Dia de Mia Vol. 2 No. 10: The Wild Rice Incident

As a descendant of Minnesotans, Mia knew that one day she would have to make wild rice a staple in her diet. This week, unlike at Christmas, she showed genuine interest in the dark, crunchy, chewy, tasty goodness. She was shoveling the stuff in her mouth (with hand) at an almost alarming rate. It's what happened next though, that forced us to get the camera out. Mia has never been to a wedding (her first will be this July in Mexico) or any other such event, but when the rice eating was just about done and it was time to celebrate, she discovered with much glee just how fun that stuff is to throw. Results can be seen in the photos above.

The week overall was a quiet one, but we had lots of fun outside in the great weather we've been having. We picked weeds (Mia mostly picks grass and flowers and pretty plants), played in the dirt, watched the dogs chase deer, and spotted birds and rabbits and squirrels. We were all pretty exited to see a garter snake, a toad and a slug up close. She picked up and then showed a healthy respect for and fear of her first caterpillar (she handed it to Daddy pretty quickly ad then backed away). We even had a couple of "picnics" on the front lawn. We were supposed to witness our first regular season Nationals game this week, but Daddy got the day wrong and we missed it: IAOHF'Dhvsiq 'pnpi 'r phi08- 23-044-8h4- nnt4ct4n0t4n (pounding my head against the keyboard).

We did manage to make it to Mommy's school May Fair. We only went for 1/2 hour but Mia got so much attention and enjoyed every minute of it!

Mia has a pretty healthy run (more like a jog I guess) down now, and she will climb just about anything she can find (luckily nothing too vertical yet). She's starting to mimic just about anything we say, but most of the time things just come out "dada", or "didi". But after some work and repetition she can sometimes get pretty close. For example:

While changing Mia's diaper --

(Mia correctly retrieves a diaper from the bin when asked if she needs a new diaper. Then we try to get her to actually say "diaper")

"Mia, diaper,'

"didi"

"close, dy-Per"

"didi"

"almost, DY-Per"

"dadee"

(..... a couple of minutes later)

"almost got it, Dy-Per"

"dipah"

"Yes! Diaper!"

"didi"

"....ok, didi it is"

And the sentences and paragraphs that are spouting from her little baby lips are even funnier... and cuter.

To see all the rest of the pictures we took this week, click here.