Everyone that meets her instantly loves her. She is such a happy, smiley baby! You look over at her and she will give you the biggest grin. She also does a lot of giggling and jabbering and has recently started randomly doing a little dance thing kind of like The Twist, but sitting.
I've had quite a few strangers see her out in public and comment on how chill and quiet she is. I always laugh and say "Chill, yes. Quiet, no." But in their defense, she does tend to be much more reserved in new places and with new people. But she's loud enough the rest of the time that I still wouldn't call her a quiet baby. We call her our little gremlin because of the way she sounds and moves a lot of the time. She doesn't laugh so much as cackle and never really made cooing sounds. She went straight to kind of guttural noises and now does a lot of jabbering and happy yells.
True to form, on her birthday yesterday someone asked if she's six months old. Double that! She's just REAL short. She is finally starting to wear more 6-9 month clothes instead of 3-6 though!
Mila loves raspberries, red bell peppers, water (drinking and playing in it), being tickled under her chin, playing tug-of-war with the wash cloth when I wipe her off after meals, sitting with one foot up, me picking her up and shaking her off when I pull her out of the high chair, clapping, smushing anything flat that she finds into her face (phones, books, Magna-tiles, and she even tried to do it with the dustpan (I caught it before it happened) or lifting things over and behind her head, treating everything possible like a cup for her to drink out of, chasing her brother around the house, and climbing all of the things.
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| I made her a raspberry cake since she loves them so much! She started by picking all of the raspberries off of the top and eating them before trying any of the rest of the cake. |
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| I call this her Picasso picture |
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| Trying to drink out of the cupholder of Liam's carseat |
She also loves her mama. She is MUCH more attached to me than Liam was. He went through phases of wanting to be glued to me, but she has pretty consistently wanted me and only me when she is upset. Poor Jonathan has had to pass her off to me and watch her immediately start calming down after he has tried to soothe her for quite a while. She tends to follow me around the house with he noisy slap crawl. She'll also often crawl up to me, pull herself up using my shirt, and then lean on my shoulder and suck her thumb when she's starting to get tired. She's not super snuggly though. Lately when I've tried to snuggle her before putting her down to sleep, she's just started reaching for the crib. Which is especially odd since Liam hated the crib and had to be snuggled into submission every single time.
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| I'm not used to seeing pictures of myself, but Liam has started wanting to take pictures all the time. I thought that this one was pretty good! |
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| On the tram at Dollywood! |
Mila has gotten much better at using soft hands on the cat and enjoys him rubbing on her.
She still hasn't really gotten waving and signing "more" and "all done" yet. She was doing great at "all done" the couple of days we were visiting my parents this week, but hasn't really done it again since we got back. She definitely knows the motions for both signs (I see her sign "more" out of context all the time), but simply doesn't use them. And while she has occasionally sort of looked like she might be waving at someone, it hasn't been very consistent. She does however often just raise one hand like she's hailing someone and instead of signing "all done" when I ask if she's done, she'll sometimes start handing me food off of her high chair tray instead. Or she'll just start swiping or dropping food off of the tray.
Seriously though, seeing her raise a hand to someone and loudly jabber at them is my favorite, it crack me up every time!
Mila discovered this past month that she really loves playing in water. She is convinced that she can swim (spoiler- she cannot), and loves splashing and trying to chase down toys in the pool. She generally showers with Liam, but likes to crawl in and out and in and out of the shower (we only have a standing shower at the moment but I can't wait to have a bathtub for her!).
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| Grandma Laulusa very kindly got this floatie for Mila so that I don't have to always be sitting in the kiddie pool holding Mila and making sure that she doesn't "swim" herself into danger |
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| Loving one of the splash pads at Dollywood! |
Where she used to have to have her head covered with a blanket in order to fall asleep, now she almost immediately throws blankets off when she's in the crib. She does snuggle blankets though and likes to have something hooked in her thumb before she sticks her thumb in her mouth. This is usually a bit of blanket or my shirt, but she has also done it with a piece of peanut butter toast, a piece of waffle, and she often tries to scoop her own onesie up (with little success generally).
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| Comfort waffle |
The rest of these pictures are mostly random ones from the last month:
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| Mila finally met the last of my siblings! |
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| At Kipona |
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| I love this picture that Liam took of Mila. You can kind of see how her hair is just starting to curl |
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| We just got these little bow clips last week and Liam really likes them. I came out of the bathroom the other day to find that he had taken it upon himself to accessorize his sister |
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| Picnic lunch |
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| After Pinewood Derby |
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| Love that it looks like she's posing |
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| There was something so sweet about looking over and just seeing her little toes poking out |
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| This just cracked me up. That can NOT be comfortable. But she often does this when I put her down and she's not happy about it. She kind of folds herself in half so that she can cry facedown on the floor. This is the only time I've seen her fall asleep that way |
And these pictures are from her birthday and birthday celebrations (neither of which were on her actual birthday, haha)
This is from our visit to my parent's house this week. We had a Boston creme pie and the first thing she did was dump it off of her plate and put the plate up to her face, and then behind her head.
These were taken on her actual birthday:
And these are from our little celebration here at home with family and our awesome neighbors:
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| I had high hopes for this cake, but it really wasn't all that great unfortunately |
I still can't believe that we've had a whole year of Mila! Yet at the same time I can't imagine my life without her. I love this happy little gremlin girl so, so very much and am so grateful that I get to be her mom!
Happy (late) Birthday Mila!
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