A New Year! with a Happy, Smiley 10 Month Old!

Happy New Year from the Heim's! We say this every month but wow time is flying by! We can't believe that Mia has turned 10 months old! Are we seriously planning this little girl's 1st Birthday Party already?! WOW!!!! Our life has forever changed but we are so blessed with this precious baby girl!

This last month, we were quite busy with the holidays! Christmas was so fun with Mia this year. Although she really only likes her first present she opened she was still so fun to watch! She really enjoyed the boxes and paper! What a spoiled little girl! She has overtaken my living room!

Although we have a happy baby, we have had 2 ear infections and have been fighting some yeast. Mia has 7 teeth now too!

We celebrated New Year's Eve at Emily's cousins house. Mia played with Abbey and loved it! However she didn't make it to midnight! We really didn't expect that since she normally is in bed, snoring away around 6:45!

Mia loves to open up my kitchen cupboards and slam the doors! She also enjoys following whoever into the bathroom and open and shut the door! Mia has discovered that she enjoys TV (which is not a surprise to us!). Here's some highlights from the last month in the world of Mia!

I love snack time! 

I'm learning to walk! Although after this attempt I now just push it from behind on my knees!

Such a big girl in my Hawkeye chair!

Shopping and meetings for Mommy's business make me tired! 

I like to help Mommy fix her couches!....Daddy doesn't approve! 

In the tub the other night, Daddy was having my toys fly off the spout! I thought it was hilarious! Even when the toys belly flopped!

Christmas 2012

I loved the boxes more than my presents!

Checking out Mema's phone with Grandpa Mike!

Merry Christmas!

 I thought I'd just play with Scooby but he didn't want to play with me!

All ready for Christmas Eve service!

Look what Santa brought me!

After Christmas disaster! Spoiled?

My favorite place to play!

Helping take down the Christmas decorations!

My second favorite place to play!

9 Months Old

Happy Holidays! We can't believe it is almost Christmas and our little diva is now 9 months old! I remember telling my Mom how I couldn't wait for Christmas in hopes Mia was crawling! and now 9 months later the season has arrived!


This past month Mia has been extra busy. We traveled to Owatonna, MN for our annual Lande Thanksgiving and Black Friday Shopping! Mia enjoyed playing at the hotel with her cousin Drew (who is 2 weeks older than Mia)! Mia even went swimming in a pool for the first time....knowing her personality we knew it probably wasn't going to go well....and we were right! She wasn't a fan! Although her buddy Drew LOVED it!

Mia even visited Santa (see post below for photos) with absolutely no tears at all! We were so proud!

Her hair is getting very long but this Mommy just isn't ready to trim it up yet!

Last weekend, we had our first Christmas with the Landes where Mia opened her first set of presents! As suspected she was much more interested in the paper and her first gift she opened, which was a book!

Mia is eating table food with us - for the most part she has what we are eating for supper. Makes it much more difficult for me to think of creative suppers these days!

Mia is learning to pull her self up on furniture - she is becoming quite the pro at it! It won't be long and she'll be walking! She has figured pulling herself up so for naps and bedtime she enjoys standing in her crib and staring at us in her video monitor!!!

Hallway crawl races with cousin Drew (he is only 2 weeks older than Mia!)

Playing Kitchen together.

Swimming is just not my thing, Mommy!

She was much happier when she was NOT in the pool!

Cousins!!!

Helping Daddy and Mommy hang Christmas Lights!

This swimsuit is a bit snug! Mia was not thrilled to go swimming!

Hot tubbing!

Crazy hair!

Such a happy girl!

Hey Mommy, I want to help on your computer!

Learning to pull herself up!

Long hair!

This is what happens at bed time and nap time! 

Holiday Baking Day with the Kies' and LaVelle's.

Mia has found her video monitor so everyday she crawls to that side of her crib and waves at us! 

Mia is celebrating her Auntie Bancks' engagement at HuHots!!!

"Grandma Kris, I think I will open some gifts early this year."

New booster for traveling!

Playing in the basket with Daddy!

Lande Christmas gift opening!

Mia LOVES books!

Jesus BINGO winner!

This sticker thing is getting ridiculous Mommy!

Playing with my new phone from Uncle Gayle!

Mia Meets Santa!

Look who got to meet Santa last weekend! No tears or anything! She was soo good sitting on Santa's lap! She told him she really wanted new learning books with textures, learning toys and some fridge magnets that make noise! After visiting Santa, Mia got to eat some Chick-Fil-A!

8 Months Old & Crawling

Happy November! Mia is now 8 months old!!! I say it every month but I can't believe how fast she is growing up. Just the other day, Jake was crawling around the room telling Mia to watch and imitate him! Now she is crawling and starting to pull herself up on the furniture! 

Mia's new favorite place to play is the kitchen! Now that she can crawl there she hangs out by the trash can and the garage door....she loves my rugs!!! She also enjoys looking at her reflection and outside through our sliding glass door! Oh did we forget to mention she absolutely loves to play with shoe strings. This girl doesn't need toys that's for sure! She is so into learning now. She loves to just feel things and rub them!

We are experiencing our third cold of the season! Poor baby girl has a runny nose and cough. Mia also has 3 teeth and is working on her fourth one....all on the bottom!

Mia went Trick or Treating for the first time....our little Vikings Cheerleader visited her best friend Samantha and they played together while the Daddies handed out candy. Mia is starting to really feed herself now too. We gave her a bite of pizza the other night and she seemed to really like it.