Amelia's Tools

Amelia got a set of tools for Christmas. She wanted to help Daddy build her Little People garage.

Riding her Tricycle

Amelia LOVES her tricycle. Thanks Grammy and Papa!

Humanitarian Bowl!

Amelia and Daddy getting ready to watch the University of Idaho play in the Humanitarian Bowl today.

Go Vandals!

Dancing Fools

Here's video of Amelia and her cousin, Audry, dancing to a Santa that played music.

Amelia's 2009 Christmas

Sorry for the long delay... the holidays and such.

Amelia made out like a bandit - again - this year. Between her grandparents, mommy and daddy and Santa... she won't be needing anything for the next 6 months. Highlights of her haul: a radio flyer tricycle, new carseat, Leapfrog learning wand/books, clothes, and Little People "village" (barn, garage, dollhouse...). There's tons more, but it would take forever to write them all down and I have so little time to update the blog!

So without further ado... here's the slideshow of Amelia.
The first pictures are from our trip to see Santa. Many of you saw the end result. The second is our Christmas eve with Brad's family and the third part is Christmas at home. There's not many pictures of either since it was just an orgy of opening up packages.

Getting Amelia to pay attention was complete chaos. At times, we had her opening up gifts while sitting on her trike. :)

Until next time...

PS Happy 1st Birthday Sean!

Gearing up...

It's been awhile... but Santa's workshop is gearing up for Christmas. Today, we elves, braved the wonderful world of ToysRUs. Santa is bringing Amelia a new Elmo and Cookie Monster doll. When we were in the check out line, Amelia screamed for Elmo and Cookie. Needless to say, I turned her around and walked her by the electronics. She forgot all about them going in the sack.



I promise to get more stuff updated... but until then... you'll have to live with what little I have posted!

Amelia Growth

As you may have read, Amelia had a huge growth spurt in the last 3 months, growing nearly 3 inches. I also think her hair grew that amount! Here's the latest picture show of her growth next to the bear. It's getting kinda hard to get her to sit still for 60 seconds. She didn't smile, but she was distracted watching Sprout.

Trip to the Zoo

Amelia went to the zoo for the first time when she was visiting MoMo and Faux Pa in Arizona. She was quite interested in the snakes, peacock and rooster. She like the tiger, but when it started to roar and make noise, she got a little frightened. Luckily Daddy was there to protect her! These are the pictures we took! Enjoy.

A little late

Here are a few videos of Amelia. Sorry it's a little late - but as they say - better late than never!






P.S. Amelia says welcome to the world, Kell! Congrats, Monty!

I'm a growing girl!

I am growing like a weed!

Amelia went in for her 18m check up. Her head is in the 90th percentile at 48 cm. Her weight is 21 pounds, 2 ounces (10th). And she's 31.75" tall (50th)! She had a major growth spurt because her 15m check up she was 19 pounds 11 oz. and 29.5" tall. Holy cow!

More to come... I promise!

More pictures!

Here are some pictures of our trip to Prescott, AZ for Thanksgiving.

We spent nearly a full week there. On our first day, Brad went golfing with Vern, while the girls hung out and went shopping at Costco! Thursday was, of course Thanksgiving. Yum! Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and more! Friday we ventured out to do a little Black Friday shopping. We also went to see a light show. On Saturday we went into Phoenix to meet up with Uncle Paul, Aunt Lorraine and cousin Morgan with her two kids, Hailee and Jaxon. Afterwards, we went into the town square and saw the very end of the Parade of Lights. Sunday we went and saw the Gingerbread house display at the casino. Afterwards, we took Amelia to the zoo! And then on Monday, we left to fly home.

More to come (video)!

We're back!

We are back from sunny Arizona. We took tons of pictures and mini videos. I will post more when I have more time, but wanted to give you just a hint of what's to come!

Amelia's Second Fashion Show Part 3

As promised... here's video of Amelia's Fall Fashion Show!

Amelia's Second Fashion Show Part 2

Here's a slideshow and some video.

Amelia had a great time at the fashion show. As she waited for the show to begin, she was walking all around the store. We went from the kids department to lingere to formal wear. Needless to say, I think she was getting pooped from all the hub-bub before the show even started. She walked the cat walk perfectly. She started off with holding mommy's hand, but then wanted to hold both of them. But she posed perfectly and had a great time. Our second time around was the final walk through. At the end, she walked right up to Brad and gave him a big smile on the video camera.

After the show, we went out to lunch with Grandma/pa, Aunt Margaret, Uncle Mike, Chris, Jenny and Audry. Amelia was so pooped she fell asleep. She slept through nearly the whole breakfast.

We can't wait for the next fashion show in the spring!

Amelia's Second Fashion Show Part 1

Amelia had her second fashion show at Nordstrom today. She was a sensation.

Here are a few photos. Will post more later. Thanks to Jen and BFF Kendyl for helping take these pictures!





Video to soon follow!

17 Months!

I can't believe my baby is already 17 months! Crazy that it's gone by so fast. She continues to surprise us every day. Just yesterday we were grocery shopping and she's waving and talking to everyone in the store. Then at home, we were watching Calliou and at the very end the cartoon boy says "I'm Calliou... that's me!" And at the same time Calliou says, "That's me", Amelia goes "ME!" and points to herself. She knows the song now. Too cute.

Randoms

Just a few random pictures!

Amelia sporting her new $8.50 outfit from Old Navy. New jeans and shirt!


Notice what the shirt reads? "I make the rules"


Amelia using her chair as a pillow.


I finally managed to get Amelia to sit still long enough to put her hair in pig tails!

Hi!

Amelia has been learning new things with leaps and bounds. She now says in the morning "blankie". She says "Thank you" on a regular basis and is learning "(you're) Welcome". She also has learned to tell us when she is thirsty by running to the refrigerator door and banging on it. We've now moved her sippy cups to a low shelf in the fridge so she can get them herself. In addition, she does the opposite when she's done drinking. She says "cup". Loves to climb the stairs. Amelia lets me brush her teeth and then when I am done doing it, she loves to brush them herself. She has a fascination with shoes. She enjoys taking a shower now. Bathtime is full of splashing and getting mommy and daddy wet with her squirting animal toys. She's growing with leaps and bounds!

The Loot!

Here's Amelia and her pile of halloween loot!

Amelia's Costume

Here's video of Amelia parading around in her costume at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Happy Halloween!

We went and saw Witchy Poo for Halloween. We had a great time spending halloween in Albany. We got to trick or treat with cousin Audry, Auntie Jenny, Grandma and Grandpa.

Here are some pictures of our fun day. The first few pictures were when we went Trick-o-Treating on Friday night. We had to go to some of our friend's house here in the area since we wouldn't be around the next day. Enjoy! Video to come! Stay tuned!

Not much...

Not much to say except, I hardly have time to write. So here are some pictures!







Amelia eating her apple.


Here's video of Amelia helping Daddy set the table for dinner. She loves to help out!

Swing time!

Now we get ready for Halloween!

It's been awhile

Sorry it has been awhile since my last post. This past week Brad was out of town so I didn't get any time to turn on the computer to post. Amelia is doing well. A couple of weeks ago we went to the park and had fun on the swings. In addition, she likes one of her new outfits that cousin Lilly is letting her borrow. Enjoy!

















I can't believe she kept the hat on!