Switch-A-Roo

What a day it has been. I woke up to a phone call from my mom. Ken got the phone and from the sound of the conversation I gathered that my grandmother had passed away. I was asleep when she passed away early this morning. It was strange to think about what I was doing the moment life slipped away from another.

Everyone expected granny's death to happen sooner rather than later, but it still is not easy to hear that a loved one passed away. I am glad that her suffering is over. It hasn't been easy these last few months for her or the rest of the family, especially with her bout of sepsis and having a feeding tube placed. Fortunately, we were able to see her in October when we traveled to California with Mia. Ken and I got through the security with the baby, so lao lao got to see her Mia once. I wasn't sure she recognized us, but she did comment that she had not seen us in a long time. So I think she knew who we were.

Well with the passing of a life, a new life advances. Mia reached her latest milestone today. She moved an object from one hand to another. Takes a lot of brain power for a little one to figure that one out. She seemed to have a lot of interest in her new ability. A couple of weeks ago Mia also began uttering more consonant sounds like ba ba ba and da da da. She can be really loud sometimes. Today I swore she was saying "more" while I was feeding her. I don't think she quite attaches meaning to sounds just yet, every parent thinks their kid is advanced.

These last couple of weeks marks the beginning of Mia's destructive stage. She grabs at anything in front of her. She pulled my stack of papers off a table this morning. They were strewn about out of order. At work she pulls the phone off and tries to chew on the cord. It's definitely time to baby proof. And the days of drinking a hot beverage with her in my arms are over as she tries to reach for and grab whatever I have in my hands. It is nice to see her discover the world around her.