look! an update!

enough is enough already - i'm here to catch you all up on the last month. every day there is something that i make a mental note of so that i can tell you all how funny/ridiculous/weird/sweet mia is being. and then i forget to tell you. sorry. i've been busy. and tired.

ok! moving on!

the following is a list of things that i can remember from the last month:

when you tell mia "guess what?" she will respond with "i love you". it's awesome. except when she's bored with me asking her guess what and she responds like a bored teenager.

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she will finally smile for the camera if you promise to let her take some photos, too. it usually comes out looking like this:

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daycare suggested that mia might be ready for potty training as she was having dry diapers for most every day. and going on the potty everytime the offered it to her. hooray! so we got her some cloth training pants:

after 3 washings they didn't work. she hated them. we switched to pull ups and now she's about 60/40 with the potty. she's lazy about it but i don't really care because i'm lazy, too. diapers, they are so convenient!

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mia's in a big kid bed now. she made the transition smoother than we could have imagined and hasn't looked back. this is a photo of her mat on the ground (total squatter style room that i except to see again once she hits 16) - she's in a twin bed now and after 1 night hasn't fallen to the ground. we're hoping she'll skip the falling out of bed thing.

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she sings all the time and wants us to sing with her. but if josh gets too carried away and starts dancing and really getting into things she gets disgusted and tells him "nooo, daddy!" already embarassed by the old man.

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cats are scary. she has been traumatized by a neighborhood cat who jumped up to her a little too quickly. she got scared and screamed. the cat got scared and hissed. nightmares followed for DAYS. and now she won't go near a cat. so don't ask her to. our friend conchita tried to give her an animal puppet to play with and mia freaked out because it was a cat. stupid cats.

and yet she loved BEING a cat:

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as soon as we get in the car after daycare we are "almost home" "almost at the river" and "not home yet" all at the same time. she loves driving over the "pretty river with fishies" (and sometimes a boat!) and says goodbye to it as we pass. she's a sweetie, this one.

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she's not always sweet, though. when we're boring her she begins to act out, not listen, etc. you know, the typical toddler stuff. but she does it all with such a smile on her face it's hard to be mad for long. even when she's in timeout she's a happy camper. she sits in the tiny dark hallway and giggles. stands on her head. talks to her toes. just waiting for the beep of the microwave to tell her that her 2 minutes are up. and then she's back to normal again.

next we'll move on to the not so new news and tell you all about mia's new room.