To a New Year

Jeff and I took time over New Year's and went to Cancun, Mexico and wait for it - just the two of us!  It was fantastic.  I have to say that four days all alone with my husband was fantastic and everyone should do it.  It really makes you remember all the reasons you love them! 

Some key takeaways from Mexico:

• The ocean is beautiful, for some reason I was expecting some level of pollution if not in the ocean than in the intercoastal waterway.  It was all crystal clear and beautiful.
• Gulf seafood is awesome.
• Mexicans are amazingly friendly (both tourists and people in the service industry) and much more industrious than 99% of Americans.

This may be controversial, but I think we should evict Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama from the union and bring in Mexico!  They seriously have more in common with a Wall Street Financial Analyst than someone from Jackson, Mississippi.  They work so hard and never seem to rest or go slow.  We would be strolling along and all of the Mexicans who were heading to work or already at work would be zipping around us.

Here are scenes from our balcony.

Good Times Turned Bad

Who wouldn't be mad?  She was trapped in the bathroom, so after the entertainment of unrolling the toilet paper was over and shutting the door, she was ready to come out.  I heard muffled cries and some banging, ignored it for awhile and then decided to check it out. 

This is her mad face.



Mia Turns Five

Toothy Grin

They are in!  Officially they popped through right as she turned seven months.  But you couldn't really see them until now.   They aren't all the way in, but we are sleeping much better!  Small steps. 

She is also starting to get up on all fours and rock.  I don't see that she will be crawling anytime soon and she has no interest in pulling up yet.  But she is a scooter.  And wow she talks a lot.  She babbles and complains, a lot.  She kind of just says 'uh' really loud, long and drawn out.  All the time.  I am a bit worried.  Jac is our silent child, Mia talks what I consider a lot, but this one - she could have some serious need for conversation. 

And yes, she is saying 'ma' and 'da'.  I am not sure which one came first, to be honest I think 'da' did.  She uses them both interchangeably as her distress call.  When she needs something she will use them, when she is upset, scared, poopy, needs picked up.  So I wouldn't necessarily say she is talking yet.  But she is starting to communicate.  Now we are working on what exactly 'ma' and 'da' mean, so soon she will understand. 

She is an eater!  She still doesn't gobble it up like Jac and Mia did.  But she loves food.  She really wants to eat what we are eating, which is so much easier than baby food.  She loves eggs, toast, cheese, fruit, veggies (especially peas) and yogurt.  We haven't started giving her meat yet.