Tuesdays with Amelia

Yum yum yum . . . scrambled eggs for breakfast!

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Weekend Wrap Up

On Friday morning Amelia and I bought some big crayons while we were out running errands.

We got them out once she was up from her afternoon nap and she had a lot of fun!

I helped her make a Valentines Day card for her Daddy – we forgot to hide it though, and Mark saw it as soon as he walked in the door after work – happy early Valentines Day, Daddy!

On Saturday morning Amelia spent some time looking at the snow on the porch while Mark was working on my computer.

After her nap, she brushed her teeth and we headed up to Grandma and Grandpa B’s house! They watched Amelia while Mark and I ran a few errands. While we were out Grandma & Grandpa B helped Amelia Skype with her cousins A and S. Once Mark and I got back, we had BBQ chicken pizza for supper and watched some of the Olympics.

On Sunday morning Mark and I exchanged Valentine’s Day cards. I have such a wonderful husband – I got a card from him and one from Amelia as well!

Amelia has been fighting a cold for the past few days, and hasn’t been eating or drinking very much. I almost never give her juice, but decided to give her some today so she wouldn’t get dehydrated. I filled up a 6 oz sippy cup with half apple juice and half water, and she guzzled it down in a heartbeat! Amelia took a great nap after she ate lunch, and once she woke up our afternoon was spent baking applesauce muffins and playing with toys, with the Olympics playing in the background. What a great weekend!

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Tuesdays with Amelia

Amelia and I took a walk this morning, before the rain started. She really enjoys being outside, even though she looks like a goof in this picture!

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Weekend Wrap Up

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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Golden Shoes

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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Tuesdays with Amelia

Here’s Miss Amelia, in the middle of telling me all about her blocks!

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Weekend Wrap Up

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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