Merry Christmas!

Mya had a wonderful Christmas! She turned 6 months old on Christmas Eve. She enjoyed partaking in the family festivities at Bill's house. It was nice to catch up with the family and she enjoyed playing with her cousin Sophie. On Christmas day, she opened her gifts late afternoon as Bobby had worked the night before and was still sleeping in the morning. Santa brought Mya a Mickey Mouse Doll, Laugh & Learn toys, wearable blankets, books, clothes, pjs, and a Leap Frog toy named Violet. For dinner, we had prime rib, sweet potatoes, cole slaw and green beans for dinner. It was delicious! Joe & Katie prepared a wonderful meal.

In the last month, Mya has started eating solids again. She has had rice and oatmeal cereal. We are going to try wheat and barley cereal and then progress into fruits and veggies. She has started to sit up by herself for longer periods of time. Her attention span has grown and she enjoys watching the Mickey Mouse Club, playing with other children and laughing. Once we start laughing, she quickly joins in. She loves bouncing in her bouncer and walking in her walker. She is definetly defining her personatily, as she will let you know when she is not happy and wants something else. She is also quite the Daddy's girl :)

Just this weekend she has started holding a sippy cup and she will be taking a bath in the big tub instead of the whale tub. She started splashing and kicking all of the water out of the tub in the sink. We also started cleaning out her closet as she is takine 7 oz of formula at a time in addition to the cereal. She is growing by leaps and bounds.

5 months & Thanksgiving

Mya has turned 5 months old and has since tried rice cereal. She doesn't really love it and doesn't know what to do with the spoon, but it will take practice. We thought she had an allergic reaction to the rice, but it was a viral rash. Mya had contracted RSV a respiratory virus and we had our first trip to the Pediatric Urgent Care. She started wheezing and it scared me, so I was happy I took her in. Thankfully my mom went with me. Bobby was working. Dr. White tested her for RSV and it was positive and treated her with a steroid to open up her airways. She seems to be responding well. My entire family has been under the weather. I had a 24 hr stomach bug, Bobby had Mya's virus and now I think I'm battling her virus. I'm taking lots of sudafed and hoping to feel better soon. Because the entire family was sick, we did not have our usually Thanksgiving festivities. Usually we run the Annual Turkey Trot and go over to Bill's for dinner. This year, my mom came over and together we cooked a Thanksgiving Dinner. It was nice and intimate. I good fit for Mya's first Thanksgiving.
Other mile stones Mya has had this month was riding in her stroller without the car seat and she's been laughing much more. She's also been making noises and sounds, so she's finding her voice. She loves to watch the Mickey Mouse Club and jump in her jumper. She is learning how to sit up by herself and we are working with her on rolling all the way over. She weighs 14 lbs 13 oz.

4 Months old & first Halloween!

Mya is growing like a weed. We just had her 4 month check up and she is now weighing 13 lb. 9 oz (she's in the 50% percentile) and is 25 1/2" long (90% percentile for height). She is long and skinny :) This month she had her first Sears Photo shoot and celebrated her first Halloween. Mya was Tinkerbell and she enjoyed watching me hand out candy. She also visited our neighbors, Ernie & Edna who gave her a book and some cute chew rings and rattles since she is too young for candy. Mya also attended her Aunt Sarah & Uncle John's first Halloween party. Her cousins dressed up as Mario and Luigi. She visited the rotary club on Friday, Oct. 29th and enjoyed spending time with the girls. Mya is very social and enjoys looking at everything. As for TV...surprising enough, she likes to watch it and specifically the Mickey Mouse Club. She loves looking at things and is finding Belle and the cats more amusing.

North Carolina Photos

3 1/2 months old

Mya has been a very busy beaver this past month. She has already attended several events. On Sept 25th she attended her cousin Sophie's 2 yr B-day. She enjoyed watching Sophie play with her new red wagon, climbing playground and Dora the Explorer books & trike. On Sunday Sept. 26th she attended her cousin Logan's 6 Yr B-day at Jungle Bounce. She enjoyed watching the kids play on all of the huge blow up houses and slides. She enjoyed the music and met Rosal, Rachel & Ben for the first time.

