February 7th, 2010
On Saturday we all stayed inside and took care of some household chores – Amelia was a big help with the laundry!
Mark had to go into work around 4, and soon after he left our electricity went out! Since I was unable to heat up supper for Amelia, she ended up eating cheese, hummus and cheddar bunnies. Not the most nutritious meal, but at least it was something! After supper, she took a bath by candlelight and we had fun playing with shadows.
Amelia has started walking with one hand free. She is getting closer and closer to walking on her own! Here she is this afternoon, wearing one of Mama’s necklaces and walking with Daddy. She is getting so big!
Grandma and Grandpa B came over for supper tonight, and right now we are all watching Super Bowl XLIV! After taking a bath and getting all ready for bed, Amelia joined us for a bit, but she was very sleepy and headed to bed right as the game started.
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February 3rd, 2010
Grandpa B gave Amelia these golden shoes for Christmas.
She absolutely LOVES these shoes, and wants to wear them all the time! We have a basket in her room that we toss all of her shoes into, and every day (without fail) she plucks her gold shoes out of the basket.
This evening, once she was dressed in her PJ’s, she crawled over and grabbed her gold shoes. She gave one of them to me and held up her foot . . . I couldn’t resist!
Golden shoes and penguin PJ’s – how perfect!
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January 31st, 2010
On Friday morning Amelia and I had some fun reading books!
The first book she grabbed is her absolute favorite – The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boyton. We read that book morning, noon and night!
She is finally big enough to wear this fun outfit from Grandma G – she just isn’t too sure about the hood!
Shelby has a lot of fun playing with Amelia – she’s always trying to share her toys!
Amelia is getting to the point where she LOVES giving big, sloppy, wet open-mouthed kisses – I love it!!!
I gave Amelia a raw carrot stick to chew on while I was making supper. She is working on some teeth, and I’m sure it felt good to chew on that hard carrot!
Amelia has a fun game that she plays in the kitchen . . . throw-all-of-the-letter-and-number-magnets-on-the-floor! We have them on the refrigerator and the dishwasher, and within a few minutes she can have 90% of them on the ground. She then takes one and crawls around the house with it – it’s a mess to clean up, but she has so much fun doing it!
By the time Mark and I went to bed on Friday night we had 1.5 inches of snow, and when we woke up on Saturday we had almost 5 inches! Saturday was my 26th birthday, and Mark made breakfast for all of us. Amelia ate applesauce and scrambled eggs with cheese, and while she was taking her morning nap Mark and I ate eggs and maple sausage – yum!
Later in the morning we headed out to the front porch to look at the snow.
The snow was very icy and crunchy, so we just stayed on the porch. We had fun watching Daddy throw snowballs at Shelby! Later in the afternoon I made Snow Ice Cream – it had a good taste but I think our snow was too icy. I’m going to keep the recipe so I can make it with Amelia when she’s a bit older – I’m sure she’ll love it!
On Saturday afternoon Amelia finally let me feel her gums, and I found that she has two new teeth that have popped through – lower right lateral incisor and upper right first molar. I knew she was working on more teeth, but didn’t know she was working on two at one time! We gave her a dose of ibuprofen before bed, which seemed to make her a little more comfortable overnight.
I have been blessed with such an incredibly loving and generous husband. He bought me a beautiful Imperial Gray KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer! My old stand mixer broke over the summer, and I have just been using a little hand mixer since then. I have been entering contests all over the internet, trying to win a KitchenAid mixer, and my sweet hubby surprised me with one for my birthday! He also got me a Michael Bublé concert on Blu-ray . . . Mark knows me so well! Because of the snow, we postponed our birthday dinner date until Monday night – Grandma and Grandpa B are going to watch Amelia while Mark takes me to our favorite restaurant. He is so wonderful to me, and I know I’m a very lucky lady.
When we walked out the door on Sunday to head to church we found that we were snowed in! Mark’s car was covered in three inches of solid ice, and there was no way for us to move it and get our Jetta out of the garage. Amelia and I went back inside to play while Mark worked on cleaning off the car and the driveway. By the time he finished we were too late for church, but we ended up meeting Grandma and Grandma B for lunch. Once we got home Amelia took a nice long nap and then we played and read books for the rest of the day. What a great birthday weekend!
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January 26th, 2010
As a nursing mother, I try to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. To help me keep track of my water consumption, I bought this BPA-Free Camelbak Better Bottle and I love it! I have actually ordered another one so that Mark and I each have our own.
Amelia thinks it is SO MUCH FUN to drink out of the Camelbak, but she drinks so much water that she makes herself sick. Yesterday she actually threw a fit when I took the bottle away from her! This morning she was better about giving it back to me when I asked, but she still drank too much water and spit up all over the floor.
