My mom decided to dress us the same today – even though St. Patty’s is on Monday – she’ll have to wash our outfits so we can once again be green. We’re looking forward to a weekend of just hanging out. They told me that I get to start having a breakfast of oatmeal this weekend – I love food so I’m very excited about that. I’ve been having barley cereal the last couple of nights and its pretty yummy, then again I like everything!
Amelia
I wanted to play with the manual settings on the camera so I setup my favorite model with her hat & glasses. I had too much light behind her but they were still fun pictures. Enjoy!
We’re doing well here – just living life, going to work and enjoying Amelia. She has become a real personality over the last few weeks and has expanded her food to stage 2 foods including new combinations like corn & squash, peas & brown rice and sweet potatoes & apples (one of her favorites according to daycare). She doesn’t care for mushed up real food yet (she gags out the mushed bananas) – but she did drink water from my glass and thought that was great fun.
Hope everyone else is having a good weekend!
Kelly
Mom & dad take a monthly night out – this time they decided to go to the Thrashers game and Matt & Sarah came and babysat me. I slept through most of it – but Matt did practice with his new camera and take some great pictures. I was serious for most of it – but I did flash a smile at the end. Thanks for babysitting and enjoy the pictures.
Amelia
My nanni Michelle came to visit with Kaykay over the weekend – they went shopping with mom a bunch and had a girls weekend. Here’s a picture of me with my nanni.
Later in the weekend, dad was in charge of me and let me wear his Masters hat. I had a blast. I even let him take a picture that shows my two front teeth.
Mom is happy to report that I seem to be sleeping well again – she gave in and put my bumpers back. I also am back to happily eating in my high chair – I decided to stop testing her. And really – I just love to eat so I didn’t want to keep myself from getting food.
I hope everyone had a good weekend -
Love,
Amelia
I didn’t realize the independent streak in Amelia would display itself so early. I succumbed to needing sleep and put the bumpers back in her crib – at least that got me only two wake up calls last night, both fairly minor and easy to fix with some back patting. However, we are now about to face off in the battle of the high chair. I admit, it’s probably my fault. I thought, let’s see how she is standing while holding on to things – and she loved it! Now when we try to put her in the high chair for dinner – legs are locked, they are not bending, she is not sitting and she is crying and very upset. She loves to eat – so I know its not that. And here’s the kicker – at daycare she sits just fine in a chair and eats. So its just with us & her dinner. Little stinker.
So Amelia – I love you baby girl – you give me that smile in the end and it melts my heart. But luckily your dad and I are also stubborn so don’t think you’re going to win. Tonight its daddy’s turn to figure you out – I’ll come home after you’ve eaten and are back on good behavior.
Love, Mom
So Amelia is normally a good sleeper. Maybe once a night she might cry enough to warrant a paci, but that’s not even every night. Last night, a Sunday night, when you need to sleep to go to work on Monday – all heck broke loose. I admit, we made changes. Maybe these should have happened on a Friday – but we lowered her mattress and removed her bumper pads. She can now see out of the crib and if she so chooses, stick her arms and legs out of teh crib. We are afraid to not do this as she is showing an inclination towards trying to climb the bumper pads. It also allows her to throw the paci through the bars and as we discovered, make noise by hitting the paci on the bars as well. (Imagine a prisoner in jail with his metal water cup banging the bars) She was up at least once an hour crying. She seemed like she wanted to be sleeping. Can these types of changes make that much of a difference??? And please tell me she’ll get over it. She woke up all smiles – couldn’t believe it was the same baby that had me wishing for sleeping pills in the middle of the night. Not sure for who. I’m kidding. Really.
Anyone else have this happen with these changes? Please comment and tell me it gets better.
Tired Mommy
I was trying to capture the joy Amelia was having while playing with her dad’s face. Unfortunately the best pictures I had forgotten a flash on, but these are still pretty good.
I got to take my first road trip (in a car anyway) this past weekend – it was lots of fun. Mom & Dad broke it up so I was never in the car for too long – and mom stayed with me in the back of the car to entertain and feed me when I was awake. We stayed one night with mom’s friends from Duke, Dave & Lisa. That was great fun – they had two small puppies I could scream at and pull their hair. Soon they will have a baby girl for me to play with too. All the Duke friends that lived in the area came out to visit too, and mom & dad had lots of fun playing some funky board game that no one really understood. Sunday we stayed in Charlotte with mom’s good friend Carolyn – they also had a big puppy-dog who I loved to giggle at and we went out to Mexican. I asked for guacamole but mom only gave me sweet peas instead. Monday morning we visited with another of mommy’s friends, Kristine. She has two little girls, one is even my size! It was lots of fun to play with them. Below you’ll see pictures from the trip.
Amelia
We hope you have a great day – and hey, its almost the weekend. Here is Amelia’s Valentine for all of you. Below you’ll also see a video of her getting her Valentine’s finger puppet from her Nonni – she loved it!
Kelly & Amelia
And check out Crazy Hip Blog Momma’s Photo Friday to see other Valentine’s.
Since Amelia’s dad is out of town this week, I thought I’d post some pictures so he could see his baby girl. I’m also going to include a couple from this weekend’s playdate with Meredith. I think I figured out how to post a video of her trying prunes – she hasn’t met a food she hasn’t liked, but I might be facing some not so fun diaper changes after that. She seemed to know the camera was there and didn’t want to smile – but you can see how she likes to lick her lips!
Kelly
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