So I figure since Amelia doesn’t even know she’s a girl and Graham’s a boy – its okay that they kiss occasionally – its adorable! We asked Graham to blow Amelia a kiss, and instead he leaned out and she leaned it… enjoy the pics. This is Amelia’s new slide, which will move to the outside when weather improves.
Amelia’s favorite way to slide in feet first on her belly!
Hope you are having a good week.
Baby Momma
Tomorrow I am 18 weeks pregnant, nearing halfway (especially when you think Amelia was born at 37 weeks). I decided to treat myself with a new haircut, so enjoy the before/afters – 16 weeks and 18 weeks belly pic and the new hairdo.
I fell behind on posting pictures this week so here are a few from playing at her cousin’s (they used the back of the car as a fort, and love the playroom), and a couple of her before swim class yesterday – dressed in her pool gear plus a raincoat.
Enjoy!
Dearest Amelia,
You are growing up fast – 20 months old today. I can hardly believe it. You really seem like you are becoming a big girl, more so every day and it is so fun to see the world through your eyes.
I think every day you learn new words – lately there has been: fork, spoon, buckle, pillow, spider, slide, butter, puzzle and more. You’ve started adding in phrases too: ‘car go’, ’sock on’, ’sock off’, ’shoe on’, ’shoe off’ and you are trying to sing songs as well. At daycare you learned one that goes ‘mommy I love you daddy I love you’ and last night you were singing it to your broccoli at dinner – too cute.
The other day someone asked me if we were mama dada or mommy and daddy. My initial answer was I thought we were still mama dada. But no – I was wrong. Since then it is very clear we are mommy and daddy and I love how you say it.
Soon we are going to try and teach you big girls don’t need pacis – for now we’ve limited it to crib only which seems to be going well. However a friend of mine did have a cute story to share:
I have been meaning to email you about this morning and a cute Amelia story. I was dropping off the boys and Amelia and Emily were in front of me (near the book area). I saw Amelia take Emily’s pacifier from her and put in her mouth (Emily did not put up much of a fight). She did this while I was talking to Ms Moore and I laughed when I saw it, so Ms Moore turned around and saw that Amelia had the paci in her mouth and she just said “Amelia” and Amelia ripped the paci out of her mouth and threw it acting like “there was no paci in my mouth.” I laughed harder as thought it was hilarious how she knew she had done something wrong, but was smart enough to try to play it off as if nothing had happened.
So it might be a challenge when we decide you are a big girl. We are thinking we’ll give you at least another month with them.
The other day we went to visit your cousin Lena, and I was so happy to see how well you played towards the end of the day. We were trying to do a video conference with the grandparents and you two were hysterical together. First drumming crazily on the drum, so close to hitting one another yet not. Then we asked you to do ring around the rosy so you held hands and ran around the entire house (not conducive to a video phone call). Next you decided to try and show off jumping – Lena can get up off the ground a little but you were too funny – you’d try by bending your knees really low, then bounding up, only instead of getting off the ground you’d fall forward cracking yourself up. Its hard to explain how all of this was going on, but I was laughing so hard I was crying. I’m so glad you have your cousin to be close to.
You also have had more time to play with your neighborhood friends lately, with the pretty weather. You can say Graham, Kiera and Meredith now well, and you all enjoy playing with the outdoor push toys. Sharing is sometimes still an issue, but its getting better. The best is when one of you can push another friend in one of the push toys. You also really enjoy slides, and luckily Graham has one in his back yard. Maybe there will be a surprise for you one day at home.
You are still eating like a champ – bread might be your favorite but you’ll eat your fruit, veggies, meats and carbs – just the order might differ depending on mood. We’ve been working hard on getting you to understand not to throw food when you are done, instead just to hand us your plate and say all done. Last night you did it perfectly, so hopefully the lessons are helping and we can avoid more time outs for throwing. (Though I think you enjoy watching us use the hand-vac to cleanup the food).
We love you very much baby girl, and I know I can’t call you baby girl much longer – I’m still clinging on tight. I love my hugs and it melts my heart when you say ‘I love you’.
Happy 20 Months Birthday!
Baby Momma
PS Hopefully pictures will be added tonight.
Well a rainy weekend actually. Luckily we had a break in the rain and Amelia got to go out and play for a little bit. Here are some pics from this past weekend.
Just playing around.
Taking a walk with dad.
I use my arms and my tongue to help me concentrate and go uphill.
Posing for mom on the front porch – and singing Twinkle Twinkle.
On a different note – we also tried to take a 16 week belly shot for baby number 2. I was much better about taking pictures with Amelia, but I want to document this one too – what I didn’t count on was Amelia’s insistence on being a part of the picture.
They say you show sooner the 2nd time and they were right about that. Here is a 1st time (below left), 2nd time (below right) comparison. Its always hard to tell when in different clothes, but its a big difference trust me. And truly – I only weigh about a pound more now than I did at this point with Amelia, so its not just weight.
Hope everyone else got to enjoy their rainy weekend. In addition to it being a great time with Amelia – we also got to cheer our Blue Devils on to an ACC Championship – Go Devils!
Baby Momma
Edited to add: I forgot to tell a funny Amelia story – well I have a couple actually. She wanted to go back outside, she had so much fun on Sunday. We didn’t really want to, it was drizzling again. So she took baby dad’s keys, picked out the right type of key, and was trying to get it in the deadbolt to go out. Luckily she is short, cause we are in trouble when she can reach. I thought the deadbolt would be safe! The other funny story is just how good she is getting at manipulating me. I just didn’t know it started this early. For example – she likes to buckle the buckle on her booster seat (her saying buckle is so adorable too). Well I don’t encourage it and after once or twice I won’t undo them for her. She knows this. So she told me she wanted more to eat, knowing I would undo them to put her in, then she refused to get in and then did the buckle. Sneaky little thing! She is going to be trouble.
We had an ultrasound at 13 weeks – and here is baby dyar #2. Any guesses on boy/girl? We’d be thrilled with either.
Baby Momma
Amelia loves the water, so we thought a good early spring class for her would be swimming. We’ve had two classes, and while its mostly focused on getting the kids comfortable with water, Amelia is doing great! If you tell her to kick, she will kick up a storm. Here is a little video from class – unfortunately because I didn’t charge the battery you don’t get to see her favorite parts – she loves anytime you let her jump from the side (or the inflatable star) into the water, even though her face goes under.
Enjoy!
Baby Momma
So I finally got around to buying the little rubber bands to put Amelia’s hair in pigtails – though she doesn’t sit still well for me to get them in and her hair is curly so it can be a challenge. Also – photographing a toddler? Also a challenge. It really takes two adults to get her photographed right now.
So here are a few random shots of the pigtails… while playing with her ball, doing some crab walk thing and talking on the phone.
And finally – after it seemed like we wouldn’t see snow this winter, it snowed. I was very curious to see how Amelia would react – they learned about snow at school but she hadn’t seen it since she was 6 months old. She immediately knew it was snow and was very excited. Here we are playing on the deck.
And with mommy – who was bundled up since Amelia so nicely shared her cold with me earlier this week.
Hope everyone got to enjoy the snow! Apparently its going to be 70 by this weekend. Crazy.
Baby Momma