Amelia Takes On the World

I hope everyone had a great weekend – we really enjoyed ours.  The weather was great, and we didn’t have tons scheduled to run around like crazy.  Still a little bit of running around, but it was mild.

Friday we had dinner with friends – it was so cute.  Amelia and her buddy Graham (carpool, daycare and July birth buddies) were being babysat together and Graham was all hugging on Amelia – so Amelia gave him a big kiss on the cheek (her favorite open mouth variety).  Then she cried.  We aren’t sure why – tramatized by her first kiss?

Saturday I made a big leap in my training for the 3-day walk by doing 8 miles – however, after being sick most of the week that did me in and I spent the rest of Saturday moving from one couch to another … at least it was a football day.  And we had Velveeta cheese dip.  So it wasn’t that bad… I had wanted to go do a book signing (Sleep is for the Weak) but I was just not feeling up to it and I felt so sad at missing it – hopefully I can go to another soon, and I hope to finish reading the book and review it on here as well.  Its great for parents who enjoy reading sarcastic or witty entries about being parents.

Sunday we did ‘The Music Class’ with Amelia – she sat there in shock for 43 minutes looking at us like we were crazy, but I think she’ll really enjoy it as we go more because those last 2 minutes she finally started to participate.  And then in the car she sang and danced – why didn’t that happen earlier? Who knows.  Chris got to have even more bonding time with Amelia while I played tennis, and then we had a laid back dinner and sadly the weekend was ending.  We also cannot get those songs out of our head… ‘I’m so happy to see Amelia!’ and ‘Jump Jump Johnny Giraffe’.  Over and over.  In my head.  Joyous really.

We did find out we can add a peanut allergy to our food allergy list – but her skin reactions to dairy and egg were pretty mild, so we’re hoping to get a blood test this week to categorize her as a child who will grow out of the allergies.  Crossing our fingers.  On the flip side, it means Amelia eats pretty healthy since veggies, fruits & meats are the easiet and safest to give her without chance of reaction.  And she LOVES her soy milk.

[Random aside - who knew there were so many soy milks?  At first we were going to use Plain - but then we read it has added sugar for sweetness? (Organic Evaporated Cane Juice to be exact) So now we use unsweetened, which also happens to be organic.  I feel pretty good about it, but I tasted it?  Not sure I could drink it myself - at least she loves it.]

A few cute things Amelia is doing right now – for one she is trying to talk in sentences – mind you, she doesn’t have many words – but she is combining all these syllables and combining what I guess are her words… so its sounds more like badebu nama dow – but she is trying so hard and just keeps on talking, waiting for a response, etc.  She is doing some sign I don’t recognize, on my list to look up a few I know they are teaching today.  I think its help.  She has blown us kisses a couple times.  Oh and one of the funniest – she likes to get in the cabinets.  That gets a big ‘Amelia – no, no touch’ from us.  We have quite a few with electronics we haven’t ‘proofed’ and just want her to learn.  Well she was completely ignoring us so Chris hit the arm of the couch and said ‘No’ to emphasize and make it louder – and she just turns to him, grins and hits the floor in imitation.  So the rest of the afternoon, anytime we started to say no – she’d bang the floor.  Ahhhh, toddlers and copying their parents.  I see much fun with that ahead.

Tonight Amelia gets to see her Kaykay and Grandpa Joe and then we actually have a couple of normal weeks ahead of us.  Its kind of nice to look at the schedule and see that.

Hopefully later in the week I’ll finally get some video editing and photo editing done for all of you to enjoy.

Kelly

I am working on learning the camera and its different manual features – however, Amelia didn’t nap well at daycare today and was not a cooperative subject.  She was only happy laying in my lap which made it hard to take any photos.

However, I did get one from one of my favorite perspectives – I love leaning my head against hers while she is eating her bottle and looking down from her forehead, over her eyelashes and down her nose.  At least I could capture that while she was in my lap.

The other two aren’t really good photos – but I wanted to show off the hair-do they made for her at daycare today (I photoshopped me out of the background so you could see it to full advantage) as well as how sweet she was laying on her daddy’s chest…

Its almost Friday. Enjoy!

Kelly

Hey friends,

Its been a rough week for me – I have a virus.  I cough and look so pitiful.  I do seem to be getting over it though so hopefully we’ll have a good weekend.

Over the weekend I started to do lots of cute things because it pleased my parents so much.  We worked on itsy bitsy spider and I try to do the spider with my hands, I know where my head is and I’m learning nose and belly.  I’ve blown kisses a couple of times and I’m better at signs for all done and eat.  I know a couple other signs but I get them confused and combine them – so my parents are sure if I’m saying stop help or hurt…

At daycare, one of the teachers heard me say ‘no’ very clearly with finger pointing and all – and I like to call outside ’sta’ – I want to go ’sta’. I have a bunch of words for things, but no one understands me!

This weekend we are going to a book signing by a few of the mommy bloggers my mom loves to read – and we have music class.  We are hoping for good weather so I can have lots of ’sta’ time.

I hope all my good friends have great weekends planned.

Love,

Amelia

PS This picture was from the park outing with cousin Lena, but we couldn’t post it because we had to give a gift to my grandparents first!

I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable labor day weekend – I know a few of you were in the path of Gustav so I hope you stayed out of the way and dry.

We headed to St. Augustine and the grandparents for the weekend – Amelia had a great time. SHe loves the constant entertaining that goes on and was quite the ham. At dinner one night she copied everything they wanted her to do – touch her nose, blow kisses, say how tall she is – all of these things she DOES NOT do for us, haha. Aunt Judy and Uncle Bob Dyar were there as well – and also remarked how much Amelia has the Dyar family genes. Her sneezes, her expressions, her hair – Dyar through and through.

We love being near the water in St. Augustine, so we took the time to have lunch near some boats – quite enjoyable and I love a fried grouper sandwich – yum. We also went to the pool – their neighborhood is great with a kid-pool including a slide not far from the adult pool and baby pool. Apparently there is even free babysitting for residents if you want to workout or swim alone. While we didn’t use that, we did use grandparent babysitting while Chris and I enjoyed touring art galleries in St. Augustine and drinking some sangria while people wathcing.

All in all a nice weekend – just wish there was a way to get there faster than a 6-hour drive.

Amelia seems to be a little under the weather today so we are about to head to the doctor – let’s hope its just a minor cold and she’ll be all better with some good sleep.

Kelly