Mireya is doing more everyday. She has recently found her feet, and thinks their quite tasty too! She loves to pull them up to her mouth, with or without socks, and suck on those feet like they were popsicles.

****UPDATE! Here are two videos of her sucking on those tiny toes!

Jason and I didn’t plan anything for this 4th of July, because we thought Mireya would be too little to participate and appreciate anything we did. We were wrong! On Monday night, Cedar City had their fireworks show at the airport, which is a little over a mile from our house. We were so close, all we had to do was step out into our driveway. We watched for a couple of minutes while Mireya was sleeping. She woke up, so we bundled her in a blanket and took her outside to see them. She was fascinated! I was afraid the loud noise would scare her and she did jump a little bit with the first really loud firework she heard. I covered her ears after that and she thoroughly enjoyed them. I can’t wait to see what she thinks of them next year!

Mireya got to try bananas the other day. She loves them! She was fairly so so about rice cereal, but she definitely likes bananas. She is to the point with food where she sometimes has little hissy fits when she wants to eat ours and we won’t let her. Instead, we give her bananas. It will be fun to try out other kinds of baby food and see what she likes. I had no idea watching someone eat could be so entertaining!

Mireya is also starting to really enjoy reading. We read to her every night before bed and sometimes during the day. She loves to help turn the pages and most of all to eat the books. She’s at the age where she eats everything, but some things just seem to have an allure to them.

Side note: Has anyone else had a problem with their baby gagging themselves? Mireya sticks her little fingers in her mouth and quite often makes herself spit up. If you take her hands out of her mouth, she puts them right back in. I can hear her doing it when we are driving around in the car. We have always had difficulty controlling her spit up, but this new development makes the problem so much worse. Hopefully it’s just a phase…