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Sometimes we are surprised at how big she looks and how fast she is growing. Her First Ponytail provided one of those moments.

See, she is such a big kid.

On Saturday afternoon we cleaned up the yard because it was pretty nice outside. Amelia was a great help.

Newsworthy: Sunday evening I sneezed and she said “bless you”. Pretty cute!

Every morning we (I) say “Good morning Grizzy” as we come out of Amelia’s bedroom, and “Good morning Cadbury” as we come into the kitchen for breakfast. She used to say “Gizzy!” and “Caby!” when she saw them. Last week she started “Morning Gizzy”, and went through Cadbury, Daddy, Fafa, Mama, and all of Rose’s family before I dropped her off for the day.

She asked for a lot of kisses yesterday. “Giss!” Ethan taught her eskimo kisses and it will be cute when she asks for that. Once in a while she shakes her head back and forth, usually she just hold out her nose for an “esmo”.

Amelia dropped my glass of water. It broke and she got a little cut. She got two bandaids off in about two minutes. Now we’re trying two on her real boo-boo and two decoys on her other hand. Even daddy got into the decoy game.

Shea and Mia Posey left today. We had a great visit and we will miss them.

Above is Mia with Amelia’s orangutan- Shea thought Mia’s hair sticks up like the monkey sometimes.
Amelia liked saying “Hi baby”, “Baby is sleeping”, and “Nice baby” while she not-so-gently stroked Mia’s head. She just came in, looked at the computer and said “Mia! Mia! Mukee! Mia!”

We all took a trip to New York and stayed with Grandma. Grandma was very good at deciphering what Amelia was saying. Amelia enjoyed talking on the phone to Grandma, and has added a 5th phone to her collection. She played with it almost all the way through New Jersey on the way back home.

We took a trip into NYC on the train. Amelia has a very flirty “Hi” to other passengers.

And enjoyed a ride on the horse carriages through Central Park. I really though Amelia would like the horses but she didn’t really notice them. She did like the ride, though.

Her new thing is “o-kay”, as in
Ethan: “Would you like to read your monkey book?”
AVJ: “Okay”
Ethan making toast for breakfast…AVJ said “OKay, toast”. But my typing doesn’t let you know how cute she says the word. Sometimes we get a “No, okay”, which I guess means yes?

She is very good at putting something in the trash and she’s learning to put her sippy cup by the sink when she’s done. Last night she cleaned up her toy drawer in the kitchen!
Last night, Grizzy got a kiss, too.

I put Amelia in my footprint when we went out to sled again this afternoon.

Hey, we got some snow.

Amelia enjoying her new sled. (She really did enjoy it, until she got tired):

A tree in the park:

An idea of how much snow:

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I made some chocolate chip cookies yesterday. I’m told chocolate is great for your hair…

Amelia is now “the big girl” because we have a baby visiting us. Baby Mia and her mom Shea are here. Mia is a peach!

Which means Amelia shouldn’t be sitting the baby swing!

It is good for us to remind ourselves once in a while that Amelia does sit down…sometimes.

This big girl loves tomatoes. “Ma-toes.”

She’s amazing! This week she’s said “baby is sleeping”, she “quack”-ed for a goose in a book, and puts together a lot of combinations like “byebye grizzy”, “hi baby”, “phone fafa”, “me-nu (more) ^insert food here^”, and “nite-nite grizzy” (while he was sleeping on the floor). She really loves Grizzy.

Sometimes she has to have her 1) doggie (in pic above), 2) her lambie, 3) her baby, AND 4) her blankie while we read books before bed.

We think she learned sharing this week. I dropped her off at Rose’s on Tuesday. She got a bucket of match box cars and I asked her to give one to another child there. She did, and Rose and I clapped and bravoed- she KNEW she did something good. She kept passing out the cars after that!

We think she had her first temper tantrum tonight. Ethan took her fork away after he asked her three times to not use it to brush food off the high chair tray. She really didn’t like that.