tawbubby

I’ve been wanting to take this picture for a while. Almost every bath Amelia peeks at the baby in the overflow drain cover. Then she looks at me and says “Hi!”. Sometimes she touches her eye or does other funny things to the reflection.

EDIT: A downloadable wallpaper version of this (BMP, 1024×786 pixels, 2.25MB) can be found here.

Especially when someone is flashing a camera in front of you first thing in the morning! She had the most amazing bedhead on Monday morning. Ethan’s friend said this picture should go on a coffee mug.

Amelia was sick for a week this month and only wanted to eat strawberries or “tawbubbies”. She loves them!

We visited Bebe and Grandpa last weekend. Ethan found he could run and slide on the floor of Bebe’s studio…which was fun for Amelia too.

This weekend Grannie and Grampy are visiting and Amelia is finally feeling great! We went to the park this afternoon and she loved the slide. After a few times she counted down to sliding (no one), du, free…slide!

She has said two words together a couple times: “Phone Daddy” (seeing Ethan’s phone) and “me-nu cheese, me-nu cheese” (me-nu is her word for more). She learned to spin around and say “whee” (we don’t know who she learned that from).

That’s how Amelia says “bath”, obviously one of her favorite times of the day.

She’s so pretty.

As promised:

In honor of the big girl on the air mattress- Emma Flynn- who turned 6 yesterday.
The Flynns visited us for New Years Eve and Emma got to sleep on this bed.
Thanks for the dress Bebe and Grandpa! It’s wild!

We’re in vaccine hangover/cold/tummy ick mode this weekend. It is HARD work! She is slowly recovering to just having a cold. We all slept all night last night which was great.
We are pulling out every distracting thing we can…including this tunnel that attaches to a tent that Grand Aunt Cheri gave AVJ for Christmas. She doesn’t want to go through it but we found some silly games to play with it.

Here is a great hair picture…from when Amelia woke up from her nap on New Years Day.

She is 1 year and a quarter tomorrow. We went to the doctor this morning for her 15 month checkup. She is doing great! He always says he doesn’t get to know her because she doesn’t get sick.

Well, not sick enough for him. She did wake up with a cough this morning…plus one shot today- resulting in a fever from one or the other or a combination of the two. I think it might be our first fever!

He was very surprised at her height. She went from 75th to 90th percentile. “They” say babies grow out, then up, then out, then up. She has recently grown “up”. She’s 32 inches tall, four short of three feet! Yikes, Ethan told me once that you can estimate adult height based on a 2 year old…are we looking at 6 feet??? She’d better play volleyball.
Her head and weight are also beautiful and proportioned to her 90th percentile height.

For me, the neat part about today was she actually sat on the little stools they have in the waiting room. She played with a toy that is beads on swirly and curvy wires. That is what the big kids there do while we used to sit and watch them. She’s a kid now!

Next up: we’re going to try cutting off bottles cold turkey. The doctor said that it gets harder as they get older. Maybe this weekend depending on how she is feeling…

She got new sneakers today since we walk at least once a day every day now.

It’s hard to catch up on the photos with all the “work” we’ve been doing this week!

Time to work seriously on drinking with a real cup, since Hello Kitty is here to help.

She learned how to open presents…hiding behind the tissue paper is a Chicken dress. You need to be prepared for Chicken dress so we’re saving that for a 2006 post (Yes, I know it’s already 2006, but we didn’t take any pictures when she wore it on Saturday).

She got a cool fish puzzle from her cousin Bailey.

And a play-playground from Katie & Lexi. I liked how she peaked through the hole in the packaging.

We visited GeeGee & Giffer on the 28th. Amelia went right to Giffer’s arms, for a minute or two. She is getting brave. These pictures also highlight her new kimono from her Grannie and Grampy’s trip to Japan in October. It will fit her for a while.

Of course, a visit to GeeGee & Giffer requires an organ concert. Which took some doing by Giffer because the plugs were all taken by the Christmas tree! She enjoys playing this more each time.

Maybe her favorite present is this chime push/pull toy. She mostly pulls it, and I am sure will learn to push it soon.