The last of the monthly posts! You’ll get one next month, but really that’s a yearly post. We’ll be moving to quarterly from there. This month Mia found her vocal cords; she chats up a storm, can now scream, and that’s the end of our hearing. Her biggest feat has to be climbing up any and all stairs – sometimes to our surprise when…

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This month was a hard one for everyone. Lots of teething (now 5-7 teeth), separation anxiety only remedied by a heavy dose of Mom, and leaving our nanny share due to the cutthroat nature of Portland daycare (if we passed at our opportunity, we’d not have a daycare opening until Fall 2022 at the earliest, which we can’t afford financially or mentally). We’re now…

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This month was all about pulling up and standing on everything with a small dose of separation anxiety creeping in (see last photo – was trying to pose her standing). We made a trip out to Hood River to visit some friends and a couple of trips to the Burnside Skatepark to see something different / planting the “snowboarding looks more fun” seed. We…

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There be teeth! Two sharp little (well, not so little) ones on the bottom. No sign of any others. We spent a nice bit of this month at a friend’s place (they were out of town) in Bend for the holidays. Lots of good hikes, a beautiful house, seeing some friends we hadn’t seen all year, Mia met her first family members (Rebecca’s cousins…

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The past week or two has brought eating every type of food, the ability to pull herself across a room, a couple of teeth, sitting 95% well, and sleeping through the night. It’s been an amazing stretch of days. The first half of the month was a new hiking backpack and sitting forward in the front carrier – also pretty sweet. She’s rapidly become besties…

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This little lady developed like crazy in the past month, which is why there are an overwhelming number of pics below. She began “sitting” and eating real foods, she can hold her own bottle and “stand,” she became insanely vocal at the end of the month after going mute for two or so weeks, had her first kiss, sat in a driver’s seat, went…

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