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Amelia is a well-loved child. I was singing to her when I got her up yesterday morning “I love you so”…
…and she replied “much”!

This picture is for my amusement. It’s an Elmo ABC book and for X it has “Xenopus is a kind of frog”. Which is funny because I think probably only scientists are commonly aware of what Xenopus is. It’s on Grover’s head.

Someone found one of Daddy’s sungalsses and she’s too cool for school.

A little reading this morning. We read a lot of books this weekend. They tend to be right-side up only when we are holding them. Animal sounds seemed to be the theme. Her “meow” is my favorite. She scrunches up her nose and says “neow”. (not a typo)

I love this face.

Lemon tree very pretty and the flower is so sweet but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat…or maybe o.k.?

She got her third canine tooth maybe on Wednesday- 15 total. One more to go and I don’t think it’s soon.

She found she enjoys her toothpaste. It’s something fruit flavored and she keeps asking for more and I have to cut her off after a few times.

She loves to go out to the back yard to run around and play in her little house. She screams with glee on her way out and when the dogs chase each other.

Thursday night we think she got woken up by a nightmare. She cried about 1am and wouldn’t go back into her crib. She came in our bed for a little and wiggled around and whispered the whole time. It was very sweet. We couldn’t tell anything she was saying except for an “Isa” (her babysitter’s husband) and “Gizzy” and “Caby” a little later. After 15 minutes, she went right into her crib and back to sleep.

We visited Grandpa and Bebe this weekend. Amelia really enjoyed them and had some fun spinning on this lazy suzan.

In action…

She slept late each day, hooray for us! We found a surprise tooth, #14 (we had our eyes on another, which is not quite out yet). And she told Bebe that she was “bigger than him”, when she met Willobee, an elf statue in the woods.

Amelia has a new table and chairs of her own. She woke up at 6 am yesterday (too early!) so we had a long morning at home before going to Rose’s. She played at her table the whole time.

It was in the low 80s here yesterday so Amelia got to enjoy her kimono. Sleepy little girl (see, 6 was too early).

Yesterday when Ethan picked her up from Rose’s, Rose was playing a game Ethan calls “Nestea plunge” with her in the chair. They did it a few times and then Amelia got up and said “OK go home.” and went over to Ethan to go home.

AVJ zoning out to The Postal Service.

Here is Amelia this morning…in one of our favorite outfits, with one of our favorite hairstyles.

Fun things this week:
She has us kiss her baby and lambie (“hamie”) good night now. She thought of that all by herself when we were trying to kiss her, and she decided to hold out her baby. When I put her down in her crib, I say “night night” and she says “night night mama” back to me. Such a sweet girl.

I got a great “mama! mama! mama! mama!” when I came home on Monday.

And she has learned to pull up the couch cushions to look for the remote. She gives it to us without fussing, but she knows where to look.

I was particularly proud of this firework/spray of hair.

Gravity. She likes to drop things from wherever she climbs and down the stairs.

She is climbing everywhere. On every chair she can- including our computer chair that spins and has wheels. Including to the dining room table where the salt and pepper shakers are- oh no! And including onto the living room side table- the halogen light switch is soooo tempting. She really didn’t like when I didn’t allow that one. Our last refuge for stuff we don’t want her to have is on top of the refrigerator.

Last night she was running around in a onesie. She loves to be naked and so we took off the onesie when she kept saying “Naked?”. Then she came up with “diaper off”, “diaper Off”, “Diaper Off” over and over again with increasing urgency. Good time for a bath. We guessed when she can take her diaper off herself it is time for potty training?

She knew “off” in relation to electrical switches for a while now but used it for asking to turn something on or off. “Fan off?”, “Light off?”, “TV off, uhoh.” She learned ‘on’ this weekend, but maybe not the difference in the two. Now it’s “Fan on off fan off on…”.

We’re working on “please”. She was pretty fiesty at dinner last night and at the end she asked for milk….Milk….MIIIIILK. Thank goodness after a little prodding we got a please because she was being very focused and a little sassy. We wanted her to ‘earn’ it.

Yesterday we got her to kiss us after we say “I love you”. : )