I'm Back!

Sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. There is a lot to report.

1. Still having some issues with PPD but each day it seems to get a little better. Though, some days are still harder than others.
2. Mia started eating solid foods! So far she's had oatmeal cereal, rice cereal, avocado, apple sauce, sweet potatoes, bananas and carrots.
3. Mia is cutting her first tooth!
4. I started dating. Dating with a baby is hard but totally worth it. He's someone I've been friends with for almost a decade and is someone I was already very close to.
5. Mia had her first studio photo shoot with Cecily. Is that a gorgeous picture or what?

Almost Crawling

Sweet Pea is on her hands and knees, rocking back and forth, looking up at me and laughing. She's telling me that any day now she's going to be all over the place so I'd better be ready.

She's doing the fighter crawl, on her belly using her arms, drawing her knees up and scooting across the floor. She's becoming surprisingly quick. When I put down her favorite toy (a little piano) she'll dart towards it.

Sometimes she'll get on her hands and knees and using both legs launch herself forward for a faceplant. Yesterday she did this and landed face first on her zylophone. In the 1.5 seconds that it took for me to scoop her up and check for injury I imagined myself in the emergency room trying to explain why I had been so careless as to leave a metal toy on the floor for my six-month-old baby to land on. Luckily, there was no visible injury but I still felt like a lousy mom.

Sixth Month Check Up

The Pea had her sixth month check up today and Dr. Ruiz was very pleased with her progress. She's hitting all of her developmental milestones on schedule. Dr. Ruiz said that she's happy with Mia's size since she's gaining weight steadily. We talked about starting solids and plan to introduce them pretty soon, starting out with one solid meal a day.

Here are her stats:
Length: 25 inches
Weight: 13 pounds, 12 ounces
Head Circumference: 42 centimeters

Chickens

On Saturday we went to The Natural Gardener to get some dirt, vegetables and herbs for the winter garden. If you've never been, I recommend checking it out. It's a really neat place. Here is Mia eyeing the chickens.
Today Mia worked in the garden, enjoying the first cool day of fall. Behind her you can see the Bright Lights Swiss Chard, Fern Leaf Dill, Italian Parsley, Curly Parsley, French Tarragon and Florence Fennel.

Mall Day

I never realized how convenient malls are until I had a baby. I'm certainly not the first to discover this. Lissa and I have been walking at Barton Creek Mall for a few weeks now and are in the company of many other mothers with babies. In this picture, Max and Mia have just enjoyed a snack in the nursing room at Nordstroms and are ready for another loop around the mall. Yeah, that's one thing the hike and bike trail doesn't have - nursing rooms.
Here are Max and Lissa. The mommies are about to enjoy their lunch at the Nordstroms cafe.

Zilker Swings!

We went to Zilker this morning and for the first time, Sweet Pea tried out the swings. She loved it! Still too big for her, but she held on just fine.

Later we went shopping for jogging strollers. Not that I jog, but one would be nice for the hike and bike trail. If anyone has any advice, I'd love to hear it.

New Haircut

I went to Keith Kristofer today and received a haircut from the lovely and talented Sunny. I told her I was feeling frumpy lately. She said, "Don't worry, I'm going to give you the porn star blow dry."

This is the sexiest hair style I've ever had. The only problem is since my hair style looks so fabulous now, it just highlights how not-fabulous my color situation is. I was thinking that I would just grow out my hair until it was long enough to cut off the colored portion - I'd really like my hair to be its natural color - but it's taking forever! So, I might just break down and color it again.

Dark brown? Red? Blonde highlights? Or cut it short like Katie Holmes? I mean, come on, that's one hot mom. So many choices...