Just when Jason and I had gotten a great routine down, especially when it came to bed time, Mireya started to get sick. First, she caught a virus of some kind that obviously had her feeling horrible. She was ill for almost a week and I spent all day, every day cuddling her. I felt so bad that she was sick and I was thrilled when she finally got better.

Within a few days, I noticed that not only did she seem to be teething, but she was tugging at her ear. I got her right into see the pediatrician. He said that ALL of her bottom teeth are threatening to come through! I thought babies cut teeth in twos…  In addition to that, she had a severe ear infection in her right ear. When he checked her ear, I thought it was worse than when she had to get her immunizations. She screamed and screamed and I broke out in a cold sweat. I think the pediatrician is more traumatizing to the parents than to the babies.

After getting her started on Amoxicillan, I thought she would improve. She not 0nly didn’t improve, but she got worse. On the third day I got her right back into the pediatrician. Her right ear was worse and now her left ear was infected too. To make an already long story shorter, she started on another antibiotic, and now she’s finally improving. Thank goodness!

The teething however, is reeking havoc. Jason and I have lost so much sleep, that we are beginning to wonder if we’re going crazy. I hadn’t realized how lucky we were to have a baby that slept through the night. I can’t wait until all her teeth come in! I wonder what she’s going to like when she’s not all gums.

Mireya turned 5 months old on August 5th, 2010. She is getting so big! She now weighs in at 13 1/2 lbs and she is 24 inches tall. We can’t believe how fast she seems to be learning to do everything. She runs around in her walker all the time. The other day we had her in a pair of pants with feet and she ran around so much that she wore holes in both big toes! She has been cruising in her walker for several weeks now, but she has just figured out that it’s a useful tool to get into trouble. She pulls off dish towels from the handles of the appliances and she tries to open cupboards. I guess it’s time to baby proof! She has also caught both of our cats of guard and run them over. I think the only solution to that one is to get smarter cats…

She has also learned to sit up pretty well. She still falls over occasionally, but she is getting better every day. We put her in her highchair tonight for dinner. She loves it! Now she can eat with us at the table. Speaking of eating, she loves to eat. She eats bananas, prunes, apples, pears, peaches, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, and anything else we give her. We have yet to find a food that she refuses to eat. Her favorite foods so far are prunes and sweet potatoes. The entire time she’s eating them she says, “Mmmm. Mmmmm.”

Mireya’s hair has gotten so long in the front that we have to put a bow in her hair every day, so that it doesn’t hang in her eyes. The bows make her look so feminine and cute. It’s hard to get her to hold still long enough to get them in, but once they are she doesn’t bother them, which is great. I personally can’t wait until I get to style her hair.

I love how much Mireya laughs. She has the sweetest laugh and Jason and I both spend hours doing anything we can think of to get her to giggle. Jason has figured out that if he brushes her cheek with his whiskers, it tickles her. I just make a complete fool of myself until I find something that strikes her as funny. Sometimes she even makes herself laugh. She kept blowing raspberries at me with mouthfuls of peas the other day and she thought that was hilarious. Me and my clothes? Not so much…

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