mio from the sun, with a blanket and some help from the wind… 😉
Hopefully the warm weather will continue for a few more weeks so we can get some more outings in… I’m not ready to say goodbye to summer yet!
Mio’s favorite song seems to be å…Žã®ãƒ€ãƒ³ã‚¹ (Usagi no Dansu, or The Dance of the Rabbit), a Japanese children’s song, which I’ve been singing to her from when she was born. Lately, she starts jumping up and down to the song in her jumper whenever I sing it or play it from a CD for her. Here’s some footage we captured of Mio hopping up and down to the music, as if she were a rabbit herself!
