Week 1 of Mia is complete. The hand-off went better than expected as has our transition here in Oregon. Mia kept us laughing and loving her for over an hour in the truck on the way home from the Airport as we fully comprehended she was really here, after all the anxious anticipation and preparation...then she slept for the final 2.5 hours home.
Our biggest challenges as a family is remembering that there's a baby in the house. Our boys are the youngest and totally not accustomed to being somewhat quiet and just bust into rooms talking loudly and that usually surprises Mia awake. At first we thought she would never sleep a full stretch of time before getting woke up.
Mia was on marathon awake mode for about four days -never sleeping more than 1 hour during the day and 4 hours at night at a time. At day five, the East/West coast time adjustment hit her and she decided sleep was ok. She has since slept all night -going to sleep at 8:00 and only fussing once around 4:00 am and sleeping until 7:00 - 7:30 each night. She plays for a few hours after morning bath and naps around 10:00 a.m. She sometimes dozes off for 1/2 hour or so in the afternoon and the boys play hard with her in the evenings.
Mia has been to high school basketball games - she prefers the sound of Pep Band to dribbling basketball and immediately finds the mascot to introduce herself to. The wrestling tournament was exciting to watch until a dad in the crowd decided to coach his boy very loudly in the audience behind us and Mia thought he was mad at her. After getting over being offended and upset, she realized that it's totally ok to yell and clap at these events and not to take it personally. She visited Grandmas Seminary class one day to meet the kids, has helped Grandma in the office a few times - mostly to help redecorate and clean off all flat surfaces for us.
We took her to a feedlot to check cattle and when pointing to cows and saying "MOO" over and over for inspiration, we realized she wanted to watch the small Chihuahua dog following us along as security. She did get to help grandpa drive the truck and helped back the trailer into a pen to unload some calves we hauled there.
Her birthday was a bit uneventful because it was on the day of Scott's final basketball game being played 6 hours away at 3:00. We spent that day on the road.
She loves meeting other small people her size and always steals their pacifier, even though she has NO interest in hers. She is about 50/50 on regular milk and cows milk now. We hope to have that change complete in 4 weeks. We hope to have her totally not waking up at night and her to have a larger vocabulary. She never - hardly ever crawls anymore, choosing walking everywhere and running if she thinks I'm chasing her like she's done something bad. Pretty cute!
All the boys adore her and she loves them but she seems to be drawn to Scott the most. Only half of the clothes she has fit her, but that's ok, her closets are full in Mississippi and she will be there before we know it. FaceTime and Google Hangouts are a part of her life and she enjoys them as long as they don't interfere with her games and business.
She's adorable and we all are loving this experience totally. This week is super busy, and we'll see how she does when she meets some new family members and tries now foods.
Elaine
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