When did she get big?

Seriously. When?

Peek-a-boo in slo-mo

I tried to capture it, but it's just not the same. Mia played the slowest game of peek-a-boo ever.

The day our daughter went insane

Mia is a sweet, mild-mannered child most of the time. She happened to discover her outside voice today ... at the library. I tried to take her picture, but she was too crazy. This picture of her and Leigh makes me laugh and laugh. I'm pretty sure he's about to say, "Do you see this kid?"

What made her go gaga? Classical music. Of course. What else would cause such a mini-riot?

We took Mia to the library for a Dr. Seuss story time featuring a string quartet from the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. They played along as narrators read some of Dr. Seuss's stories. It was absolutely delightful.

This was Mia's first time to see live music, and she spent a few minutes just staring, open-mouthed. She was in awe. I was so excited!

Then she was off to the races.

She wanted to be put down. Then she wanted to walk around the room. Then she wanted to run. Then she wanted to shout. Leigh took her out of the story room and walked her around the rest of the quiet library. He brought her back, and she was a tornado again.

We decided to call it quits and spend some time reading books in the children's section. Bad idea. As you can see from the photos above, she was way too excited. She couldn't hold still. We finally called it a night when she pulled some books of a shelf.

So we're pretty sure Mia likes classical music.

Mia Jacobs: The Lost Recordings

I discovered some random videos I hadn't uploaded. So, let's take a trip back in time.

Mia practices feeding herself. She also practices feeding the dogs. Oct. 22, 2010.



Mia practices using a cup on Dec. 10, 2010.

A new year begins

Our family resolution: eat at home.

Bang the door all day

Mia is a pretty quiet kid, but every now and then something gets her wound up. Case in point: barking dogs. Mia has discovered that she can look through the back screen door and see what's going on in the back yard. This is a very exciting development when you've only been alive for 15 months. But she gets really wound up when the dogs start barking at our neighbor's dogs. I think she's trying to rally with them, like when inmates clang on their cell bars in solidarity. So now we need to keep the door closed when the dogs are out.

Big game huntress

Buying gifts for Leigh is tricky. Usually he either buys or asks for what I'm going to buy him a few days before I have the chance to get it. But this Christmas he had absolutely no idea what I was getting him because he didn't even know it existed. It's a home version of his favorite arcade game: Big Game Hunter. Not only do I think this game is a little barbaric, but I think it's pretty boring to boot. But he made me play it with him so he could have someone to compete with. I reluctantly agreed.

Then I was amazing at it!

Add "video game huntress extraordinaire" this to the list of awesome skills I have. Now he's just jealous that I beat him.

More efficient bathtime

One hat, two winters

From 2009:

From 2010:

At this rate, we might get to enjoy this fabulous hat for 2011, too.

A post from Leigh: the poop diaries

So tonight was the opening night of Tron. We decided to go watch it on opening night, because well we haven’t been to an opening movie night in years. So we packed up the car dropped off Mia at Tiamo’s house, for some nice Friday night play time. The movie was BEAWESOME (Beyond+Awesome) My second favourite movie of the year after Harry Potter 7. We returned to Tiamo’s house to fetch Mia. She was all happy to see us. And then we were made aware of an incredible discovery. While Mia was taking a bath in the kitchen sink (her favourite thing to do at Tiamo’s) she had the urge to go to the toilet. So what does one do when they need to number 2…well they number 2 of course!!!! So my mom says Mia had this big grin on her face and was sitting contently and at peace with the world. All of a sudden 2 little brown things (poop) were floating in the sink!!!! Mia pooped in her Tiamo’s sink!!!!!!!!!! I think she was paying for the babysitting services with the only thing she could think of…..poop. That’s my KID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!