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Amelia has a new hat with whales to keep the sun out of her eyes. She hasn’t really wanted to keep it on her head, until she saw me wearing a baseball cap and wanted one too.

She suddenly loved this bear one day and he had to join her for breakfast. She wiped the cream cheese off his nose after I took this one. She loves to hug him (or her?).

This is a new toy from a few house-hunting distractions we got for her. She asks us to draw circle, star, and “ya-ya” which is her name for Amelia. This time, I drew her head and she drew the face. She was very proud.

She says “I sorry” sort of as a general ‘uh oh’ when she drops something or falls. We’re still figuring out all her uses of that one. She woke up from her nap on Sunday and in the morning on Monday saying “I sorry, I sorry, I sorry”.

“No” graduated Sunday to all-the-time status. She goes in two week patterns so I hope that one only lasts that long. Last night I asked her if she wanted more of different things while we ate dinner, always “no” and then she would eat it. I liked “no” better when it meant something! I think it took over for “O.K.” in her mind.

Rose said that on Monday Amelia layed down to take her nap and talked for an HOUR and A HALF before she fell asleep. She likes to practice all her words.
The best one (for us to laugh at) being “cool”.

We went to Maryvale Park yesterday. She played with Giselle, another 18 month old girl. She got this vanilla wafer from Giselle, and called the lumps on the climbing wall “froggie”.

The Easter bunny brought Amelia a chocolate bunny. She ate the ears and got distracted by her toys so we took the rest away. She didn’t ask for more (thank goodness), hopefully we can give it to her slowly.

Amelia wouldn’t wear her bunny ears, neither would Grizzy. Cadbury-bunny was the only one who was game.

We went to our neighborhood’s egg hunt. Amelia found one and didn’t really understand the game but had a great time. We hid it several times for her. She was more interested in the playground equipment and the other kids. There were lots of neighbors, not evident from these pictures.

A funny story: Ethan was looking at the Finding Nemo trailer on the internet with Amelia. She kept hitting the mouse button programmed for “back”, and turned to Ethan, astonished each time, and asked “Wha happen?”.

Amelia got her first taste of Peeps yesterday. She had more fun smushing it and finding out it would stick to her hand. She actually didn’t know it was food until I ate one to show her that she could (and should!) eat it.
She doesn’t like some food textures, and I don’t think she really liked the sugar on the outside. There is plenty of time for her to learn to love Peeps.

I am proud to say she asked for and ate vegetables while there was cookie (left) and peeps (right) on her tray.

OK, so she did eat the cookie. And then ran, and ran, and ran, while saying “running, running running”. She’s really picked up her speed in the last couple weeks.

Plastic bags are not a toy.

Sometimes it rains plastic bags and then they stick to her feet.

So far Amelia has one chore. She has to put the dog food bowls away after they eat.

Oh, and make us laugh, and ask for kisses, and be the cutest kid ever!

Amelia played with her shadow this morning. She used her finger to give her shadow some honey to eat. When she was eating it herself , she said “I like it.”

Amelia counted her toes unbidden. All on one foot, but still.

She just asked for vegetables for breakfast (”Wegtables?”) while standing at the fridge door.

Amelia is 18 months old today, and we can stop counting in months. From now on it’s one-and-a-half, then almost-two, then two-and-a-half…People won’t have to stop and think ‘this many months = this in years’ when they ask how old she is. She’s now one-and-a-half.

Here she is enjoying some balloons (”boon”) that Daddy brought home from work.

And enjoying a one-and-a-half birthday morning hug with Daddy.

She got her last shot today, until she’s 4. We are psyched about that. She watched the nurse give her the shot. She’ll learn that she won’t want to watch that later, I guess.

Perfect report on all fronts (and backs and sides). She’s in the 90’s for percentile on everything. Which is better than, say, 50th for height and 92nd for weight. Perfectly proportioned.

She is saying 4 word sentences now, like “I go see Mama?” to Daddy when I left the exam room to use the restroom. And “I go see Nani” when they drove up to Giant yesterday (Nani is Hannan, Rose’s daughter who is the pharmacist at Giant).

Our favorite word right now is “wally” for wallet. So cute.

Played with Amelia in the backyard yesterday afternoon. She has a playhouse that a friend of Allison’s gave her. It has a stove and an eat-in kitchen, with two seats.

Yesterday she was in there and I asked if I could come in. She said, “Okay”, and went over to the seat farthest from the door. (You have to understand, that means it’s three feet from the door, instead of a half-foot). She went over and brushed some rocks off the chair onto the ground.

Then she patted the seat and said, “Sit down!”. And walked to the seat clsoest to the door and sat down.

We sat and had a chat. It was nice to be invited.

On Saturday we went to the zoo with Andrew, Wendy, and Carter. Amelia enjoyed the gorillas, elephants, and giraffe, and running around. She watched the gorillas here for a long time. They walked across right in front of her on that cement ledge and she loved that.

On Sunday we visited GeeGee and Giffer. We went to brunch in their dining room and wow, Amelia was great! She got to meet a lot of their friends, eat a lot of strawberries and grapes, and was happy the whole time.

After a long nap, Daddy caught her some frogs. When they jumped away, she said “fall down”.

Bonus cute picture- this is Amelia talking to her Daddy on the phone. After insisting “phone daddy? Phone Daddy? PHONE DADDY?!”

She surprised us this weekend when we figured out she knows some ABCs! She “knows” the last letter or two of each phrase. For example, if we sing “A, B”, she’ll say “C, D”; then we sing “E, F” and she says “G”. I was coloring with her on Saturday and I wrote her name and spelled it, and she said “R, Rosie”.

We taught her “beautiful” and “gorgeous”, too, because she is.