Way overdue post

Yes, we are months behind. I'm currently converting the holiday card picture in to a belated Happy New Year's card at this point. I'll post some highlight pictures from the holidays in the next couple of weeks, but in the mean time, here's a picture request from Joe today. If all the schooling doesn't pan out in to a fabulous job, Mia's got a headstart in the construction field.

This is an old school Tonka dumptruck that Gigi Lee hunted down for her recently. She has been enjoying pushing it around, loading balls in to it, and figured out the other day how to crawl in it. She's only got a 50% success rate of getting out of it by herself, heh.

On the update side- Mia's four top teeth came in the first 5 weeks of this year, so January was all sorts of fun and excitement. That's a total of 6 now. She's gotten very good at pulling herself up, has stood up by herself a few time this week for 5-10 seconds, and is very adept at walking with her Stride & Ride Lion that Aunt Sue and Uncle Larry gave her, though she has to be the weird one and pushes it from the side against the way it's supposed to go instead of the back. She has been eating a wide variety of tablefood and really loves chicken, cheese and fresh mango chunks. She still loves swimming and bathtime. Traveling in the car has improved, she and I even drove down to Naples by ourselves a couple of weeks ago with maybe a total of 10 minutes complaining each way!