We’re kicking off November with our very own little turkey! Thank you Jamie for the adorable onesie — Mio is now officially a Hokie, too! (Yes, the brainwashing begins early.) Let’s Go, Hokies!
The cutest part of this Hokie Bird onesie? The fanned tailfeathers on the butt!
Perfect for those round little baby bottoms!
Complete with Virginia Tech socks (also from Jamie!)…
Before we know it, Mio will be dancing around doing the Hokie Pokie in Lane Stadium with the best of ’em…
Little Miss Mio is seven months old today. In just one month, she’s become able to do so much! We can’t help but beam with pride as we look at how much our sweet princess has grown — and she just gets more and more adorable with each passing day.
(I’ll be taking photos of Mio sitting in my white desk chair and wearing her monthly onesie every month until she’s one year old.)
Previous Photos:
One Month Old • Two Months Old • Three Months Old • Four Months Old • Five Months Old • Six Months Old
Stats: You weigh almost 20lbs now, and measure about 27 inches long. Who needs the gym when we have you to carry around every day? Our arms are getting quite the workout from picking you up all the time! You’re now wearing 12-month size clothing, and are showing no signs of slowing down in your growth. As the pediatrician said, you’re just the picture of health!
Things You’re Doing Now: A few weeks ago, you started being able to sit up on your own, and around the same time you started army crawling. You’re becoming better and faster at crawling and you get around everywhere nowadays! We really have to keep our eyes on you to make sure you’re not getting into trouble or hurting yourself. Because you’ve become able to sit up in your crib, we’ve lowered the crib a notch. As for your feedings, you’ve been taking to solids very well and so far have tried rice cereal, carrots, rice porridge, potatoes, zucchini, sweet potatoes, avocado, broccoli, and green beans. You definitely like the sweeter veggies like sweet potatoes and carrots more, and have shown a distaste for avocado and zucchini. Starting this week, you’ve started eating solids twice a day and seem to have no problem with the extra meal. Just in the past couple days, you’ve really started babbling more, and have been saying “Dadadadada” — it’s no longer a mystery what your first word will most likely be! (How about practicing some “Mamamamama” too, considering I’m the one who carried you for nine long months and endured 35 hours of intense labor for you, hmm…? 😉 ) Your babbling voice is soft and sweet, it tickles me every time I hear it! You are more expressive than ever and your smiles are so enthusiastic and wide that they take over your face… I love it! You’ve also started interacting with other babies on play dates… you actually touch them and really watch what they’re doing, instead of just engaging in parallel play. I can’t even imagine all the ways your brain is developing and picking up things, but it’s been a wonder to watch your physical and cognitive development, and I can’t wait to see more of it! I don’t want to miss a single moment of this journey with you.
Happy Halloween! This year marks our first Halloween together as a family of three! Halloween is one of my favorite festivities of the year, and I love thinking of creative costumes every time. I especially like costumes that go together in some sort of a theme and last Halloween, I was just at the beginning of my second trimester so I was pregnant Quinn and Dan was Finn from the TV show Glee. This year, Dan was Mario from Super Mario Brothers, I was Princess Peach, and Mio was… ::drumroll please:: Toad (the toadstool mushroom)! Dan and I had actually thought of the idea of being Mario and Peach for Halloween and had prepared our costumes two years ago, but I got deathly sick that Halloween and so we hadn’t been able to use them! But I suppose it was for the better, because our costume idea was made exponentially better with the addition of Toad Mio!
We had a busy Halloween weekend — on Saturday, Dan and his coworker friend co-hosted a baby-friendly Halloween party in the neighborhood, and on Sunday we drove into the city for an evening of Halloween bowling in the Presidio with our friends from Nakayoshi! Check out all the photos of the Halloween fun from this past weekend…
Bowling at the Presidio Bowling Center with Nakayoshi. (I believe this is the first time we’ve taken Mio into the city!)
Hope everyone has a fun Halloween! Perhaps next year Mio can go trick-or-treating!!! I’m already thinking of more family costume ideas….
A happy Mio yesterday, after a playdate with her friend Sofia. Thanks Sonya & Sofia for the hats! ♥ Yay for new friendships for both baby and mama! 🙂
…they do! Every parent tells me this, but it’s really true! Mio turned 29 weeks yesterday, and her smiles have changed. Before, they’d creep across her face and were given with a bit of reservation, oftentimes disappearing after a few seconds. In the last few days, her smiles seem to have keyed up a notch and are a lot more enthusiastic and wholehearted… I’m not sure how else to describe it except that they’re so animated that they take up her entire face! Her nose scrunches up, her eyes disappear into crescents, and her mouth opens wide to reveal her toothy grin (well, as toothy as you can get with just two bottom teeth). They are the most adorable smiles I’ve ever seen, and are truly infectious!
Some more photos and videos from yesterday…
Mio showing off her crawling skills for Daddy:
Having fun playing with her blanket and Mama:
…and I shall end with yet another photo of that smile of hers. Just can’t get enough of them! 😛