At the beginning of October Mya caught her first cold, but the ped said she was fine. She went on her first long road trip up to Peoria, Illinois to visit family and attend her Grandma Lori's & Grandpa Troy's wedding. It was a 20 hour drive up to IL and Mya did very well. She slept most of the way, but once we hit IL border she was over it. It was the last longest 6 hours of all of our lives. Mya was very unhappy. She had a lot of firsts on this trip. She rolled over for the first time from back to belly. She went down a slide and swung on swings with her daddy. Her daddy wore her in the Snugi while he did these activities. She went to her first Apple Orchard at Tanners and got to see lots of Billy Goats. She attended the wedding ceremony, but was miserable afterwards, so we did not make the reception. She did have the opportunity to meet alot of her family including Great Grandma Ellen, Cousins Jack & Allyson, Uncle Shane and many more.

On Oct. 11th we left for Salisbury NC which was a 13 hour trip and Mya did extremely well. She slept the entire time. She met Grandpa Mac & Grandma Sandy. She also met Aunt Chrissy and Uncle Matt. She went to her first winery and took a little nap. She stayed in her first hotel room and laughed for the first time when her daddy tickled her. We arrived home on Friday Oct. 15th -a 10 hour leg of the trip. It was a great experience and we are happy Mya got to meet lots of her family.

2 Month Shots@ 12 Weeks old

Mya had her first set of shots yesterday. Katie's friend Amanda at Pediatric Specialists was the one to administer it. She got two shots in her legs and an oral vaccine. I cried more than she did. She broke my heart because she let out a "What the heck are you doing? That f*** hurts!" kind of cry. Once she was done, Bobby took her up in his arms and rocked her. We gave her a bottle immediately and she already forgot what happened to her. That night we gave her a soothing bath and massaged her legs. I took off the band aids in the water and was surprised to see so much blood on them. Usually when adults get shots we rarely bleed, but I guess a baby has less skin, so the needle is probably huge (I wouldn't know, I couldn't watch the shot being given...I know I'm a chicken ). She slept 11 1/2 hours last night and 10 hours the night before (straight...in a row!) She has been sleeping alot, so I imagine she is going through a growth spurt and may be tired from the shots too. Mya now weighs 11 lb 6 oz and is 24" long. She is in the 90th percentile for her height and the 75th for her weight. She turned 12 weeks old on Thursday and next Friday she will be 3 months old! She is already growing out of several 0-3 month PJ's and outfits, specifically because of her length!

Big Week!

Mya had a really huge week! She is now 11 weeks old, but this week she went to a restaurant for the very first time for lunch. She slept over her Aunt Sarah's on Wednesday Sept 8th while Bobby & I attended the Pasco Economic Development Council's Award Banquet. We are excited to report that Progressive Air Systems won the Service & Distribution category! We had some tough competition and we are very proud of this award. Mya did wonderful at Aunt Sarah's, she slept 10 1/2 hours...so it was her first time sleeping thru the night. Bobby and I were going to stay at Saddlebrook, but we decided to come home early. We passed by Sarah's around 12:30am and the light was on. I went to sleep about 1am, but I was so nervous the entire time. I was in fear that Mya was screaming her head off and Sarah was just cursing our names and vowing to never watch her again.
The next night, was Bobby's 33rd B-day and we went out to lunch at Olive Garden with Grandpa Joe and Mya was wonderful in the restaurant. She didn't fuss at all. She slept in her cradle next to my bed and only slept 7 hours and woke up for a feeding, which was pretty typical.
Last night, Mya slept in her own room in her crib for the first time over night. She slept all the way through from 8:30pm-7am, so about 10 1/2 hours! We went out to Chilis with Katie, Travis, Joe, Jason & Mateo. She was so good! We were there from 6pm-8pm. Her bedtime routine usually starts at 7pm. We gave Mya a bath, fed her and put her to sleep in her own room. It went very well. I woke up at 4:30am and 6:30 am to check on her and she was so still. I had to listen very carefully to hear her tiny breaths. Since it went well, we transferred everything of hers out of our bedroom and she is now completely moved into her room. Hopefully she will sleep through the night tonight as well. She had a really good day with a 1 hr nap, a 3hr nap & a 30 min nap. Hopefully, this will set the tone for the next few weeks. She is currently taking about 3-5oz of Formula. I have started making a couple of 5 oz bottles for when we think she has gone a long while and will take it. Next week Mya will be getting her 1st set of vaccines...so we are very nervous. Hopefully it won't be a big deal to her and she will just sleep it off. I will keep you posted.