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Amelia and I visited GeeGee and Giffer on Tuesday. The title of the post is how she sometimes says their names, as one together.

Here is Amelia helping GeeGee water her flowers.

At lunch, she figured out how to open a chocolate sandwich cookie so that she could eat the chocolate filling.

She had a great peek-a-boo laugh fest with Giffer and enjoyed exploring their home.

Amelia put her precious “blankie” over Grizzy while he was sleeping on Saturday.

She loves walk around with a toy bin over her face. Here she is waving hi to daddy (so we could send him the picture at work) from outside and inside the bin.

Amelia and I went to the zoo yesterday. The zoo? Yes, Richmond has a zoo. It seems that is a surprise to a lot of people around here. It was small but very nice, especially for a closer encounter with some animals.

Here is our own picture with the giraffe that we fed.

Amelia was brave enough to put her hand in mine and give the tall guy a couple pellets of food.

Here is a picture someone else took.

She also really enjoyed the tortoises, monkeys, and the carousel.

Pretty girl with great post-nap hair.

Amelia is getting sneaky. When we ask her for something we don’t want her to have, she says “I put it back.” She used to put it back. Now she tries wandering somewhere else with it, like we won’t notice.

We get a thousand (probably not an exaggeration) “Wha-sat?”s a day, meaning “What’s that?” to all kinds of things she sees. Those eyes don’t miss a thing. I have been remembering this week about when I said some time last year that I couldn’t wait until she said “mama mama mama” until I was sick of it. That hasn’t happened, but there have been some “shhhh, just for a minute” recently. That girl can talk. And repeat everything.

One of our favorite things: She falls, picks herself up, looks at us and says “I’m o.k.”. It cracks us up every time.

Amelia’s “aunt” Lynn sent a fabulous gift…Hello Kitty lip balm. She loved it. This was her “Hooray He-wo Kitty Bistex” (Hooray Hello Kitty Blistex) in the driveway, after opening the mail.

She ended up eating most of it over a couple days and transferring tiny sparkles to her skin and mine. Sometimes she plays with the Hello Kitty cap as a finger puppet.

We had some brief interest in her potty, for about 5 days. She got out of her bath a couple times to go (and did) and asked to go potty several times a day. She hasn’t asked for two days, though.
She set up this view herself.

She is now asking us to change her diaper but she’s not ready for the big leap yet. She loves a book we bought her about going potty. We read it many times a day. The star of the book is Michael and she shakes her head back and forth while saying “No, no, no diapers for Michael, no, no diapers”.
Now she is enjoying flushing the toilets. I guess they all do this?

Play food, finally! What a bargain. 101 pieces of plastic food. She unloaded each piece onto her play kitchen. We have a bin she keeps it all on now and she cooks us meals like pretzel, watermelon, and icecream. We have frequent “wa’s dis?”es also, when she is asking what the pieces are…sometimes we can’t tell either!

Amelia learned what a boo-boo is. She fell three times in three days on the same knee. Different patches of ground. She likes her boo-boo bunny (bunny that holds an ice cube pack). The third time we went straight to the store for some Hello Kitty bandaids. She points to her knee and says “ya-ya’s boo-boo”.

Today she asked me to take a picture of her sleeping, to send to daddy.

We think she’s working on her first ’second molar’. We are all suffering a little from her getting up early. The other day I felt around her mouth and when I took my finger off the tooth that I think is coming in, she pulled my finger back for me to push on her gum.

Watching another girl from the top of the slide.

Sitting in the paper recycling can.

Cooking in her kitchen. She stirs with the whisk and says “mixing, mixing, mixing”.

When it is raining and we can’t go to the park, we go to the mall to play in an area they have for kids. It was a zoo today because apparently daycare busses think it is a good rainy day diversion, also.

Amelia is sitting inside the spring of one of those things you squeeze to make your hand strong.

We went away for two nights for our 10th anniversary and Amelia spent the time at the lake with Grandpa and Bebe. She had a great time and we really appreciated it. Though we missed her like crazy after about 24 hours!
Then we all stayed there for two more days and she really enjoyed playing with her cousins Hannah and Zoe. She asked me where they are half a dozen times today.

Hmm…new skills: she can roll across the floor, Bebe taught her to march, and she puts her milk cup on the kitchen counter when she is done with it.