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In February, during our stomach flu phase, I got Amelia a toy nurse kit. She was going to a daycare with a nurse that takes slightly sick kids. That toy made it a little easier to go because she loved playing ‘nurse’ with the real nurse. That night, she still had a little tummy ache so she used her bandaids to fix it.

Daphne sat on the bathroom counter while I got ready this morning.

She likes her friend in the mirror. They held hands, put their heads together, smiled at each other and had a good time.

It’s been a while! Daphne is getting over an ear infection & cold, and doing great. For a few days she liked to eat looking over her left shoulder- it must have made swallowing easier while her ears hurt. She has started grabbing her feet and whacking herself with jerky arm movements. She still loves her hands and anyone’s hands. She says “Ahhhh” all the time. Sometimes we catch her “chewing”. She’s working on sitting up. It’ll be a while but sometimes she can prop herself oh-so-delicately on on elbow. I swear I saw the slits in her gums of her first two teeth, but I couldn’t find them this morning…not sure about that now.

The big event for Amelia in the past few weeks was sleeping in a Twin Bed at the lake. We woke up to her crying around 2am the first night. Ethan went to help her, and I followed a minute later. She was standing by the bed and sobbed “I…. fell…. out….”, to my hidden amusement because that’s such a moment of passage. She went back to sleep right away. The second night she stayed in the bed.

Amelia’s favorite thing to say right now is “We can check it out!” if we don’t know the answer to her questions. We played outside before dinner last night with our 2-year-old neighbor Trey. They ran around together, shared bikes, and ran away from us when we asked them to come back…Amelia is starting to play with other kids rather than next to them. She can tell stories, remember the littlest facts, and has to have a lot of things in a particular place or state. We feel like she will potty train very soon.

That’s about it. We’ve missed you! Come back soon, we won’t stay away so long this time.