IR at the Park

Over the weekend, we had a picnic at the park. While there, I shot a couple of Infrared Photographs. Here are two interesting ones of Mia...

Mia walking through the Park

On the way to the parking lot I took this shot of Mia walking next to me. The solar flare is pretty bad, but it made for a cool effect... a Halo around her head! Yes, she is an angel.

Mia meets some new people...

Last night, we went to the USC Spring Preview. Mia had a lot of fun running around on the turf and meeting all kinds of new people. Here are just some of the people Mia met...

Here she is introducing herself to the USC Softball Team.

Mia got to see her favorite bird... Cocky!

Eventually she decided to join some of the Softball Players for a little autograph session.

At the end of the evening, Mia made a new friend.

Baby Boy 4d Image...

Here is your first picture of our little baby boy! He's trying to flex his muscles or something in this image. I've colored it up a little so that it's easier to see. Hope you like it! We never had 4d images of Mia while she was in utero. We think this is just too cool.

Hello everyone, new poster here...

Hi everyone... I'm Clay. I'm Cindy's husband and Mia's Daddy. Cindy has been quite busy keeping up with Mia lately, and so I'm going to start posting pics and thoughts every once in while just to help keep it up to date. The picture shown above is a picture of me when I was around Mia's age. I'll let you decide if she looks like me or not.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful Christmas. Mia was so much fun to watch opening presents and playing with her new toys. She was so cute when she noticed what Santa left for her in our living room. She still does not like Santa. She frowns and makes her disapproving sound whenever she sees his picture. I really hope we did not scar her for life. Here are some pictures to enjoy for now.

Yep, this thing is still in the living room! Mia loves it there, too.

What's up?


I love to dump the entire bag of building blocks on the floor.

Christmas festivities with the fam.

This Secret Santa toy is so cool!

Whatchu talkin' about, Howey?

I LOVE shoes!!!!

Some of my silly cousins.

Mommy, share your candy, please.

Hello?

Please stop. You're mushing my face!

This looks fun!

Happy New Year!

Highchair Hijinx

Evidence of Mia's new favorite thing to do!

I'm a big girl now!

For some time now, the first thing Mia does when I put her in the tub for her bath at night is pee pee. I put her in and she stands there for a second and pees. I thought maybe we should go ahead and buy a potty seat for her to put on the toilet and give it a try every so often before her bath. I bought a little Dora the Explorer seat a couple of months ago. She loves to point to Dora and Boots while she is sitting on it but she never would pee pee in the potty. BUT, tonight she did! I had just turned the water off and she walked to the cabinet and opened the door and pulled out her little seat. She walked right over to the toilet with it in her hand and proceeded to try to put it on herself. I helped and was all excited that she was doing this all on her own! I undressed her and took her diaper off and sat her on it. She had an audience because Clay was home and I think he was just as excited as I was. She sat there a few seconds looking at both of us and I was trying to coax her into pee peeing in the big girl potty. Clay finally turned the faucet on at the sink and the running water must have done the trick. She pee pee'd in the potty like a big girl! I was so proud! I think she was too. She's really growing up so fast.

In other news, Christmas is shaping up to be a special one this year. Mia is really enjoying the lights on the tree. We placed non-breakable ornaments around the bottom so when she does feel curious and takes them off, it's no biggie. She has a gift bag under the tree that is also filled with plastic Christmas balls that she is free to play with whenever she wants. She likes to hand them out when we have company over.

What a difference a year makes.

Christmas 2006

Christmas 2007

We made the trip to the mall last Saturday for a visit with Santa. Mia did great while we waited in line for about a half an hour to sit on Santa's lap. When we were next in line, Mia was waiting and smiling at Santa. Once we crossed the velvet rope she started clinging to me and let me know there was just no way she was sitting in that fat man's lap and actually smiling. We had them take the picture anyway. Yes, we may seem like cruel, horrible parents but we did it. To make me feel even more cruel and horrible I cannot help but laugh at this picture everytime I look at it. I hope we haven't scarred her for life.

Mia's Latest Adventures

We have quite the little adventurer on our hands. This morning we were getting ready for breakfast. I had pulled the highchair out from the table and she was playing with the straps. She has always been fascinated by them. Now that I think about it, she has probably been spending all this time figuring out how to get out of them when she's strapped in! I walked away for 2 seconds to get something out of the pantry. I walked back into the kitchen and looked in on her and she was STANDING in the seat of the highchair. I have no idea how she climbed up there because I didn't see it but it scared me half to death. My first instinct was to get her two feet back onto the floor or I would have snapped a picture. :)

Here are a few pics from Thanksgiving.

Big sister Mia

Mia is going to be a big sister! She is going to be the best big sister, EVER! The new baby is due on June 10th. It's an active little booger on the ultrasounds we have seen. All over the place and so different from Mia already! We are excited. I've been feeling pretty good and been doing very well with exercising in hopes of not gaining as much weight as the first time.


We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We traveled to Charlotte and had a great time and a great dinner as always. Mia traveled well and had a lot of fun. I haven't downloaded the pics yet but will update the post with some later. We are hoping to start decorating for Christmas this weekend. Ta-ta for now!

It's been a while....

I know it's been a long time since I updated so I will reward you with lots of pictures. Mia is doing great. She had a little cold but is fully recovered. She is working on the last of her molars but no new teeth have broken through. She is Miss Busy. I am officially a stay-at-home mom now and we are having lots of fun. We started going to the gym 3 times a week and I think Mia is starting to have a good time there with the other kids. It's getting cooler so our daily walks are dwindling down. It's so hard to believe that Thankgiving is less than a week away! This time next week we will be pulling down the Christmas boxes from the attic. Where does the time go. Enjoy the pics and have a Happy Turkey Day!