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January 24th, 2010
On Friday Amelia and I played a lot of fun games.
Throw-the-lens-cap-into-the-bumbo was fun . . .
so was throw-the-lens-cap-into-the-laundry-hamper.
Mama didn’t really like the pull-the-sleepsack-out-of-the-crib game
and the try-to-empty-all-of-the-dresser-drawers game wasn’t much fun either.
Later in the day we played hide-and-seek . . .
. . . and Amelia did a little bit of dancing!
On Saturday we ran some errands and enjoyed a relaxing morning (and early afternoon) at home. Mark and Amelia played outside for a bit and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Later in the day we picked up some barbecue from our favorite local place, Phil’s Dream Pit. Mmmmm . . . chopped pork and beef brisket . . . it was so tasty! I had been thinking about it for months – the last time we ate there was actually over a year ago, when I was pregnant with Amelia. It is just a tiny little place, and it’s not “on the way” to anything (it’s actually about a 30 minute drive from our house). We made a special trip out there yesterday, picked up enough food to feed an army and headed up to Grandma and Grandpa B’s house to watch the Tennessee vs. Georgia game.
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January 23rd, 2010
Dear Amelia,
Today you are thirteen months old. You are developing into such a joyful little girl, and I couldn’t be more proud of you. We went for your one year checkup on January 4th – you were 28 1/4 inches long and you weighed 16 pounds. Your doctor isn’t really worried about your weight (which has almost fallen off of the charts again) because your height and head circumference are increasing right on track (25th percentile). He just says that you are just a very petite little girl! You have started sleeping through the night with increasing regularity – you haven’t nursed at night for a few weeks now, and you only nurse three times a day (first thing in the morning, at lunchtime and right before bed). Some days I think you are ready to give up the lunchtime feeding, but other days I’m not so sure. I think I’m going to try to keep up that feeding until flu season is over, and then we’ll go down to just two nursing sessions per day. I’m hoping to keep those two sessions as long as you’ll let me – I just love having that special time with you.
You are getting much more mischievous these days – a few weeks ago I stopped you just as you were about to throw an entire deck of cards into the toilet! You know you aren’t allowed to play with the power cord for my laptop, but you will still cruise over to grab it . . . once you get your hands on it, you’ll look up at me and shake your head “no”, because you know that’s exactly what I am going to tell you. We have a sideboard behind the dining room table and you know you aren’t allowed to play in it (it holds some of our extra dishes). Often times though, when I am working in the kitchen you’ll head over to it and start opening the doors. I stop what I’m doing and just watch you play – as soon as you turn around and see me looking at you, your eyes get really big and you plop down onto your bottom. A few times you even started crying because you know I’m going to fuss at you for playing where you aren’t supposed to.
It still surprises me when you do what I ask – you comprehend so much of what I say! I can ask you to hand me a ball, put your paci back in your crib, or bring me a book and you will do just that! You love helping, and will do so every chance you get. One thing in particular you like to help me do is clean up the floor. Shelby has a few toys that leave little bits of fuzz everywhere. You like to crawl around to gather the pieces and bring them to me so I can throw them away. You’re such a great little helper!
Daddy and I are trying to teach you different parts of the body (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, arms, legs etc.). So far you can’t tell us what/where things are, but you sure are showing an interest! You notice when I am wearing my glasses, and point to them often. When you are nursing you will gently touch/point to my eyes, and when you do I say “those are my eyes” and then I’ll point to yours and say “and these are your eyes” - I can almost see the cogs in your brain working to process the information. It is so amazing to watch you learn new things! One morning I put some cheerios on your highchair tray, poured myself a bowl of cereal and sat down to eat with you. You fussed and whined until I put your cereal in a bowl and gave you a spoon of your own. You couldn’t get the cereal on the spoon and into your mouth, but you would hold the spoon in one hand, pick up a cheerio with the other hand and touch it to the spoon before putting it in your mouth. Even though you can’t use the spoon to feed yourself, you definitely know what it is for!
In the evenings when Daddy gets home from work you two have a whole lot of fun. You and Daddy have a game you like to play . . . you crawl all over our bed and Daddy hides on the floor, popping up to surprise you. You shriek with laughter and roll all over the bed. You also like to “wrestle” with him, which is really just Daddy picking you up and gently tossing you back onto the bed – you laugh hysterically and quickly crawl back so he can do it again and again. I just love watching my two favorite people play together! Sometimes I think my heart will burst because it’s so full of love, and I wonder what I have done to deserve the two of you.
Love, Mama
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