Just another Manic Monday

Monday was one of those marathon days: cleaning for our 65th house showing, shopping, very quick power nap, my first tea party, new potty book with noise-making flush button, acting lessons, groceries, grilling out, playing ball, driving my car, a little "signing time" action, visit with friends. Entirely too much to list here.

WARNING: This post contains a lot of video footage.
Only the most die hard Mia fans will make it through,
but it's well worth your time.

This is me with my new tea set after one of my famously short naps.
Pretty fancy, eh? And aren't you impressed with my tea time manners?





I also practiced my acting skills with a game of "hide the doggy in the kitty bag" like only I can play it. This is a long video, but if you watch the whole thing, I think you'll know who's about to get her big Hollywood break...

Just another fine example of my acting skills. Look at this wide range of expression!

(ok, so this one above was not taken on Monday, but I am pretty proud of it)

I have even mastered some inappropriate Italian hand gestures.


all this and I can still smile quite well, too.


I learned plenty of new words over the weekend including but not limited to...
"drool" "pretty" "pig" "tea" "pink" and "help"

I also say "ha he hi ho hu" constantly as a way to practice my vowels. Check my vowels as well as my tough girl act here:






Here's me with the wonderful new potty book that I mentioned earlier (makes authentic flushing sounds!). I like this book. When I read it I get an odd sensation that I'm studying up for some sort of big test but I'm not sure what it is yet.




I forgot to bring my camera to LT's house.
Too bad - Count Diapula was surfing on his toy truck - so cool.


To top of a very active day, daddy helped me fly like an airplane and then tickled me like crazy. In the footage below, you'll see me request "more more" after about the 30th time around. Great workout for the daddy arms.

As you can see - a very full Monday.

Some of you may assume this kind of day would lead to many hours of uninterrupted sleep, but then you would be vastly underestimating my stamina and resiliency!

Shoes

At Sofi's killer taco party tonight, everyone was commenting on the size of my feet.
I honestly didn't know that size 5 toddler was big for a 16 month old.

With all that attention on my foot size,
it was soon discovered that I inherited my mom's stinky feet.

Better throw some baby powder in those size 5's before the next party!

O Baby!

Barack came to visit me again today!

Gogo, early bird that she is, held a place for us in line and had already made lots of "old white ladies for obama" by the time we arrived. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a button for her with that slogan, but we did try.

The papparazzi always manage to find me. I decided that I would grant this one nice journalist an interview since it was such an historic occasion.

Unlike Gogo, our next president is not always early.

By the time Barry finally spoke. I had passed out.

I was a little confused upon waking....

... but slowly realized that people were applauding for me.

.... and I'm never one to disappoint a crowd.

Visit from Sarah

One of my mom's favorite people came to visit. Sarah Valdez!
She's super cool and has a unique fashion sense inspired entirely by the Beastie Boys.
She served as my stylist during her stay in Denver.

Sarah & Jesper helped me get ready for my coffee date with Z.
In the photo above, not the Sarah-inspired
anti-establishment behavior as well as the yoga.

For more on this happy occassion, visit: http://gallegofamily.blogspot.com/2008/09/coffee-date-with-mia.html

Please come back soon, Sarah!

Vintage Mia 2008

My first grape stomping experience! Totally weird. My mom and grandparents wanted me to stand in a cold mushy pile of merlot grapes and squish them. Normally, I'm all about mashing things and making messes, but I was not sure what to make of these old people asking me to do it so I tried to keep my feet as sparkling clean as possible and mostly played with the suds bucket instead of the grapes.

No worries, I'm sure that the mere proximity of my feet hovering above the grapes will make this year's merlot exquisite.

O Baby!

Mama dragged me around all morning looking for celebrities during the DNC. We met up with LT & Z, too. I crashed out early and missed seeing the cool billboard behind me in this photo.

Hey Coach Medina, can you save a spot for Stretch on the team now?

Practice really does make perfect.

Early training footage:
http://picasaweb.google.com/annadomenico/MiaMovies/photo#5134052058009424098

August 2007:




Footage of this most recent practice was generously provided by the highly exclusive Cottontop Summer Soccer Camp in Boulder.

We hope this will convince Coaches Medina that Mia is, in fact, deserving of a spot on the soccer team. She's been shy about sharing her talents with the world until now, but the Olympics must have inspired her to go public.