The Truppa Family: June 2009

Happy Birthday Mirella!! I can't believe a whole YEAR has gone by! I have been really slacking on updating my blog. So I thought what better than her one year mark to update!? She had a wonderful birthday celebration with a lot of her baby friends and family. She received a lot of very fun gifts which now take up a lot of our living room.

She absolutely LOVES pushing her toys with wheels (even some with out wheels) ALL over the house. She will push/slide everything from the kitchen table chairs to her puzzles from room to room. It's pretty comical to watch, but she never brings them back so I end up having to pick everything up and bringing it back to the living room to her play area.

Mirella can crawl extremely well. She started doing that around 10 months old. She will walk if holding your hand or holding on to the couch, table, toys etc. She most recently starting taking a few steps with out holding on to anything or anyone, but they are usually just between Mommy and Daddy.

She LOVES to play "I'm gonna get you". If you say it to her she moves as fast as she can to get away, yet keeps looking back to see if you are coming. She laughs and smiles the whole time. It's very cute.

She enjoys the dogs very much. She will try to chase Roxy sometimes and occasionally Roxy will taunt her and act like she is going to pounce. Mirella cracks up at that. She is always trying to pet them, but since she hasn't really mastered petting nicely, they usually growl at her when she comes too close because they are expecting to be hit. Poor dogs. Although they are her BEST FRIEND when she is in her highchair. They wait patiently underneath waiting for her food to drop. She loves to feed them from her highchair.

Mirella is a big fruit eater. She could eat fruit all day long. She loves her puffs as a snack, and enjoys eating anything she can pick up and feed herself, chicken, ground beef, pasta, peas, carrots, cheese. She loves ice cream (would be very surprised if she didn't seeing that mommy and daddy looooove it!)

She is still nursing, so we haven't yet tried milk, but plan to do so soon. I will probably continue nursing for a bit longer, don't feel a need to quit just yet, and she doesn't seem very interested in stopping either. So we'll continue on for now!

We recently tried taking Mirella in a pool. At first she wasn't real sure about it, didn't like her floaty at all and cried the whole time almost. But by the 2nd and 3rd time of trying she really enjoyed it and kicked her little legs and splashed around.

She doesn't care for TV much which is surprising. Whenever it's on she doesn't pay much attention to it. She would much rather play or chase the dogs or get into their dog bowls. There have been a couple things that catch her attention like PeeWee's Big Adventure. She just sat and watched it until we turned it off. She also seems to like Fifi and the Flowertots cartoon. It's pretty cute and I like it myself so that is good! She laughed one time when a picture of Michael Jackson came up on the TV. That was pretty funny! She will sit for a minute or two when I put the Baby Einstein DVD's on. She also stopped and watched a Disneyland commercial one time, seeing as her parents are Disneyland fanatics this is a good thing!!!

We plan to take her to Disneyland by the time she's 2. We can't wait!! (As I'm sure you can tell by the ticker at the top hehe.)

Mirella is saying "Hi" all the time, it's adorable! She also started saying "Daaw-Dee" which we assume is Doggie since it started by staring and pointing at the dogs. But then it turned into her word for everything. She will point at an Elmo doll and say Daaw-Dee. She will point at her toys and say Daaw-Dee. Everything is that right now. I have been practicing saying "Mama" while patting my chest so she knows I am talking about me, and she has started to repeat it and patting my chest also. YAY! I am excited for her to start learning new words.

She has 2 bottom teeth, which she has had for a few months now. Her top ones are making their way down and should appear pretty soon, her gums are are pretty swollen looking.

She waves bye-bye when someone says "bye-bye" to her. I love it. She started out waving with both hands facing herself...but she has started to turn them outwards to wave at others. So sweet!

She points at things she sees and says some gibberish, of course that is cute too! I just love all the new things she is learning and enjoying watching her grow and learn everyday. I've been truly blessed to be able to stay home for as long as I have with her. Thank you Tony for working a full time job so that I can raise our daughter! I appreciate it more than you know! And being that it's Father's Day, Happy Father's Day to you!!

I was watching some children after school from October to June. They didn't need me to watch them during the summer so I am out of work for a bit. I recently was offered another "nanny" type of job to watch 2 little girls in their home starting in August. So I will be doing that for a couple days a week. They are really sweet girls and loved Mirella so I'm looking forward to doing that.

I guess that is enough for now...picture time!!!