Mia Memories

The days often go by and Papa and I forget the cute little things Mia has done or said. This blog is basically our only record of Mia's milestones and funny moments as my baby journal is empty except for a few early entries. So here are some of Mia's recent activities for the memory book.

1. Mia grasps the use of the imperative. After months of listening to us order her around, Mia has picked up commands and has no qualms using her newfound communication skill. She says, Mama zuo (sit), Papa read Moon (for Goodnight Moon), Mama cookie pease!, and so on. Even Kona has not escaped Mia's orders. She loves to say, "Go go, come!"
2. Mia loves cars. She enjoys riding on toy cars, especially the Mini Putt Putt cars at Happy Hollow Zoo and the Little Tikes cars at school. She even likes to pretend to turn the key and says, "Beep beep." At Target she picked out a Cars (Pixar) coloring book over a Princess one. That's my girl! Good for her!
3. After months of playing with safety clasps on high chairs and such, she can finally put the clasps together. She's still working on taking them apart, thank God! One day I fear she'll be out of her car seat while I'm driving.
4. Our girl definitely has a sense of humor. She finds the oddest things funny and has started saying funny at appropriate moments except her funny sounds like "money". Mia will put a marker cap on her finger and say, "Munny!"
5. Thanks to Norah Jones and Elmo, the first letter Mia learned is the letter, "Y" which she is always asking us to write on her Magna doodle or when we are drawing/coloring. The only other letter she knows is "O" because I figured it was an easy one to recognize and because she eats bagels which I call, "O bao bao" or O bread in English.
6. Mia's favorite books are Goodnight Moon, Olivia's Opposites, Go Dog Go, and Biscuit. She can't get enough of those books.
7. Mia is super stubborn and will not let things go. We went to Johnny Rockets and they were out of balloons, but she kept asking for a balloon because she got one the previous time and we happened to have the same waitress, so she kept the after the waitress for a balloon. It was cute because she was saying, "pease", but I was a bit embarrassed.
8. Lastly, it's not all good. Mia bit her first kid last week. He took some toy from her and she bit him. Later during the same playdate, she twisted his ear when he took something else from her. She's not one to be bullied, but I was mortified. Needless to say, she received two time-outs for her inappropriate behavior. The boy's mom is totally laid back and cool about it all. Toddlers are like cave men no?

Our girl will be 18 months old soon. I can't believe she's grown up so much. She's really not a baby anymore. Sniff sniff.