It's great to be a Florida Gator

Ok, so it's been a while...Here's a pic to hold you over until i get my picture drive back from Evan- Miss Mia got in the spirit for the SEC Championships

We also have pictures up from the Halloween party at :

http://mannhalloween2008.shutterfly.com/

She walks in beauty like the night

ok, evan will probably shoot me for putting up the direct link to this but....I don't care! Mia's getting good at this walking thing and she's so cute!

http://www.slipoftime.com/video/amelia/amelia.html

pictures from her birthday party and Bill's wedding will be posted soon

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!

It's a good thing she can't read scores yet

Two Bits! Four Bits! Six Bits! A Dollar!
All for the Gators, stand up and holler!

Happy Halloween from the Ladybugs

Mia says: Happy Halloween!

Georgie says:

*grumble* Stupid Halloween *grumble*

Podbaby

So much for vaccinations going smoothly. While Mia did a great job receiving them, this time around she had a mess of a time afterwards. Starting Friday evening, our sweet, pleasant baby was replaced by a miserable Podbaby. Between the regular soreness from the vaccines, the fever from the flu shot, and the impeding arrival of a second tooth on Monday, our weekend was spent with a poor child who didn't want to eat, nap, play or do anything but be carried around- note that I said carried around, not held. The moment one of us tried to actually sit down to rock her, or nurse her or just hold her, screaming commenced before the butt hit the seat. She cried herself to sleep most of the weekend. On Monday she started to feel better, and by Tuesday the evil PodBaby imposter was completely gone and our daughter was back.

Today's picture-the future dancer in training

6 months

Mia had her sixth month checkup today. She did exceptionally well, only cried during the shots and for about a minute afterwards. As you can see in the picture above, she sat up all by herself while Miss Linda weighed her. The official stats are:

Weight: 16.1 lbs-65th percentile

Height: 27 3/8 inches- 93rd percentile! she shot up



She meets all of the current developmental skills milestones, and is almost true crawling. She figured out last week to get up on her knees, she just needs to master actually moving her hands at the same time to avoid scooting backwards. Still just one lone tooth, but I'm in no rush for her to have more. She seems to have inherited our seasonal allergies, no shock there, and we're still fighting to keep the eczema in check. With diligent maintenance it's not been too bad since the johnson's lavendar incident. Unfortunately for Georgie, Mia is infatuated with her, while Georgie does not share that sentiment yet. The other day, Mia had wriggled & rolled from one side of the living room to over where Georgie's bed is, and had thrown her arm over the bed to try and touch her. Georgie just looked at me with pitiful eyes and growled in her direction.


The official sixth month picture:









Compared to her 1 week picture:







She's getting so big!

John Deer Cutie

I found a special outfit for Mia just for Grammie Lois- Look at the Grandma's 'lil John Deer Princess. Isn't the internet wonderful? You can find just about any weird thing you'd like.

Mia's official 5 month picture- sitting up almost completely by herself!

On the Good News/Bad News front- Mia's first tooth has appeared. Or more accurately the corner of her tooth has poked out. Good for her, bad for me. I've starting calling her fang when she's nursing- ouch! Overall, she's handling it fairly well, only required some tylenol last night.

Food

Ok, so at this rate, there will never be a post if i have to start back from the beginning. So we shall just pick up from today and maybe one day we'll get a Amelia Jean Mann:The First Few Months post.

Little Miss Mia is 5 1/2 months. While I'm not certain what she weighs right now, at her 4 month checkup (actually 4 months & 1 week) her official measurements were 14 lbs & 11 ounces, and 25 inches long. She is still in the 75% for both, though so was I at that age and i still stopped at 5'3".

Mia spends the time that I'm at work over at a friend's house with a nanny, Jennifer. Jennifer watches Mia along with Taryn (http://www.joened.net/) who is just about a month older, and Jennifer's 3 yr old son Anthony. She gets to have nice walks, play in a pool, and do lots of arts & crafts projects

A couple of weeks ago we began the exciting journey of "solid" foods. So far the survey is:

Good- applesauce, butternut squash & carrots

Ambivilant-pears, prunes & bananas

We still have jarred peas to try, and i'm picking up some fresh fruits & veggies this weekend to make some homemade food and get more variety. I've been inspired (and made jealous) by the fresh pluots "sauce" that Taryn's mom made, amongst other stuff.

Mia is still sleeping well at nights, rolling around like fiend, and working on sitting up unassisted. The majority of the time, she is a very happy, content baby. She also loves water in all it's forms, especially bathtime & swimming.

13 years from now, she's going to kill me for posting this on the web, heheheh

*On a more serious note, some very good friends are going through stressful time of trying to get their daughter's mysterious spasms diagnosed, so if you could send them any prayers or good vibes for the MRI they have to do next week, they'd greatly appreciate it. You can see the beautiful Natalie over at http://scamehorn.blogspot.com/

Catching up

Amelia is almost 3 months. That's a lot of catchup posts I need to get up. I'll attempt to get it all done by the end of the week. In the meantime- many, many pictures can be found at http://gallery.slipoftime.com/amelia