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Amelia had a great Halloween this year. She was a fairy princess, in a costume assembled of parts from Ethan’s coworker’s daughter, Aunt Cheri (head band), and Aunt Shea (wand).
This picture isn’t very good, but I like it.

Can you believe she didn’t want to sleep with her glow stick?

Here she is eating her first piece of candy from her first house. She sat right down on the step and opened up the gumdrops. “It’s good!” she proclaimed.

She said “Trick or Treat” and “Thank you” to everyone. Now hopefully she won’t complain too much about only having one piece of candy per day.

Daphne slept through the walk in the baby bjorn, but was in a coordinated duck outfit and hat.

There is nothing more pitiful than a 10 pound baby with laryngitis.
Daphne finally got a cold…several have been through our house since Daphne was born (mostly through Amelia) and we managed to keep Daphne healthy. Until Saturday. She’s doing fine, she just sounds so pitiful.

But not at the same time.

Someone rolled from her tummy to her back tonight!

A great part about Amelia going to preschool is the art that she brings home! We need a few more refrigerators.

Based on her birth date (not her due date), which is significant. She’s 11 weeks old from birth and one month old from her due date. Anyway, she’s 10th percentile for height and weight: 9 lbs. 6 oz., 21 1/4 inches tall.
She should double her birth weight (4 lbs. 15 ounces) this week!

Here she is waving around two tongue depressors, waiting for her first round of shots:

Sometimes big sisters need some time without little sisters. So here are some AVJ things.
Giffer will be happy that on Thursday Amelia brought me her nursery rhymes book to read before bed, and she said “It’s my favorite book.” We read “There was a crooked little man”, so she asked last night “What’s crooked?”. Daddy showed her some crooked and straight lines. Then she drew them herself (or tried to= they were all crooked!).

What I loved about this moment is how she laid on her stomach with her feet in the air. Such a little girl pose.

I showed her how to hide behind the curtain for Hide-and-Seek with Daddy. She will hide behind it while he is in the kitchen counting to 10. Then when he says “Ready or Not…” she runs to the couch, laughing wildly. It is pretty funny, I guess she doesn’t really get the concept of hiding until you are found.

and it’s a great Al Davis impersonation (thanks for the quote Mike).

Daphne had her eyes dialated at the eyedoctor, so I thought she should try on the ‘virtual driver’ glasses. Her eyes are perfect, by the way.

Daphne hanging out…

An amazing display of strength and flexibility and a great side view of her mohawk!

Amelia and Mia had fun in the tunnels.

My friend Shea and her daughter Mia (10 months) are visiting for 9 days. Three girls ages 2 and under, oh my gosh. Ethan is managing to keep up with all of us gals.

The biggest surprise of the week has been that most nights Daphne is only waking up ONCE!!! It is wonderful for me. So we will start with Daphne and Mia checking each other out.

Maybe Mia wants her old clothes back?

We took Mia and Amelia to the park on Saturday and squeezed both of them into the same bucket swing. Maybe that is why the leg holes go both ways?

If you looked at them from in front of Amelia, you couldn’t see Mia.

And Amelia liked helping me change the heat/AC filters on Saturday. Power tools (not powerFUL tools) are fun!

Of the six of us, only Shea and Daphne have not gotten a cold. Amelia and I are getting better today, and Ethan (home sick and asleep right now!) and Mia are just getting into the worst of it. I had laryngitis for a few days. When I whispered to Amelia, a lot of the time she would whisper back.

Amelia cried to not go to Tuckaway by the end of last week. Today was much better. Apparently she kept asking to go home and go see her baby sister, but she didn’t cry much and a visit by a fire truck was a good distraction. She told me she climbed on it, the fireman wore a helmet, and the truck was yellow.

Here’s a good sentence she said yesterday: “Here’s a good book about babies.” when handing me a book with pictures of babies in different color clothes.

There have been a lot of twists and turns in Amelia’s life recently. New baby sister, who didn’t come home for a long time, so mama was gone all the time, then the baby came home and lots of people are in and out of the house visiting, finally she turned TWO!, and today she started half-days at preschool.

I was ready to be sad and miss her. I was the drop off person in Rockville and it took me a week to stop crying when I left her, and a month to be o.k. with it. Ethan dropped her off today and called me to say he wasn’t prepared for feeling sad and it was really hard. She is an Orange Bird now.

I can’t wait for her to come home after lunch, but for now Daphne and I will go back to sleep.

(Posted by Allison on Ethan’s login)

Amelia turned two years old yesterday. She started saying “Two” instead of the “Five” she’s been saying all week, when asked “How old are you?”. She also got special cupcakes from Grandma because she has been asking for cupcakes since she went to a neighbor’s birthday party a couple weeks ago.

Today we had a party with lots of Amelia’s family and friends. Here’s my favorite picture of today. Grampy played a lot of songs for Amelia including Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old McDonald, a few pre-nap lullabies and Happy Birthday!

Thank you all for the fun party, and gifts and CARDS! We’ll get going on reading them tomorrow morning.

Newsflash: Daphne’s 8 pounds today! : )