Happy 3rd Birthday Mia Mia!

Mia Mia Mia. How is Mia 3 years old already? Our itty bitty baby girl that we were so worried about the whole time I was pregnant with her has just grown and changed so much this past year. She is a happy, healthy thriving and awesome little girl. She loves to copy things Aspen says and does, but in the past year she has really developed a great imagination and her very own, very pink personality. We love our little Mia Mia and here is her birthday interview!
1. Height and Weight: 33 inches, 23 pounds, 2 oz (yes, Isaac outweighs her by a full 8 oz.)
2. Favorite color: "PINK!" (I ask her often if she likes ANY other colors and she always says so matter of factly, "no. I only like pink. pink is my favorite." i do NOT know where she gets this from.
3. Favorite food:"HOT DOGS! I love hot dogs, they are my favorite. My daddy is going to take me to the store and buy me HOT DOGS!" (and she always throws her arms up in the air in sheer excitement when she says HOT DOGS! It is the funniest, most high pitched excited sound ever! SO funny! Also, most days as soon as Malo gets home from work she asks him to take her to the store to buy her hot dogs. It cracks me up.)
4. Favorite movie: "Rapunzel. But we don't have it at mine house." (Rapunzel is the movie TANGLED. Super cute movie and she will be SO excited to see she's getting it for her birthday!)
5. Favorite game: "My Dora game." (Dora Memory)
6. Favorite book: "My pink purse book"
7. Favorite treat: "Pink cake"
8. Favorite toy: "The mommy horse and my baby pink piggy."
9. Favorite Activity: "eating picnics on my pink blanket."
10. Favorite Outfit: "My kitty cat dress!! Because its PINK and it matches me because I am pink!" (She seriously wears this silly "dress," ALL THE TIME. Its not even a dress. Its a nightgown. And its Aspen's. But Mia claimed it months ago and would wear it all day every day and every night if I'd let her. She cries every time we wash it and asks "is my kitty cat dress dry yet?" over and over...until its dry.)

 

11. What makes you happy? "my kitty cat dress"
12. What makes you sad? "when my mommy says 'no that i can't wear mine kitty cat dress'"
13. Best friend(s): "Isaac and Aspen and Esther."
14. Your testimony: "Heavenly Father loves me and Aspen because we're girls. And daddy and Isaac are boys, but Heavenly Father sometimes loves boys like them. Well, Isaac always, but daddy mostly, well, sometimes." (that's ALL her - I have NO idea where she comes up with stuff!)
15. Personality Traits: Sweet, strong willed, shy in new situations - outgoing and loud at home and when you are comfortable, snuggly & cuddly, loving, affectionate, helpful, very excitable, munchkin-like,
16. Our thoughts about you from the last year: Oh our little Mia Mia Munchkin....you are one awesome little girl! You make us laugh every day and you make us scratch our heads in disbelief at the crazy and quirky things you say and do! You have a voice - a voice that when you are being sweet, is the CUTEST little munchkin voice...and when you are excited, holy cow it gets so loud and high pitched that it could cause all the dogs in the neighborhood to howl. So funny. On the flip side of that, when you are mad, you are MAD! Its sometimes really hard for us not to laugh because you get SO frustrated and you have so much to say when you are upset, but you come in this teeny tiny little package of a person and it just seems so...off...but its real. Sometimes I am certain that when you start throwing a fit, that people who live miles away can hear you. ;) Silly girl. When you make up your mind to do something, there is no stopping you.

You are so loving and affectionate, you love to be held and curl up in a tiny little ball in our arms or on our laps. You go up to Aspen and Isaac multiple times a day and just hug them and you come up to me a give me a big hug and tell me you love me at LEAST 3 times a day. You get SO excited and run to daddy whenever you see him. You are still pretty shy in new situations and around new people, but you are getting a little quicker to warm up. :)
You have so much spunk and spirit and are so fearless. You love to run around and chase Aspen and Isaac. You play tag and hide and seek and you really just love active play. You rarely will sit down long enough to watch a movie, but you will sit for an episode of "Dora!" and you get SO excited about Dora. It cracks me up. You really really like to sit on my lap, or daddy's lap, and have us read books to you. That is something you will always sit for. And sometimes you will even read to other people. :)

My spunky little Mia Grace, you are SO stinking girly sometimes that it is ridiculous. I seriously have NO idea where that all comes from. But you are all things girl - pink, pink, pink, ruffles, accessories, dresses, purses, shoes, hair bows. And lately you won't go anywhere near anything that has a spider web without asking someone to get it for you. You love princesses and "being beautiful." You do mommy's hair all of the time, and like to put bows in Isaac's hair. You also enjoy painting your toenails and fingernails (if there is even a chip, you ask me to fix it.) You recently started painting them yourself, but it was too messy, so now you paint Isaac and Aspen's...and mommy's. But you still have me do yours so it will look just beautiful.


One really funny thing about you right now is that we find you in random places asleep when we get up in the morning. Sometimes you're in your toy bucket, on the couch, by the door in your room, in Aspen's bed, in Isaac's crib, in mommy and daddy's bed, beside our bed on the floor, in laundry baskets, on the back of the couch, etc. You always go to bed in your room, but at some point in the night/early morning you go randomly sleep in other places. And you LOVE your owl bed (and are obsessed with owls right now) so its so funny that you go sleep in other very random spots.

Oh Mia, we just love you so much. You have such a big personality in such a little package. You constantly surprise us with the things you say and come up with. You are very determined and want what you want. And you are very specific with what you want. You are such a great kiddo and we adore you. Never a dull moment with you, that's for sure. Happy Birthday, Mia! We love you!