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Amelia really loves Daphne.  They were (p)laying on the floor together on Wednesday evening and Amelia was talking to her.  She took Daphne’s hand and touched it to her own (Amelia’s) eyes, nose, mouth, and head, and told Daphne the name of each part.

Daphne has a very very very sharp tooth on the bottom now, too. Somehow that one popped out and is bigger than the top one now!

So, top right, bottom left, and counting.

Daphne started out where Ethan is pointing, and ended up where you see her. Funny!

She took a four hour nap today, woke up ravenous, ate a ton, then rolled across the room.  She didn’t roll back- she prefers rolling to her right.  We’ll work on the other way.  It reminds me of when Amelia started crawling (backwards) and ended up stuck under her dresser.

She is all over her crib during the night, too, mostly on her tummy now.  She makes several trips from one end to the other.  If I peek at her, she is always in a different place and angle than the previous peek.

Amelia is having a “picnic” in this picture.

She cleaned out her kitchen.  This is half way through.  She moved each piece one-by-one, (and out of the bin one-by-one) if you can imagine that.  She’s often not that good at playing by herself. This was not one of those moments. She was absobed for a good half hour. And she helped clean it all up.  She was such a pleasure the rest of the night.

She ate her first salad tonight.  I bought a bag salad that was really good- some thing that is like a taco salad with little bits of tortilla chip, cheese, salsa, and sour cream-salsa dressing.  She ate half-a-dozen fork fulls, and has never eaten any salad before.  Plus the girl loves salmon. We really need to eat it more often, apparently with taco-style salad.  She ate an adult sized piece of salmon, then finished mine, finished Ethan’s, ate 6 strawberries, and a bowl of honeydew melon. Then we enjoyed a half hour on the lower deck, just chatting and reading a couple books.
Let’s not talk about how grumpy she was this morning.  She made up for it tonight.

 I figured out another mystery phrase Amelia learned while we were in Italy.  She has been so romantic, talking whistfully about how she loves singing and dancing in the rain.  It also came from the Kermit the Frog book that Grandma brought. 

Amelia: Who is your husband?
Ethan: I don’t have a husband, I have a wife.
A: I have a husband.
E: You don’t have a husband or a wife because you’re not married.
A: What’s your wife’s name?
E: Allison.
A: Oh. Mama is Allison?
E: That’s right.
A: What’s you’re mama’s name?
E: Becky.
A: Yeah?
E: And my dad’s name is Pete.

She thinks long and hard on that one. Fifteen seconds later…

A: Bebe is Becky.
E: That’s right! Good job, Amelia!
A: And Grandpa is Tony.
E: That’s right!
A: Who’s Pete?
E: Pete is Fafa.
A. Oh. I love Fafa…

And Amelia found a new use for Saxoflute tonight. Pretty clever, if you ask me.

Here is Super Daddy with his two girls in their matching bikinis fresh home from the pool.

I’m calling him that since he decided to go to the grocery store with both of them on Friday evening. A new frontier, and he said the grandmothers looked on approvingly (and wanted to see Daphne).

Daphne popped her first tooth while we were in Italy. Her top right one (your left), just under her upper lip.

She has four pits in her lower gum where it looks like teeth are coming through, but they’ve been that way for a couple months.  She says “blah blah blah blah” (seriously), does other fun things with her tongue and buzzes a lot.

Fafa spent the night last night and we all had a nice Fathers’ Day breakfast.  Then we went over to Aunt Cheri’s to see her and Gigi & Giffer.  Amelia got a workout running around with her dog Willow.  And Aunt Cheri gave us an icecream ball!  Amelia chose Strawberry Icecream. We rolled it and rolled it and rolled it and rolled it (mostly Ethan and I, a little help from Amelia). It does work, but it takes a while, and you have to scrape down the cylinder a few times so new cream can thicken on the wall. I can see it will be a good way for the girls to make icecream when they are a few years older…so they have the patience and the strength! I was sweating at one point. 

We got a pretty thick batch, then put it in a container in the freezer to harden a little more.  Sorry we don’t have a green eye corrector.

Daphne rolled to her tummy while she slept last night- and slept until 8am! That is about two hours later than her current “normal” wake up time. I’ve been waiting for that first tummy sleep. When Amelia figured that out, she slept until 10 or 11 am a few times.

Time to go eat some ice cream and listen to Amelia sing “Five Little Ducks” at the top of her lungs (in her bed).

Rolling

She got her butt up in the air a couple of times too, on her tummy. Next…crawling!

Amelia said to me tonight “Allison, I mean, Mama! When I’m bigger, I can catch the moon!” Several levels of cute and what a beautiful thing to say! And- I know she will do it some day. (The catalyst- she was listening to a kids song on the noggin website about catching the moon and watching two girls jumping while they tried to catch the moon.)

The second point of telling that story is “When I’m bigger I can…” is a phrase she picked up this week while Grannie Annie and Grandma stayed with the girls during our trip to Italy. The other two things are “it’s a little bit of junk” and “marshmallow” (I think from a Kermit the Frog book?). We are finding little hints from the bag of tricks Grannie brought along- some neat duck bath towels, the Kermit book, a turtle puzzle…

Tonight I told Amelia that Grannie and Grampy were going to visit Uncle Michael and Amelia said “I wanna go with Grannie, I wanna go see Michael”. I think Amelia and Grannie are good pals now.

We really appreciate Grannie and Grandma’s energy and love. Grandma just told me, “Children are for the young”. I hope they get some well deserved rest. : )

Here is Amelia enjoying a Nutella snack that we saw all over Italy.  It has a juice compartment on one half and snack sticks to dip in Nutella on the other half.

We snuggled with the girls a lot yesterday when we got home.  We missed them so much.

One awesome new thing is Daphne’s new mobility.  No, it’s not crawling, it’s rolling.  Tonight Ethan put her on the floor and she rolled 360 degrees!  Six times!  Back to front to back.  To all of our clapping and cheering, including Amelia.  It was hilarious and so cute.  We’ll get a video soon.