Dan wanted to fly a kite with Mio, so we recently purchased a delta kite that is great for beginners to fly. Mio was really excited to see a kite in flight for the first time, so we flew it in the backyard on Friday evening. There wasn’t enough wind to really pick the kite up very high, but it was still a really fun experience for Mio!
Below are some videos I took of Dan and Mio’s attempts to fly the kite…
We’ll have to try again another day when we have more wind! 🙂
The Mosaic District in Merrifield was hosting a Mother’s Day party for mamas and their kids on Sunday, May 4, a week before actual Mother’s Day. You could sign up/apply to be invited, and they chose their invitees by lottery. Luckily, we scored an invitation so I decided to go with Mio while Dan took Mirei with him to go shopping and run errands.
We weren’t told a lot about the party except the location and that there’d be refreshments, Zumba, and a photobooth. I was most excited about the refreshments, least excited about the Zumba. haha* I guess I have this perception that Zumba is for older ladies in their 40s and 50s (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, and no offense to those who do it) plus the prospect of dancing in public on the lawn was pretty embarrassing to me! But I stepped out of my comfort zone so that Mio and I could enjoy the party together. And sure enough, Mio had a grand time dancing — a lot of the time, she was just doing her own dance moves, but there were definitely times when she was actually following the instructor’s moves!
Some video that I took of Mio:
Dan came to join us after finishing his errands and got to enjoy some of the free food, too!
Sunday also just happened to be the grand opening of Mosaic District’s Farmer’s Market, so we decided to check it out after the party. There were a lot of vendors with gourmet offerings!
Afterwards, we headed over to our friend’s baby shower over in Maryland. It was a very eventful and fun-filled day!
Our family spent Saturday afternoon at the Taste of Merrifield in the Mosaic District. We love going to the Mosaic District because of the Target there as well as its various shopping offerings and delicious restaurants, so when we heard there was going to be a food festival there along with activities for children, we had to go check it out! 🙂 We’re so glad we did, because we got to enjoy a lot of good food (at pretty affordable prices!) and Mio had a lot of fun at the kids’ section, too!
Dan captured some video of the pony ride!
It was a really fun day for the whole family! We’re already looking forward to going again next year. 🙂
I’d been a little forgetful/lazy about having Mirei do tummy time compared to when Mio was a baby, but her neck has been pretty strong and stable even since birth! On Friday, I laid her on the floor with the intention of having her do some tummy time, and she surprised us by rolling over for the first time! She was on her back at first, then pretty quickly twisted her body so that she was on her side… and she stayed like that for 10-15 minutes — grunting, twisting, and kicking — until she eventually pushed herself over from her side to her tummy! I was taking a video of her just in case, but I was kind of stunned that she actually did it when she hadn’t really shown signs of trying to roll over until that day. It’s also really interesting that the age at which Mirei rolled over (3 months and 1 week, or 97 days old) is almost exactly the same as when Mio rolled over! (Mio rolled over at just over 3 months as well, at 102 days old)… as if to say, “Gotta keep up with big sister!” Well, Mirei, you successfully broke Mio’s record by a few days!
Here’s the video of the last few minutes of her trying to roll over and succeeding!
We’re so proud of you, sweetheart! ♥
I feel like compared to my experiences with Mio, the second time around, my baby’s growth seems so much faster. It can probably be attributed to the fact that I’m taking care of two kids at once and therefore am a lot busier and can’t really fully immerse myself in enjoying Mirei’s baby days. Milestones creep up faster, and while with Mio I would (sometimes impatiently) wait and look forward to them, with Mirei they sneak themselves in before I know it and I find myself thinking, “Wait, she’s already able to do that?” The pace at which Mirei is reaching milestones has thusfar been pretty similar to Mio, but it just feels so much faster! It’s of course a joy to see her growing well and able to do more, but it’s bittersweet because I feel like she’s growing up too fast and I haven’t been able to take pause and enjoy her babyhood as much as I did with my first child. It’s yet another reminder to really appreciate and savor every day I have with my little girls.
Mirei went to her latest wellness exam on April 24, the day before she turned 3 months old. I wanted to get her in for an exam at closer to 2 months, but because we had gone in to check on a cough at around a month old (which turned out to be nothing to worry about) and I wanted to get Mio and Mirei both scheduled at the same time, the appointment getting booked a lot further down… so it became more like a 3 month old wellness exam. Oh well! The pediatrician said it’s fine, and that we should come in at around 5 months next time instead of the usual 4 months — they seem pretty relaxed about the timing and assured me that the scheduling doesn’t have to be too strict!
The following are Mirei’s latest growth measurements.
Mirei weighed in at 15 lbs 8 oz, which puts her in the 93rd growth percentile based on weight-for-age.
She measured 24.5 inches long, putting her in the 88th percentile for height-for-age.
Mirei’s head size was 16.75 inches, which is in the 99th growth percentile based on head circumference-for-age.
As you can see, she’s really bulked up since the last time we saw the pediatrician, doubling her birth weight. Again, the doctor said she’s “perfect†in her continuing growth, though we never had any doubts that she was healthy! I thought Mio had been a really chubby baby, but Mirei seems to be even a little heavier/chunkier than Mio was at this age.
The tough part about these early doctor’s visits is that they are usually accompanied by immunization shots, and this checkup was no exception. Mirei got four vaccines, one of which was orally given while the other three were administered as shots injected into her thighs. It’s always hard to watch your child crying in pain from the shots, but it’s all for the sake of keeping them healthy and protected. Here’s a video my sister took of Mirei getting her immunizations. (Sidenote: I noticed while watching the video back that one of Mirei’s bandaids had transferred to a really unfortunate location on my shirt! lol. I’m kind of horrified that I had spent the rest of the day unknowingly walking around with that in public…)
Poor baby is tired and teary-eyed from all the crying…
To make up for that sad video, here’s some cute footage of her smiling a few days later!
So thankful that our baby girl is so healthy!
