Dia de Mia Vol. 2 Nos. 45 A New Year Brings New Developments and a Fiesta Bowl Win!

Mia continues to surprise us every day. This month, she has completely learned the alphabet song and is starting to recognize some letters: m, x, o, b, and a consistently. Mia also can count to ten consecutively and with little to no skipping around. We were unaware that she was learning her numbers in Spanish until one day, mommy overheard her saying, "uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, ocho". To mommy's amazement, she has gotten even better with practice and now often, though not always, remembers siete, nueve and diez (not necessarily in the right order). In addition, one day mommy overheard Mia saying all of the days of the week. You would think a teacher would review these kinds of things with her daughter every now and then but it didn't even occur to mommy to begin the days of the week! Our little sponge is soaking up just about everything... including EVERYTHING that we say! Uh-Oh!

We had a Brown family Fiesta Bowl party- mommy, daddy, Mia and Ulla attended and all wore our burnt orange to help the Longhorns win a victory! Daddy cooked for us and Mia stayed up for the first quarter. She sure does like watching football with us. :)


Daddy and Mia discovered the t-ball mitts at Target the other day and so we just had to get Mia her very own pink mitt. She loves to wear it on one hand and walk around the house with a ball in the other hand. There has not been too much playing "catch" yet but we're working on it!

Mia loves to watch and help mommy and daddy in the kitchen, with the CDs and has now developed a new passion for watching Pearl Jam music (DVDs) where she can correctly identify Eddie Vedder (lead singer) and Mike McCready (lead guitarist). This is daddy's dream come true. To make things even better, daddy finally found someone who will sit with him and watch RUSH videos! Mia is really into muppets of all kinds (Muppet movies and Sesame Street). We are having so much fun with her these days!