Mia Turns Two

Today is 2 years since the best day of my entire life-- Mia's birthday!!! It has gone by SO fast- I am in shock. It's crazy to think 2 years ago right now I was laying in the hospital and waiting for the Doc to arrive so I could begin pushing. I started pushing at 11:10pm and she arrived at 11:35pm. Mark and I didn't get to sleep until 4:30am that night, we were so overjoyed.

Tonight we had some Dora cake that I spent almost all day making (my first time obviously). We are having her birthday party (pool party) with her best friend Sydney Taylor on July 12th, so that hopefully Mark will be home and so that we can take advantage of our last time we will be able to do a duo birthday party. They both love Dora, so that will be our theme. I am attaching some pics that we took today that we are going to use for the invitations. Tomorrow is her last day of swimming lessons and then we are going to spend the day with Sumer, Hannah, & Sydney going thrift shopping, to ToysRUs, and starting to pick some things for the party.

Swim Lessons

Mia started her swimming lessons this week. She is taking 30 minute sessions for 5 days one on one with instructor Nancy. The first day she was happy for the 1st 15 minutes which soon turned to crying when Nancy started putting her under water. Tuesday's lesson started out a little rocky, she cried when she saw Nancy but by the end of the lesson she was all smiles. Today's lesson went great- she walked right over to Nancy and was ready to swim, she didn't cry at all, and even grooved to the music in the pool. She swam to the second step (a deeper step) to get a rock! She is doing really great- hopefully tomorrow will be as good or even better than today!

Mia 23 months

Mia is really getting big and her vocabulary is even bigger. She is such a nut! She loves animals and is a huge Diego fan at the moment. Today she asked me to rescue a blue humpback whale that was stuck in a net, in other words one of her bath toys is in the toy bag in the tub. Haha!