I realized this morning that it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve written anything, a busy couple of weeks none the less. I almost wrote a post the other day after watching a cute little movie with the moral of your child being your best luxury in life and not taking advantage of them and how much I love my family and blah blah blah. Not to say that I don’t or thats not important, but for those of you that know me, you know without a post on the subject that my family is the most important thing to me and I love my daughter, she is amazing. So, I thought I’d skip the mushy stuff and go right on to the details.
Mia is now about 8 1/2 months old and, if it’s possible, is learning new things more rapidly than ever. She finally figured out how to get herself up on her hands and knees, yet she won’t really try to move that way, she just rocks back and forth until she gets bored with it and plops back down. Don’t get me wrong, she does crawl and fast. She does her little army crawl and will crawl on her knees, but her face has to be on the ground. She also rolls faster than anyone i know. Just recently she began putting her head and hands to the ground and pushing her legs straight and ‘walking’ with her head ont he ground. She is so anxious to start herself. She loves us to walk her all around the house and will for as long as we can stand it. We can, on occasion, trick her in to taking a few steps herself. She learned to say Daddy a couple of weeks ago and hasn’t really said it much since she figured it out and says Mom pretty often now, which I of course love. She has had major teething symptoms for a little over a week now, but still no teeth so we’ll see. Perhaps she is just a little under the weather lately. Who knows.
Her not feeling so great has kept me really busy and really tired a majority of the time. She doesn’t want me away from her side for long, or I guess just wants anyone to stay with her, it just usually happens to be me. I finally made the plunge and signed up for the state tests required to get my cosmetology license. I have been trying in any time that I have, which hasn’t been much, to study for the first of those tests, the theory exam. For those of you that think thats easy, tell me all you can about the sprilla, baccili bacteria down to the shape of the virus. I’m sure there’s a lot of other random questions I could ask that few would know the answer to because, in my opinion, it’s not really anything the general population needs to know, myself included. I did take the theory exam this morning and I’m proud to report I passed with flying colors, only using just under 1/4 of the time allowed for the test. Now I have a month to prepare for my practical exam, which I have heard in a lot of ways is easier for most people than the theory because it truly is a test of what we do.
Jason is doing good, still liking his job, but who really wants to hear about that, ha. We’re a happy little family, he’s a great dad and loves that Mia’s favorite thing to say is Dadda all day long. She had a game for a while that I’d tell her to say Mom and she’d lean in my face and begin to whisper “Da Da” until she would finally start to yell it at me. He likes to think it means she likes him the best. We’ll see. My parents moved here a couple of weeks ago and we’re enjoying being able to spend time with them and look forward to all the time we’ll have with them (not to mention the free babysitting 
). It’ll be great to have them so involved in Mia’s life. Well, thats about it in the life of the Barnes. Very exciting. I will try my best to write more often, but do need to focus a lot of time on studying in the next month. No promises If you want to see something really cute or are down and just need something to make you smile,this is bound to work… www.nowamom.com/movies/mialaugh.zip You don’t have to download anything, just hit open and it will. Enjoy!
